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YORK COUNTY WAR and WELFARE FUND NEWS Published November 12, 1942 Supplement to The Gazette and Daily GOAL OF $201,347 Labor Helps To Make Budget National Goal of $75,000,000 Broken Down Into State And Local Quotas. War Relief Agencies Here To Receive $85,159. Welfare Federation Total Is $114,432. Your Committee in arriving at its recommendations for the War Time agencies had to rely upon the information as furnished by the NAtional Budge Committee for War Appeals which say in NEw York where it interviewed the representatives of the War Time agencies which had asked to be included in Community War Chests appeals. This Committee was composed of representatives of Community Chests and Councils Inc., and of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Unions. After these hearings national quotas for the accepted agencies were approved in the amount of $75,659,000,000. Then in cooperation with reputable statistical agencies this total was broken down into State quotas. The percentage for Pennsylvania is 7.58%. Similar computations were made for the Counties in the State. York Country's share of the national budget is approximately 1/10 of 1%. This National Committee has no authority to enforce its recommendations, but they do serve as an excellent guide for individual local decisions. The agencies recommended by the National Budget Committee and their respective budgets follow: 1. British War Relief .......... $7,000,000.00. 2. United China Relief .......... 7,000,000.00 3. Dutch (Queen Wilhelmina Fund) ... 500,000,00 4. Greek War Relief. 6,000,000.00 5. Polish American Council .......... 2,000,000.00 6. Russian War Relief ........... 6,000,000.00 7. American Social Hygiene Assoc. ... 330,000.00 8. War Prisoners Aid Committee of Y.M.C.A. ......... 1,479,000.00 9. National Board of Y.W.C.A. ...... 350,000.00 10. United Service Organizations ... 32,000,000.00 11. Unallocated Reserve ........... 13,500,000.00 Using the National Committee information as a guide and taking into account local sympathies and conditions your Committee recommends the following budgets for the respective agencies: British War Relief ......$ 7,000.00 United China Relief..... 7,000.00 Dutch (Queen Wilhemina Fund).......... 500.00 Greek War Relief....... 6,000.00 Polish American Council .................. 2,000.00 Russian War Relief..... 6,000.00 American Social Hygiene Association .......... 330.00 War Prisoners Aid Committee of Y.M.C.A. .. 1,479.00 National Board of Y.W.C.A. ................ 350.00 United Service Organizations ................ 32,000.00 United Service Organizations for local use..... 25,000.00 Unallocated Reserve .... 20,000.00 The Unallocated Reserve is to be used for later specific appeals. Special relief projects sponsored by the National Relief Committees of both C.I.O. and A.F of L., especially in Russia, Great Britain and China are to be met from this fund. Each project is estimated to cost $666,000.00. The Committee, as you note, will use the 1/10 of 1% method of determining all budgets with the ex- (Continued on Page Two) See Labor Helps Victory Begins At Home [[image]] Drawn by Bruce Russell -- Courtesy Los Angeles Times For 1942-34 Community and War Chest Campaigns [[text box]] CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS Mass Meeting-- Wm. Penn Senior High School, 3:00 P.M., Sunday, November 15, 1942. Concert by Spring Garden Band. United Nations music. Speakers from Britain, China, Greece and Russia. Program will be broadcast both by WORK and WSBA. Meeting open to the general public of the entire County without charge. Active solicitation begins Monday, November 16th and continues until Tuesday, November 24, 1942, inclusive. Final campaign reports on Tuesday night, November 24, 1942. National Labor Unions Join in Organizing War Chests. In the early months of the year 1942, the officers of the York Welfare Federation was approached by no less than ten War-time relief agencies, each of which wanted to raise money in York or be included in the budget of the Fall campaign of the Federation, It became evident that unless some form of War Chest be formed in York, York County would be faced with several major and minor campaigns during the year. Similar appeals were being made to the national organizations of the American Federation of labor and the Congress of Industrial Unions. They, too, were faced with several seperate [separate] appeals to their members for funds. Most of the War-time agencies represented most worthy causes and thus appealed strongly to the generous instincts of American citizens in all walks of life. Thus, Community Chests and Labor Organizations were faced with the same problem. To the everlasting credit of all concerned the three national groups conferred and reached a genuine cooperative agreement to work together in community chest cities, provided those cities would form a United Fund organization to include both local and War-tiime [War-time] agencies and to make one campaign for all. the National A.F. of L. and C.I.O. committees agreed to urge their locals to join wholeheartedly provided each had representation on the governing bodies, the budget committees and the campaign organizations and that organized labor should receive due credit for the contributions of its members. York has wholeheartedly followed these agreements and recommendations. Beginning with meetings held in May, up to the present time, both labor organizations have been invited to sit in on all conferences. Representation has been provided for both C.I.O. and A. F. of L. on the governing body of the York County War and Welfare National Labor Unions (Continued on Page Six) After the budget committee reports had been made and accepted, the Maternal Health Center formally withdrew its request