Arizona republican., 1917-12-17

Seven thousand dollars is the total of the contributions of Phoenix toward the Y. w. c. A, War Work Fund.
 This amount was voluntarily given at four meetings held in this city on Friday. Saturday and Sunday in the campaign started by Dr. James Francis of Los Angeles, the concluding meet ing being held in the auditorium of the high school Sunday afternoon.
 Futher contributions are expected in the next few days in an amount to raise the total to $10,0o0.
 "The campaign is on,7 declared Dr. Francis. and you have given it great big push"
 The people of Phoenix have set a mark for the other cities of the state to aim at. but thus far no city has approached the total of the contribu- tions in the capital city. Bisbee, Doug las and Tucson each have contributed $4,400 to the fund, with Prescott and the towns to the north yet to be heard from.
 Dr. Francis and his associates who are touring Arizona in the interests of the campaign to raise the allotment of the southwest for the Y. W. c. A., War Work Fund are much gratified and pleased at the reaey response in Phoenix to the call for funds in this urgent cause.
 Tt is only necessary to tell the peo- pie of Phoenix and of Arizona of the terrible need of money to carry on the indispensable work of the Y. W. c. A." said Dr. Francis yesterday afternoon, and the response is immediate and in gratifying amounts.
 A Splendid Start
 The campaign has had splendid start, the people are wholly awakened to the vital urgency of the special of fees of the Y. W. C. A, in aiding the young men in the nations great army in right living and right thinking" he said. The fine contributions of the past two days are, feel sure, but a start to what Phoenix will do for this worthy cause"
 At the close of the last meeting yes terday at the high school auditorium Dr. Francis took occasion to thank all those who have aided in the inaugura- ! tion of the campaign in Phoenix for the Y. W c. A. War Work Fund and those who assisted in making the meeting such a success.
 | pr. Francis and Mrs. William Moses ! C. | Coleman Lee, international secretary ot the Y. ". c. A., who are assisting in | the campaign in Arizona, left Phoenix last night for Prescott to continue the work. Other towns in Arizona will also be visited before the party returns tC Los Angeles.
 The campaign for the Y. W. C. A. l War Work Fund instituted in Phoeni, by Dr. James Francis was brought tC a climax yesterday afternoon when, be fore an audience that filled to it's entir, | capacity the auditorium of the higf school, pr. Francis told, as he peculiar ly can tell, the terrible, crying need O the United States army, in field ol camp. for the work of the Y. W. C. A. a work that can be done by no othel organization.
 If ever a Phoenix audience had i pounded home to them what it mean to be at war with a nation like Ger many, what the consequences might b. and what an awakening confronts then when the first American casualty lis is published, the audience at the higl school yesterday did.
 Audience is Stunned
 Bombarded by rhetorical hot sho and shrapnel and with verbal grenades in language that could not be mistaken
 the audience, stunned, fairly shrunk i ' the seats as Dr. Francis poured out liquid fire of the fearful facts of tn
 war. Men as well as women paled be
 fore the revelations mace Dy the speak . CT as he told of the terrible atrocitie 7 committed by the German army in Bel | gium.
 . If Germany can do what she ha
 done to Belgium and get away with it, , shouted pr. Francis, T should b f forced to believe that the eternal Go { has gone to sleep on the job. But l don't believe he has.
 l One thing Germany does not under . stand" declared the speaker, "and ths l is that the day Germany invaded Be
 gium she did not go up against Gres n Britain or France or Ieaiy or Americ s But she went up against the etern; 1 God"
 We are all doing things today tn;
 we never did before or ever dreame
 we would be doing" said Dr. Franc s yesterday. flor the reason that we al
 up against something we never wei > before. A high school boy shot a princ
 and that was the sparK that fired u
 magazine that went around the worl