Rally Tomorrow Afternoon Will Open Fund Drive

FOR HUMAN NEEDS, the USO-Community Fund drive opens at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon with a public rally at Hill Auditorium. Solicitation will not begin until Monday But tomorrow's meeting is a chance to get together and catch the spirit of the big drive. Two war correspondents - one from the Far East and one from Europe - will tell of their experiences with the enemy. The audience will join in the program for the singing of patriotic songs. And the Ann Arbor Civic Orchestra and the men's glee club of the University will be present to lead the singing and to offer music of their own. OUR FIGHTING MEN, prisoners of war and the home-front agencies dedicated to health, childcare, family welfare and character-building are the beneficiaries of the drive. War Prisoners' Aid, an activity of the national YMCA, has been included in the drive along with USO and the Community Fund. Goal of this drive is $77,500, the largest amount the city has ever been asked to raise. But if it is an extraordinary goal, these are extraordinary times. Elsewhere on this page are the views of four Ann Arborites, selected at random by The News, which indicate this city will not let the drive down. ROY H. HOLMES, assistant professor of sociology. "Until we can develop a way of life out of which poverty and wars do not come, we shall pay in all sorts of ways a tremendous price for our lack of vision. The little that we are asked to give to this USO - Community Fund drive is a very small part of the total price incurred by our neglect. We are but meeting a very real obligation." ROY PURCHASE, radio and camera dealer: "I believe in contributing to the Community Fund because I can be assured that my gift will be used by agencies who understand and know how to meet the real needs of the people they serve. I know that the money will go where it is needed, when it is given through the Community Fund. We can have no such assurances when we give direct to some 'so called charities.' " JACK COOK, projectionist: "Labor is supporting a movement for four hours pay for this campaign. Speaking for the operators in my local union, I am sure that they will all back this drive to the full. We regard this opportunity to give as being democracy in action just the same as our privilege of voting. There are no community funds in the Axis countries. These funds are a development peculiarly American." MARY SMITH, secretary, University hospital: "I approve of the Community Fund plan, and I am glad that this system of financing the social agencies is used in Ann Arbor. I understand that almost every city has its Community Chest, having found by experience that this is the best way to do a necessary job. I am sure University Hospital employes will get behind the drive as they have always done in the past."