The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-11-09

At a meeting held Tuesday evening
at the Firemen's Building, plans were
discussed as to the campaign to
raise Carroll county's share of the
amount needed for work among the
soldiers by the Young Mems Christian
Association. Several gentlemen con-
nected with the work were present
and made addresses. A committee on
organization consisting of DR.. McDan-
iel, Rev. w. H. Hetrick and Charles
Kolb, named as a committee to conduct
the campaign. George K. Mather,
chairman, Judge ]. A. G.. Bond, DR.. T.
H. Lewis, Guy w. Steele, Esq, J..
Pearre Wantz and H. P. Gorsuch. A
meeting will be held tonight to COM
plete plans for the campaign which
will begin Monday next.
| The National War Work Council of
the Associations at it's recent meet
ing in the Bankers Club in New York,
! meeting attended by a remarkable
body of foremost laymen and citizens
! from all parts of America, unanimous
| ly recommended the raising of fund
of $35, 100000 to serve the men of the
armies and navies of the United States
and certain of her Allies such as Rus
sia, France and Italy, as we'll as the
prisoners of war throughout the war
zones, for the period ending June 80
1918.
The sum of $35 100000 is needed be-
cause of the vast number of men to be
served Before next July the Ameri-
can Army and Navy will in all prob
ability include 100000 men. The Ma
tional War Work Council is also call
ed upon to extend it's work throughout
the Russian Army of over 100000
men, the French Army of about 4,000,-
900 men, the Italian army of possibly
100000, and the smaller armies OF
Belgium, Mesopotamia, India, East
Africa, Egypt and Roumania, number
ing probably 100000 more. More
over, the 100000 prisoners of wal
imperatively require the continued
practical ministry of America through
the Association. Here then are a tota
of 24,000,000 men whose physical, in
tellectual, social and spiritual better
ment we wish to promote.
The burning question, which eacf
of US by our attitude toward this funC
must help answer, is, shall the flower
of our American manhood, who go Ou
to represent us, come back to us (St
far as their lives are to be spared
with disease, with character weakened
or blasted, or shall they return strong
er and better men? What more i'm
portant asset have we to conserve?
The So, 100000 should be given be
cause of the direct and vital bearing
which the work of the Association ha!
IN accomplishing the purpose of thu
War. Napoleon has said that in wal
morale is to other factors as three Il
one. Each day the warning countries
are spending over $130, 100000 to sup
ply what might be called the materia
factors and forces. This budget calls
for devoting less than one-third tina
sum among over one-half of the sol
diers of the war, and this not in one
day but in nine months. America
wisely and generously subscribed ovel
S120OO0,OOO to the Red Cross in re
sponse to the first appeal. This work
of the Association, calling for less
than one-third of that amount, minis.
ters not only like the Red Cross to the
physical comfort of the enlisted men
and of the military prisoners, but also
to their intellectual and spiritual ma
ture-in other words, to their morals
Who will not want to give some
thing towards this blessed work OF
bringing Christianity, with it's saving
power and comfort, to our young men
beset with appalling temptations at
this most critical period of their lives
We send our splendid young men away
with prayer and words of sound moral
advice from our clergymen, but shall
this be all of this kind of spiritual in
fluence that they shall receive? We
are told that our young men from Car
roll county are among the very best at
Camp Meade, showing that they come
from good homes and the best sur
roundings. Shall we keep them so?
Then let us support with our financial
help, the only institution in the army
that keeps them so, the Young Mems
Christian Association. When you are
asked to give, give your very best.