But to realize its goal of forming a barrier to smuggled goods, providing the people with badly needed manufactured supplies and increasing the people's practical understanding of democracy, the CIC needs an additional 27,000 new workshops within the next 2 years. This expansion program further indicates an immediate need for many new training schools for organizers, technicians and workers, new research laboratories; and possibly a corps of American trained engineers to supervise the program and training. 3. Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China assists the activities of China's 13 Christian colleges. The oldest of these colleges was founded in 1864, the youngest 60 years later. They represent a physical plant valued at nearly $10,000,000 (United States) and endowments totaling over $7,000,000 (United States) nearly all of which are held and invested in New York. Their combined teaching staffs total 783, of which 583 are Chinese. These institutions have been indispensable in the production of leadership for New China; 20,000 of their living graduates are taking part in its development. The war has forced 11 of the 13 to leave their campuses and establish themselves in temporary quarters in Free China; some institutions have journeyed as much as 1,500 miles. Nevertheless their enrollment of 7,734 for the current year sets a new record. Moreover, the campuses abandoned by the students and teachers are all active in relief work in their respective vicinities. Such conditions necessarily increase operating expenses drastically. A large proportion of the support of the institutions formerly came from the Chinese Government and people; in terms of Chinese money, the amount of this support has not been decreased despite the war, but its purchasing power has been reduced to 25 percent of normal. Income from American and British sources, including endowments, special funds, and gifts, has of course been raised proportionately in purchasing power in China. Thus, a somewhat decreased total income has enabled the institutions to meet greatly increased expense. A large proportion of this income is from American gifts, which this year will be given through United China Relief. 4. China Aid Council and 5. American Committee for Chinese War Orphans: Shortly after the invasion of China in the summer of 1937 the China Aid Council was set up as a national organization to encourage and coordinate the efforts of local councils on behalf of China's war orphans, refugees, and wounded. The following year, as news reports told of a growing army of homeless and hungry children fleeing into the free provinces of the interior before air raids and shelling, the American Committee for Chinese War Orphans was established to sponsor direct appeals and the sale of fine teas to aid the young refugees. In July 1940 the two organizations joined, the better to further their common efforts. The combined organizations operate through a national office at 200 Fifth Avenue, New York, and through councils and committees in about 100 communities which sponsor local benefits, lectures, and appeals, and publicize China's needs. The honorary chairman is Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother. Dr. Claude E. Forkner is chairman and Arthur Upham Pope treasurer. The enlistment of volunteers, many of them leaders in their communities, in work on behalf of China, has been characteristic of the procedure of the China Aid Council. It has had the doubly constructive effect of raising relief and of acquainting a wide public with China's determination to maintain its national existence and its own culture—a goal which coincides with our own national interests. The orphanages which the combined organizations help to support in China are sponsored by Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Sun Yat-sen. At present exchange rate, $30 in United States currency maintains and educates a child for a year. At the orphanages the children are sent through a clearing station, bathed, clothed, given medical examinations and registered. Their schooling takes place in the midst of China's struggle for freedom and is naturally linked to this great national effort and to the tasks of postwar reconstruction. Good relations with the people of the locality are stressed. One or two afternoons a week the youngsters help the peasants gather firewood or perform other chores. Sometimes they deliver messages for the Red Cross, or the older children may go out with stretchers to aid in relief work after air raids. Medical projects aided are under the auspices of the China Defense League or of the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps. They include the eight International Peace Hospitals with their mobile units, and the Orthopedic Hospital of the Chinese Red Cross Emergency Training School at Kweiyang, as well as the maintenance of medical transport lines and special shipments of drugs, blankets, and clothing. Hospitals are sometimes dug into bombproof rock cliffs or operated in peasant huts in guerrilla areas, ready to move on half an hour's notice. Transport is often by oxcart and manback. 