Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-11-06
ARMY WAR FUND
Money to be Raised for Welfare WOrI
Among the Soldier Boys.

Justice M B. Rosenberg has ac-
| cepted an invitation to deliver an adj
| dress at a supper to be given this
| evening at the "Y'' by the Marathon
| County War Work Council to the coun-
ty officers and workers of the second
| Liberty Loan bond campaign, Chair
man Gilbert acting as presiding Of
| ficer.
The object of this gathering will be
| to start campaign to raise Mara
thon county's allotment of 100000 for
welfare work among the boys in the
environments and in the encnes,
through the aid of the Y. M. c. A, this
organization having been found to be
the best prepared to carry on work of
| this kind.
national campaign will be con-
Quoted from November II to 10, for
the purpose of raising a fund of $685.
| 100000 in the United States for the
| purpose of carrying on this welfare
work, not alone among the members of
the American army and navy, but to
the soldiers of the Allies and to pris-
oners of war throughout the war
| zones.
While this work is to be carried on
through the Y. M. c. A, it is sepa-
rate and distinct from that organiza-
ton in a way This organization has
been found to be the best prepared
to carry along this work, but not a
dollar of the fund to be raised will go
to any local. state or national "Y."
The Y. NJ G. A. derives no profit in
any way from this fund, but on the
other hand in assisting to expend it
for the welfare of those at the front
or going there, the "Y'' as an organ
iZation has weakened itself by giving
to the cause many of it's most able
workers.
This great undertaking was set on
foot not by officers of the "Y,'' but by
the leading business and professional
men of the United States, who had
noted the splendid work being done in
the environments through this organ
lZatiOn and in the trenches by similar
organizations from Canada and Aus
trailia. This movement has the hearty
support Of the army and navy heads
and the unqualified approval of the
men in the trenches for whom it has
supplied wholesome recreation;
clean, moral atmosphere, places in
which to gather and have amusement,
places in which to write letters home,
and many other things which tend
to be in a measure an expression of that
gratitude which their fellow citizens
feel towards them.
Before next July, it is estimated,
that 100000 men will be serving in
the United States army and navy, and
the number all told who will be minis
tered to through this fund will reach
the colossal figure of 24;OO0,O0O men.
100000 seems like large sum of
money to be raised in this county
as an outright donation, but when
one considers the number of boys
who have been called to arms from this
large, rich and populous county, when
one considers the additional pleasures
and comforts it will bring to these
boys, how it will strengthen them NOR
ally and physically and how it will
aid in bringing them home better,
cleaner, stronger men, there is no in
vestment that could yield such SPLEEN
did returns. There are times when
we spend money without thought of
the direct return to us individually,
when we can rise superior to self and
selfishness, when patriotism and good
citizenship sway us, when we feel that
we owe obligations to our fellow men
that no money can wipe out, and GER
tainly this is one of those occasions.
and we will all admit it when we stop
to consider what the boys in the can
tonments and in the trenches are Civ
ing for us.
This campaign will last one week.
Marathon county should subscribe its
full allotment III a day. 1t can
be done, if each one will interview
himself and voluntarily come forward
with what he can afford for this splen-
did cause, come forward cheerfully
and lay his offering, be it large
or small, on the altar of his coun-
try.