Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 57- November
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 57- November
Subject
American Red Cross
Great Depression, 1929-1939
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated November 8th, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-11-08
Contributor
Red Cross Volunteer
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34053
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 57- November,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed December 22, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/109.
Text
DRIVE FOR FUNDS
COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN PLANS UNDERWAY.
Will be Held From Nov. 20 to November 23.—Budgets For Three Agencies Slightly Reduced This Year.
11-8-34
Final arrangements have been made for the Community Chest drive which will be conducted beginning at noon November 20 and ending at noon November 23. The budget committee met last night in the Chamber of Commerce office and went over the budgets of the three participating organizations, the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and the Kansas T. B. Health association. The budgets were accepted as they were presented.
The budgets for the three organizations this year are as follows: Salvation Army, $7,195.00; Red Cross, $5,535.00; and Kansas T. B. Health Association, $425.00. The budgets of the Red Cross and the T. B. Health Association remain the same this year as they were last year, but the Salvation Army budget has been reduced $500. Also included in the Community Chest drive will be $1,200 for the contingent and miscellaneous fund, and $600 for the campaign, collections and maintenance fund. The total amount of money to be raised this year is $14,955 as compared with the budget for last year which was $15,355.
Dr. Frederick Maier, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will preside as chairman of the Community Chest drive this year. He will be assisted by C. B. Tingley, manager of the Kansas Gas and Electric company. Mrs. Richard Bird will serve as secretary. E. M. Barnard and J. G. Mawson have been appointed division managers of the campaign set-up. They will appoint their team captains and workers. The headquarters of the drive will be the Y. M. C. A. building. The advance gift committee will meet next week and will make arrangements for the advance gifts to the Chest. This committee will be appointed between now and the meeting | time.
Each year people ask, “Why the Community Chest Fund?” The average cost of conducting money raising campaigns for individual campaigns is 10 percent. The cost of conducting a joint campaign will be less than one percent. The Community Chest plan also calls for a careful investigation of budgets of each organization and gives each agency a just share of the fund and distributes the contributor's obligation fairly. The Community Chest plan also means campaign efficiency and planned financing after the campaign, to insure expenditures are kept within the finances available.
The chest plan records every gift, guards it, gives receipts for all contributions, eliminates the possibility of fraud prevents duplication among the relief agencies and shows where the money goes. Every worker in the campaign contributes his service. Not one cent goes for salaries. Not one penny is spent for meals for workers. No money is spent in the campaign except for pledge cards, receipts and other items of this nature.
Every person in the city is expected to do his share in the support of the social agencies which meet the needs of less fortunate people. Every penny of the Chest fund goes to the social and relief agencies to care for the aged, for service to demoralized families, hospitalization of the needy sick, home nursing caring for undernourished children and sending assistance in the rehabilitation of the families to be self supporting. These, and many other services the Chest agencies are rendering to this community, and they are worthy of the support which may be given them through the finance campaign.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 57- November
Subject
American Red Cross
Great Depression, 1929-1939
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated November 8th, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-11-08
Contributor
Red Cross Volunteer
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34053
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 57- November,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed December 22, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/109.Text
DRIVE FOR FUNDS
COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN PLANS UNDERWAY.
Will be Held From Nov. 20 to November 23.—Budgets For Three Agencies Slightly Reduced This Year.
11-8-34
Final arrangements have been made for the Community Chest drive which will be conducted beginning at noon November 20 and ending at noon November 23. The budget committee met last night in the Chamber of Commerce office and went over the budgets of the three participating organizations, the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and the Kansas T. B. Health association. The budgets were accepted as they were presented.
The budgets for the three organizations this year are as follows: Salvation Army, $7,195.00; Red Cross, $5,535.00; and Kansas T. B. Health Association, $425.00. The budgets of the Red Cross and the T. B. Health Association remain the same this year as they were last year, but the Salvation Army budget has been reduced $500. Also included in the Community Chest drive will be $1,200 for the contingent and miscellaneous fund, and $600 for the campaign, collections and maintenance fund. The total amount of money to be raised this year is $14,955 as compared with the budget for last year which was $15,355.
Dr. Frederick Maier, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will preside as chairman of the Community Chest drive this year. He will be assisted by C. B. Tingley, manager of the Kansas Gas and Electric company. Mrs. Richard Bird will serve as secretary. E. M. Barnard and J. G. Mawson have been appointed division managers of the campaign set-up. They will appoint their team captains and workers. The headquarters of the drive will be the Y. M. C. A. building. The advance gift committee will meet next week and will make arrangements for the advance gifts to the Chest. This committee will be appointed between now and the meeting | time.
Each year people ask, “Why the Community Chest Fund?” The average cost of conducting money raising campaigns for individual campaigns is 10 percent. The cost of conducting a joint campaign will be less than one percent. The Community Chest plan also calls for a careful investigation of budgets of each organization and gives each agency a just share of the fund and distributes the contributor's obligation fairly. The Community Chest plan also means campaign efficiency and planned financing after the campaign, to insure expenditures are kept within the finances available.
The chest plan records every gift, guards it, gives receipts for all contributions, eliminates the possibility of fraud prevents duplication among the relief agencies and shows where the money goes. Every worker in the campaign contributes his service. Not one cent goes for salaries. Not one penny is spent for meals for workers. No money is spent in the campaign except for pledge cards, receipts and other items of this nature.
Every person in the city is expected to do his share in the support of the social agencies which meet the needs of less fortunate people. Every penny of the Chest fund goes to the social and relief agencies to care for the aged, for service to demoralized families, hospitalization of the needy sick, home nursing caring for undernourished children and sending assistance in the rehabilitation of the families to be self supporting. These, and many other services the Chest agencies are rendering to this community, and they are worthy of the support which may be given them through the finance campaign.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.