Evening star., 1917-11-10

Washington business and professional
men last evening pledged their support
to the campaign next week to raise
$780, in Washington toward the ma
tional fund Of the war work council OF
the Y NJ. C. A.; volunteered their sery-
ices to organize teams OF workers In
the campaign. and started by pledging
more than $4,000.
These men were guests of the excu-
tive committee for the Washington
campaign, headed by Corcoran Thorn, at
q dinner at the Lafayette Hotel. They
listened to addresses by F. W. Aver.
chairman Of the eastern department OF
the national war work council; Sergt
Maj. Angus MacFarlane of the British
army, and Masasuke Masutomi. Japa-
nese Y.M c. a. secretary. now on his
way to France to work among Ameri-
can soldiers there.
Necessity, Not Luxury.
II have seen service in the trenches. I
know what is going on over there, and
the point want to drive home" said
Sergt. Mai MacFarlane. is that the
work the 7. NJ. C. A. is doing among
the allied armies is necessity, not
luxury.
ut is necessary for its moral effect
on the men. 1t helps them keep up
their correspondence with folks at
the chance 1t affords them to go to
comfortable place. chat, play games.
relax and smoke after they do their
turn in the trenches. No one can real
ize this fully until he has emerged
from the trenches himself and found
Y NJ C. A. hut to welcome him..
Crisis Reached in War.
Fw Aver said: 'To raise a fund OF
this size is a great undertaking. but this
Is a great war, and we have reached q
great crisis In that war.
MI. Aver told how needful was tho work
In the prisoner-of-war camps, especially
among the millions who face winter OF
scant food supplies in the internment
camps Of Germany and Austria-Hun-
III you give in this campaign what Can
ada is giving now this sum we are talk
ing about will seem only flea bite" MT.
alone the work would be worth while. for
In one year we are afforded q greater
opportunity in Russia than we have &C
oomplished in China in twenty-five years
IT am confident the sum will be raised.
because all the nations Of the world can
not equal Americas men Of means in
to give It fha,T thi. time h,na and money
Zone duty Of this war Is to bring home
to those boys under draft age q sense Of
responsibility. This campaign will help
do this, and already the boys depart
nent of the Y. NJ. c. A. has pledged itself
TO earn $1.0oo.ooo Of the $3S.o0o.ooo
needed.
''Now. Washington's allotment is $780,
900. but from Wasfhington's record /
should say you will raise 100000 But
forget about Washington when you put
this proposition up to men: ask them to
determine what is their share personally !:
ask them to measure their gift alongside
of some young Americans life"
Pledges Quickly Made.
When Corcoran Thorn asked those
present to volunteer either to organize
o team Of ten men or to captain one
themselves John Poole was the first to
pledge his services, and then followed
Charles Henry Butler. Charles P. Light,
Julius Peyser. DR.. Loren B. T. johnson.
Rev. Randolph H McKim. r. L. Neu-
hauser and c. P. King.
William E. Fowler started the con-
tributions with $1,000. and Charles
Henry Butler a little later said his team
already had raised 1900. The Camou-
dage Corps Quartet, which sang earlier
in the evening. not only volunteered to
organize a team. but subscribed $25
toward it's fund.
Other Suggestions.
Fleming Newbold said he would call
together advertising managers of
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