Arizona republican., 1917-11-04
HELP PY.M.G.A. T0 KEEP SOLDIERS
 MORALLY CLEAN
War Work Fund" Cam paign to Get s12,oO0 in
 Phoenix as a Part of $35, 100000 They N e d

Beginning this week, Phoenix and the surrounding towns and country will be given the first definite oppor- tunity to do a personal service for the soldiers in the training camps of the United States and :n the trenches of Europe
 Phoenix will be asked to give, and to give freely, to what is known as the " War Work rund, fund used to give the soldier chance to live right.
 Opening with a banquet at the WCmans' club at 6:30 o'clock We'd nesday evening, the national Organiza- ton of the Y. M. c. A. will launch it's campaign to raise $12,O00 in the Phoe- nix district. The banquet will be given to the committee engaged in raising the fund in this district and also to subscribers and friends of the move ment. There will be no charge in con- nection with the banquet and there will be no collections taken or pledges asked. It will merely be a get-to- gether meeting to discuss the cam paign.
 There will be speakers of promin- ence at the dinner, including Governor Campbell, James c. McNeary, presi- dent of the First National bank of Fl Paso; Dr. R. B. Won KleinSmid of the University of Arizona and G. H. klnkle of New Mexico. All of these men are Vitally interested in the work that the Y. M. c. A is doing and are doing their part in making the campaign a success.
 The campaign in Phoenix is only a ri va to raise s35, 900 900 with which to carry on the war work. The entire country has been divided into districts, each one of which is called upon to con tribute a certain quota of the fund.
 The campaign as organized in the Phoenix district coySrs, beside Phoe- nix, the towns of Glendale, Wirken- burg. Winkleman, Parker, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Ray anu Buckeye Each district has been we'll organized and explained by men of known worth The committee for the district includes the following men: J. G. Spangler, Mesa; J. w. Lesueur Mesa; John Murdock, Tempe; c. G. Jones, Tempe c. C. Green Glendale; Dave Goldberg, C. D. Doris, Dr. J Dennett, Jr., F. D. Lane, Levi Young N. D. Saunders, L. W. Coggins, w McArthur and s. P. Futile, all of | Phoenix
 The nature of this campaign un- 1 doubtedly. will make a strong appea | to the people of the country" said Dr | Norton, chairman Of the Phoenix dis l trict When a man gives to this fund | he is giving money to keep the soldiers 1 of the United States and of other 1 countries as well, sane and morally clean and healthy. It is a fund ir | which the American citizen can share and by means of which he is coming most nearly in personal touch witt 1 the soldier. for he is providing clear entertainment and personal comforts such as books, writing material, ath
 letic equipment and light refreshmen
 while on the firing line and also th' means for giving the mans moral sid
 chance
 Tn otCer words, when a man give
 to this fund he is making it possibl to send a little of the home atmospher
 into the trenches and behind tn
 lines And this, more than anything
 else. is what the soldier needs Tn
 army does not provide it, for it can
 not it does not know how. The Re
 Cross doesn't provide it, because tn
 Red Cross has other work to do. l. "The Y. Af. c. A. is the only organi
 zation that can do it and the work tha
 it has already accomplished has re