Evening star., 1942-10-17
; u. 5. Units
Ian Pre-Driive
Fund Quotas
Key Workers Told Of
'Rumor' Thot May
Set Pace for All

Three Government agencies are
understood to be planning to raise
their entire quota of the Community
War Fund in advance Of the gen.
eral campaign, so as to make COM
plete and final report at the first
report luncheon October q.
This was indicated yesterday at
an enthusiastic meeting Of about
1000 key men and women OF the
Government Unit of the campaign
at Departmental Auditorium by
John L. Sullivan. Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury. In a speech
calling on the Government workers
to meet the challenge of the cam
paign to raise more than $40O0,000
Mr.. Sullivan did not name the agen-
cies which had planned surprise
report.
Labelling the story of the three
Government agencies as only a
''rumor," he nevertheless, in pre-
pared speech, declared: II am pass
ing this rumor along to you because
I know that none of us enjoy march,
ing at the tail end of a parade. But
I should warn you," he declared,
that if you intend to head the pa
rade with those three other depart
ments, it will require all of your
energy and all of your determina-
ton"
Constance Bennett Speaks.
The war fund rally of Govern
ment workers heard several speak
ers outline plans for the campaign
and appeal for the Government Unit
to go over the top in it's efforts to
raise more than half of the total
war fund quota of $4,141,OOO
Among the speakers were Oscar
L. Chapman, Assistant Secretary Of
the Interior, who is chairman of the
Government Unit; Mr.. Sullivan,
Constance Bennett, motion picture
actress; Mrs. j. Borden Hartman,
former Minister to Norway; Floyd
Akers, general campaign chairman,
and Herbert L. Willett, jr., executive
director of the Community War
Fund. The musical part of the pro-
gram included selections by the
United States Marine Band Orches-
ira and community singing Of patrl-
otic airs, led by George Meyers.
The Community War Fund CAM
paign motion picture entitled THE
Light Behind the Blackout" was
screened. Copies of the film will be
available to Government units re-
questing it for use in the campaign,
Mr.. Willett said.
Meantime, it was learned that a
gift of $4,000 for the Community
War Fund had been received from
the A. w. Mellon Educational and
Charitable Trust.
The War Fund established down.
town headquarters today at the Will
lard Hotel to which all campaign
units, staff and equipment was
moved from their former Offices at
1101 M street NV. The four big
soliciting units, with personnel and
facilities, are occupying the congress
sional room on the main corridor.
At their rally yesterday Mr.. Sulli-
van gave the Government workers
the answer he would make to per-
sons who tried to excuse themselves
from subscribing because of in
creased Government taxes.
Taxes for Victory.
1.-THE man who pleads increased
taxes as an excuse for not helping
his unfortunate fellows has some
thing more fundamentally wrong
with him than merely deficiency in
charity" said Mr.. Sullivan. He
should know that today a Federal
tax is more than financial exac-
ton. He should know-as almost
every man, woman and child knows
today-that Federal taxes are now
imposed to enable us to build a
Navy that will sink our enemy's
ships beneath all the seven SEAS"
Here he was interrupted by
hearty applause.
They are imposed" he continued,
"to build and man an air force that
will sweep the worlds skies clear.
The objective of taxes today Is to
enable us to man and equip armies
that will crush the Nazis and Japs
in Europe, Asia and Africa, or
wherever we have to chase them.
when a man pays a Federal tax
today he is contributing to the
restoration of liberty which has been
trampled and defiled and stolen
from the lands of our ancestors. He
is contributing to the preservation Of
ourselves and our children and the
freedom and the opportunity which
we Americans have created for our
selves in this Nation"
The increased cost of Iving-an.
other excuse-he said, had not pre-
vented such cities as Boston, Cleve-
land, Buffalo, Dallas, San Francisco
and Denver from going over the
top" in their community War fund
campaign already this year. Both
"the old home town" and Washing
ton deserve to be remembered in War
Fund campaigns by people who are
here only temporarily, he said.
The United Nations War Relief.
he said, constitute an aspect of