The Dermott news., 1917-11-15
ARKANSAS FUNDS
 FOR TIE '. M. |. 4.
LIBERAL CONTRIBUTIONS FIX. PECTED TO BE MADE IN THIS STATE FOR SUPPORT OF AS.
 ISOLATION WAR WORK.


 The success of the \. NJ C. A cam paign the week of November HIS is vital. It is just as vital as providing men and money and munitions and food, for if the morale of the Army is not maintained in the field. victory will be deferred if not defeated. Thal Is the special mission of the Associa- tion which has set goal of S35. .000 GOO to prosecute the work at home and overseas during the year 1918 Arkansas proportion of this amount .s $t40000. Of which snail per cent is to be Set apart for the state work
 The program adopted at the great conference in New York. attended b. representatives from more than tair tg states calls for more than five nun dred buildings for the use of Amefi can troops at home and not less than two hundred and fifty add toHai buildings for American troops IT FIauee. To man these buildings. aud for similar settccs in RassIa. France. and Italy, and n prison camps, more than four thousand additional seereIa. rirs must he employed Already oErs fwo thousand are actively engaged iu service.
 The War Work Council at the meet. ing in New York adopted a hudEet d. follows
 For work in the American
 Army at home .....zs..$1L12oo5o Fer work in the American
 Army in France ...a.=. lLgg4.oaa Fer work with tho French
 temy ...z.......-.z--.- 2.6i9.ooo For work with the Russian
 Army .... ..ss==s.. @.5e5.o3o Ear work With thc Italian
 Army .:.. .......=..... 1.0oo.00o For work Witn prisoners of
 war .......=..z. ......#.=.... I.o0o.aao For other emergency work. 3.3S2.ooo
 Total .....#............==z. .$25.a0d.oae
 Thls budget was reaGIrntd bv tac de2esetes at the Southern Department Conference. Dallas October IL. and the states comprising .hs deparmer, nave set the.a enota not fgss han on, million dollars fSL0oa.oa@
 fAe cam4afea IS tae eHtgrowth ot tharouehls organized movement covering the whole eauntry. and ap. proved by eIyl and military aulaeri- ues and telietous wareer> every waere More than 2aa representa-. ttYes from Arkansas. Texas. OkIaao. m1 LuutstaH1, Arizona. and Ne# MaNf-. constituting tse Southern ne- partment met oh October Il a1 Dal. las. EeNas. to consider fsa great pre- gram as outlined by the National War Work Council at the meeting held in Ne@ York GitH on September ei. at the gathering in Ngw York. the wurt, among the American troops of the United States, beth in this eouH- try and in France. was thuroushlv cons dercd Moreover large though Was given the opportunity to serve the men of thr armes of Russta. France. and Haly. and in prison camps.
 Ihe delegates representing fhe Southern Department. including twcu- ty=tiFe leading business mn and pas tors from Arkansas. Wa.cA met iu Dallas. faced the great task oI proyid ing for the million and q half of our own troops who are now being ser4ed in some live hundred buildings iu the cantonmants In this country and in a large number ef places in France and Russia. The group WIS deeply inter ested in the work already being done among the troops in Europe and eN pressed eradication at tho deep lutar. es' manifested in our work by P5ssi don't Wilson. Secretary et War Baker, and Secretary ot the NaFy panleis
 Al the Dallas Conference k A. Long. the millionaire lumborman aHa Christian leader of Kansas CIY made an iHspifaHonal address. \. e Hart. Y N = \ Secretary for SO d.ers in Prison camps and Hospitals. told of the work that is bClns dou throughout Europe, of lhe great nred~ Of the Association for more men and more resources. r.. Roger Kemp. ot Tulsa, Okla. a wealthy oil man who is devoted Christian worker. was elected department chairman. anl Guy Bilheimer. Of Denver. Colo f1s- merly of Little Rock, is executive sto- retaE with campaign 1es 'e
 Dallas These mon. 8f1 s.r#s.s gan cations directing ie= ,.a a each state. stand back of the cam paign for raising sHaaa.oaa a tte Southwestern Department
 Guy Pease of Bqtesvi'le. vino fs f.. the navy. writing to bis f1l..H fruaa. Newark. N !. says T weut to tf, Y NJ. '. A. entertainment in 3aI.! II also slept there. This motria atF