The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-27
"V|RG|N|A'S BIT" IS
FIXED At $4,000
state Executive Committee VIII
Undertake to Raise That sum
for Army Y. VI. G. \. Work.
RICHMOND'S SHARE
OF SUM rs $50 900
State Association Spent $1,000 In
Brownsville Camp Work. and At
Camp Stuart-Importancc of Car
ing for Army Work Empha sized

Upon the work Of tho Young
Mems Christian associations and
the church among the I.i0o 900
youthful soldiers I'm our proposed
new army will depend the char
actcr and stability of our SOL
dters when they return home
Some will go into camp and into
hattie, never to return. 1t Is our
duty to make things pleasant, to
aid them In every way. With the
thought and unseIficsh service
ever In mind, the state executive
committee of the Virginia Young
Mems Christian associations has
fixed $f25 900 as Virginia's quota
and $4,000 as Richnf,nd's
share of the $4,000. 900 asked for
by the international committee"
This statement by DR.. Charles W.
Kent, chairman, aroused great en-
thusiasm at the annual banquet OF
the state executive committee last
night In Murphy's hotel. DR. Kent
said he hoped to see the day when
Christianity would be restored to the
world
Work OF Past Year.
Reports by State Secretary Ackiey
showed a deficit OF a little over 81.
900 for the past fiscal years work,
He declared $1,000 had been spent
among soldiers at Camp Stuart and
at Brownsville. The secretary said
the needs of the Immediate future
would require practically doubling
OF the state field force OF seven men.
He called attention TO the need of an
industrial secretary and referred to
the excellent work accomplished by
the colored field secretary. the first OF
the kind to be instituted in the South.
Student associations have been form
ed at Richmond college. Medical Col
lege of Virginia and Virginia Military
institute, he said. and the general
work shows such increase that the
state executive committee cannot
handle all of it just now.
College presidents. bankers, law
yers, physicians, manufacturers, min :
listers and laymen. to the number OF
one hundred. attended the annual
banquet. G. c. Huntington. state
secretary of North and South Caro-
lima, was present, and ]. b. Abbott,
of Charlotte. ". c.
Other prominent persons present
WERE DR.. Henry Louis Smith, presi-
dent of Washington and Lee univer-
sity: DR.. c. s. Blackburn. president
Randolph Macon college: DR.. F. W.
Boatwright. president Richmond col
lege: Lieutenant-Governo ]. Taylor
Ellyson. AdjutantGeneral w. w.
Sale, Judge Newman. Of Shenandoah:
j. w. Cardwell, of Staunton. and j..
II. Primer. of suffolk. bankers. DR..
Wilson. president of Fork Union acad-
envy; Bishop D. ]. O'Connell. Calvin
Moss, manufacturer, of Lynchburg;
jackson Davis, OF the state depart
ment of education; T. o. Sandy. OF
the state department of agriculture:
Langhorne NJ. Williams, prominent
banker of Richmond; DR.. Russell Ce-
Gil, DIR. w l.. Ball. b. G. Alexander.
secretary of the Southern section Of
the Y. NJ. c. A. International COM
mittee. and others too numerous to
mention.
DIR. Kent chairman, in making an
appeal to all present to give the
coming campaign their moral and
financial support, told his hearers
they owed Tito the boys and to them
selves to look after the recreation,
entertainment and spiritual comfort
OF the armed hosts soon to tegin
training In Virginia.
The Richmond campaign lssting
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