The Daily Alaska Empire

NATIONAL WAR FUND

The drive to raise $12,000 in Juneau, our quota for
the National War Fund, started today and will close
on October 30.

This combined campaign, in which 17 worthy war
service organizations are included, is the answer to
the request of the donor who didn't like to be besieged
from all directions many times a year. But it should
be remembered that donations should be larger, be-
cause each dollar received is going to have to be split
17 ways.

The money you give will not only help relieve the
suffering of the people in less fortunate countries, but
also will go toward helping to provide some comfort
for Americans being held as prisoners, through the
USO for our armed forces serving both in military
establishments at home and abroad, and aid to our
seamen manning the merchant fleet that is carrying
materiel and men to fight the war.

Most persons probably don't realize that more
than 6,000,000 men, not all of them our men, but all
of them those who have cast their common lot with
ours are penned up behind barbed wire—members of
the "barbed wire legion," the P. O. Ws.

And the less fortunate peoples of the countries
occupied by the Axis and those who still are fighting
with the United Nations—they look to the United
States, a country rolling in wealth according to their
standards, for help.

So dig down deep and give to the National War
Fund. Consider your position. You're much better
off than those who need your help. You're getting
plenty to eat, and wear—have nice living quarters—
and you're making plenty to get by on.