Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-21
Subscribes Three Thousand
Dollars More Than Goal
in Y. M. C. A. Campaign.
THE DISTRICT IS SUCCESSFUL
Southern Department to Pro-
vide More Than Million
Five Hundred Thousand.
Tulsa did.

AT the beginning OF the wcr activity
campaign this city was assigned the
task of raising $4,000 for that work.
Yesterday afternoon C. f. nuchner.
director of the campaign IN tulsa, an
ncunced that this sum had peen ex-
ceeded by s3,169 and that a total of
s11S.109 had been subscribed
When the campaign was inaugur-
ated the Tulsa district was assigned
the task of raising s.3S.0O0 and this,
too, was exceeded during the week Of
tho campaign, and II compilation of
the report from, the several counties
in the district show that s153,000 was
raised. The entire state shows like
disregard for any limit which might
have been established beforehand, and
as result the states goal of $2eU,0
WIS exceeded by at least 100000.
The southern department, of which
Il. Roger Kemp of Tulsa is director.
and which is composed of the states
of Texas, Arizona. New Mexico. Louis
lana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. was
given a budget of $l.000,000 to raise.
The total raised by Director Kemp's
department is ,522, 900, according to
"A telegram received tonight.
N. Make Gains,
I'm eSe.y county IN the TULSA dis
uie'. a Great gain ,,9s rt~6' IN the
cbntr hutlons I" the war x DuGget,
tapd while sonio - the OATES have
not reported their total eonff,. ltions,
the following figures were att rnncetl
last right by Mr. Buchner for counties
over which,. lie had directorship:
Greek (not compiete), slS,900, No
wata, s12,000; PaYnees 81 900; Essge
tnot completed. $4,000. Washington.
S1l 900. Ottawa mot completely J..
$500: Crlig. $4,000. Mays, $4,000.
and Rogers. $4,000.
IN sorie ceunties the total was
driven up ward by. .tsie ;saii, nt ws'l-is of
the teams In the cities In thc'r respec-
tive counties, aud such was the case
with Mounds, where $500 was raised I:
almost double the goal which had
heen set for that community to attain,
In Pawnee county, the original goal
for the campaign there was set at
$4,000 and while they were ambitious
and confident that they could win IL
a victory was to be registered, the
workers from that county declared
that $4,000 was a heavy. burden to
place upon them. With the completed
returns which came In last night 1t
was shown that a-total OF $1,000 had
been reached, or at least $1,000 In
excess of the original assignment.
"That is what work will accomplish"
declared Mr.. Buchner last night. ut
Is due to the work of the director In
that county; to the team workers and
the liberality of the people who saw
in the work worthy project to help
win the war and to return our boys
to us as clean in mind. body and spirit
as when they left u.s.
THO Divisions.
The budget of $4,000 which was
set az, Tulsa's goal at the beginning OF
the campaign is to be divided as fol-
lows:
Y. NJ. C. A. work with soldiers
and in prison camps. $75 900
Rotary recreation work outside
OF, army camps ......... 10000
Y. w. G. A. hostess home found
for soldier camps ..... 5000
County council Of defense 5000
Soldiers library fund. ..... 5000
Boy scouts and military train
ing in schools .....,... 5000
Four minute men ...... 1000
Federal boys working reserve 1000
Armenian relief fund. .... 1000
Home guard ........... 1000
Company G (Tulsa) mess fund 1000
IL was announced last night at the
headquarters of the campaign COM
mittee that a saving could be worked
to the advantage of the work IL those
who have made contributions will not
wait until asked to remit their con-
tributions but will forward them di-
rectly to n. r. Graham, treasurer.
This will save postage. clerical help
and much time" declared one of the