Evening star., 1941-11-24
Chest Workers
Hope 10 Report
Million Today
New U. S. Employees
Given Special
Appeal to Aid

community CheSt campaign
workers will meet at the Willard
Hotel for their sixth report lunch
con today and turn in subscriptions
to the annual welfare fund, which
are believed certain to carry the
total beyond the halfway point of
the s2O0O.O0O goal.
Contributions amounted to S904.-
1866, or 1922 per cent of the mini
mum set for the drive, after COM
pilations had been made at the last
report meeting Friday. Only three
more days remain in which to obtain
the remainder of the fund if the
goal is to be reached by the official
close of the campaign period Thurs
day.
Two more report sessions will be
held this week. These are Sched-
uled for 1890 pm tomorrow and
Thursday.
Calls on Newcomers.
In a special bulletin sent out to-
day by Wayne Chatfield Taylor,
chairman of the Federal Govern
ment Unit. canvasserS were urged
to ask newcomers to join with old
timers in support of the Chest" so
the group would be able to reach its
$838,0O0 quota.
There are now approximately
216,480 Government employees as
compared to 162,652 at this period
of last year. Mr.. Taylor pointed out.
With this increased group to
draw on" he added, I'VE should have
no difficulty in reaching our goal.
And we should have no hesitation
in re-soliciting any newcomer. or,
for that matter, any old-timer who
thus far has failed to contribute"
The auditing staff of the Chest
worked until 4 am. the morning
following the last report when 80 822
gifts totaling s277,434l4 were turned
in for the largest single days re-
suits. The auditors are quartered
in the gymnasium of the c street
branch of the Boys Club of Wash
ington.
The novel feature about the
Washington Chests audit plan is
that 1t is designed to function like
the assembly line Of modern man
ufacturing plant" explained James
A. Councillor, sr., chairman of the
audit unit.
Work as Assembly Line.
by having each of our workers
perform a single operation. We are
able to man our audit unit with
comparatively inexperienced work.
ers. under the supervision of few
trained auditors. The raw material,
consisting of pledge cards and cash
turned in by volunteer workers,
starts at one end of line and comes
out at the other end as statistical
reports and ledger accounts, all
within a very short time"
During the present campaign, Mr..
Councillor said, the audit unit will
open and balance, to make certain
that every penny is reported and
accounted for, approximately 125 900
installment accounts, a number
comparing in volume with that of
many public utilities.
Both the grand total of gifts and
the high number of installment
pledges are peculiar to Washington.
he explained. TT is the problem Of
the audit unit to keep the costs Of
handling our large volume of gifts
down to very small fraction of the
amount collected. so that the larg-
est possible sum may be available
for the vital human welfare services
performed by the SO Community
Chest member agencies"
The plan set up under Mr. Coun-
cilors direction provides an econ
omy of operation. officials said,
which reduces considerably the cost
per account and is made even more
economical by the generosity of To-
cal business firms which have fur
nished the Chest with necessary
equipment for speedy compilations.