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Show 4 400,000 Women Are Our Warriors' 'Good Neighbors' The "good neighbor" policy of 400,000 women united under the title, "Bundles for America," is making life easier for servicemen at the battlefronts. and also is helping discharged dis-charged veterans to make a smooth transition into civilian life. From homes all over America these women are collecting material and reprocessing it into kit bags to cheer lonely soldiers and sailors far from home, warm knitted garments gar-ments for all branches of the service, serv-ice, cheery furnishings for isolated military outposts, and civilian clothing cloth-ing for the thousands of honorably discharged veterans. Layettes for babies of our fighters and garments for wives and children are also provided. pro-vided. Orders are received through 592 branches in 38 states from the army, navy, marine corps, coast guard, merchant marine, army and navy relief societies, the Seamen's Church institute, and the United Seamen's service. A short time ago one of the branches received a call for 2,200 kit bags needed for ships sailing the next night. There were only 250 kits packed and ready to go at the time. But by calling in volunteers and working from early morning till midnight 2,200 kit bags were produced, pro-duced, packed, and on board the ships as they steamed away. AnothSr call came early on a winter win-ter morning. A fire had destroyed clothes, bedding and all the belongings belong-ings of a serviceman's family. Within With-in the hour a truck had reached the scene with warm clothing, blankets and quilts. That is the kind of help the women of "Bundles for America" are extending ex-tending to our soldiers, the men to whom we all owe so much. I TELE FACT BUNA S PRODUCTION TO GROW RAPIDLY (BUNA S svppliej 82 of our jynrhetic rubber!) 40.200 TONS 30700 TONS QgS ft tip till IUNE 1943 AUGUST V1 OCSOBEH 1943 DECEMBER 1943 |