The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-13
Committees Make Good Start on the
Canvass OF the City for $1,000
For Association
Work.
"BE GENEROUS" SLOGAN
Campaign to Raise $4,000 in Lee Coun-
ty Outside of keokuk,
Started This
Week.

| The Young Mems Christian asso-
citation campaign for $1,000 for asso-
citation work here and in the soldier
| camps, started with boom yester-
day, and association officials and the
! committees r.aking the solicitation
are confident that Saturday will see
| the total amount raised. Keokuk IS
responding literally and several I'M
portant contributions have been
made. Several of the committees
have turned in partial reports and SO
far these have been gratifying.
The county campaign is in full
swing lis week also. Two thousand
dollars has been set to be raised out
side of Keokuk. The campaign has
the backing of all denominations and
the county work has been assumed
by men of prominence in all COM
munities. At the West Point meet
ing last Sunday, prominent Cath
Ollie spoke heartily in favor OF the
Y. M. c. A. war work plans and the
good the association did on the
border and promised his support to
the campaign in this county. Clergy
of all denominations in Keokuk have
spoken in favor of the campaign.
"Be Generous" Is Slogan.
'Be generous" Is the campaign
slogan here. The following short
article of appreciation for Y. M. C.
A. work from the pen of William
Jennings Bryan, Is printed in the
current issue of Association Men"
and fifty extra copies of the publica-
ton have been received here for
distribution. Mr.. .Bryan's article is
headed, Bring My Boy Home Clean"
and is as follows:
/ have had chance to learn some
thing of the Y. M. C. AS usefulness
in times of war as well as during my
more than thirty years active mem
bership. During the very brief time
that l was myself soldier, now
nearly nineteen years ago, one OF the
things with which / was impressed,
as one must be when one is in camp.
was with the new temptations that
surround the young men, many or
them away from home for the first
time, and that was the maintaining
Of their moral standards.
Some twcnty-three years ago l saw
at the Chicago exposition, that pic
ture breaking Home Ties" that has
come to be known as the Y M. c..
A. picture. 1t has been in my mind
often as I have thought of young
men, and never more SO than during
nv connection with the army, for a
great many of the young men were
leaving home for the first time and
they were just at that critical period
in life when the influences of the
f1npriro n
them. was very anxious that the
young men that went with my regl-
ment should return home, if they
were permitted to return home, with
character. So when this war began,
the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton was one Of the first organiza-
lions that came into my mind, be-
cause I believed it had great work
to do.
place this association and the Red
Cross together for this reason, that
the Red Cross is attempting to min
lister to the sick and wounded in the
hospitals and the association Is at
tempting to bring moral strength to
the boys who are well, and spiritual
consolation to the boys who are sick.
It seems to me at this time when
the nation is calling for so many
young men to undergo that supreme
test and that supreme sacrifice called
for in a soldier, that they who are
not called from the home, and who
are still able to enjoy its comforts,
ought to be willing to contribute very
literally indeed to make the way of
those who are called easier.
Cheaper to Save Than Reform
We are learning that it is cheaper