Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-11-15
ss25 SECURED AT MASS MEETING
HELD SUNDAY NIGHT IN ODD
FELLOWS HALL.
PART OF COUNTY REPORTS
Personal Solicitation to Take Place in
Grangeville Saturday-Must Have
$3.50 Fund.

The Idaho county campaign for $3.50
for the army and navy Y. M. c. A. had
netted 1925 Wednesday night, with a
number of districts not reporting on the
amounts raised. The campaign will
continue until Saturday night.
The sum of 1925 was raised at a mass
meeting held under the auspices of the
local committee in the Odd Fellows
hall Sunday night. A number of brief
talks were make by Grangeville men in
terested in the movement to raise funds
for aid of the Y. M. c. A. with the
the meeting pledge cards were passed
Mass Meeting in Winona.
A mass meeting is scheduled for Sat
urday night in Winona. Cottonwood,
Ferdinand and Kooskia already have
sent in contributions to the fund, while
the drive for money is being pushed in
Sites, Whitebird, and other towns.
Personal solicitation likely will be
made in Grangeville by committee on
Saturday. Men at the head of the Y.
M. G. A.. campaign here are determined
that the county raise its quota to 1850.
Contributions may be made to Archie N.
Dyer, treasurer, at the First National
bank, Grangeville. M. r. Hattabaugh
is chairman of the county committee
and DR.. G. A. Green is in charge Of
publicity.
Editorial on the Y. M. @. A.
The following editorial on Y M. C.
A. work appeared recently in Port
land paper:
War is just one thing after another.
If it is not Liberty loan, it Is the Red
Cross; and if it is not the Red Cross,
it's the Y. M. G. A. But the public is
both patient and understanding. War
fare without money is impossible;
without the Red Cross it is butchery
and savagery; and without the Y. M.
Z. A. it is indecency, viciousness, deg
radiation, disease and death.
If any one is in doubt about what
the Y. M. c. A. is doing for the boys
IN France, or on their way, or in
American contonments being made
ready to go, let him ask any soldier.
The soldiers know. They can tell
what the Y. NJ. c. A. has done and is
doing to make military life tolerant
and even pleasant, for the rank and
file and for the officers, too, and what
1t is doing besides-an even greater
service-to make it clean and whole
some. The Y. M. c. A., without cant
or favoritism or pretense or sectarian-
ism, is the mightiest agency in France
to keep the soldiers well, in mind and
body. The Red Cross and other agen-
cies look after them when they are
sick or wounded.
Dollars For Boys at Front.
Every dollar spent through the Y.
NJ. z. A. is for your son, or your neigh
Dor s son, which is the same thing. The
J. NJ. G. A., goes with him, in order to
serve him, from the time he dOns his
uniform until he faces the enemy, on
the battlefield, and after; for it is even
present in the prison camps. If the Y.
NJ Z. A. is ever needed it is then. 1t
never leaves the soldiers alive, or cap
,ured, or dying, and it does not forget
MN when he is dead.
A mighty institution for humanity
and civilization, not to say right think
ing, decent living, rational playing, is
the Y. M. G. A. Let all who are in
doubt inquire. If they know, they will
give; and if all such will give, the Y.
W. Y. A. will be able to raise its needed
iund ten times over.