Evening star., 1945-09-27
War Fund Asks
1900 Firms 10
Aid Campaign
Companies Requested
To Sponsor Payroll
Deduction Plan

the Washington area today received
letters asking them to sponsor pay
roll deduction plans for contribu-
tions to the $4,000 Community
War Fund.
Clarence G.. Sheffield, chairman of
the campaigns business unit, said
that payroll deduction is the most
systematic and efficient plan pos
sible. He informed employers that
volunteers would call on them for
support in securing pledges from
every executive and employe in their
organizations.
At the Mayfower Hotel yester-
day representatives of businesses
packed the hotel ballroom for the
annual luncheon meeting of the
mems civic service. clubs of the
Washington area and heard Capt
Rhoda Milliken, director of the
Women's Bureau, Metropolitan Po-
lice Department, and 1t Gen. Dan
Il. Sultan, inspector general OF
the Army and formerly engineer
commissioner for the District, make
pleas for their support of the fund
Cites Former Problems.
Many Americans fought. bled and
died during the war so the Amer
Iican way of life might be pre-
served, Capt. Milliken told her audi
|ence, but we've got some coming
back to Washington who have
never known the American way of
life"
She referred, she said, to those
who were the perennial problems
of the police department and So
clal agencies in Washington during
prewar unemployment periods and
whose betterment is one of the prin-
clpal aims of the War Fund.
They are the returning veterans
whom nobody minded who were left
out of school, who could play in the
street, who found it easier to make
a living the wrong way than the
right way, she said
Some of these have families now
Some were good soldiers, but all
may not be good fathers" she said
She recalled having seen a mag
azine picture last summer, the cap
ton of which explained how the
moral fiber of German children had
been weakened under the Nazis-
how they had resorted to crime, the
black market, playing hooky and
had been made cynical by the Nazi
way Of life.
Veteran, 10, Arrested.
/ But just recently" she said
one of our precinct detectives
solved a housebreaking case and
found, not hardened criminal, but
two girls, Is and 16, and a veteran
of 10.
They are products of the Ma
tion's Capital!
Are we going to let them Cre-
turning veterans and their families
down when they come home? Are
we going to be SNUG over having
contributed couple of million dol
lars so that they can live the de-
cent American way?"
Gen. Sultan's plea was made spe-
.cifically on the ground that Wash
ington should continue to support
the USO and help postwar China
by means of the War Fund.
Gen. Sultan said that in the Jun
giles of Northern Burma, where the
force he commanded included Chi
tnese, American. British and Indian
troops, 1T was pathetic sometimes
to see our men assemble in the rain
and wait patiently for hours to see
a USO show or movie" He said the
USO had been of inestimable value
during the war, and would continue
to be so as long as men were in
uniform away from home.
Praises Chinese Troops.
He said he commanded 10000
Chinese in Northern Burma and
that when they were American
trained, fed, equipped and supplied
they were as fine troops for in
fantry combat as he knew.
They killed four japanese to
every one of their own dead" he
said.
Inc cOnOltlOnS under which the
back country Chinese live are un-
believably difficult" he added He
said that in land where an as
pirin tablet is worth ST in gold and
a fountain pen is a fortune, a
wounded Chinese soldier is met i'm
mediately back of the lines by an
Army representative who gives him
five Chinese dollars.
This is supposed to cover his
hospital expenses, trip home, pay
benefits, mustering-ou pay, insur-
ance, and all the other things to
which an American soldier is en-
titled" Gen. Sultan said.
Yet under those conditions, he
said, the Chinese is sturdy, proud
and hard worker, with a keen
sense of humor.
with our help China can become
a great nation" he said.
Organizations representing at the
meeting were the Lions Club, Civil
tan Club, Rotary Club, Washington
Round Table, Fairfax County Com
munity Chest, Cosmopolitan Club,
KiWanis Club, Junior Board of
Commerce, Knights of the Round
Table. Lido Club, Newcomers Club
Optimists' Club and Reciprocity
Club.
Maurice R. Colbert. president of