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

-Four thousand business firms in
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 fol-
support in securing pledges from
every executive and employe in their
organizations.
At the Mayflower 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 Pc.
lice Department, and 1t. Gen. Oar
I. Sultan, inspector general o.
the Army and formerly engineer
commissioner for the District, make
pleas for their support of the fund
Cites Former Problems.
Many Americans fought, bled ano
died during the war so the Amer.
ican 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 ol
life"
She referred, she said, to those
who were the perennial problems
!of the police department and so.
cial agencies in Washington during
'prewar unemployment periods ano
whose betterment is one of the prin-
cipal aims of the War Fund.
They are the returning veterans
whom nobody minded, who were lef,
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 al
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 hac
been weakened under the Nazis-
how they had resorted to crime, the
black market, playing hooky ano
had been made cynical by the Naz
way of life.
Veteran, 19, Arrested.
But just recently" she said
lone of our precinct detectives
solved a housebreaking case ano
found, not hardened criminal, bu,
two girls, Is and 16, and veteran
lof 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-
ciflcally 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
nese, American, British and Indian
troops, lit 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 tc
every one of their own dead" he
said.
The conditions under which the
back-country Chinese live are un.
beievably difficult" he added. He
said that in land where an as
pirin tablet is worth 81 in gold anc
fountain pen is a fortune, g
wounded Chinese soldier is met i'm.
mediately back of the lines by ar
Army representative who gives him
five Chinese dollars.
This is supposed to cover his
hospital expenses, trip home. pay
benefits, mustering-out pay, insur.
ance, and all the other things te
which an American soldier is en-.
titled" Gen. Sultan said.
Yet under those conditions, he
said, the Chinese is sturdy, prouc
and a hard worker, with a keer
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
the Cosmopolitan Club, host for the