Mitt.
Thankless they call it greater St Louis spreading from the guard their bridge now
best to the Missouri
and the Merrimack
when you've been away it's good to get back. Oh it's a millionaire.
You know the building you know the streets.
It's your home your city
but it's a big city with streets you'd never walk
with houses heels never entered
people you've never seen this little girl is just as much a part of your city as
the neighbor's girl you waved to on your way to work every morning.
Of course if you saw her as often as you see your neighbor's girl.
If you knew she had pneumonia you'd want to help her get the medical care she needs
but with only one pair of eyes you can see all the sick little girls in your city
Narcan you see the woman who lives alone. No longer cared for no longer caring.
She is your neighbor to him.
If you knew about her and about all the others also alone.
You try to help her friendless Romas as much a part of St Louis as city
and county
but with only one pair of eyes you can see the whole city
when so many people live so close together. No one can know them all.
No one can know all the families
that need help where the mother can't work because their children are too young.
Where a child is mentally retarded where life seems hopeless
and friendless with no place to turn.
Of course you try to help this family and the one down the street
and the one in the next block.
If you knew and if you knew how and if you knew who needs help.
First who needs help the most and if you had what they need to give them.
If you knew how many youngsters in your city roam the streets in Restless
destructive gangs of course you'd help organize better activities for them
but you have your office or your shop.
You can't be out all day looking for boys who have nothing to do
or finding places for Neighborhood Centers
like to help but with only one pair of eyes one pair of hands in such a big city.
If you could see the people whose lives are suffering.
This unpredictable disaster natural you'd want to help them anyway.
You're
going to interrupt this program for a special announcement tornado warnings have
been issued for the St Louis area including the moment of disaster.
How could you be ready.
Now to be there you'd
like to know but what would you do. Where would you start.
If you had one hundred twenty two eyes to search the dingy unfamiliar corners of
your city and see the needs there.
If you had one hundred twenty two special kinds of training and skill.
If you had playgrounds and X. Ray machines.
If you had piles of clothing and stacks of food.
If you had a tower from which you could see all the streets into all the corners of
your city at once in perfect detail if in all of greater say lowers there were no
one whose need you could not see you do what you do now with your gift to the
United Front.
The one hundred twenty two agencies which you support to the United Front are your
one hundred twenty two eyes to see the needs of your neighbors to weigh them
and to recognize where to help most where to help first.
That's why you help the most
when you give your most to the United Front in time of disaster.
You have the emergency crews of the Red Cross trained
and equipped to give your neighbors the help you would want to give them until
their life gets back to normal.
Alerted by automatic communication systems this help is ready always because you
give to the United Fund the one hundred twenty two agencies.
You support through the United Fund.
You know the whole city know where recreational programs are most needed know how
to set them up
and operate them the fact remains with the one hundred twenty two eyes of the
United Front. You are able to see all the needs of your city
and you have the equipment
and skills to meet such needs as those of the retarded child with your one hundred
twenty two eyes. You know where help is needed
and what kind of help is best for a child and best for her mother.
You have the eyes to see into lonely forgotten rooms
and friendly hands to lead the aged into better care
and a new sense of belonging
and because you give to the United Front.
You have eyes to see the little girl with pneumonia
and modern facilities to cure you have one hundred twenty two eyes to see the needs
one hundred twenty two skilled hands to help the way you want to help because they
are your neighbors because it is your city.
We know you want to support the United Front because you've given so generously in
the past with such a big city with so many needs this one gift to support one
hundred twenty children agency is the most effective
and the most sensible way of getting your neighbors to help you want to give
and if you only knew.
And if you knew how with one hundred and twenty two I see your cities need
and it was the first one first
and with one hundred twenty two special skills experience these need you help the
most when you give your mother United stuff.
You help the most when you give your most to the United Front.
But for many the question remains how much ultimately of course.
You're the only one who can answer that but
when you're thinking of your pledge for the year.
Won't you give at least one hour's pay each month out of each month income one
hour's pay is little enough to support all the services
that one hundred twenty two agencies perform in your name give one hour's pay each
month this year because you help the most
when you give your most to the United Front.