The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-10-27
Community Fun d
Drive Starts Nov. 6

More than 300 volunteer solicitors
Will cake the field in the End annual
community fund campaign Nov. u To y
in an effort TO raise money for the
support of 80 charitable agencies.
Although no definite goal has been
set for this years drive the unpaid
workers are aiming To raise IA million
dollars more than last year to meet
the needs Of the agencies who depend
upon the fund TO continue their ser
vices in 1910
This year, every penny subscribed 10
the fund by the public will be used
for the needy who are helped by com
munity fund agencies. This has been
made possible by few DetrOiters
whose gifts will defray all the admin
istratiOn and campaign costs of the
fund.
Community fund agencies form a
network in metropolitan Detroit from
Crosse POinte to WyandOtte and Tren-
ton. and from the river To Royal Oak
township.
Help is given TO the sick who are
unable to pay private physician,
homeless and orphan children are Civ
Ell shelter and some agencies help
families with their problems and care
for aged persons. Youth services and
protective work are among the other
services given by fund agencies.
Last year, 14.493 dependent children
were given care in institutions and
foster homes or were under the super
vision of community fund child-caring
agencies.
Agencies engaged in care of the
sick gave nursing service TO 36,271
persons. clinics helped 66+46 persons
ard 1852 children and adults receiv-
ed hospital care.
Family services and care of the aged
by agencies doing that type of work
helped PSF persons.
Youth services of agencies like the
BOY Scouts. the Girl Scouts, and Camp
Fire Girls reached S4.796 boys and
girls.
Protective work which placed the
sympathetic guidance of agencies such
rs the House Of the Good Shepherd,
Ford Republic, and Florence Critten-
ton hospital helped 3,7O3 young people
last year
Settlements and community centers
served 1863 children and adults last
year.
These are some of the things that
gift To the community fund will do:
Legal advice can be provided for
person unable to employ an attorney
for SLIP
\ sick person can receive a visit
from the visiting nurse for $1.25.
Complete care for a homeless child
can be provided i'll supervised board
ing home for 81.
Ten growing boys can be given the
opportunity Of being Boy Scouts for
one year for $167O.
One week of special care can be
provided for a premature baby in
hospital during those early critical
days when its life hangs by a thread
by a community gift Of $35.
A gift of $500 would support for
one day all the services Of the 80 COM
munity fund agencies. .
This year the community fund is
making a special appeal in behalf Of
-one~Of its member agencies, the De-
troit chapter, Red Cross, because of
the suffering inflicted on innocent vic
tins in the war torn nations Of Eur
ope and Asia. Since the national Am
erican Red Cross is making no special
drive at this time to raise funds for
work with war victims it is asking for
increased support from its chapters
throughout the country.
In Detroit the Red Cross is support
ed by the community fund. 1t receives
an annual budget from the fund to
carry on its year round services such
as first aid instructions. life-saving
courses, Junior Red Cross programs
for school children and similar ser
vices. But the added burden required
for service 10 war victims cannot be
provided for in the usual annual bud
get. Therefore the community fund is
asking contributors this year TO con-
slider the urgency of the Red Cross
needs and add something to their reg
ular gift to the fund.
The slogan of the fund this year is,
'Give-the American Way"