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Show Small Contributions i Prove Greatest Glory Of Community Drives - m f 7 -1 ) -. 1 ' I HI I t 1" C" v;i yK a.cv fairly accurate index: of what may be expected. I Community Chest funds, Andress I explained, are not to be used en- tirely for direct unemployment relief re-lief in terms of food, fuel, clothing and shelter. The Chests are agencies agen-cies which raise, in a single campaign, cam-paign, money which is allotted on a pre-determincd basis to all the cooperating welfare organizations of each city. These funds then are used not only for direct relief, but for hospitals, child welfare, nursing, nurs-ing, homes for the aged and similar institutions. Andress pointed out that three of the largest cities in the U. S. New York, Chicago and Boston have not adopted the Community Chest plan. The $18,000,000 raised in New York's drive is all for primary pri-mary relief, such as food, clothing and shelter. Fully 99 per cent of the amounts which Community Chests set out to raise has been contributed. Amounts contributed in cities which do not have Community Chests will greatly boom the national na-tional total. BY PAUL HARRISON t KKA Service Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 18. When agencies in the large cities begin their task of ministering to the I welfare and relief needs of 1932, , about one hundred million dollars will have been made available to j them by Community chest campaigns. cam-paigns. That record figure, some 14 percent per-cent greater than the largest previous previ-ous total, represents a donation of about 83 cents for every man, woman wo-man and child in the United States. Yet the amount will have come out of the pockets of relatively few donors in only 391 American cities. Results of the Community Chest campaign, interpreted through incomplete in-complete reports and in the light of last years' giving, pay astonishing astonish-ing tribute to the generosity of small contributors, some of whom are themselves on the verge of financial fi-nancial need. Probably one-fourth of- all this nation's huge charity fund, privately private-ly contributed, will have come from the men and women who can afford af-ford to donate less than $25. The proportion . may be even greater, for that class, of donors was responsible re-sponsible for nearly half of the increase in-crease in 1930 funds over those of 1929. "Natui allyiMi .the rich are diviner the largest share in actual dollars,'1 said Bart Andress, stall ine-cuL. .l the Association of Community Chests and Councils, the central agency .which has worked in cooperation coop-eration with President Hoover's national relief organization. "In fact, the two most notable increases in-creases are coming from the two extremes. Wealthy people have answered the call to give more than ! ever this year, and the wage earners earn-ers and workers have shared generously. gen-erously. "The straitened circumstances of middle-class people are more than ever evident this year. The small , shopkeepers and businessmen, overloaded over-loaded with bad debts and decreased de-creased business, have not been able to give the usual sums to Community Com-munity Chests. Neither have salaried sal-aried workers, who are concerned over their own decreased pay check and a general Reeling of insecurty. Higher Proportion "But the wage earner, though he may be working only part time, and who has really felt the pinch of depression, de-pression, has given all the more liberally lib-erally because of that. The -man who formerly worked on the machine ma-chine next to him may be in actual want. His next door neighbor may be facing eviction. So the worker wants to do something about it. The amount he gives is small, but usually it is in greater proportion to his resources than the gifts of the wealthy." In New York, for example, approximately ap-proximately 500,000 wage earners pledged more than they could pay in cash to the emergency relief fund. So they will pay the promised prom-ised sums in weekly installments taken from their salaries. Only 174 of the 391 Community Chest drives have been completed and tabulated thus far. And about 100 of the remaining campaigns are to held after January 1. But the $63,441,995 raised for the 174 Chests an increase of 14.9 percent per-cent over the same organizations' aggregate last year seems to be a |