Evening star., 1943-04-02
$1,000 in Gifts Open,
National Symphony's
Campaign for Funds
3A Volunteers Begin
Solicitations in Drive
For $ll5,00o

With $1,000 pledged Is a starter
3A volunteer workers today be.
gan . drive to raise Sis, 900 for tht
18th annual sustaining fund cam.
paisn Of the National Symphony
Orchestra.
Theme Of the campaign, sug.
gested by an American soldier sta.
toned overseas, is, Music. now and
forever"
THE seymphony must go on-we
cannot fall" declared DR.. Roy D
WEIGH, head Of the Princeton Uni.
versity music department, who Il
on leave of absence with the Treas
ury's war savings staff, at the OPEN
ing luncheon Of campaign workers
yesterday at the Statler Hotel.
Maintaining that the symphony
is q vital part Of our national life
which must be kept going as an in
stitution during war, Dr.. Welch
compared 1t to churches, libraries,
museums and art galleries.
Group Called Tradition.
He asserted 1t would give COM
fort to the enemy if they learned
that in our Nations capital this
sort OF thing no longer flourished.
He said it was the duty Of q few to
carry on for the many, and added
that this was the manner in which
many big movements Of the Ma
ton had been accomplished.
Milton w. King. general cam
paign chairman, who presided,
pointed out that maintaining the
symphony orchestra is "deficit op-
Grafton" He explained that the
sum total OF concert dollars is not
enough to keep the orchestra going.
But, continued Mr.. King, the Ma
tional Symphony in its IL years
has become a tradition, having
given concerts in 80 cities. He re-
ported that last year the Symphony
brought music to $4,000 at the
Water Gate, more than 1000 men
In the service and 5000 children.
This is one of the things We are
fighting for, he stated.
rs Members Now in Services.
Ten pledges totaling. 81 900 were
made at the luncheon when Mrs.
Walter Bruce Howe, chairman OF
the women's campaign division. an
nounced that she had five condi-
tional pledges OF 500 If they were
matched by those present. Her
challenge was answered by two
pledges from the Metropolitan
Committee, and pledges from the
Navy, Marine and Coast Guard
Committee, the Orchestra Guild
Committee and DR.. Hans Kinder,
director of the orchestra.
Twenty-siX former members OF
the National Symphony, it was an
nounced. are now serving the Ma
tion's armed forces on various
fronts. Last year $107,6o0 was
raised to sustain the orchestra. but
increased costs, it was explained,
makes the larger operating sum
necessary for the coming season Of
at least 18 weeks.
First Report Due MOn0av.
Mrs. William Ayers Borden. chair
main of the Army Committee, in
formed the luncheon that at the
Union Station and Stage Door
Canteen the greatest demand among
servicemen has been for tickets to
hear fine music"
Among those at the chairman's
table were Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone,
Rear Admiral Gilbert Rowcliff, Mrs.
Phillip Sidney Smith. Thomas P.
Morgan. jr.; Mrs Conger Pratt,
E. r. Finkenstaedt, vice chairman
of the drive; Mrs. Robert Mckay,
Milton w. King. Walter Bruce
Howe. Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, Mrs
Truxton Beale, j. P. Hayes. man.
ager of the orchestra, and Mrs.
Reeve Lewis.
The first report meeting of the
campaign. which will last through
April IS, will be held Monday at 6
pm. at the YWCA. Seventeenth and
K streets NV. Nine. Olga Sam
aroff Stokowski. well-known pianist
and former wife of Leopold Sto-
kowski, will be the speaker.