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Y.M.C.A  Y.W.C.A  National Catholic War Council (K. of C.)
 Jewish Welfare Board  War Camp Community Service  American Library Association  Salvation Army

GREATER NEW YORK
United War Work Campaign
680 FIFTH AVENUE
TELEPHONE, CIRCLE 4600

Chairman
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Associate Chairman
Albert G. Milbank  Robert Adamson

Treasurer
Cleveland H. Dodge

Councillors
George W. Perkins
Seward Prosser  William C. Breed
Mrs. James A. Burden, Jr.

Campaign Director
Charles S. Ward

Executive Secretary
Walter T. Disck

Honorary Vice-Chairman
George F. Baker   J.P. Morgan
Henry C. Frisk    Elbert H. Gary
Jacob H. Schiff   Adrian Iselin

Vice-Chairman
George Gordon Battle   William Fellowes Morgan
Mrs. James S. Cushman  Morgan J. O'Brien
Mrs. E. H. Harriman    Mortimer L. Schiff
Frank A. Vanderlip

Jacques Seligman & Co.,
Oct. 30, 1918
New York, N. Y.

Gentlemen:-

In the coming campaign to procure the $170,500,000 War Work Fund, we are convinced that a greater force than ever can be marshalled by comprehensive, skillful use of the great store windows of New York and Brooklyn.

This Campaign represents the United call of the seven agencies recognized by the Government for welfare work of every sort, secular and religious, at home and overseas. It supercedes what would otherwise be a succession of seven detached campaigns, and therefore is clearly a measure of economy, efficiency and merit of the highest worth.

In this effort we are asking your devoted cooperation, not only for surrender of liberal space in your windows from Nov. 18th inclusive, but also for individual effort on the part of your window artists which will achieve results in patriotic display never reached before.

Your windows being among those which are most conspicuous, by reason of location and important by reason of your business prominence, have been listed as vitally essential to the success of our big plan.

We request that you at once set in motion the machinery of your organization in order that its best endeavors to promote the coming campaign may be brought into play. We are hoping that the spirit of helpful competition will be so keen that a large number of real masterpieces in window display will distinguish the campaign.

Could you not enlist some of this interest in your window display department? Of course in every possible way this Committee will lend its assistance, although in such cases as yours, we are of the opinion that your own organization can originate its designs and carry them out with most distinction.

May we not hope that in so good a cause we may have an assurance of your willingness to aid us? We will than you for a reply.
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There was never such an opportunity to make the show window of this great community to speak to so many responsive people in such terms of strong, patriotic appeal. We want to make the display a thundertone that will silence the blare of trumpets and the beat of drums and eclipse in pictorial effect the unfurling of a myriad flags. And we must have your help.

For Victory,
[[B. J, Cuhon]]
In Charge Window Display Division.