The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-18
BUNDLES FOR BRITAIN: JUNEAU
 RESPONDS

month ago the Juneau Rotary Club was con- stituted branch of the great national organization Bundles for Britain" with headquarters in New York. The work of this organization has been de- scrbed in the press and in letter which the local committee sent to than 400 residents of Juneau Douglas and the vicinity.
 Bundles for Britain" has adopted 20 bomb-torn London hospitals These hospitals have all suffered direct hits by bombs All are non-governmental and rely entirely on private donations to carry on their work.
 The Juneau Rotary Club has adopted one hos pital known the Memorial Hospital Shooters Hill Woolwich. It is small hospital with 100 beds but it is one of the most vulnerable as it is on the River Thames by the Arsenal on the Old Dover Road
 In the first month of the Juneau Rotary Club it has monthly pledges amounting to SIP 50 month Already $59650 has been transmitted to headquarters In New York, and it is hoped that another remit tance can be made within the next week.
 The urgent need that inspired the adoption" of these 20 hospitals by Bundles for Britain" is made painfully clear from day to day and week to week as we receive the press reports of bombings and fires, of death and destruction of the number of wounded and maimed But it is still hard to pene- trate the veil of cold print to comprehend the full extent of human suffering which the bombing and burning of hospitals entails hospital is not only shelter for the ill and the injured; not only meeting place for doctors and nurses It is also a plant filled with precise machinery with comforts for the wounded with deecate instruments for the allevation of pain and the mending of broken bodies. Each hospital each ward each bit of equip- ment destroyed by bomb adds infinitely to the sum of suffering which the people of Britain are bearing so stoically delays the care of those who need care and increases the burden of those nsit- tions which still able to function
 To rush first aid to these damaged hospitals to see that they have the medical supplies the surgical instruments and whatever they need in their work Of healing and mending, must make an instant appeal to any American who has known the terror of sud- den illness or injury and who can imagine how that terror would be increased should the ready comfort Whlch hospital services afford be unattainable Bundles for Britain" is undertaking to furnish such first aid to these 20 adopted" hospitals all of which nave suffered from aerial attack and are in dire need or assistance. Most of them in the poorer dis trlcts of the city where the need is greatest
 New York headquarters has written us that the Juneau Rotary Club has the record among all branches Tor fund raising in so short time We nope the record can be continued Our adopted hospital at Shooters Hill Woowch is in a district that has been horribly bombed in an attempt to get at the Arsenal, and it is doing superb iob among air raid victims
 The committee is aware of the fact that there are many persons Tn Juneau who contributing through other channels, particularly women who are purchaslng material knitting, sewing and working many hours every week for the cause We