Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-11-15
Army Y. M. c. A. Work Explained
and an Appeal for Funds to Help
Boys Is Made
WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN
! zlANNED FOR COUNTY
AT BARABOO MEETING
Speeches Are Made Which Touch
the Sympathies of Those Gath
cred for the Occasion

His father was born in Germany, his
grandfather was a bourgamaster, and
his great grandfather was a general
in the imperial army, but H. A. Moeh-
lenpah, a Clinton banker, feelingly
and bitterly denounced the German
war machine in an address at the
Warren house on Wednesday evening.
1t was the opening gun in the cam
paign for the purpose Of raising funds
for the establishment Of Y. M. G. A
depOts in every military camp, Wheth
er in this country or on foreign shores,
for the use of the men of the great
armies this war has brought into eX-
istence Sauk county is scheduled to
raise $500.
County superintendent G. w. Da-
vies of North Freedom, chairman and
campaign director for Sauk county,
presided. He explained the purpose
Of the war work conference, and intro
duced Secretary f. 0. Lesser of the Y.
M. G. A. at Madison. Mr.. Lesser said
from Secretary Root and others who
have returned from France, it was
urged that work must be done at once
to bolster UP the morale of the armies
abroad. The British army is well sup
piled with aid such as is given by the
Y. M. G. A., but the leaders Of the
French armies have sent word that
the war cannot be fought without the
assistance given by this Organiza-
ton. The amount to be raised in this
country is $35, 100000, and in this state
$75O.OOO. He said Iowa and MinnesO-
ia were allotted the same amounts,
and each pushed the contributions to
over million.
From Camp Grant
G. w. Cox of Camp Grant was pres
ent and told Of the work the assOcia-
tion is doing there. Ten thousand
letters day are being sent out, some
branches sell $4OO in stamps every "a
hours. reading matter is supplied, and
entertainments are given. He Sid
taking care Of the boys was the only
way to get "over the top"
Time of Greatest Crisis
Mr.. Moehlenpah was introduced by
J. Van Orden, of the Bank Of Baraboo.
The speaker said the time of the great
est crisis this old world has ever seen
has come. The time has come to do
the thing Of things. The war came
home to Mr.. Moehlenpah when his
family physician, DR.. Woods, was
/. caught like a rat in trap on the
Arabic. sent to the bottom of the sea
by a German submarine. He told why
his father came to this country, to get
away from oppression live in a
country where there is no caste,
where there is opportunity. He said
his father brought up his boys to love
this country (Applause) He told
: them that by striving and saving they
could get clear to the top, and con-
trasted this condition with that found
in Germany This opportunity this
liberty, is what we are fighting for, in
it's essence, he declared.
Most Atrocous Machine
We are fighting the best organized
nations on earth-the most atrOclous
nations on earth. Going back to the
death of DR.. Woods and comparing
his deeds with that of the Germans,
he said the last act of the physician
was to perform an operation on Ger
man in a hospital.
He told the two things Harry Lau-
der told in New York when he came
back. Englishmen were taken prison
ers, made to stand without clothing in
the cold all night, and then told to go
back over "No man't land" only to
meet death at the back from machine
guns. The other was the blowing
away of a portion of a warriors face
by a fountain pen that was filled with
explosives and left in trench. With
cIinched fists, raised voice and stamp
ing foot, he declared the submarines
and Zeppelins the most atIocious enc
mics this world has ever seen.
Two Kinds of Socialists
We must think but one thing-win