The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-10
Y. NJ. C.. Il. VAR FUND
CAMPAIGN NEXT WEEK
Barre Will Conduct a Drive in Common
with the Other Towns of the State
to Contribute to the Great
National Fund

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Posters announcing plans and purpose;
in the Forthcoming war Y. M. G. A. cam
paign were distributed to-day and prep
arations for the Barre end of the Yer.
mont drive have been in progress some
days. With DIR, O. G. Stickney at the
head of the campaign here in the city, a
number of workers assigned to different
districts in the several wards will begin
their canvass next week. Methods used
in the Liberty loan and food pledge cam.
paigns will be used and there is every
reason to believe that Barre will hold up
its end of the subscription
| Some of the magnitude of the task
that the Y. M. G. A. has set for itself
nj planning its war work for the coming
winter and spring may, perhaps, be OBJ
tanned by allowing the Imagination to
dwell for a moment upon the figures "a
100000. According TO John r. Mott,
national general secretary Of the Y. M.
c. A. Red Triangle war work fund, that
is approximately the number of men un-
der arms on this and the other side of
the water Counting prisoners of war;
whose physical, intellectual, social and
spiritual welfare and betterment directly
concern the associations and, indirect
ly, everyone of us as citizens of the Unit
ed States
OF this great number to whom the
service of the Red Triangle is to be ex-
tended our own boys will probably ag-
gregate 100000 by the coming June,
and all of them, in addition to facing the
h.rr n,,1 - -
den death must inevitably pass through
veritable fire of temptation once the
sheltering influence of home, with its
natural and protective restraint, has been
removed. While the Y. NJ. C. A. work
ers can hardly hope to reproduce the
actual home atmosphere they can and do
offer a remarkable and effective substi-
tute in the thousands of camps and huts
that already stretch from one end of
the country to the other wherever men
are in training, and are rapidly spreading
through England, France, Russia and
Belgium clear to the firing lines.
The best way to get a proper concep-
tion of exactly what the Red Triangle |
work is doing, and going to do for our
soldiers and sailors is to go out among
them at army cantonment or naval base
and hear the story from their own lips |
They alone know what the Y. NJ. c. A. |
stands for at the front of things. As |
Major Harry l.. Hodges, division adju |
tant at Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, re-
Gently said: "The Y M. c. A. means
10 the man in the ranks Just what the
ireside means to him at home. The mill
a bar Il II
/ good soldier of him, but his leisure
ime is his own problem-or would be
we're it not for the Y. NJ. c. AS an
'wer to his, Nowhere to go on winters
hight.
Kenneth Robbie, general secretary at
he same camp, relates an interesting bit
# life along these lines. Not long ago,
t seems, young Vermont recruit was
brought into Devens, and homesick and
onely naturally drifted into the com
ortable looking Red Triangle headquar-
ers the same night When Mr.. Robbie
'otieed him he was bending over his
Irst letter home, and glanced up with
n honest to-goodness smile in response
o the secretary's ready welcome. at
Gems kinder funny" he began, my sit
ing here like this writing the folks. Only
asst night we were all gathered around
/ home having a sort of good bye musi-
al evening; and mother said, with a ,
title break in her voice, j don't sup
ose you will be hearing any music for
long time after tonight I didn't an
wer her, for didn't think it was at all
kelly myself But here l am writing her ,
letter within twenty feet of a piano
hat is playing one of our fsvorite pieces
m telling her about it. Won't she be
Irprised and glad7"
If these conditions add so much to the :
,ldier boys contentment here, compare !,
vely near his home, how much more =
iey will mean to him on foreign shore, !
of miles from those he loves !
nd how much more potent and valuable
i'll their influence be.
Thirty FIVE million is the amount need
to continue and carry on this great d
ork of protecting, cheering and strength
ling 24,00o,0O0 men. Is ii a job that can o
ait?
The State Campaign Arranged. +
A meeting of the state committee rela W
We to the y. NJ c. A. campaign took a.
ace at Montpelier Friday evening and
lis morning John Hartness, who was
re, said that the work is well under
ay, that some 100 kilograms and many r
tiers have been sent to the various
ointment men of the state, putting the
mpaign in shape for next week, and
at he expects to see the fund of $685. u
% raised This work, he claimed, is as p'
lportant as any to keep the soldiers in Il
'od shape. IN IN