The Washington herald., 1917-11-16
DANIELS SAYS
Y. N. c. A. OFFERS
BEST DIVIDENDS
Secretary Of Navy Addresses
Fund Campaigners, Whose
Total Reaches $l7,l96.

Secretary Of the Navy Daniels. sd-
dressing the Y. M. c. A. campaign
teams at dinner last evening, urged
that contributions be made to the
fund because dividends from an in
vestment in this cause are the best
I to be obtained from any similar ex-
penditure for wartime welfare work"
Miss Mabel Boardman said back
wardness in giving was due only to
the fact that 1--WE, as a nation, are
not yet awake to a full consciousness
OF what we are facing"
Charles Henry Buffers team again
took the lead In the days subscrip-
tions with total OF s3.27L Other
team records Of the day follow: John
Poole, H.0oe; Julius I. Peyser, 1886;
DIT. Loren B. 7. Johnson s675: Mrs
Richard Whitney. s2.Ss; William A.
rawlings. H,6l2; Charles P. Light
N,S6; c. V. Wheeler, s2,l13; Mrs.
Huidekoper, N,4O5; Board of Trade
team, SIS; Boys Department, $40.
A contribution of s.. 5oo was received
from the Washington Steel and
Ordnance Company. This is the
largest single contribution In the
Total Now s17,1ss.
The total of the days contributions
was $17,196. To date Washington has
raised sS3.ss3.33 Of its allotment Of
sl5O, 900.
Corcoran Thorn said that less than
800 individual subscriptions are repre-
sented in these subscriptions.
I'VE can nDlv conclude hot fhatt
sands OF persons have not yet been
interviewed" Mr.. Thorn said, "for
there are thousands of washingto-
mans who would want to make their
contributions to the Liberty Loan and
to the Red Cross more effective by
subscribing to this necessary work of
the national war work council"
A letter was read from a young
Washington boy, now somewhere in
France" which concluded. IF 1t were
not for the Y. NJ. c. A. hut here life
would be unbearable."
Navy n Boys Institution.
Secretary Daniels termed the navy
a boys institution"
Since the war was declared our
greatest trouble has been to keep
boys out Of the navy" he said. 80
anxious were some to enter that they
gave their ages as IS, instead of 16 or
II. and when the recording angel notes
that / believe He will drop a tear
and blot it erom his records.
THE navy has not sent many men
across, but the number is larger than
Is generally supposed. And the Y. NJ.
c. A. was the first on the job in vel
coming these boys when they got to
Europe.
Our patriotic duty is to help these
boys to live straight, and to see IL
they go as sacrifices in a great cause.
they go with sound bodies and clean
minds"
From $500 to $3.50.
Among the subscrir tions reported
by Mrs. Whitney's team were five
for 500 each. and one for $3.50, which
represented the savings of little chill
dren.
Subscriptions amounting to $500 o,
more, in addition to the $500 SUBJ
scribed by the Washington Steel and
Ordnance Company. received up to
Wednesday at midnight, follows:
w. ]. Sloane, $1,000; DR.. and Mrs.
George Otis Smith, $500: Mrs. Philips,
$1,000; James ParmaIee, $1,000; Mrs.
James Parmalee. $1,000; Mrs. Willard
Brownson, $1,000; Mr.. and Mrs. W. A.
Slater. $1,000; Miss Julia Strong, $500;
Washington Gas Light Company,
81. 600; Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. AspinwalI,
s1,Uo; Ord Preston, 800; S. Kann,
Sons & Co., $500; Daniel Fraser, $500;
William Z. Fowler, $1,000; Mrs. Elinor
NJ. Patterson, 500; w. T. Galliher,
500; Theodore w. Noyes, $500; Mr..
and Mrs. G. H. Grosvenor, 800; Ed
ward E. Clement, $500; Charles E.
Foster, $500; Harry Blake, $500; H.
w. Rogers, 500; Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert
Strauss, 500; Barber & Ross, $500;
Woodward & Lothrop, $1,000; Mr. and
Mrs. Fred c. Walcott, $500.