The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
Y, M. War PLANS
Kansas Association to Look
After Soldiers in State.
$4,000 Building Being Planned
for Fort Riley.

Plans for definite war time or
ganization of the Y. NJ. C. were COM
pleted for Kansas Friday night when
more than 100 secretaries and laymen
from all over the state convened at
the Central Y. NJ. C. A. for conference.
This meeting was the outcome of a
similar convention in the national or
ganization. The work in the United
States will be identical with that in
European camps.
Resolutions were passed by the body
authorizing a campaign for raising
$4,000. as Kansas share of the 3d.
100000 fund to be raised by the ma
tional organization for furnishing ade-
quate supervision and equipment and
supplies for the army Y. NJ. c. A,
branch of which will be established i'll
every camp in the country. To carry
out this campaign an army work COM
mittee must be appointed in each local
Y. NJ. G. a. not later than May l 3. The
$4,000 in Kansas is to be raised by
May 80. according to the resolution
adopted at the meeting Friday.
Favor National Prohibition.
The delegates here pronounced
themselves and their organization in
favor of national prohibition. The fol-
lowing resolution was sent to President
Wilson and to the Kansas members of
congress:
BE it Resolved, in order that we may
obtain the highest efficiency both on bat
tleileld, shop and farm, and that We may
fully conserve our food products, that we
may petition the president of the United
states and congress now assembled to pro-
hibit the manufacture and sale of intoXi-
eating liquors in the United States of
America during the duration Of war;
Military camps should also be
cleaned up, according to a further
resolution. The sale of liquor or the
nTRGRnHp n m
ten miles of a camp should be pro-
hibited. message to this effect was
sent to the two senators and eight rep
resentatives in Washington asking for
their support:
Following is the resolution:
Resolved, That since the history of war
has proven that intoxicating liquors, i'm
moral women and malaria and camp fevers
camp and at the front than the bullets of
the enemy, and since modern medical
science and industry has practically ban
tshed malaria and camp fevers of all kinds,
therefore, be it further Resolved. That
this committee assembled in the city of
Topeka, Kansas, representing tn Young
Mems Christian associations of said state
urge the two United States senator's and
eight congressman to support in every pos
sible manner a bill prohibiting the sale
OF Intoxicating liquors or the presence of
immoral women and their agents within
United States"
Other Resolutions.
Other resolutions were adopted
promising the cooperation of the as
sociation with the government, civic
and religious organizations and social
clubs in carrying out wa time pro-
gram. The organization will also take
it upon itself to instruct and to prepare
for naturalization all foreign born I'M
naturalized men and women of the
country
The Kansas state association will
be among the first associations to send
men to the training camps for Y. M
war work, according to Clifford Pierce,
state secretary. Arrangements for
the erection of a $4,000 building at
Fort Riley are under waw. and the
hut will probably be built within j
month.
The conference was addressed by
Henry NJ Beardsley, former mayor of
Kansas City. who is a lay representa-
tive from the Missouri association.
Governor Arthur Capper also spoke in
the evening at the banquet in Gemmel
hall.