Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1937, Page 7

STIDY SURCESTED FOR CHESTSEAP Dodge Tells Board Impar- tial Survey Should Weigh Reorganization. Ooncerned over an “appalling bar- _ wage of negative publicity” in conver- sations throughout the city, Commu- nity Chest leaders late yesterday flatly recommended the Community Chest should change its name to something which would indicate more clearly that ft is an association or federation of welfare agencies. The recommendation was laid before the ninth annual meeting of the Chest at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States by both Clarence Phelps Dodge, president, and Herbert L. Wil- lett, director. Frankly criticizing several tenden- eies in the Chest as at present consti- tuted, President Dodge charged the agencies were “growing too self-cen- tered, forgetting the trials and tribu- lations of days before the Chest to which they may have to return unless there is better co-operation.” Reorganization Possibility Suggested. He even went so far as to recom- mend study of the whole Chest set-up by an independent outside group of some kind, with a view to reorganiza- tion, if such were found necessary. | He proposed that if such an impartial survey should find that some agency here in the city no longer was fitting properly into the social picture, that sgency “should reorganize or cease.” President Dodge recommended there should be a small liaison committee set up between the Chest and the Council of Social Agencies, and the Council of Social Agencies be “more | effective in social planning.” He pro- posed that each agency strive harder to interpret its needs and purposes to the people, instead of depending so much on the Chest for publicity and | interpretation. Studies should be made of the pos- sibilities also of a “Greater Washing- ton Chest,” Dodge said. All such| studies should be “made use of and | not sidetracked,” he emphasized. Would Revamp Name. The name should be changed, he urged as part of the plan to kill the idea that the Chest is one unit, at 1101 M street, which “grants or re- fuses” funds. “We must recapture immediately the idea and spread it abroad in the city,” he said, “that the Chest is the work of 65 agencies and is not & unit only. The giving is to 65 agencies and not to the Chest &5 such,” Dodge said. Willett Tells of Criticism. It was Willett, who in the course of a comprehensive review of the year past, and a look into the future, came out with the charge that the Chest was suffering from “an appaling ‘barrage of negative publicity and lack of constructive interpretation.” Con- versations over bridge tables, and in elevators of the city, he charged were being permitted to attack the Com- munity Chest idea with “misinforma- tion,” and without successful or ar-| dent contradiction by Chest de-! fenders. | ‘Willett disclosed that 11 members of the old Board of Trustees were not eontributors to the Chest, and he was eonstantly having to defend these trustees from criticism. He did not mame them, but said they were ap- | pointed by the agencies who had a| right to select their own trustees.! Willett also criticized an unidentified hest worker, “Mr. X,” for his four flerent “personalities,” a man who would recommend a much bigger budget for the Chest as & whole, refuse to take ‘a larger quota for his own organization in the campaign, refuse to increase his personal contribution, or else decrease it, and finally go be- fore the Budget Committee and ask for more funds for his own agency. A change of name to something like “Associated Welfare Agencies,” was proposed by Willett, while President Dodge suggested some such name as “Federation of Welfare Agencies.” Discussing the cost of operating the Chest, Willett declared “we are proud of the fact that over a period of eight years the average cost of raising and administering funds to the member agencles of the Chest has been 6.93 per cent as against the 20 to 25 per cent of separate solici- tation costs.” Raising the question as whether the Chest is the best way for co-operative financing, Willett pointed to Chicago and Boston as having adopted the Chest, and saild he was “more than ever convinced that there is no better way for the present American city.” H. L. Rust, jr, treasurer of the Chest, told of the financial condition of the organization. In the absence of Newbold Noyes, chairman of the Nominating Com- mittee, Ray H. Everett nominated 130 members of the board to represent the contributors. They and the 130 members representing the agencies were unanimously re-elected. OFFER RIVERDALE BILL Bv 4 Sta® Ccrrespondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, March 9.—The bill to extend the term of the mayor of Riverdale from one to two years after the election next May was introduced in the House last night by the Primce Georges County delegation. The measure was requested by the mayor and council at & hearing last week. oNLY (e NEW YORK HOTEL OFFERS ALL THESE FEATURES Compare with the hotel where you have been staying in New York GOVERNOR CLINTON 313t Street and 7th Avenve, N.Y. C. Under Knott Management THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937. TREMORS® ORIGIN 1S PLACED IN OHIO Glacial Formations Blamed for Shocks Felt in Seven States. BY the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 9. —Seismologists concurred today in ascribing earth shocks felt in seven Midwest States and Canada shortly before midnight to disturbance of glacial formations in Northwest Ohio. Seismograph rgcords in several cit- jes affected by the tremors and at Harvard University disclosed the shocks occurred at 11:45 pm. (C. 8. T.) and continued with varying in- tensity from 2 to 15 minutes. Similar to Shocks Last Week. The expert consensus was that the shocKs bore close similarity to those experienced in the Midwest last week, but were slightly greater in severity. Both disturbances were termed “mod- erate” and traced to rock crust upe heaval. The latest series of tremors were distinctly felt, but caused negligible damage, in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, West Virginia, Michigan, Wis- consin and Ontario, Canada. Chicago residents told of vibratory shocks. Buildings were shaken in Cleveland, Columbus and other Ohio cities. The rattling of windows and dishes star- tled persons in Detroit, Louisville and Indianupolis. Police stations were flooded with inquiries. The question | in most instances was whether the disturbance was an explosion or an earthquake. Chimneys Toppled Again. Attesting to the belief the epicenter was in the glacial region spanning Northwest Ohio were observations at Anna, Ohio, that chimneys toppled by the quake of last Tuesday, and since repaired, were felled by the shocks last night. Rev. Victor C. Stechschulte, seismol- ogist at Xavier University, fixed the focal point of both disturbances in the vicinity of Anna. ROPER TO BE GUEST Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Also to Be Host to Senators. Secretary of Commerce Roper and & number of Senators and Representa- tives will be among honor guests to attend the eighty-first founders’ day banquet of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, na- tional social fraternity, at 8 o'clock tonight at the Press Club. Guests will include, besides Roper, Senators Pat Harrison, Key Pittman, Nathan Bachman nd Richard B. Russell and Representatives Edward Cox, Walter Chandler, Arthur Healey, Frank Kloeb, Lawrence Lewis, John Mitchell, Charles Plumley, Pete Jar- man ad Byron Scott. 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