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title: Community War Fund, 1945 campaign
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/community-war-fund-1945-campaign-1945/
description: 'Folded fund-raising sheet for the Community War Fund 1945 campaign: a central panel lists the USO and war-hospitality agencies.'
section: Collection
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# Community War Fund, 1945 campaign

Folded fund-raising sheet for the Community War Fund 1945 campaign: a central panel lists the USO and war-hospitality agencies, United Nations war relief societies and local community chests, framed by photographs of children, nurses, servicemen and refugees. The slogan 'The most we can give is the least we can do' is a glittering generality, and the surrounding photographs of sympathetic subjects are placed beside the agency lists (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
A Powerful Trio
1. UNITED NATIONS WAR RELIEF
2. U.S.O. & other WAR HOSPITALITY
3. COMMUNITY CHESTS & OTHER LOCAL WELFARE
COMMUNITY WAR FUND
"THE MOST WE CAN GIVE—IS THE LEAST WE CAN DO"
1945 CAMPAIGN
Serving NEARLY 150 WELFARE AGENCIES
1 U. S. O. AND OTHER WAR HOSPITALITY
National: *National U. S. O. With 18 clubs in and near Washington; *War Prisoners Aid; *United Seamen's Service
Local: Bundles for America; Defense Commission of the Washington Federation of Churches; National Catholic Service Men's Club; Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines Club
War Hospitality Committee and Recreation Services, Inc.: Banneker Service Men's Club; Hearthstone Club; Information Service; Officers Service Club
Potomac Area, American Youth Hostels; Service Men's Club No. 1; Ticket Booth; United Nations Service Center; Walsh Club; War Workers' Council; Women's Battalions
2 UNITED NATIONS WAR RELIEF
*Belgian War Relief Society; *British War Relief Society; *United China Relief; *Czechoslovakian War Relief Society; *National American Denmark Association; *French Relief Fund; *Greek War Relief Association; *American Relief for Italy; *United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America, Inc.; *Friends of Luxembourg; *American Relief for Norway; *Polish War Relief; *Philippine War Relief (of the United States) Inc.; *Queen Wilhelmina Fund; *Russian War Relief; *United Yugoslav Relief Fund; *American Field Service; *Refugee Relief Trustees; *U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children
*Starred organizations are members of the National War Fund.
3 COMMUNITY CHESTS AND OTHER LOCAL WELFARE
Community Chest of Arlington: Arlington Council of Girl Scouts; Arlington War Recreation Center; Board of Public Welfare; Boy Scouts of America; Bureau of Nursing Service; Community Chest Headquarters; Instructive Visiting Nurse Association; Social Hygiene Board
Fairfax County Community Chest: Boy Scouts; Camp Fire Girls; Child Care—Clothing, Milk; Child Guidance Clinics; Community Chest Headquarters; Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation; Eye, Dental and Tonsillectomy Fund; 4-H Clubs; Follow-Up and Placement Service; Girl Scouts; Home Nursing Service; Hospitalization; Maternal and Infant Care; McLean School Health Clinic; Recreational Projects; Religious Education Non-Sectarian; Summer Camp for Children; Venereal Disease Control
Community Chest of Montgomery County: Bethesda-Chevy Chase Boys' Club; Boy Scouts of America; Camp Fire Girls; Central Volunteer Bureau and Holiday Exchange; Girl Scouts; Hospital Fund (see note); Mental Hygiene Society; Community Chest and Social Welfare Council; Montgomery Co. 4-H Council; Public Health Lay Council; Silver Spring Health Center, Inc.; Social Service Exchange; Social Service League of Montgomery County; War Recreation and Hospitality; Young Men's Christian Association
Community Chest of Washington: Barney Neighborhood House; Boy Scouts of America, National Capital Area Council; Boys' Club of Washington; Bureau of Rehabilitation; Camp Fire Girls; Catholic Charities; Catholic Charities of Prince Georges County; Child Welfare Society; Children's Country Home; Children's Protective Association; Christ Child Fresh Air Farm for Convalescent Children; Christ Child Settlement House; Community Chest Headquarters; Council of Social Agencies of the D. C. and Vicinity; Dental Fund; Department of Social Welfare—Washington Federation of Churches; Episcopal Home for Children; Family Service Association; Florence Crittenton Home; Friendship House; Georgetown House; Girl Scouts of D. C.; Hebrew Home for the Aged; Hospitalization Fund (see note); Instructive Visiting Nurse Society; Jewish Community Center; Jewish Social Service Agency and Jewish Foster Home; Juanita Kaufman Nye Council House; Legal Aid Bureau;
[transcription stops here at the 4000-character schema limit; remaining entries of the Community Chest of Washington list, Other Local Services, the hospitalization note and the closing line are not included]
```

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