The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-11-15
Y.M.C.A. CAMPAIGN
IS GAINING DAILY
REPORT OF WHAT HAS BEEN
DONE IN COUNTY UP TO TIME
OF GOING TO PRESS
SOME NEWS Of THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
Confidence All Over The Country
That The Fund Will Be Ample
For All Needs

The big campaign of the Red Tri-
angle is swinging along all owe the
country with a triumphant stride.
Tuesday night the national report was
that eleven and one half million had
been subscribed, and the Wednesday
night report for the state WIS neatly
forty-five thousand.
The central department, of which
South Dakota is a part, is eight hun
dred thousand ahead Of the eastern,
which includes New York. This looks
all right, but we must keep the work
going strong in order to keep the lead.
The local and county situation is
good. but the reports are very slow in
coming in. Mr.. Knappen of the coun-
ty committee, is full CT hope and
thinks that the final total will be on
the right side, but warns everyone
not to stop their work for one mo-
ment. Things may look good and still
the end may not be what is wanted.
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to delay in getting teams organized.
Messrs. Lees and Montgomery are Civ
ing the hardest kind of work to the
drive and there is no such word as
fail in their ideas. Every one must
come across with something and the
bigger the contribution the less
on ,1nrn ,i11 Ia, that Drnnlyin zoe
has dropped behind in the race.
\ significant catch-word has been
used to designate the feld-wOrk at the
front Of the Young Mems Christian
Association. 1t was coined by one of
our boys somewhere in France who.
finding comfort and care in the hut
said that the soldiers were finding
homes away from home The work
that has been undertaken by the Y.
NJ. c. A., not only in connection with
our own soldiers but with the armies
of France, of Russia. and Italy, is a
stupendous one; and the National
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ters in New York, is just about to
start an intensive campaign to raise
no less thar $35, 900 900 with which
to carry on and expand this work VI
to July l, 1918.
At first blush this seems an enor-
nous sum-, but when it is considered
u-hot thic MONA Inoc IL NAV conn1 all
too little. Since the wal began it has
been the task of the Y. NJ. c. A. to
keep home ties from breaking. Wher-
ever American troops gather, and to
some extent also among French, Rus
sian and Italian soldiers, and in the
prisonerof-war camps the Red Tri-
angle of the y. NJ. C. A. has gone TO
safeguard home ideals. There is a
Red Triangle tent at the foot of
Mount Sinai, where the Apostle Mark
preached the gospel at Alexandria,
there the Red Triangle huts offer com
forts to the troops. In the Holy Land,
in East Africa, in the mids of the
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Gallipoli Observation-Disclosures troops
are away from home the Red Triangle
has been at work.
John r. Mott, general secretary of
the National War Work Council of
the Y. NJ. c. A., says that before next
July the American army and navy
will number probably 2,25O,000 men;
there are Is. SOC, 900 men in the armies
of Russia, Italy, France, Belgium,
Mesopotamia, India, East Africa,
Egypt and Roumania which look to
the American Y. NJ. c. A. for cooper
alton, and, besides, there are 5000
600 prisoners of war to serve.
In the "Y" huts, or at the fighting
line. in the dugouts, the soldiers
write their letters home on station
cry furnished free. One order of let
ter paper for the camps came to $79.-
600. Already $4,000, 900 has been used
in carrying on the work. Five hun
dred huts for American troops have
been built and eQuipped-warm, cheer
full centers of friendliness and moral
force. Similar work maintained by
the British Y. M. c. A. has won the
commentator of the British and
French commanders, Sir Douglas Haig
and General Petain, and the American
work has been highly praised by Gen
eral Pershing as a great help to the
morale of the army.
The raising Of this $35, 5000, 900 by
Nov. ~, will be a great task; it will