The sun., 1918-11-11
UNITED WAR WORK
DRIVE BEGINSTO-DAY
Seven Welfare Agencies Com
binc to Raise Fund of
S170,5OO,OOO.
MESSAGE FROM POINCARE
President Of France Praises
America i'm Letter Read in
Carnegie Hall.

Another big drive with n big purpose
starts to-day. II is the United War
Drive of the seven agencies which have
as their aim the comfort OF American
soldiers and sailors at home and abroad.
1t starts with its leaders confident that
the s170.b00,0 900 needed TO insure the
comfort of the men will be raised In the
eight days OF the drive.
This consolidation OF effort by the Y. NJ
C. a.. Y. w. C. A.. knights of Columbus.
War Camp Community Service, Jewish
Welfare Board, American Library AS
ISOLATION and the Salvation Army has
been planned carefully and thoroughly.
! Thousands OF men. women and children
throughout the country will put their
| best feet foremost and set out TO get the
J dollars that mean smokes, jams, dough-
nuts, writing paper, entertainments and
all of the other things which the man
In the field looks upon as the greatest of
| Injuries.
The drive. which has been approved
by President Wilson. takes the place
of the seven individual drives which
these institutions would have had to
carry on. II is regardless Of creed and
based on service.
Will showeTheir Methods.
TO prove beyond doubt that the APP
peal for funds Is well founded and that
the money is necessary, the united cam
paign workers will show all over the
country the methods of expenditure and
the service rendered by each individual
Organization. To back the cut and dried
statements of the campaign managers
representatives Of these organizations
who have made doughnuts for the men
in the trenches, passed out cigarettes
fnb MI in
themselves, taken the messages Of the
sorely wounded fighter to his folks at
home, on the battlefield as well as in
the shelter of the hospitals. who have
frightened the lot Of the American
fighting man, will tell their personal
stories of how much each Of these field
services means.
While the actual drive for the $780,
500. 900 begins to-day. there were meet
ulatipg the workers who will start out
Today
At Carnegie Hall there w1s a War
Crive meeting under the auspices of the
Salvation Army which struck the key
note OF the united effort OF the drive.
That keynote, as each Of the speakers
pointed out. was service-a payment
in part to the American soldier and
sailor by the American people of the
debt owed to them.
Former Ambassador Myron T. Her.
rick. as chairman. read a letter from
Ambassador Jusserand enclosing the
following message from President Po!n-
care of France to the United War Work
Campaign workers:
''DEAn Mr. HERRIcK: At the very
time when the American people. with
inexhaustible generosity. are going out
to collect new sums of money In order
to secure the welfare of the soldiers and
scamen. let me send again to the United
States this simple token Of my, admira-
ton"
"our allied countries will never be
! able to make too great a sacrifice for
the gallant troops who are defending
Europe and the sacred cause Of right
and freedom. The American soldiers
reward. Nevertheless our common duty,
both in France and in America. is TO
watch our armies with solicitude and
facilitate as much as possible their lofty
tasks 'rr
II wish therefore a great success for
the week Of the 18th Of November. and
I rejoice at the advantage 1t will afford
for your heroic army. with which the
French army is so glad and so proud to
fraternlze."
Americas Great Gifts.
Miss Evangeline Booth, commander
. in chief OF the Salvation Army In tho
United States, said In part:
America has done much in this war
She has flung with reckless generosity
to the support of our comrades In arm:
the whole nations resources, its re-
sources in invention. in science and dis.
. covery Her boats have steamed into
every harbor OF our allied ports loaded
!, to the gunwales with the products o.
her factories. the produce Of her fields
and the fruits of her valleys.
: "She has given of her LIES blood
Of the very pulse of her heart, in hei
sons, the flower Of her young man
hood, and she has done It all not fol
any territorial gain but for Justice Sh,
has given more lavtshly Of her religions
and has asserted more fearlessly hel
righteous principles than any other land
. "As America has proved to the whole