The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-07-19
LOCAL CAMPAIGN
FOR Y.M.C.A. FUND
BIG MEETING AT COLLEGE SUM-
DAY STARTS THE LOCAL
CAMPAIGN
GENEROUS AMOUNT GIVEN BY CITIZENS
Other Parts Of the County Will be Can
vassed Later and Grand Total
SWelled

The South Dakota county campaign
for Y. M. c. A. war work is being con-
Quoted from South Dakota State Col
lcge Y. M. c. A. as headquarters under
the direction of Roy Sweetman, in
terstate secretary and Geo. Phillips,
secretary at State College. This work
is under the general direction Of the
state committee at Sioux Falls and il
carried on from Brookings because OF
the the fact that the college Y. M. G..
A. is already in the harness on the
~year-round plan and in a position to do
the work with dispatch.
The preliminary work for the cam
paign to raise between twenty and
thirty thousand dollars in this state
has been begun while the actual work
of raising the money will be focused
upon the first two weeks in August.
The money raised will be used for the
benefit of South Dakota boys in the
war camps. Eight army work secre-
taries who are now in the war work
school at Lake Geneva viii meet at
Brookings July %, and will then spend
two weeks in the state campaign. Sec
rotary Phillips office is sending ma
terial to the leading papers of the
state and a great amount of CORE
~nnn6nnn IN hncinncc man onl D.hn-.
interested in the Y. M. C. A. appeal.
The local campaign was started with
a big union meeting at State College
auditorium on Sunday evening. All the
churches rave up their evening serv-
ices in order to not keep people away,
end about one-half Of the people who
should have been there did attend. The
rleeting was presided over by Secro-
tary Phillips of the college Y. M. C. A.,
Rev. w. A. Mast made the opening
prayer and Leonard Fem, president
Of the college Y. NJ. G. A. read the
scripture lesson. Ray Sweetman, in
terstate secretary for the Dakotas and
Wisconsin was the principal speaker
end delivered a fine address on the
work of the organization in it's coming
and the present war work. His talk
was entirely for the purpose Of giving
information as to these items and was
very full and comprehensive. No one
who heard him could for a moment
discount the value of the work of the
association, nor dispute their need of
money to carry it on. He was follow
ed by G.. F.. Knappen. chairman Of the
local campaign committee, who spoke
briefly, but very succinctly and to the
point as to the aim of the local work.
Monday the men who had been ap-
pointed to make the canvass of Brook
ings started out on their rounds and
by this time it is expected that every
person in the city has had an oppor-
tunity to give their share to the fund
that is to be raised in the state. This
morning the report issued from the
office of Mr.. Phillips shows that the
amount collected to date is 81, 90.
If any n has a doubt Of the value
Of the Y. M. c. A. in camp life and Of
the good that it does for the boys
cur boys-just read the following ad
dress made by a Roman Catholic
priest, chaplain of a National Guard
regiment, when they were leaving the
border.
Men, | would not be dealing fairly
with you were | to close this farewell
service without expressing in your be-
half our HEARTBEAT thanks and deep ap.
probation Of the Y. M. c. A. for its
numberless k~indnesses and untold
h%elpfulness. 1t is one friend that has
never failed us; that has never found
difficulties too great; that has never
left US ven when we thought it would
Rave been justified.
when we started for the border, we
felt We had parted from Dur last
friends. We had left everything
friendly back home. Can you remem-
her our surprise when we found that
right there on the train We were al
ready being taken in hand by the Y.
NJ. c. A.? Their secretaries were right
On the job in the very beginning to
cheer us and help us. But, we thought
70 ourselves, they will leave us when
we reach the Border. There will be
none Of these kindnesses in Texas.
But we were mistaken. For there was
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