Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-09-26
"United We Stand"

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Once again the people of Newark are con-
fronted by the task of raising funds for the
Community Chest. Again, as in the past, 1t
will not be an easy iob-but one that, with
the wholehearted cooperation of the public,
will be accomplished, as it has been during
the last eight annual drives.
The history of Newark is one of neigh
borly achievement and mutual assistance.
1t is only with the cooperation of business
with business and man with man that the
task before us can be accomplished The
Chest has chosen for it's slogan this year
Omitted We Stand. AS B. E. Boyd, gen.
eral director, recently stated, "the slogan is
appropriate because of the tWo-fold element
portrayed"
He referred to the united appeal of the
six agencies, which, with united contribu-
tions for the whole community, will be able
to serve Newark for another year-but only
with the combined efforts and contributions
of the citizens of Newark as whole.
The six agencies refererd to by Mr.. Boyd
are the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, City
hospitals charity ward, the Health camp,
the Y. M. c.. A. and the Salvation Army.
The first five of the foregoing have certain
revenue producing sourceS-but it is neces-
sary to provide the balance of the finances
necessary to carry on an adequate program.
The goal set this year for the Chest is
$43,231, and the drive got officially under
way Monday of this week, and will continue
until Oct. 3. Meetings and discussions are
being held before civic clubs, organizations
and employee groups, in an educational eff
fort to bring home to members of each, the
Importance of their cooperation in the ninth
annual Community Chest appeal,
The emblem for the contributors this
year will be small red heart clip, bearing
the words, 81 Gave" 1t will be with the
urgent sense of personal duty of man to
man and sense of duty in the heart of our
citizens that the goal will be achieved. The
emblem is fitting one.
AS William Allen White, that famous
sage of the middle west, has remarked:
"The Community Chest is nothing in Gods
world but the ancient American spirit
which built our land speaking through the
Herald's call of neighborly needs in every
city and town. The Community Chest is
the voice of the American people assembling
us to do first hand and of our own volition,
quite beyond laws, our old-fashioned neigh
borly duty. That sense of neighborly duty
is the steel in the structure that we know
as the United States"
The Community chest is call to COM
muntiy obligation and service. We, as cit
izens of Newark, must be true to the tradi-
tions of those who built this community, the
basic neighborly spirit which impelled them
to work together, the weak with the strong,
the old with the young. We must do the
same things today that our fathers did in
the building of their neighborhoods and
townships, when they were the pioneers.
The same vital duties-the same obligations
remain today, only in a slightly different
form.
The same spirit of cooperation and obli-
cation, with and to our fellowman, exists
now, as it did then. 1t is our duty to see
that the goal which has been set for the
1910 Community Chest drive is achieved.
We know that we shall not be disappointed
for the spirit of the Golden Rule still sur
wives in the only land on Gods earth which
can still be called the 'land of the free and
the home of the brave"