Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-09
To the Citizens Of Augusta:

lO llt klllZtuS Vi Augusta.
FOR OUR BOYS HERE AND "OvER THERE" there
will be conducted in this city during the coming week
campaign to raise $4,000 for three purposes
Frst-For the War Work Fund of the National War
Work Council of the Y. M. c.. A. $780,
This Council is conducting campaign to raise $S5 000
900 to be used and trenches for the benefit of
soldiers who Somewhere in France" and who in
camps and posts in this country preparing to go.
The money will be used to give to boys this side
many of the comforts attractions and pleasures of
home be furnished. On the other side it will be
used to maintain the firing line and the second line
trenches huts where the soldiers may be furnished with hot
chocolate and hot coffee and find place to rest and write
message home and in the where the boys have six
days to rest the larger huts where the find
veniences comforts recreation and amusement until the
call comes to go forward again.
Mr. Lewis A. Crossett, well known to the citizens of
Augusta who during the last year went to France and in
to the trenches said upon his return
The American Y M c. A. has proved to be the mother
and the home of the soldier"
To this fund the citizens Of the cities and towns of this
country asked to contribute per cent of the mini
amount Of their allotment in the last Liberty Loan
For our city this means the sum of $500.
The story of how the money heretofore received by the
Y NJ c. A. has been spent and how this to be raised
will be spent will make each of glad to help those
boys who cover there" standing living wall between
US and deadly peril.
second-For the War Camp Community Recreation
Fund $1,000.
ton officers this fund being raised to make and maintain
in the communities adjacent to camps and posts clubs and
recreation buildings lodging houses and comfort stations
where soldiers and sailors may find home and feel
home To make and keep fit to fight must also
guard them far can be, when they in those
munes adjacent to training camps and posts in the Unit
ed States And have been asked to contribute $1,000
this fund.
Third-For own Y. M. C. A. $4,000.
That Y M. A. which has successfully and pat
rotcally met every duty the battle line also doing
noble work by resides and the boys here at home
must not be forgotten 1t seemed little while ago.
if must for lack Of funds close Y NJ c. A. but our
citizens earnestly urged that the doors be kept OPEN To
do deficit of 81 900 must be taken and $4,000
provided to meet the of the ensuing Believ
ing that this amount could be raised the doors kept
Every Y. NJ c. A. is civic institution Its inau-
in every community is for good and far reaching
Every citizen each year much
tribute his part for its maintenance he does for the
mantenances of every other civic institution and help
keep clean and expanding the lives of boys and girls
In every community during each year the Y. NJ c. A.
makes the raising of this annual budget community mat
ter This has not been done in city before
has seemed best to meet at time the call of these
three splendid and accordingly to them the coming
week will be devoted
Does it to you that these campaigns pressing
close the heels Of another They are they
must, and many others will come marching by.
10 meet every call is the part in this which we
who here at home must fully and cheerfuly do It
ought to mean self denial Who will not deny
himself if he but touch the outer edge of that test
word of this Sacrifice" which only be used in all
its meaning by those boys who standing ready ITO
be tried by fire. to suffer pain to be manned and crippled
to lay down life itself for u.s.
We all about us the signs that our people are
awakng to the realization of what this means and are
determined and ready to pay the price.
To that spirit appeal this coming week.
This campaign will be conducted far possible by the
organization of the Red Cross Campaign under direc
ton of Henry E. Dunnack
NORMAN L. BASSETT
for the Committee