6. The China Emergency Relief Committee: As the third year of China's heroic resistance to invasion drew to a close last July, 1,000 prominent American women under the leadership of novelist Pearl S. Buck formulated a unique gesture of tribute to the people of China. Inscribing her name in a "Book of Hope" dedicated to China's women, each made a donation for medical aid. The inscribed "Book of Hope" was presented to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek; the funds realized-over $100,000-were presented to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China for the purchase of the medical supplies and hospital equipment most urgently needed in China. So great was the response to the woman's committee appeal that its leaders decided to make an expanded effort, forming the China Emergency Relief Committee, with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as Honorary chairman, and Pearl S. Buck as national chairman, to raise $1,000,000 for the purchase of medical supplies to meet China's immediate and pressing needs. These supplies are to be distributed in China through the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, with which the committee is affiliated; all supplies go to the Medical Relief Corps of the Chinese Red Cross, which services 800 base hospitals; 75 mobile units of various types which serve at first-aid stations, epidemic control centers, and public health and sanitation controls; and the vitally important Emergency Training School and Orthopedic Hospital at Kweiyang. With the formation of United China Relief, Inc., the China Emergency Relief Committee turned over its entire working organization to the united campaign. Chief among the committee's activities is the China Relief Legion, membership in which is open to donors of $100 and more; the Junior Division, under the direction of Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby, appealing to boys and girls below college age, with representatives of the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and Girl Reserves; and the Writers' Committee, under the able direction of Mr. Vincent Sheean. 7. The church committee for China Relief, constituted in 1938 by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the Foreign Missions Conference of North America and China Famine Relief, U. S. A., Inc., is the official agency of the Protestant Churches of the United States. Harper Sibley is chairman, Dr. John R. Mott, vice chairman, and James M. Speers, treasurer. Dr. John Earl Baker, now commissioner of the Chinese National Government in charge of the Burma Road, has been the technical advisor of the church committee in China. Relief service is carried on in both occupied and free China, mainly through 200 mission stations which furnish sanctuary and administer relief regardless of creed. As the missions provide buildings, personnel, and overhead expenses, the funds sent by the church committee are used exclusively for relief in the following ways: A. Emergency civilian relief. Multitudes of war victims are given food and shelter as the elemental needs for saving lives. B. Medical relief. Mission hospitals are helped to care for sick refugees and civilians wounded in air raids. Quinine and other medicines are provided for fighting epidemics. C. Care of children. Child refugees, especially orphans, are cared for in mission orphanages and food stations. Contributions are also made to Madame Chiang's "warphans." D. Work projects. Refugee women, especially widows, are given opportunity to become self-supporting through such projects as making clothes, sandals, fish nets, etc. Refugee men are enabled to support their families by repairing dikes, draining flooded areas, making roads, etc. E. Loans to farmers and small-business men have rehabilitated thousands of refugees and have been rapaid almost 100 percent. F. Industrial cooperatives are assisted by grants to feed refugees while they are learning to operate machinery. Funds are transmitted to the American Advisory Committee in Shanghai composed of American businessmen and mission executives. III. HOW THE FUNDS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED As stated above, the goal of the United China Relief campaign is $5,000,000. For purposes of distribution among the agencies, the drive has been divided into three stages. As a part of the original agreement between the participating agencies, the first $1,095,000 secured in the united campaign will be distributed as follows: American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. China Emergency Relief Committee__. Church Committee for China Relief American Committee for Chinese War Orphans. Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China_. Indusco American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives) $350,000 100, 000 $450,000 375,000 10,000 20,000 30,000 140, 000 100, 000 $1,095, 000 In the second stage of the campaign, this same amount ($1,095,000) will be allocated in much the same way as that indicated for the first stage of the campaign. However, the committee on disbursements is to make a careful study of the programs and responsibilities of the seven participating agencies, and to appraise the relative size and urgency of their needs. If this appraisal indicates the desirability of any changes in method of allocation during the second stage of the campaign, the committee on disbursements has been charged with responsibility for recommending such changes, subject to approval by the directors and by a two-thirds vote of the coordinating committee. All funds received by the united campaign after the first two stages have been completed will be allocated as recommended by the committee on disbursements and approved by the directors and the coordinating committee. These allocations are not necessarily restricted to administration through the participating agencies, if the committee on disbursements discovers other needs in China which can best be served through other channels. Designated and undesignated gifts. All gifts for purposes of relief and rehabilitation in China made during the period of the campaign, whether sent to the participating agencies or to United China Relief, shall be counted as applicable to the $5.000,000 goal of the united campaign. All net income for relief and rehabilitation received by the agencies on and after March 1, 1941, shall be counted as applicable to the United Campaign. Donors are free to make their gifts in any of the three following ways: 1. To United China Relief, Inc., without specific designation. Such gifts are to be divided pro rata at the end of each month in the same manner as we have indicated above for the three stages of the campaign. 2. To United China Relief, Inc., designated for one or more specific objectives. Such gifts shall be transmitted at the end of each month by United China Relief to the agencies serving the objectives designated by the donor. 3. To any of the participating agencies. Such gifts will be reported at the end of each month by the participating agencies as having been received by them applicable to their quotas within the united campaign. There is general agreement among the participating agencies that during the period of the campaign primary emphasis will be placed upon securing as much as possible in undesignated gifts, so that all the diverse needs being served through the united campaign will be adequately provided for. IV. CONCLUSION The relations between the participating agencies and United China Relief are being carefully maintained through the coordinating committee of agency representatives, and through daily consultations among the executives of the agencies and with the executive director. All board members of the agencies will be sent all publications and bulletins of United China Relief so that they may be kept fully informed regarding plans and developments of the campaign. Your advice and counsel will always be welcomed by the chairman and executive director of United China Relief. LETTERHEAD CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE: James G. Blaine, Chairman; Eugene E. Barnett, Vice Chairman; Pearl S. Buck; William C. Bullitt Colby M. Chester: Paul G. Hoffman; Rufus M. Jones; Thomas W. Lamont; Henry R. Luce; John D. Rockefeller 3d; Raymond Rubicam; David O. Selznick; Robert Gordon Sproul; Charles F. Williams; Wendell L. Willkie OFFICERS OF NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Honorary Chairman; Pearl S. Buck, Chairman; Mrs. James E. Hughes, Vice Chairman OFFICERS OF CORPORATION: James G. Blaine, Chairman; Eugene E. Barnett, Vice Chairman; Artemus L. Gates, Treasurer; Raymond F. Adams, Assistant Treasurer; John Post, Secretary; B. A. Garside, Executive Director UNITED CHINA RELIEF, INC., New York, N. Y., September 6, 1941. Members of the Boards, Committees, and Staffs of Participating Agencies: As you know, several weeks ago a special committee was appointed to study the question of the future of United China Relief. The committee consists of four members of the board of directors of United China Relief and four members of the coordinating committee. This joint committee has now proceeded to the point where it would like to meet informally with the members of the board of directors of the participating agencies and the directors of United China Relief. The committee feels that before making specific recommendations in the form of a report it would be very helpful to have this opportunity for a general discussion. The meeting has been called for Monday, September 15, at 3:30 p. m., in the colonial room, mezzanine floor, Park Central Hotel, Fifty-fifth Street at Seventh Avenue. We hope very much that it will be possible for you to be present as the meeting will be a most important one. Cordially yours, RICHARD J. WALSH, Chairman, Coordinating Committee. P. S.