Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1935, Page 27

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1935.: Be A Good eighbor fo "Aunt C’ “] am Aunt C. I am your neighbor. We, my husband and I are in the evening of our lives. We have worked hard, raised three children, known happiness and sorrow, and now we are all alone. “] plead for the homeless aged (your gifts gave us 50,080 days’ care in four homes for the aged, last year). “I plead, too, for younger families and other men and women :hg need yourmholp. dI pleug for unmtimiod m()flhll‘l and their abies (your gifts cared for 188 mothers, last year). “I plead for unemployed, homeless women and homeless men Needed for 1936, 8198779900 (your last year’s gifts fed and sheltered 3,028, last year). s “I plead for 3,925 families (not on public relief) whom your gifts Be a Good Neighbor, GIVE (1007 for Chesty « helped last year—helped with their rent, their food. their clothes, - A dgsnce)S s their own and their children’s health. e 5'”"; I’V{"IQ”"’O";“C; VE ( 200 mece for ] plead for the 2,142 men and women, who had gone afoul of e the law—who wanted to start over again—your gifts, last year, gave them this new chance in life. “The aged, the homeless, the lost, the destitute—I plead with you—do not forget them in their hour of need.” Men and women—all ages, all creeds— find true friends in these agencies thru 65 Community Chest Agencies Helped 135,000 Needy. during the past 12 months Peace and security in the evening of their lives— your Chest gifts provide homes for the aged. Needy, destitute families—your Chest gifts solve their problems in many ways. They are your neighbors—these families who need sym- thetie guiding hands to help them out of trouble—your est gifts provide such help, your gifts! Hebrew Home for the Aged St. Anna's Home for the Aged Stoddard Baptist Old Folks' Home Southern Relief Society Traveler's Aid Society Salvation Army Family Service Association Bureau of Rehabilitation Catholic Charities Jewish Social Service Agency Instructive Visiting Nurse Society Florence Crittenton Home Legal Aid Bureaqu Washington Committee on Housing : St. Ann'’s Infant Asylum and Maternity Home Social Service Exchange Your Chest gifts make possible the work of the Human Welfare Agencies above. Through your gifts they care for the homeless aged, destitute men and women, the bungry, the homeless, needy fam- ilies . . . in 1936 Human Needs of this type will be greater than ever in Washington. While Mother works—thelr little hands are kept busy— children of the poor kept off the streets by your Chest gifta Homeless transients—former prisoners who want to start all over—your Chest gifts are the answer to their needs. Litile children, the Homeless Aged, destitute Men and Women, the Sick, the Hopeless, the Hungry . . . 135,000 of them . . . were aided by Washington's 85 Human Wellare Agencies, through your giits to the Community Chest last year. 1936 would indeed be dark and dreary for them if you failed them now. 93¢ out of every Community Chest Dollar Spent DIRECTLY for Human Needs. .. Lot us repeat__that 93¢ out of every dollar you con- tribute to your Community Chest is spent direcily (by your Chest's Human Welfare Agencies) for Washing- ton people who NEED this 65 different types of service. Only 7¢ of your dollar is spent for the cost of giving such service. Your Volunteer Chest army of 5,500 Washingtonians makes this low cost possible. Crumbs from Your Loat “Your Loat” is your income, the reward for the work of your hands, or brain, in money. A few crumbs from YOUR LOAF will bring the light of health to the eyes of littls children, security to the aged and desolats, comfort to the sick, peace to the infirm, courage to the despondent. If you make $100 a month, can’t you spare 50c s month? (A Crumb from your loaf) If you make $150 s month, can’t you spare $1 a3 month? % (A widow’s mite) I you make 3200 s month, can’t you spare §% » month? (Bring Comfort to the Sick) If you make $300 a momth, can’t you spare $4 & month? (For little children) And so on—according to the size of Your Leaf Community Chest