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Samuel Mather is the country's second largest contributor to community chests. Largest is Senator James Couzens of Pontiac, Mich. Henry Ford gave Detroit's chest nothing this year. But Edsel Bryant Ford did?$115,000. Senator Couzens, chairman of the Detroit chest, topped this with a gift of $120,000, also giving Washington and Pontiac other sums. The Couzens and Ford money, plus the gifts of the seven Fisher brothers ($125,000) and General Motors ($100,000, tax deduction or not) provided the bones of Detroit's latest $3,657,432 campaign...
...chest cities this year include: Alliance, Ohio; Johnstown, Pa.; Springfield, Mo.; Clinton, Iowa; Hazelton, Pa.; Stamford, Conn.; New Philadelphia, Ohio. And doughty Blacksburg, Va., with a population of less than 2,000 and the smallest of all chests. They hoped to raise $800 for a chest, actually gathered...
...idea has spread abroad. Canada has six; Hamilton and London, Ont., Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and (new this year) Vancouver. Ottawa has a Canadian Council on Child Welfare, which technically is not a chest...
Rich Cape Town, South Africa, has a chest for the entire Cape Peninsula. Mrs. B. Trevelyan, who struggles alone as general secretary of the South African movement in all its branches, rejoiced that despite great difficulties, her group collected £9,500 (some $46,000). The Cape Town city council permitted other organizations to make street campaigns simultaneously. Lamented Mrs. Trevelyan: "The public still have a very hazy idea of what a real community chest can be ... [only] a few staunch men have supported...
...staunch men" support every community chest. Cleveland, which raised $4,667,224 for its chest and $751,300 additional for unemployment relief, has its Samuel Livingston Mather, richest citizen. He gave $186,000. His step-brother William Gwinn Mather gave...