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Show The Victims Heed "CARE" If the family next door were burned out of their home by fire, neighbors would rush to help -- to offer whatever was needed. It is hard to realize. the effects of a fire when the flames were 10,000 miles away. In South Korea, millions of helpless help-less civilians many of them children - have suffered the conflagrations of war. Homes have been destroyed, all possessions lost, normal means of livelihood wiped out. At least five million persons are homeless refugees. The various var-ious governments have pledged supplies to UN relief pools, but supplemental, individual aid is still necessary to meet the desperate need for clothing, for blankets, for food. The General Federation of Women's Clubs is sponsoring sponsor-ing a Thanksgiving-season campaign to send CARE food and textile packages from Americans to Korean war victims. vic-tims. Funds are being solicited by Women's Club members in Cedar City. The help CARE packages bring to the people peo-ple in many countries of Europe and Asia is well known. Nowhere is CARE more needed than in Korea today. No time could be more appropriate to extend that aid than now, as Americans prepare to give thanks for the abundance abun-dance we enjoy - an abundance beyond the wildest dreams of the hungry and cold men, women and children in South Korea. Americans on the scene - members of the U. S. armed forces - had the compassion, in the midst of their fighting, fight-ing, to try to ease the misery they saw. Stories have been told: How men of the Navy's USS St. Paul provided food and clothing for an orphanage outside Inchon harbor. How the Fifth Air Force established an orphanage on Cheju Island for 100 children they flew from Seoul. How GIs have shared what they could with Koreans along the road. But this is a job for civilians to bear. A "Thanksgiving" contribution con-tribution to the General Federation's "CARE-FOR-KOREA" campaign means that Americans, safe at home, can help save the lives of the Korean people, whose tragedy trage-dy it was to be caught in the blaze that threatens the free world. |