Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-08
NORFOLK HAS ALREADY
a RAISED PART OF FUND
Optimistic Reports Are Received by
War Council OF State
Y. NJ. &. a.
SEAMAN TELLS OF THE NEED
George Collier MacKinnon Paints
Graphic Picture OF Ordeal of Boys
Away From Home, and Urges Sup
port OF Army and Navy Y. VI. {. 4.

Among the optimistic reports re-
ceived yesterday at the Office OF 7. NJ.
Darlington. chairman of the Virginia
War Work Council, OF the Young
Mems Christian Association. concern
ing the forthcoming campaign for
funds with which TO extend the war
camp work was a telegram from Nor
folk stating that $4,000 of that city's
allotment of $4,000 already had been
pledged.
John Stewart Bryan, OF Richmond.
was one OF the speakers al Il public
meeting in Norfolk, at which the sub
scriptions were received. Returning to
this city, Mr.. Bryan informed Chair
man Darlington that the outstanding
feature OF the meeting was an adj
dress made by George Collier Mac
Kinnon. an apprentice seaman from
the ST. Helena training station. Mac
kinnon painted 4 vivid picture OF The
ordeal faced by boys torn from home
tics and influences and urged tho
audience to support the admirable work
that is being done among soldiers and
sailors by the Y. NJ. c. a. Chairman
Darlington said il was probable young
Mackinnon would be ivited TO speak
at meetings in other cities.
EVERY MINISTER Is
ASKED TO MENTION WORK
The campaign opens November II
and le.ts until November 49, 1t is
planned to raise s35, 1000. 900 throughout
the country. and of this amount Vir-
Einia will give 100000. In Richmond
the allotment is $loG o00 Chairman
Darlington has invited every Virginia
minister to refer TO the Y. NJ. c. A.
war work from the pulpit at services
Sunday morning and evening. In Rich
mond laymen will make Hve-minute
talks in hn rh
ing attention to the Importance of
heartily supporting the ambitious pro-
gram of the y. NJ G. y. Chairman
Darlington has about completed the
organization Of every county in the
state in anticipation of the big drive
which opens next week. Tonight he
will confer with the chairman of the
Petersburg city campaign and the
chairmen of the counties in the Pc
tcrsburg district at a dinner in Pc
tersburG. Names are being rapidly
added to the state campaign Speakers
bureau. aiming the new one. announced
yesterday being John c. Easily. s. b.
Love, Augustine Royal. D. c. Bayliss.
secretary Of the y. NJ. c. a. at Camp
Lee. and Lieutenant Burt, who will ad-
dress meeting at Charlottesville Sun
day.
Prominent men in nne-tcnths OF
tho counties of Virginia have accepted
invitations to act as the chairman of
the campaign in their respective coun-
ties. The remaining county chair
men will have been appointed before
Sunday. The following county chair
men were added yesterday to the list
Of those already cl oscn: DR.. g. B.
Bagby. King William County: j. Mar
shall Lewis. Gloucester County: Dr.
II q. I-yelie. Richmonl County: w II.
Williams. Westmoreland County;
1ilt,
REYNOLDS. fapl ahaanock County: Il. A.
Mclntyrc. Fauquier County: j. c.
Hidcn. Culpener County: Wcstwood
Hutchinson. Prince William County.
and John Bcck. Dinwiddie County.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
AT TRAINING CAMPS
The educational program OF the y
NJ. 9. y. among the armed force. OF
the United States is an importan,
branch of ihe work" said Chairman
Darlington. 1T is in the hands or
An educational bureau OF the National
War Work Council. headed by William
orr who is assisted by William o.
Easton. In each of the Larger cncamp
mcnts camp educational director rep
rcsents The headquarters bureau. This
director, in every instance an cxpcri-
enced educator, is in immcdiatcc charge
Of the activities in his camp. II 10
demands of.t men along educational
lines and then to MI those needs and
meet those demands. Within certain
broad lines he is free agcn, and 10
1T liberty to go ahead as he sees FIT
No set system or curriculum Is laid
down, and the effort is constantly
made to adapt the educational nro-
gram INTO the peculiar local require
mentS.
$50 rapidly has this work been
growing that up-to-datc statistics are
not available. but an Indication of tho
magnitude OF the work may be
CLEANED from the fragmentary rcpo-ts
from various individual camps and
from different army departments Tins
In a certain camp Twenty-Five men are
enrolled for history, forty for arith
metic. as many FOR algebra. thirty men
Tor trigonometry. sixty-four men for
an economics seminar and so on. In
one aviation camp alone there were
fifteen hundred applications for va
r1ous subjects which were to he taucb,
by 141 qualified instructors. These fig
ures are rather under than over tbe
average. Enrolment for tho French
and English classes runs into the ,hou-
sands in every one OF the biz cncan,n.
ments."