Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1936, Page 4

A MRS. SWIFT HEADS " RED CROSS UNIT Will Supervise All Volunteer Work in Roll Call Here Soon. Mrs. Ernest J. Swift, wife of the National Red Oross vice chairman in charge of insular affairs and foreign operations, was appointed today to supervise all volunteer work in the District Red Cross roll call September 27 to October 16. At the headquarters of the mem- bership drive, 1416 H street, she will direct the acores of volunteers who have offered to help the District Chapter enroll 65,000 Washingtonians. Mrs, Swift is a member of the Headquarters Executive Committee, which also includes Miss Minnie Har- man, representing the Naticnal Red Cross, ahd Miss Edna L. May, as- sistant to the late Mrs. John A. Johnston when the latter was direc- tor of the roll call. Doing Heads Audit Work. Lloyd B. Wilson, chairman of the roll call, announced the appointment of Charles H. Doing, jr., president of the West End Branch, Washington Loan & Trust Co., as director of all audit and financial activities of the campaign. Doing will be assisted by H. S. Fitz of the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Telephone Co. and Mrs. Mar- garet H. Robbins, assistant treasurer of the District Red Cross Chapter. Mlle. Marie-Therese de Laboulaye, @aughter of the French Ambassador; Miss Barbara Barnes, Mrs. Erskine Hamilton and other members of the Red Cross health aid staff have vol- unteered for clerical work, while the switchboard and information booth &t headquarters will be handled by Misses Helen Beattie, Nancy Brereton end Anne Claude. Window Displays Planned. Delivery of window display material and flsgs for the campaign will be handled by Mrs. H. C. Bickford and Mrs. Fannie Ingram, vice chairman of the Red Cross motor corps in the District. The latter has under her direction 20 volunteers who will solicit small shops and stores. The chairman of the motor corps, Mrs. R. V. Gardner, will have charge of distributing posters and roll call supplies. Boy Scouts have volunteered to help her, Human Needs ‘(Continued From First Page.) chest budget, that budget should be divided into the two following basic categories of activity: (a) Those ac- tivities which are for the relief of human suffering, misery and destitu- tion. Included in this group are hos- pitals, free clinics, milk funds, day nurseries, orphan asylums, the Red Cross, family rellef and welfare, All other activities would be included in (b) recreational, character building and miscellaneous services. Full Support Justified. “All activities listed under (a) Justify a full degree of support by em- ployers and accordingly should be given a weighting of 100 per oent. Those activities listed under (b) war- rant varying degrees of support on the part of employers, and should be given & weighting of from 20 per cent to 300 per cent, depending upon the ap- praisal by each employer of the im- portance to him of the several activ- {ties included therein. “In deciding upon the specific weighting which the employer should assign to those activities in category (b), there is need of the exercise of judgment on the part of those familiar with the local conditions.” Discussing the plan, Brown said: “If the foregoing method of ap- proach is acceptable to the local spon- sors of Community Chests, we ask that they urge its adoption by the factory- employers in their communities. We ere satisfied that even though it may have the effect of reducing the contri- butions of some individual factories compared to their previous contri- butions, this decrease should be more than off-set by increases from other concerns. . A reasonable and tangible method of appraising corporate re- eponsibilities could not fail greatly to benefit the whole Chest movement by placing 1t on & more satisfactory basis. “Such & program, of course, should not be regarded as leading automatic- ally to the amount a corporation would contribute, In the final analysis, the rule of reason must obtain, and since contributions should be voluntary, they must be determined upon in the light of such considerations as each corpo- gation itself regards as controlling.” In presenting his proposal to tne general session, Brown indicted too widespread dependence on publicly sdministered relief, “It has been argued,” he said, “thet an employer should accept no obliga- tion for any larger share of these social costs of the local community than may be imposed upon him through taxation, This argument is superficial “When the community, through 1341 F STREET N.W. The District Red Cross Chapter’s annual membership drive doesn’t start until September 27, but these young women are demonstrating what campaign workers hope to do for 65,000 Wash« ingtonians—pin on the Red Cross button and issue member:hw “decorating” Boy Scout Dick Mrs. Erskine Hamilton is certificates. tesendanger, while Mile. Marie- Therese de Laboulaye, daughter of the French Ambassador, makes out a membership card. All are volunteer workers at campaign headquarters, 1416 H street. voluntary gifts, fails to perform these tasks so that the public Treasury is required to assume the burden, the employer still pays & substantial pro- portion of the costs. An important