Evening star., 1952-10-01
District 6. Q. ?.
Plans Intensive
Funds Drive
Metropolitan Area
Canvass Mapped to
Finance Ticket

to get funds and votes to elect
Gen. Eisenhower and Senator
Nixon.
The efforts also will be directed
to bringing into Office Republican
Senatorial and House candidates.
with special support in nearby
and Virginia.
The idea was adopted last night
at a special meeting of the com-
mittee, held at the call of State
Chairman Joseph C. McGarraghy
in the Mayfower Hotel.
The campaign calls for a pre-
cinct-by-pr precinct, neighborhood-
y-neighborhood canvass of the
Metropolitan area under a CITY,
wide committee, which will have
the aid of precinct chairmen and
other officers.
To Contact $4,000.
Every one Of the 10000 men
and women who registered in the
Republican primaries last June is
to- be sought out and asked to
contribute something to the ma
tional campaign for the election
Of Gen. Eisenhower and other Re-
publican candidates, Mr.. McGar-
raghy said.
Because they are legal resi-
dents Of the District, they can
not vote here or elsewhere" Mr..
McGarraghy said. But by con-
tributing to the campaign fund
they can help to win the votes
|of others throughout the country
Their contributions can swing key
States to Gen. Eisenhower and
other candidates"
Maurice Friedman. Washing
ton attorney and chairman of the
Eisenhower Nixon City Wide
Campaign Committee, said there
will be no limit to the amount of
contributions.
Single Dollar Welcomed.
"We will welcome the quarter OF
the man or woman who can't give
any MORE" Mr.. Friedman said,
Dollar contributions will be well
come.
1--WE want every man or woman
not only registered Republicans
but Independents and disgruntled
Democrats as well, to take a per-
Isonal part in the election of Gen
Eisenhower. Their personal par
ticipation in the campaign is
more important than the amount
they give.
1T goes without saying we can't
raise the amount we should raise
if everybody gave only a dollar
We must have. and we want
larger contributions to the limit
Of the ability Of the donor to help
win victory for Gen. Eisenhower. ~
Coupled with the work of the
City-wide Campaign Committee
will be efforts Of special workers
|of the women's Division of the
Eisenhower Nixon Campaign
Club. Under the direction of Mrs.
Howard A. Coffin, Republican
National committeewoman for the
District and chairman of the
Women's Division, groups of wom-
|en in each neighborhood are
setting out to arrange hundreds
|of birthday parties" for Gen
Eisenhower.
Set for October IA.
These are to be given on Octo-
ber IA. his 62d birthday. They
are to be given in private homes
by families, among friends anc
neighbors. and are to be simple
and inexpensive, an official said
Each invited guest should bring
a birthday present" for Gen
Eisenhower in the form of 6
campaign contribution of what
ever amount he may feel able tt
contribute, Mrs. Coffin explained
The women's division will have
the help of the League of Re-
publican Women of the District
headed by Mrs. Carroll D. Kearns
She has named Mrs. William S
Culbertson and Mrs. Willard Ed
wards as her deputies in charg,
Of the parties.
Citizens for Eisenhower Nixon
with headquarters at 808 Seven
teenth street NV, also will CO.
operate in the development of tn,
birthday parties, with Mrs. Mont.
gomery Blair as co-chairman il
charge.
Claude w. Owen, member of tn,
State Central Committee, said h,
believed the birthday party ides
will spread to other cities ant
I"swell into thousands" of similar
parties throughout the country