Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-11-11

More than $40, 600 in actual, DEF.
mite promises are now in the hands
Of the various committees working TO-
the erection Of Y. NJ. c. a. building
in Albuquerque.
The clock on the state National
bank building will strike $4,000 by
the time the workers gather at head
uuarters for the noon lunch today.
Such, in brief is the situation IN the
Y. NJ. c. A. campaign that began
Monday. Zeal and enthusiasm char
acterizes every movement of the
workers, and the success OF the en-
terprise was never more definitely
certain than II is today.
At the outset OF the campaign II
was not expected that the various
committees in charge of the worn
would devote more than half a day
each day to their labors. For the
most part they are composed of Dusi-
ness men ana cannot without serious
Inconvenience or actual loss, take the
whole day away from their business.
Early expectations, however. have
been completely upset as the cam
paign has proceeded. The spirit oil
sacrifice which is the soul of the
movement In which they are engaged.
led them to let business go hang and
to devote their whole time TO the glo-
rious work to which they are giving
this time splendid emulation has
arisen among them, and each com
mittee is afraid that II it should lose
any time while the sun Is shining
some other committee will forge
ahead of II In the race for first hon
ors. 1t is no longer halliday job
it Is an all-day job. with everybody
working every minute of the day.
Give Till 1t Hurts"
The slogan-"Give till ithurts has
struck home to the people of Albu-
querque, and the response that has
been made to this call has furnished
inspiration and courage to those who
are In the thick of the fight. The
boys in the shops, the clerks in the
stores-men and women who need
every cent that they earn--have dis
played pride IN the success Of the
movement and a willingness to come
across in the effort to put 1t through.
that has been one of the most notable
features Of the campaign.
AS one citizen put it yesterday: IF
the rich men of the city would come
across In proportion to their means
as the working men and women are
doing, we wouldn't be stopping a.
s75,000--we would be raising mil
lion."
ut hurts more he continued, for
the man on a fifty-dollar- -a-month
salary to give ten dollars than II does
for the man with ten-thousand-dol-
lar-a-year income to give thousand
dollars. The fifty-dollar man is CIV
ing one-sixth of what he makes In a
year-the ten-thousand-d d-dollar man
only one-tenth.
But that, after all, Is not the real
test The fifty-dollar man, when he
digs up his ten dollars is denyinS
himself something that he rsarH
wants and needs. lie must go with
out something that ne ought to have,
He will have to make his last years
overcoat do this winter = his thin
shoes will have to last him little
longer-he will have to make out on
chill and beans for while in order to
make good The ten-thousand-dollar
man will deny himself little, If any
Perhaps he will have to put off buy
ing that 500 born for his automobile
--he may have to reduce his wine bill
little bit--some other of his luxuries
uay be curtailed, but he suffers no
staI inconvenience.
Women to the Front.
.zpds yet. 1t is the fifty-dollar man
i at has. been the mainstay and back
ne of ahe campaign for the YIN
A.. in Ahis contest. Not only the
w aaliars man but the fifty-dollar
Wsthstl,e usual feminine devotion
to an deal, tfle women have come for
ward as the, always do when great
things are 10 be done. A seven-dol-