War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit Is Our
Agency ,in Helping to Feed, Clothe and .
Allied Jewish Campaign, Community 'Fun
Included; Contribution.i 'MAI Maintain
Care for Victims of Tyranny
Servicemen's `.1-1ome Away From Home'
General Eisenhower recently said:
"The .only thing needed for us to win is for
every mar'. and woman, all the way from the
front line to the remotest hamlet ... to do his
Or her full duty."
It was only a few words. . . . hard fighting
words from the supreme commander of the Al-
lied forces fighting in the European theater of
war, and they were meant for every American,
not just for the men who do the fighting and
the men and women producing the vital mate-
riel With which our enemies now are being
driven back into their own backyards.
Gen. Eisenhower meant for all- to do their
share in the war effort, and the war effort
means to fight, to work, to give from our own
pockets to those causes which are a part of the
great Allied endeavor.
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'The National War Fund offers opportunity
to the American people 'to give—not lend—for
our own and our Allies."
Member agencies of the NWF are: United
Service Organization, Belgian War Relief, Brit-
ish War Relief, United China Relief, United
CzechoSlovak Relief, National America Den-
mark Association, French Relief, Greek War_
Relief,. American Relief for -Italy, *Friends of
Luxembourg, American Relief for NorwaY,'
Polish War Relief, Queen Wilhelmina
Russian War. Relief, United Yugoslav Relief,
Refugee Relief Trustees; U. S. Committee for_
the Care of European Children, United Seb r
man's Service and War Prisoners Aid.
All these agencies function on , a: non sec-
tarian basis. Besides these organizations, tile.
United Jewish. Appeal, for which the Allied.
Jewish Campaign is a local agency, pro-
vides from its share of the 'fund appropriations
for the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,.
United Palestine Appeal and National Refugee
Service.
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NWF is Centralized Organization
The National War Fund is a part of the .war
effort in more senses than just winning the
war on the battlefronts. The National War
Fund, Inc., is the centralized organization of
which the War Chest of ,Metropolitan Detroit
is a part, and covers more than two score of
activities, - from supporting the USO all the way
down to providing powdered milk for the
downtrodden peoples of Greece.
The NWF itself does not, carry on any relief
operations. It acts as the financing body for
established agencies which are members of the
NWF. The_member agencies are the executors
of these funds, carrying out their specific serv-
ices.
. In Detroit it is the War Chest, a consolida-
tion of all the local, national and foreign relief
agencies. Major organizations included are the
Community Fund, Allied Jewish Campaign and
Red Cross.
In Detroit It's the Wai Chest
In Detroit all these organizations have com-
bined their efforts into one large fund 'gather-
ing unit, thereby preventing duplication of
solicitations which brings one caller 'to your
door instead of three, four and perhaps a dozen.
Detroit's third War Chest campaign is due to
get underway in October. The two • previ-
ous drives were oversubscribed. With the
tempo of the war greatly stepped up since the
last campaign, and more territory being liber-
Package Program
Aids 300,000 Jeu;s
In Asiatic Russia
, Emphasizing the vital . neeCI for
continuing on -a high numerical
level the J.D.C.'s,, food and cloth-
' ing package program, Dr. Joseph
Schwartz, chairman of the
J.D.C.'s European Council, has
informed the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee
that the program "represents the
major effective aid to 300,000
Jews in Asiatic Russia."
The latest data on the food and
clothing program was revealed
by Joseph C. Hyman, Executive
Vice-Chairman of the J.D.C., to
whom Dr. Schwartz's report was
Made, The J.D.C.'s program, as
at present constituted, calls for
the sending of 10,000 packages
monthly. Participation in this
ambitious program has required
alloCation of $1,200,000 by the
J.D.C. for the year 1944.
44,000 Parcels in 6 Months
Prior to raving Jerusalem for
Lisbon, Dr. Schwartz reviewed
the situation with Charles Pass-
man, one of the J.D.C.'s Middle
East representatives who has
handled the intricacies of the'
package program M Teheran.
- In the first six months of 1944,
more than 414 ; 000 parcels were
dispatched from Teheran, the av-
erage during the last three
months of that period having
been about 10,000 pgckages
monthly. Of the total, 19,000
were paid for exclusively with
J.D.C. funds. These included 3,-
000 matzoth parcels. Of the' so-
called paid packages, toward
whose cost relatives contributed
something, more than 9,000 were
paid for by Palestinian relatives
and a few by families in other
.
—Photo by G. D. Hacket
In this photograph, refugees en route
to Canada are shown sunning themselves on
the deck of their ship.
Since last Rosh Hashanah, the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee has' enabled 10,000
refugees to' reach safety from lands of op-
pression,
The War Chest of Metropolitn Detroit
finances this program through the United
Jewish Appeal.
ated, bringing more sufferers, of Nazi persecu-
tion'to our attention, it is imperative that this
year's drive go over the top.
. Four paragraphs in the National War -Fund
Case Book and Publicity Manuals tell a ,better
. reason:
"One duty we have 'is to keep up the world-
wide force -of American generosity—a weapon
for victory and a powerful influence for the
peace—a force needed now to win the victory-
and prepare for the peace to follow.
"For our -own men, nothing else assures
them quite so well that the folks at' home are
backing them _all the way.
Statesmanship of American People
"For. our Allies, 'nothing else tells them in
quite the same way that the statemanship of
the American people is "still the friendly and
constructive influence that has built for us • -
everywhere those reservoirs of goodwill which
have symbolized these United --States as a na-
tion everyone can respect and trust.
countries.
Apathy "Incomprehensible"
Mr. Hyman quoted Dr.
Schwartz's dispatch in _which he
says it is "simply incomprehen-
sible" that there is so little par-
ticipation by relatives In the
United States by comparison
with the interest shown by
Palestinians. ,
"Our packages take care of a
family for a three-month period,"
commented Dr. Schwartz. "They
are the only direct way we can
bring them assistance and pre-
vent starvation. I trust our serv-
ice will be maintained at the
highest possible level."
Helps USO Operate 3,000 Units
Your contribution goes to help:
—The USO operate more than 3,000 service
units for our armed forces, and estimates shovi
that approximately 30,000,000 persons attend
USO clubs and service units every month. They
are situated from Alaska to Brazil, from Nevif-
foundland to Hawaii. •
—Operate 82 rest. centers and clubs fate
United Seamen's Service_on six continents. and
more than 1,000,000 members of the merchant
marine have been serviced. . --
—Operate War Prisoners Aid functions, sues
as providing recreational and educational m*
terial.
—Sustain aid for Chinese war Orphans, cam
teens for 5,000 homeless children in Athenik
care for 2,000 child evacuees from Europe no
inr the U. S., milk for undernourished Norwe-
gian school children.
—Provide aid for famine-stricken Chinese
families in Honan Province, medical kits for
Yugoslays, seeds to replant scorched earth in
Russia, rations for 3,000,000 Greeks, assistance
to many of the 2,500,000 Polish refugees, care of
22,000 Belgians now in Britain, and food pack-
ages for Belgian prisoners of war in Germany.
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