for funds and, therefore, will not be a participating agency in the monies collected in this campaign. The total amount of the budget is accordingly reduced by $2,000.00. Overflowing War Chest Is Aim Of York's All-Out Campaign For War And Welfare Fund Drive Welfare Report On Local Agencies Sacrifice For Necessities Of War Was Committee's Guide In Setting Allowances. Many Peacetime Requests Reduced To Expand War Fund Total. Your committee has been very painstaking in its studies this year because it realizes the gravity of the times. It has approached its task with the conviction that sacrifice for the necessities of war is the order of the day and that such sacrifice applies not only to individuals but to organizations as well. Therefore, the objective of the committee was that all budgets be held to the minimum of requirements for their successful functioning. While some of the agencies may consider that hardships may have been imposed by reductions in their budget requests, the committee is convinced that if these take full advantage of their own resourcefulness, their work need not suffer. Your committee also takes the position that the primary function of the Welfare Federation should be the meeting of operating deficits only. In ordinary times it may be a wise policy to allow agencies to keep a conservative balance for unforeseen contingencies. This year, however, your committee is decidedly of the opinion that such operating balances must be taken into account for budgeting purposes. You will note that this policy has been observed throughout in the various budget recommendations. Your committee was in session on Friday, October 16, from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. in a review of all the budgets, with no agency representatives present. On Monday, Oct. 19, and Tuesday Oct. 20, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. it interviewed the representatives of the agencies. On Monday, Oct. 26, from 7:30 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. it sat in executive session fixing finally its recommendations which follow: Boy Scouts The Boy Scouts central office receives no funds except from the Welfare Federation and the outlying districts. None of the money paid by individual scouts to their own troops goes into the Council treasury. The amount recommended this year is $1,469.70 less than requested. This represents the probable unexpended balance at the end of 1942 provided all the outlying district quotas are paid. To see these amounts due are paid is the responsibility of the Boy Scout Council itself. The budget allowance recommended is $10,205.00. Catholic Charities This organization's budget request was reduced by $75.00 because your committee is one of the opinion that while higher food costs may offset the decreased case load, that will not be true of fuel. The $75.00 reduction applies to this item. The budget allowance recommended is $6,820.00. Community Distribution Center The Community Distribution Center's request was for $6,715.00 as against a grant of $7,485.00 last year. The committee recommends a See Welfare Report (Continued on Page Two) More Than 1,000 Volunteers Will Make Ten-Day Canvass Of City And County Beginning Monday. United Nations Mass Meeting To Open Drive To Top World War 1 Goal. Judge Anderson Heads Organization. Beginning Monday next, November 16, more than one thousand men and women volunteers of good old York county will be beginning a ten-day job, the like of which has not been seen since the last World War. At that time a war chest was filled to overflowing. York county will do not less than that in this second critical period of modern America's history. York countians have always been responsive to the appeals made upon them in behalf of the victims of distress and disaster. The York County War and Welfare Fund has been carefully organized to include both local and war time appeals. All segments of our citizens have been consulted in building this all inclusive organization. The work of our local agencies is well known. They have been with us for years. They are part and parcel of our community life. The war time agencies are the byproducts of the war. All over the nation the citizens of the United States are giving to these organizations through such united campaigns. The people living beyond the boundaries of greater York are not being asked to give to York's local peace time agencies, but they are being asked to support the war time appeals, for their support is the obligation of everyone in the entire country. The campaign organization is about complete in both city and county. A mass meeting will be held in the Wm. Penn Senior High School auditorium on Sunday, November 15 at 3:00 p.m. There will be a band concert featuring United Nations music and addresses by representatives from Russia, Britain, Greece and China. The general public is in invited to attend this meeting as well as all campaign workers. Judge Walter I. Anderson is the President of the York County War and Welfare Fund. Beauchamp Smith is the general campaign chairman. Mr. Smith has built the following campaign organization: Special Gifts Division: Henry D. Schmidt, Chairman. Women's Division: Lillian Geisenberger, Chairman. Mrs. Wm. McClellan, Mrs. Phillip Deane, Co-Chairwomen. Industrial Division: J. Wm. Stair, Chairman. Fred Reiners. Edw. Gentzler, Dist. Chairman. Advisory Committee: Albert Mader, Carl Redding, J. E. Moody, Carl Burtner. Commercial & Professional Div.: R. J. Thompson, Chairman. School Division: Glen Bailey, Chairman. County Division: Committee: Earl Wolfe, George Brown, J. Ramsey Taylor. Publicity Committee: J. G. Kuester, Chairman; Gilbert Deitz, Harry Flavell, Eddie Dimelow, Otis Morse, Sally Deane, Dorothy Haynes, Mabel Pfeiffer Buttorf, Mary Manon and Rachel Meisenhelder.
