Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1920 — DINNER TO COST $1,000 A PLATE [ARTICLE]

DINNER TO COST $1,000 A PLATE

INDIANAPOLIS MAN TELLS OF NEW YORK FLAN TO RAISE <1,060,000 RELIEF FUND. At the meeting of the executive committee of the Indiana branch of the European Relief Council, which was held at the Columbia dub in Indianapolis, Monday, Albert M. Rosenthal, a member qf the committee, who has just returned from a visit to the national headquarters of the council, announced that a dinner will be given in New York, Dec. 29, which 1,000 guests are expected to attend, the charge for each diner being <I,OOO a plate. In this manner the New York branch expects to raise <1,000,000 in |U night. This amount, it is estimated? would be sfifficient to provide one meal a day for 100,000 of the starving children of Europe until the next harvest. It was decided by the committee to duplicate this dinner in various cities in Indiana on a smaller scale, and a telegram was dispatched to New York to learn if it would be possible to establish telephone communication at the various banquets in Indiana with the dining room in New York so that the speech of the national chairman, Herbert Hoover, could be reproduced. Permanent headquarters of the council have been opened at 147 North Pennsylvania street. Caleb S. Denny, chairman of the executive committee, will direct the activities of the various organizations, which have enlisted in behalf of the work throughout the state.