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[[First Column]] PAGE SIX ------- The Burlington Free Press (Arrow pointing to the title with the words: May 1st) ------- Daily Except Sunday, Free Press Association Publishers ------- Founded June, 1827 ------- Entered Postoffice Burlington, Vt., as Second-Class Mail ------ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivery by carrier-merchant, 20 cents a week. $10.40 per year throughout northern Vermont. Subject to change at any time. Subscription orders limited to two years at these rates. By mail prepaid in Vermont, 75 cents a month; three months $2.10; six months $4.00; eight months $5.35; one year $7.00 By mail prepaid outside of Vermont. $1.50 per month; $15.00 per year; six cents per copy. All back issues, at counter five cents per copy postpaid six cents per copy, prepaid. ------ ADVERTISING RATES Furnished at home office. Burlington, Vt. Furnished on request by Small Brewer & Kent, Inc., 250 Park ave., New York city; 80 Boylston st., Boston, Mass.; 307 N. Michigan ave., Chicago, Ill. ------ MEMBERS OF THE ASSOICATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein also are reserved. ------ BURLINGTON, VT., MAY 1, 1942 Let's Have War Chest One of the many problems which we are facing these days is the necessity of raising considerable sums of money for war relief, both for use in our own country and in other countries. As the richest nation in the world we have obligations which cannot be ignored. We in Vermont have not been asked to give so often as people in the larger cities, where the appeals are constantly coming from many sources. There have been a dozen or more organizations soliciting various kinds of aid for Britain. A campaign was put on last year to secure aid for stricken Greece before that unfortunate country was conquered by the Axis. There is the annual campaign for United China Relief-a very worthy undertaking now in progress throughout the nation. Through some of these drives do not operate very intensively in Vermont, we are asked to contribute to the nation-wide campaigns for relief work in the United States, such as the war fund recently raised by the American Red Cross (in which Chittenden county contributed $25 000), the United Service Organizations and more specialized relief efforts such as the fund to be raised for navy relief work. It is a real task for those who have to do the soliciting of funds on these various campaigns to go out several times a year to get this money, and that in addition to regular local appeals. For usually it is the same group of people who do the soliciting time after time. We realize we must do our share in raising this money, so why not put on the big drive for a war fund which will be large enough to meet all war relief calls on Burlington for a year? Brattleboro did that - with amazing success. Some months ago the people of Brattleboro united in a week's intensive campaign to raise $35,000 for a war fund. The job was done so thoroughly that the final returns showed $57,000 had been pledge/ Some of this was paid in advance, but much of it is being paid at the local banks in monthly installments, so that the money becomes available as needed. Out of this war fund. Brattleboro met its Red Cross war fund quota early this year, totaling nearly $16,000. recently Brattleboro sent $1,000 to national headquarters of United China Relief, the first community in Vermont to respond to this appeal. From this fund will come Brattleboro's share of the USO fund of 1942, and its share of the navy relief fund, without any further solicitation of Brattleboro people. The fact that Brattleboro raised over $5.50 per capita in its war fund campaign shows that they didn't go about it in any half-hearted way. They knew that had to be done and decided they would rather do it in one big effort in which many people would work harder than in the one week's intensive campaign. In Burlington people contributed on the same per capita basis as the people of Brattleboro did for the war fund, it would mean approximately $150,000 for this city, based on the 1940 census. But whether we aspired that high or not, there are sound reasons for putting on one big war fund drive manually and doing a thorough job of it, rather than trying to organize the city several times a year for each special appeal which is made.