difference is that as public adminis- tration 18 imposed to displace the agencies of private philanthropy, there is the inevitable introduction of political considerations, with the tendency toward waste, extravagancs, and misapplied effort. “The farther removed the seat of administrative authority may be from the scene of activity and the inti- mate understanding of local com- munity needs, the greater will be the inefficiency in costs. “This is the most potent argument against Federal administration of re- lief activities and also the most potent argument in favor of private relief. The relative efficiency of private as compared to public philanthropic agencies is unquestioned. One of the most serious threats to our social structure arises from conditions which have forced government to as- sume responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, with the danger that such a course must inevitably pro- duce political pressure for constantly more relief and constantly less work.” ‘Women Hold Session. During consideration of the indus- trial formulae, the women at the con- ference were in separate session under leadership of Mrs. Harper Sibley of Rochester. Prior to these discussion sessions, the annual business meeting of the conference was held at an 8 o’clock breakfast gathering. At the annual business meeting of the Community Chests and Councils, Inc., Stiliman F. Westbrook was re- elected president, with Newton D. Baker again being named honorary president. C. Phelps Dodge of Wash- ington again was named s member of the National Board of Directors. In filling the complete board of 30 members the agency this year decided to increase the ratio of lay members to professional and social workers. This morning 20 lsy members were named, as compared to 10 profession- als. Previously the board had been evenly divided. Emphasis during conference pro- ceedings yesterday afternoon and last night was directed almost exclusively at the need of increased character building work. Keynote for this subject was sound- ed in President Roosevelt'’s charge of responsibility in the morning and was repeated with vigor by Westbrook at the afternoon meeting. The former, delivering an impas- sioned address on behalf of character work among children, suggested that the private charities might well start afresh into this fleld with thorough appraisals of need providing the groundwork. “Somehow we'll solve our economic problems,” Baker declared. “Our country provides more than enough for us to eat and to wear. Our enter- tainers éven provide us with sufficient amusement. But more than all these we must introduce the sort of thing that strengthens character. There 18 need for social service of this kind because the world is in a very sad state.” Reminded yesterday morning by President Roosevelt of returning pros- perity in industry, business leaders at- tending the conference discussed the part of corporate contributions at sn’ executive session. Upon its adjourn- ment, Gerard Swope, president of Gen- eral Electric Co. and chairman of the T A 1 for Gentlemen conference, predicted that industry SNAP BRIM HOMBURG DERBY The Smartest Versions The Cambridge, a snap brim with bound edge, is correct for business or sports. Several new shades. The Yorktown, Snap Brim with Welt Edge, $7.50 The Homburg, in co- balt gray and burnt brown, for business; and in midnight blue, to wear with the din- “ner jacket. $7.50 The Derby in the au- thentic Fall version. $10- nos. byt 4 /I N Co ! Offers Plan Donaldson Brown, chairman of the Finance Committee of General Motors Corp., is pic- tured here as he presented his Community Chest budget plan to the Conference on Mobil- ization for Human Needs. ‘will be able to shoulder an appreciably increased share of the charity burden. In explanation he pointed to this same trend of improved business and to the helpful factor of specific tax exemption for charitable contribu- tions. In the tax law of the past year corporations were granted exemptions up to 5 per cent of their income for contributions to charity. Devoting themselves to the problems of youth, Dorothy Thompson, syndi- cate writer, and Charle: ~—Star Staff Photo. night addressed guests at the annual banquet of the conference. To Miss Thompson the world situa- tion appears as follows: “In Europe the devil-chasers are in the saddle. In Russia the devil is the bourgeoisie, in Germany the devil is the Jew, in Spain the devil is either the church or the aristocracy or the whole working class. In France the devil is Russia or the devil is Germany. And we are beginning to get an uncom- fortable number of devil-chasers in our own country. “For some citizens of Long Island, especially idle women, the devil is Mr. Roosevelt, And for some gentlemen of Fourteenth street the devil is the economic royalists—that is to say, rich Republicans. But we must tell our youth there is no personal devil. There is only apathy, ignorance and complacency.” HEPBRON TO MEET PAROLE OFFICIALS James M. Hepbron, acting director of the Washington Oriminal Justice Association, will attend the next meet- ing of the District Parole Board at Lorton Reformatory next Friday, it was announced today. 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