The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16
WHAT CAN YOU SPARE THAT THEY CAN WEAR?'.

With this new slogan the intensi-
 fled campaign of the United Na-
 tional Clothing Collection has been
 launched throughout the nation with principal committees for Wa terbury named yesterday at a meet ing held at the once of Civilian Defense.
 Striving toward a quota of one- half million pounds of clothing from this city during the period from April to the 18th all agencies and organizations within the city will render full support to the drive The clothing is desperately needed by the millions of oppressed peoples of Europe who have been literally stripped of all apparel by the avar- icvious hordes of the enemy.
 The drive is being launched na- tionwide under the chairmanShip of Henry J. Kaiser, famed shipbuilder with the national goal set at 150 million pounds of clothing which will be shipped to the peoples of such countries as Poland, France, Belgium, Holland, Greece, Yugo- bAAN1d, NLCOllOolOVdAld 4Cdlys bul- garia, Russia, China and Hungary
 Particular efforts will be made in the coming campaign locally by members of the clergy and of the citys educational department who will appeal to parents and children for support of the campaign.
 Local committee chairmen named yesterday are as follows: Sub-com- mittee chairInen appointed at yes- terday's opening meeting were Rob- ert Lagerquist, establishment of col- lection depots; Walter L. Angle, packing and shipping; Peter Laskas, truck collections; William Jones, packing materials; Mrs. Donald Futile, sorting; Jerome J. Graham, special events; Mel Bulger and James M. Moore, publicity.
 Arranging group contacts and or- ganizing supporting units among city clubs and associations are Charles J. Allen, Walter Angle, Raymond Snyder, Frank Buckley, Merwin Bronson, Anthony Masone, and Harold Taber.
 The next meeting of the general committee will be held Thursday at the CDVO Al Church street at which time committees representing the Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions clubs will be made public. There latter organizations are among the lead- CTS throughout the nation in the coming drive.
 All types of outworn and out moded garments and shoes will be accepted at the collection de- pots, location of which will be named before the start of the drive. Not wanted are articles of luxury such as silk hats, evening gowns or formal apparel. In addi- tion, bedding of all types is urgent ly needed.
 It is planned that disposal of the clothes received will be expedited almost immediately during the so that there will be a constant flow of supplies from here to headquarters in New York for subsequent shipment to the Euro pean countries.
 Clothing collected will be dis tributed through UNRRA authori- ties in liberated areas. Especially | needed are shoes and all articles | of infants and children's cloth ing. Mrs. Mark L. Sperry, Jr., of the women's division of the CDVO in Waterbury, em- phasizes that clothing contributed must be reasonably clean," so it may be sorted without soiling other 
 The plight of the people of these is said to be "pitiful" hav- Ing been stripped of all apparel of any worth so that by now that which was left to them has become