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42161 FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY WORK PROJ'ECTS ADMl:NISTRATION For Release to Afternoon Papers Friday, August 23, 1940 WPA PROJECT WORICERS SEND PRESIDENT NATIONAL DEFENSE CONTRIBUTION Thirty W?A project workers in Greenville, South Carolina, have sent President Roosevelt a money order for $113 to be used for national defense, W?A officials were advised today. The contributors to the fund were employed at WPA wages in a WFA warehouse. McDuffie Irwin, superint endent of t he WPA warehouse and spokesman for t he donors, s a id: 11 The country must prepare now to d.efend its elf from aggression and from enemies without and ,vithin this country; if in a small way we can hel p, we contribute whole-heartedly for t hi s purpose . 11 The thought of contributing for na ti onal defense gr adually developed in the minds of all when Russia invaded. Finland. a nd. Germany conquered one defenseless country after another. We realized that our country would of necessity have to build a two-ocean navy and raise a standing army properly equipped with modern impl ements of war if the United States is to defend itself from powers bent on wo rld conq_u est. 11 "I b eli eve that if W. C. Powell, another worker, said: every individual working for a salary would contribute one day ' s salary, we would have a very small defense debt, if any . 11 11 If the Government can hel p me when I am down and out, it is my duty to help the country i n time of neod, 11 said Earle M. . Glazener, another contribut or. ---oQo--Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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