The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-13
Solicitors for Twenty Thousand Dollars Begin
Operations This Afternoon All Over
This City.
APP0RT|ONMENT RAISED SEVERAL POINTS
Recent Events in Europe Make 1t Necessary to
Greatly Increase the Sum Asked for
from America.

A hundred OF the REPRESENTATIVE
ren Of Keokuk met and worked for
!. couple of hours last night arranging
No last details OF the Keokuk drive
Mr. $4,000 for the Red Triangle sol
diers welfare fund. They were the
teams and captains who are doing the
soliciting. l.. A. Hami1i, treasurer of
the Keokuk committee, sounded the
tpynote of the meeting when he said
It the end Of short talk:
IF any of you come in short tomor-
row afternoon you are going to get
| hell from Hamill."
The final meeting was at luncheon
Al noon today, and Immediately after
ward the solicitors started out after
the public, each team with list OF
names to be called upon.
plete figures in today's paper. as only
| fragmentary reports have been made
at press time.
The Boys are Doing GrardIy.
The feature of the meeting last
night was an address by Dwight N,
Lewis, railroad commissioner Of Iowa,
and active in the national defense
work in this state. He really is en-
gagged in the boys part of the Red
Triangle work, organizing hiFh school
boys to raise $4,000 and more in
| Iowa.
He told of speaking to the seventy
| nine boys in the Fort Madison high
school yesterday afternoon, and how
every one of them signed pledge to
earn and give ten dollars to the Red
Triangle fund. Then he said:-
Il wanI to tell you men we have no
cause to fear for success of our armies
| in Europe. when our boys in their
teens are responding to the appeals
Of their country as they are today"
The Basic Principle.
The boys OF Iowa are going to in
crease their allotment of $4,000 to
$4,000, and the men OF Iowa are go
ling to give a million dollars. he said,
and 1t looks like Keokuk will do her
fund Of the present week.
Send them all the little comforts
LOT home and tell them to give the
|Germans hell" he quoted as a basic
principle of the Red Triangle.
I'VE are talking about $35, 0O0,0 900
when 1t ought to be billion dollars"
/ he said, "and Iowa is going to over
subscribe her allotment and make it
Ia million dollars for this state"
Wars Grim Realities.
Mr.. Lewis began by telling of the
|splendid response of the Fort Madison
|hlgh school boys and said he hoped
|tne men of Lee county will do as we'll
The Red Triangle is asking for
|s35,000,000 which amount is being shot
away in munitions every six and one
|half hours. The Red Triangle is ask
(lng for only one-half Of one per cent of
|the current cost of this world war, he
|said, and quoted a student of the
war recently visiting in America who
predicts that the war may last ten
years. The best disciplined military
power is still Germany, and if we win,
I've must all sacrifice.
We here have not begun to make
sacrifices, gentlemen" he said.
Lewis impressed on his audience that
('hls Is real war and America has
Il large share in its grim realities. In
ntaiy, he said. it does not look like
|.ae morale of the Germans is breaking
down.
The big thing the Y M, c. A. is
|uong in Europe today is maintaining
|.ae morale of the troops. and England.
France and Russia are begging for Red
triangle huts,' he said. "and these
tluts furnish the cheer Of home while
aey cannot entirely take the place Of
the home.
The Y. NJ. G. A. huts are used for
rotestant services, for Catholic SER
Ives and for Jewish services, and
ais is the reason it is the one agency
packed by our government"
MI. Lewis quoted an American ma
or VINO told him the Red Triangle
Eofk is the most important, being
,one, because the most important ele-
usnt IN soldier is a clean life. He
eierred to the fact that the Red Tri-
Flsie nuts are kept right up to the