Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1929, Page 19

. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MARCH 10, 1929—PART -T. COUZENS PRASES | CHEST FUND 0 Nation Provided Good Exam- | ple in D. C. Success, Senator Declares. The Community Chest idea was de- | scribed as “one of the country's major instruments for guaranteeing adequate | public attention to the social order” by | Senator Couzens of Michigan, in a statement given out for publication to- | The month of March marks the tenth | anniversary of the development of the Community Chest as a means of provid- ing financially for various agencies of | charity through a centrally operated | agency. Senator Couzens is chairman of the board of the Community Chest | in Detroit, his home city, and has| played a conspicuous part in'the growth | ©of the movement. Inauguration of the chest in Wash- ington met with outstanding success in a campaign in January. Chest workers seeking to raice funds for 57 member | agencies of the chest succeeded in ob- | taining money and pledges aggregating $1,475,000, which was about $132,000 | more than was asked. Since 1919, the | plan has spread from 20 to 350 cities and towns. The success of the move- | ment here also is credited with arous- | ing interest elsewhere in the country. “The Community Chest movement,” said Senator Couzens, “has had a rapid growth during its 10 years of existence, and has become one of the country’s major instruments for guaranteeing a equate public attention to the social or- der in this era of intense preoccupation | with industrial and commercial expan- | sion., Pace Kept With Business. “It has enabled welfare enterprises to keep pace with business and to pass on | the fruits of prosperity to people in need of aid and encouragement, and those who have recognized the merits of the idea from the beginning are looking for- ward to still more rapid development under the influence of the new national | administration. President Hoover has | been a student and supporter of the | chest since its inception, realizing that, by raising the tone of community life wherever it operatss, it has become dis- | tinctly an asset of national significance. | “The rapid growth of the movement 48 attributable to the fact that it has| proved itself peculiarly adapted to this | period of post-war devotion to business | and economic progress. The last decade | has been one of marked impatience with desultory methods in all lines of | endeavor. With such a spirit in the | ascendant, vitally necessary ~welfare, | health and educational activities would | have been seriously jeopardized under | the disorganized and competitive way tn which their financial needs had previ- | ously been presented. | “The people would have had no time ! to participate in endless individual | “drives; and the resultant neglect .of | local social service. in spite of preva- | lent prosperity, would soon have become | a matter of national concern. It is no wonder, then, that welfare work has, with few exceptions, fared so much bet- ter in communities having chests than | in those which have not had them. D. C. Success Conspicuous. *It is peculiarly fitting that, in this tenth anniversary year, the two latest evidences of the vitality of the move- ment should have come from the Capi- tal City and from the Nation's metrop- olis, Washington has just adopted the plan, and its first campaign, ending in February, was a conspicuous success. ‘The goal was $1,343,000, and in record time the effort went ‘over the top’ with 81,475,000, giving the city a sense of e unity such as it had not experi- e since the war. In New York, where the problem of welfare adminis- tration is more complex than anywhere else, the Welfare Council, I am in- formed, whose business it is to co- ordinate the work of some 1,200 agen- cies, has approved a study of central financing and is submitting a plan of to its constituents. “The year 1919 found but 20 cities in permanent form the united fund-raising structures erected for war- time purposes. Now there are 350 chests, which have raised more than 870,000,000 for welfare, health and character-building work in 1929, and the National Association of Community Chests and Councils, at its headquarters in New York City, is constantly reteiv- ing requests for advice and guidance in chest organization. “The Community Chest was not a creation of the war, as many of the ‘war chests’ did not provide for peace- time work, but it was, nevertheless, the war which gave the movement im- petus nationally. By dramatizing in: & time of emergency the potentialities of united effort, the war hastened the de- velopment of a movement which had | been born as early as 1887 in Denver, and which had been recognized prior to 1917 in many cities, such as Cleve- land, Dayton, Baltimore and Detroit.” QUITS SALVATION ARMY. Col. Barker Retires After 36 Years| of Service. { | By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, March 9.—Col. | William S. Barker, the Salvation Army | officer who initiated, organized and put | through the Salvation Army program in the World War, retired here last night after 36 years of unbroken army serv- | At the farewell extended him as re- | tiring chief secretary of the Western | territory Commissioner Adam Gifford | announced to a crowd which filled the auditorium that the good judgment and Wwork of Col. Barker in France brought the army successfully through its war relief program with a clean record. Paris Artists in Want. Paris has too many artists, and as a result there is overproduction and mis- | ery. Thus declared Louis Forest in| commenting on the suicide recently of | a well known French sculptor who had won the Prix de Rome, but could not make a living. Forest pointed out that | there are 40,000 painters, as well as many other artists, in Paris. Even the | open-air exhibitions of pictures, which | are sometimes called “crust of bread” | exhibitions, often fail to bring in the} crust. 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