Evening star., 1952-10-13
Chest Report
Luncheon SET
For Tomorrow
RulIy Will Be Held
By Arlington County
Unit Tonight

Unit Tonight
The first general report lunch
con for the 1858 Communit,
Chest-USO Campaign will be hel,
at 1920 pm. tomorrow in tn
Washington Hotel.
Speaker will be Miss Mabel r
Cook, executive secretary of tn,
YWCA, Seventeenth and K streets
NV, and vice chairman of thu
National Capital Area USO Com.
mittee.
The Arlington County Unit will
hold a rally at o'clock tonight
in the Hecht Co. Auditorium,
Wilson boulevard and Glebe road
Patty Brown, 4-year-old "star" OF
the, new campaign film. THE
Window" will be among the
guests.
Lounge To Be Dedicated.
Another event of the second
week Of the campaign to raise
$4,150,000 for 102 Chest health,
welfare and recreation agencies
in the Washington area and
United Defense Fund services is
the dedication Wednesday Of the
Little Lounge" at Union Station.
This is a new phase Of the Ma
tibnal Travellers Aid-USO Lounge.
Mrs. Truman will cut the ribbon
at IL am. denoting formal OPEN
ing The special hospitality facil-
ity is for women of the armed
forces and wives and children of
servicemen.
The first separate unit report
luncheons will be at 1920 pm.
Thursday at the Washington
Hotel.
Business workers will meet in
one session with Griff1ng Ban
croft. jr., Columbia Broadcasting
System news commentator, as
speaker. Government Unit work.
ers will hold a session presided
over by Secretary of the Army
Pace. unit chairman.
Encouraging Returns.
John S. Hayes, president Of
WTOP. has reported some en-
couraging returns from Business
Unit groups:
D. j. kaufman, Inc, zoos Penn
Sylvania avenue NV, has 100 per
cent participation of its 81 en-
ployes and an 84.5 per cent in
crease in gifts and pledges from
the "a employees not covered by
advance gifts solicitation.
Gibson Brothers. 1912 I street
NV, with 81 employees, was one
Of the first to bring in a 100 per
cent participation report.
The Star Parking Plaza, Tenth
and e streets NV. with Mai. i.
H. A. Lamberton as executive, has
100 per cent participation and an
18 per cent increase in average
gifts over last year.
Yesterday was observed as Red
Feather Sunday in many Wash
ington area churches.
In his sermon prepared for
delivery yesterday, the Rev. DR..
Frederick Brown Harris of Found
~ Methodist Church, chaplain Of
the Senate. declared that the
essence OF brother hoods irresisti-
BILE appeal "is that strength any
where must be put at the disposal
Of weakness everywhere.
He said that some expressions
Of our democracy. especially in an
election year. seem devious and
crude and cruel. But once a year
in the Nationals Capital. the
American way of life shows a
bright and shining side.
"All differences, social and
political, are forgotten as together
We turn in solicitude to the hui
man need which haunts numer-
Gus homes, even in the shadow
of the famed marble palaces of
government which adorn this
Federal City,"
Sign of Religion"
DR.. Harris said the Red Feather
is the sign of "a religion that
bows not only at affairs, but which
also walks the streets" and that
it is q badge of honor"
1T marks the wearer as one
whose philosophy of life is not
just to feather his own nest, but
to help cushion the blows of ad-
verse circumstances which fall
relentlessly upon others less for
tunate," he went on.
1T is inspiring to visualize the
army Of busy people turning in
selfleSs enthusiasm from their
own affairs. willing to trudge the
streets, to ring doorbells. to write
letters. to commander the tele-
phone that others might have care
and food and shelter and the