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THE 'JEWISH NEWS

Friday, Ocfolier 23, 1942

HOW MUCH SHOULD I GIVE
TO THE WAR CHEST?

Let's start off with the reasonable assumption that you
know what the War Chest is and that you want to con-
tribute as much as you possibly can.
You want to do justice to the causes included—and to
yourself.

years now the Allied Jewish Campaign has been a War
Chest and the giving for that portion of world-wide needs
has been raised gradually to a war-time standard on our
Fnecial sector of the humanitarian front.

OUR NEIGHBORS UNDERSTAND

HOW TO GO ABOUT IT

Take a piece of paper and a pencil.
1. Write down the amount you gave to the Detroit Com-
munity Fund toward the maintenance of its eighty local
health and welfare organizations last year.
2. Put down the amount you pledged to the Allied Jewish
Campaign in 1942.
3. Then list the amount that you gave to the U. S. 0. during
its last campaign.
4. Next put down the amounts you gave to any and all of
the following appeals now also included in the War
Chest:
British War Relief, Greek War Relief, Maple Leaf Fund,
Polish War Relief, Queen Wilhelmina Fund, Russian
War Relief, United China Relief and War Prisoners'
Aid.

NOW LOOK AT YOUR RECORD

5. Add up all of these contributions which you made dur-
ing the past year. That's the story—your story—for
.
the work of all of these causes before the War Chest
was formed.
You now have a record to go by. In the privacy of your
heart, you must decide whether that base was a generous
one for the past year. If, when you take stock, you must
confess to yourself that the amount contributed was not
all that you might have given, then the formula for the
coming year cannot be an arbitrary multiplication of your
pledge by two or three or four.

GIVE YOURSELF A FAIR START

For purposes of heart-to-heart discussion, you will wish
to start off with a figure for last year that was your actual
total gift, if in good conscience, you think your giving
was adequate for all of the War Chest causes, or, with a
figure representing what you might have given and would
have given, if you were properly approached by each of
the eleven major drives now in the War Chest.
If you are a typical Allied Jewish Campaign contributor,
you probably gave from three to five or more times as
much to the Allied Jewish Campaign as to the Community
Fund. That was natural and reasonable—because, for some

This the general community's leadership in the War Chest
understands. They know that we were the victims of Hitler-
ism long before that power for evil and destruction made
its influence felt over wider areas. It was precisely because
*they realized that we had a great task to perform and
admired the way we had organized on the humane level
to fight back for life itself, that they welcomed the Allied
Jewish Campaign into the War Chest.

OUR SPECIAL SITUATION

They knew that percentage-wise our needs were greateri
but they also knew that our level of giving was higher—
and they properly assumed that as partners in the great
American enterprise for home needs, for the armed forces
and for the embattled civilians of our Allied countries we
would continue to give with a generosity that reflected
the depth of our understanding and our sympathies.
Of the eleven organizations in the War Chest, nine are
serving for the duration of the war—two of them, the
Allied Jewish Campaign and the Community Fund, were
in existence long before the war began and will have
continuing needs to meet long after peace comes.

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

When the War Chest ends its work in a year or two or
three—whenever the emergency that brought it into being
is over—the Community Fund in November of that year
will conduct its campaign for the peacetime essential
services of our local health and welfare agencies. As good
citizens, we shall participate in that campaign—and the
next Allied Jewish Campaign will have to wait until May
of the following year.

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A MEASURE OF PROTECTION

In order to prevent community collapse and to provide
our vital agencies with resources for that period, it was
agreed that the Allied Jewish Campaign should now be
included in the War. Chest for its next fiscal year, which
begins in June, 1943.
The pledges which Allied Jewish Campaign contributors
made in May, 1942 and the payments thereon, some of

