Evening star., 1945-09-30
Residential Unit
Starts Work in
WarFund Drive
Churches Participate,
1000 Volunteers to
Visit Area Homes
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With the residential unit of tn,
Community War Fund Startinl
work, all units in the Washington
area campaign are in action for thu
first time today on Community Wa
Fund Sunday.
More than 1000 residential volun.
teers will visit virtually every hom,
in the District and suburban com.
munities, Mrs. R. Wallace MoClena.
han, unit chairman, announced yes.
terday at luncheon opening the
units part in the $4,970,OOO drive.
Today, churchgoers in the Dis.
trict, Alexandria and Arlington
Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties will receive cam
paign literature at the church door
They viii listen to sermons on the
Importance of helping those who
can not help themselves.
700 Women at Luncheon.
Mrs. McClenahan listed the "a
BCs' of the campaign for TOO wom-
en- gathered at the Statler hotel
luncheon yesterday.
"A" is for acknowledging the needs
of the community as represented by
1852 agencies benefitting from the
drive" she said. "B" is for the "be-
lief that the Community War Fund
is the best available means for
meeting those needs" while &C" is
for caring enough to do your
part she added.
She asked contributors to think in
terms of the people they help
rather than the money they give.
Capt. John Patrick, who spent
three years in Africa, India and
Burma, with the American Field
Service, told the audience that
"one hungry man is potential
atomic bomb"
He described the dying men in
the cutters of Calcutta during the
Pengal famine which killed 1000, 900
Indians.
That was an atrocity story" he
declared. I'VE indict the Nazis.
Here humanity is indicted"
ATS Work Described.
The American Field Service, which
started as a volunteer ambulance
corps with the British Army six
years ago, before the United States
entered the war, has as high a cas-
ualty rate as the United States
Army, he reported
in Burma, the ATS used mules to
bring in the wounded who fell where
ambulances could not travel, Capt
Patrick said. They cut the vocal
cords of the mules because a Kan
sas mule has no way of knowing
that the mule he brays at on the
other hill is Jap mule
ATS is bringing its men home as
quickly as possible, he reported, but
many are being held up because the
armed forces have a priority on
transportation. Meanwhile, they
are serving in whatever emergency
arises, he said carrying wounded to
ships and clothes to the naked.
The ATS is one of the agencies
benehting from the Community War
Fund which will be disbanded, but
Capt. Patrick warned that the
fruits Of victory are not ripe. If we
are really concerned about bet
ter world we must follow every good
cause and make it personal cru
SADIE"
USO Plans More Shows.
Lee .. Butler. campaign chair
man, announced that within the
next 90 days USO-Camp Shows will
provide an additional 86 units COM
prising 1900 artists to entertain oc-
cupation forces in the Pacific Thea
ter Of Operations.
Scheduled for immediate produc-
ton or in the casting stage are "a
variety Nlnits, II legitimate produc-
tons Of Broadway shows, musical
shows and Negro units.
Since USO Camp Shows sent its
first unit to the Pacific in December
1912, it has supplied 1874 units with
casts of 1,137 artists for the Pacific
The USO is supported by contribu-
tions to the Community War Fund
The 125 local labor unions affili-
Sted with the Central Labor Union
sre being reminded this week of the
Endorsement of the drive by the
American Federation of Labor and
its president, William Green
The first labor contribution to
reach Community War Fund head
Quarters was a check for $50 from
the Brewery Workers Local 48.
Tomorrow, Chester Bowles, OPA
administrator, will speak to 2,OOC
OPA employees at a fund rally al
, pm. outside their building al
Second and D streets SW