Evening star., 1953-03-28
Red Cross Campaign
Extended 10 April 10
To Raise Final 35%

The 1853 Metropolitan Area
Red Cross fund campaign-with
more than 35 per cent of it's
$1.531,000 goal still to come in
will continue through April 10.
Campaign Chairman r. Roy
Dunn announced the extension
from the scheduled March 81
windup at yesterdays report
meeting in the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building.
Contributions reported to date
total $97O,404, or 63 per cent of
the objective.
Mr.. Dunn noted that only once
in II years has the campaign
succeeded in reaching it's goal in
March.
Last year, it was April II, he
continued, and the campaign is
now running behind last years.
This years goal is 10 per cent
higher than the 1852 objective.
Calls for Cooperation.
"We can reach our goal by
April II only through complete
cooperation of the heads of
every business firm and Govern
ment department." Mr.. Dunn
said.
He appealed to these officials
to measure the program in their
organizations and give whatever
help and encouragement may be
needed for success.
He called on the solicitors in
counties, the residential and city
divisions to make an all-out ef-
fort for quota this week.
"Our campaign organization
has never failed to overcome
similar situations in the past"
he declared, "and I am confident
1t will succeed again this year."
The first campaign division to
make quota, it was reported yes
terday, is Prince William County,
with all it's $1,000 in.
Other Divisions.
Other divisions stood as fol-
lows:
Government, SO per cent of
$698.700 quota; General BUSH
ness. so per cent of 421,800;
Residential, 68 per cent of $685.
900; City, IS per cent of $66, 300;
Alexandria, 66 per cent of $685.
$50; Arlington, rs per cent of
$43, 900; Fairfax, 48 per cent of
$38,850; Montgomery, So per cent
Of $60.800; and Prince Georges,
81 per cent of $4,000.
A comparison with the progress
at the last report in March for
1852 indicated that an additional
$4,000 in contributions next
Tuesday will put the drive ahead
Of last year.
Cutting the 48th birthday
cake of the District Red Cross
Chapter at the luncheon was
Lady Astor. Virginia born former
member of the British Parlia-
ment.
She lauded the Red Cross, cit
ing her experience with it's work
as early as 1914, with a Canadian
Red Cross hospital, and as re-
Gently as the late floods which
struck Great Britain.
Praises Eisenhower.
Also in her speech, she con-
demned "this tripe about the
common man." praised President
Eisenhower extravagantly and
called for the glish-speaking
peoples to stick together.
IF we were all common men,
we'd all be running around in
our birthday Clothes" she said.
There would be no civilization.
She spoke up for "the uncom-
mon man-the man with vision,
the man with ideas" Lincoln,
she said, wasn't such a common
man, because there has never
been another like him.
"I call volunteer workers Of
the Red Cross uncommon peo-
pie" she went on, adding that
they are giving their service and
their time for the good of others.
"It is because of uncommon
people like you that civilization
has got as far as it has and will
go on" she declared. Others
ought to come in and help, so the
Red Cross could do more, she
said.
Although she said she is a
Democrat. she thought the Dem
ocrats had been in long enough
and she was proud of Virginia
for voting for President Eisen-
hover.
Lady AStor urged that nothing
be permitted to separate the
"English-thinking and speaking
people," She said she thought
that, If the Russians could do
one thing, "they would separate