-Please indicate promptly on enclosed post card whether you will be able to attend. PARTICIPATING AGENCIES: American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, American Committee for Chinese War Orphans, American Friends Service Committee, Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China, China Aid Council, China Emergency Relief Committee, Church Committee for China Relief, Indusco (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives) LETTERHEAD HONORARY MEMBERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Pearl S. Buck, Lauchlin Currie, Ambassador Hu Shih, Rufus M. Jones, K. T. Keller, Lin Yutang, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, Charles Stewart Mott, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert G. Sproul, Rt. Rev. Henry St. G. Tucker, C. E. Wilson BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Wendell L. Wilkie, Honorary Chairman; Paul G. Hoffman, Chairman; Eugene E. Barnett: James G. Blaine; Walter B. Cannon Edward C. Carter; Arthur V. Davis; J. W. Decker; Claude E. Forkner; William Green; W. R. Herod; Thomas W. Lamont; Henry R. Luce; Mrs. Maurice T. Moore; Philip Murray; Most Rev. John F. O'Hara, C. S. C.; Clarence E. Pickett; David O. Selznick; Thomas L. Sidlo; Donald D. Van Slyke; Richard J. Walsh; Bishop Herbert Welch; Frederick H. Wood; Admiral Harry E. Yarnell OFFICER OF THE CAMPAIGN: Wendell L. Wilkie, Honorary Chairman; Paul G. Hoffman, Chairman; W. R. Herod, President; B. A. Garside, Vice Pres, and Secretary; James G. Blaine, Treasurer; G. L. McCoy, Comptroller; C. Scott Fletcher, Executive Vice Chairman; Otis P. Swift, Public Relations Director; Bayard M. Hedrick, Campaign Director Mr. CLARENCE E. PICKETT, 1942 CAMPAIGN, UNITED CHINA RELIEF, INC., New York, N. Y., March 14, 1942. American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, Pa. DEAR MR. PICKETT: The next meeting of the board of directors of United China Relief will be held at 3:30 p. m. on Tuesday, March 24, 1942, in the board room on the forty-eighth floor of the General Electric Building at 570 Lexington Avenue (at Fifty-first Street), New York City. The board will deal with all matters of business that may be presented to it, including certain proposed amendments to the bylaws (concerning which a separate notice will be sent you), and will review the plans and progress of the 1942 campaign. It is hoped also the new motion picture of China, Western Front, will be completed in time to be shown to the board at this meeting. It is earnestly hoped that you can be present. A card is enclosed for your convenience in indicating whether you can attend. Very sincerely yours, W. R. HEROD, President. PARTICIPATING AGENCIES: American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, American Committee for Chinese War Orphans, American Friends Service Committee, Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China, China Aid Council, China Emergency Relief Committee, Church Committee for China Relief, Indusco (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives), World Student Service Fund LETTERHEAD BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Eugene E. Barnett, James G. Blaine, Edward C. Carter, Mrs. Edward Miss ANGELINA DI TULLIO, UNITED CHINA RELIEF, INC., American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, Pa. DEAR MISS DI TULLIO: We are happy to know from your letter of April 30 that medical supplies are available in China in sufficient quantity to supply your present needs. As you suggest, we have already notified Mr. Wang of ABMAC about the cable which you received from Mr. Rich and that we can drop the matter of trying to obtain the medical supplies. We hope that you are successful in securing priorities through Mr. Harry Price regarding Diesel parts. We shall be interested in hearing what progress you make. Very sincerely yours, DANIEL NELSON, Program Division. PARTICIPATING AGENCIES: American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, American Committee for Chinese War Orphans, American Friends Service Committee, Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China, China Aid Council, China Emergency Relief Committee, Church Committee for China Relief, Indusco (American Comittee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives) The President's War Relief Council Board Registration No. 546 SECOND ANNUAL REPORT, UNITED CHINA RELIEF, INC., FOR THE YEAR 1942 With the following agencies participating: American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, American Friends Service Committee, Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China, China Aid Council combined with American Committee for Chinese War Orphans, China Emergency Relief Committee, Church Committee for China Relief, Indusco, Inc. (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives) James L. McConaughy, President James G. Blaine, Treasurer Daniel P. Adams, Assistant Treasurer Henry G. Perry, Assistant Comptroller National Headquarters-1790 Broadway, New York, N. Y. |