Show A A A A WORLD WOLD RELIEF CARE sent 9 parcels parcel S of food to europe in five years an organization rarely talks about a customer it loses but CARE the overseas service agency which is unique in so many respects can lay claim to this distinction too in the tiles files at its headquarters office 20 broad st new york city Is a recent letter it is proud to show you are losing a good and regular customer the writer write r stated since late 1946 you have handled my orders for parcels of different types addressed to my mother in germany you can hardly imagine how hov much joy each of 0 your parcels br brought 0 aught to her the safety she f felt elt with the so urgently needed f food 00 d in her pantry the words of praise about the quality of the contents the never ending gratitude now there will be no more packages to her she Is coming to this country to spend the rest of her life with her now only son without CARE parcels to keep her alive I 1 doubt she would be coming this Is why you are losing a customer but you are not losing two true very grateful friends expands operations while tt it rejoices in the happy ending for this mother and her son the cooperative for american remittances mIt to europe approaches its fifth birthday with one primary concern to continue to aid the millions of 0 people who can not come to this country and must have help brought to them with a record of over packages of food clothing textiles and other supplies valued at deti delivered vered to date as a gift from americans CARE CAKE within the few short years of its operation has far outgrown the geographic boundaries of its name from europe it has spread to israel and asia to japan okinawa the philippines india and pakistan its types of services have also grown to the standard price CARE packages of supplies it has added food tor for the mind a book fund program whereby cash contributions in any amount are used to provide new american scientific and technical books for overseas schools and libraries so that doctors engineers gi teachers farmers can gain the latest knowledge in their field this program launched in cooperation with UNESCO has penetrated to thailand ceylon burma and jordan in addition to the package areas until a total of 24 countries are now receiving some form of CARE aid and going from theory to practice came the newest 10 CARE package a plow to help farmers in india and pakistan grow more of the food 1 their countries need founded in 1945 CARE remembered remember ea too the many persons overseas who have no uncle in milwaukee no ex GJ G I 1 friend in arkansas no one in all the united states to whom they could appeal for help for them the agency developed its general relief plan which permits ameri cans to order packages for a type of person or group a greek orphanage a stenographer in france a widow in manila such gifts like orders for besig bated relatives and friends are delivered safely and promptly in the donors name with CARE re turning a receipt signed by the recipient all AH of 0 this ha come about since november 27 1915 when hen 26 6 major united states vi welfare elfare agencies with the approval of president truman and we hie state departments committee on voluntary foreign ald in corpo rated CAP CUKE E as a j joint 0 int nonprofit persons to per person so n relief are to war devastated europe but CAREs program for european relief has not always operated smoothly in czechoslovakia for instance CARE CAKE closed its offices on july 31 1950 upon orders issued by the government that country like many other communist dominated lands did not like the good will CARE was creating after the office was closed a statement supposedly issued by herbert lass director of CARE in prague criticized the organization communist thinking could be seer in the statement buys food wholesale 1 I lass see now quite clearly that CARE as well as other so called charitable american institutions Is serving merely the interests of american imperl imperialism its main purpose Is to create wrong impressions of the american stand ard of living its trus true goal has become apparent in a recent state ment of wallace campbell a member of its board of directors who called CARE an important factor in american foreign policy to operate most economically CARE CAKE buys its supplies in wholesale lots assembles the them in strong wire bound cartons in a philadelphia packing plant and stockpiles stock piles them in a network of warehouses abroad there they are tapped for delivery as orders are airm airmailed air mailed I 1 tied to CARE missions across the oceans from the agen cys new york headquarters and the local CARE offices that have been opened throughout the united states its fifth year finds CARE stockpiles stock piles boasting 23 25 varieties of parcels ranging from 1 to 1550 for foi a holiday turkey package nonprofit non profit agency its fifth year also finds CARE op aerating as efficiently as any ameri amen can big business corporation it has cut costs to the point where for tor foric IC price of most CARE packages it can deliver overseas a food par eel cel whose contents alone at curren retail prices are worth 1320 13 20 here yet CARE still manages to save it 1 to 20 cents on each parcel anc since it Is a nonprofit non profit agency thes savings are used tor for tree free package distributions to families and welfare institutions in areas of greatest need looking back CARE feels of its record but it also looks 1 oki ahead despite the marshall p I 1 a i funds says paul comly french CARES executive director in help Is still needed over sas not only in war depleted coun tries but in the many new lies now struggling to establish better ways of life so long ong as suet help Is needed CARE will continua its vital task to get imme immediata im dlatt person to person aid from ameri cans to the men women and chil dren whose health and resource must be rebuilt strong cartons safeguard these CARE packages shown rolling off the assem bly line in t the h e a gency agency philadelphia packing plant for their journey over oversea sect as a gift from americans t ti A dt relatives friends or need U strangers tra gers in europe a n asia |