The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-10-27
YOUR GIFT G1RDLEs THE GLOBE

We all know this is a global war.
But few of us realize that our own
personal part is global, that the gen.
crosby of every local community goes
straight out to the ends of the earth.
Your gift to your local war fund
is now at work on six continents and
in 81 countries and geographic areas,
including our own. 1t has crossed
embattled seas, sifted through closed
borders, and penetrated barbed wire
entanglements to be put to work by
the twenty-five member agencies of
the National War Fund
In the jungles of the Pacific and
behind the lines in Europe, for in
stance, our own armed forces are
getting lift and laugh when USO
Camp Shows Units go ashore soon
after the troops establish beachheads
In Cherbourg, merchant seamen
suffering from nervous tension,
more popularity known as convoy ia
tigue' may get rest and requirements
for their lost clothing at United
Seamen's Service center
In Britain, robot-bombed inhabi-
tants have been provided with cloth
ing, and with even essentials of house
ing utensils, by the British War Re-
lief Society.
Two thirds of the supplies sent to
the Soviet by Russian War Relief
were used in military hospitals there,
thus contributing to Russia's record
of returning 70 out of every 100 mill
tary casualties to frontline action.
In Nautilus, Czechoslovak refu-
gees who managed to get out of their
country and escape the fate of those
in TIE martyred village of Lidice,
have found haven of safety and
have been sent aid by United Czecho-
slovak Relief
In Germany, American and Allied
prisoners of war are provided by War
Prisoners Aid with recreational, edu-
cational and religious materials to
keep up their morale against the en-
ervating effects of confinement in war
prisoner camps. Text books sent them
are used in self-organized classes,
which they call their University of
captivity" From theatrical kits they
have received and from materials
found in the camps, they construct
props for such camp productions as
Hamlet and uncle Toms Cabin"
In Ecuador, refugees who were res
;ued from Hitler's hangmen, are CIV
en- the opportunity to regain their
health and to rehabilitate themselves
by Refugee Relief Trustees.
And so it goes around THE globe
wherever there is a need that can be
reached and relieved. YOU, through
one of the National War Fund agen-
cies, are extending helping hand.
At home, too, that place where you
hang your hat and keep your heart,
your gift has helped to cope with
problems that were tough enough in
peacetime. Now that we are at war,
hey have become doubly difficult
Your generosity to your National
War Fund in Maryland has been put
20 work to maintain our local servic-
IS promoting health, welfare and rec
reational activities right here in this
community. Our hospital and home
rursing facilities, our childrens ag-
encies, and family welfare services
lave all been aided.
Men on the battlefronts will find
that the things they have fought to
preserve all over the world, have not
been neglected right here at home
it would be small consolation to a
fighting man to know that he had
brought freedom to people abroad,
only to find, on his return, that his
own family lad been enslaved by ill
ness, poverty and anti-social tenden-
cies.
Your generosity has, in one con-
tribution synchronized through the
National War Fund, struck with the
forces of good against the power of
evil, wherever it may be.