Evening star., 1941-10-10
Businessmen Push
Recruiting Of Aides
For Chest Drive
Full Roster of Coptoins
By Oct. IS Is Goal;
CIopper Voices Plea

Spurred on by an address yester-
day of Raymond Clapper, newspaper
columnist, Community Chest re-
cruiting was launched with new
force today as the business section
of the Metropolitan Unit set as a
goal completion of the entire roster
of 66 team captains by the middle OF
this month.
Members of the business section
will be assigned to duty in three
concentrated downtown areas, B. M.
McKelway, chairman, announced.
Volunteers for this service are urged
TO get in touch Immediately with
chairmen or team captains.
I'VE need our volunteer personnel
now, IN order to be properly organ
lied by the time the intensive Chest
campaign opens on November 13,'
Mr. McKelway said.
Federal Group Meets Tonight.
Meanwhile, Wayne Chatfleld-
Taylor, chairman of the Govern
ment Unit of the campaign, invited
approximately 100 representatives OF
Federal Offices to meet at Z O'Clock
tonight at a .dinner at the Chevy
Chase Country Club. They will dis
cuss the problem of organizing suf-
ficient volunteer solicitors to reach
the greatly expanded number Of
Federal employees during the cam
paign.
Coleman Jennings, Chest presi-
dent; John Clifford Folger. general
campaign chairman, and leaders
from the Metropolitan, Groups and
Advance Solicitation Units also will
attend the dinner.
Government Unit vice chairmen
invited to tonight's meeting include
James V. Bennett, director of pris-
ons, Justice Department.; Frank A.
Birgfeld, chief clerk of the Treasury;
w. L. Clayton, deputy Federal loan
administrator; Ernest G. Draper of
the Board of Governors, Federal
Reserve System: G. Howland Shaw,
Assistant Secretary of State; South
Trimble, jr., solicitor, Commerce
Department, and John Russell
Young. president of the Board of
District Commissioners
In his talk yesterday, Mr.. Clapper,
recently back from trip to Eng
land, advised that conditions which
approach wartime" add more than
ever to the need for social services.
Warns of Prosperity.
Things I saw in England con-
vince me of this" he declared. over
there the social service organizations
are second only to the military
forces"
More than $50 representatives OF
the various units which will help
with this years Community Chest
drive assembled at a luncheon rally
at the Y. w. G. A, heard the
colurnnist give a detailed account of
his trip abroad and conclude with a
warning that prosperity in a COM
nunity does not lessen the need for
social service
England has prosperity of a ma
ture," he said. That is, everybody
Is working, But England needs So
cial service now more than ever,
and the same is true here in Wash
tngton. Don't let prosperity or a
boom fool you. The more people who
come to a community, the more you
must have social service to take care
of them"
Great Britains dislocated life ac-
cording to Mr.. Clapper, has given
rise to the greatest community or
ganization in its history. The pres
ent war, he said, is a war In the
civilian areas instead of q war out
on the front, and every woman has
some special social work which she
does to help keep the life of the
community going. Some are men,
bers of the fire department auxiliary.
some do canteen work and some
assist in air raid precautions, he
related, but all work for the other
fellow.
Campaign Film Previewed.
Il came back feeling more than
ever" he said, that, with a lot of
faults they have, they have worked
out a system that allows the kind
OF HE we IKE 10 i've.
After Mr.. Clapper's talk, the Com
munity Chests new campaign mo-
tion picture, For Freedom" was
previewed in its first formal show
ing. In presenting it, Herbert L.
Wlllett, jr., director of the Chest,
announced that the film already has
been booked to be shown before
more than 300 agencies and groups.
Discussing further the plans of
the business section, Mr.. McKelway
revealed that volunteer solicitation
In Area No. 3, headed by Richard L.
johnson, chairman, and Richard K.
Lyon, vice chairman, will be carried
on entirely by Junior Board of Com
merce teams. The board, he ex-
planned, has for many years assumed
responsibility for one entire area in
the Chest campaign.
Personnel Enlisted So Far.
Personnel already enlisted In the
other two areas follows:
Area No. Robert B. SWope,
chairman; G. Arthur Fyfe, secre-
tary; Ralph w. Lee, jr., chairman
Hin-Medical Science Division; Sam
uel F. Beach, chairman Edmunds-
Maryland-Hibbs Division; Charles
V. KoonS, chairman Baker-Adams-
Peoples Division, with Meyer Taske.
julius E. Lob and Julius Sinker as
team captains; Dwight E. Hahn,
chairman Star as-Columbian Di-
vision, with Emory Samson, Norman
H. Barnes and George j. Boden as
team captains; George P. Mangan,
chairman Homer-McGill-P Prof fession-
al Division, with K. B. Forbes. B. K.
Slaughter and Jack Frost as team
captains; Henry Salus. chairman
Seventh Street-Center Market Di-
vision, with Mrs. Charles M. Rosen-
thai as vice chairman and Mrs. Lii
Ian Gutenberg, Mrs. Robert Roth
stein and Mrs. Edward Rosenblum
as team captains, and Dan Holland.
chairman Southwest Washington
Division.
Area No. 2-Karl E. FARRELL. chair
man; Linn G. Drake, secretary;
Archie K. Shipe, chairman 726 Jack
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