The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-24
UNITED WAR WORK
 CAMPAIGN NEXT
From Nov. Il to IS the People of America Will Be Asked to Do nate s17O,50O, 900 for Cause
 of Soldiers
Special to The Star.

Special to The Star.
 New York, Oct. 20-Now that the Fourth Liberty Loan is out of the way there is just one more big task for the American people-to provide the comforts of life for our boys thru the United War Work Campaign.
 John R. Mott, director general of the campaign, announces the total amount sought is at least $170,5OO,- 900 and that the quotas specified for six states of the Southern military Department are as follows:
 Texas S3,239, 300 Arizona ................ 3O6,90O New Mexico ............... 204, ,60O Oklahoma ........-...... l,619,SOU Arkansas ......-.......... Soy,oOU Louisiana ............... 1,483, 400 Total for Southern Depart
 ment ........... $7.723 800
 The total was fixed by the War De- pertinent and approved by the Pres ident. It will be administered under Government directions for the seven recognized war agencies in this cam paign The Young Mems Christian Association. The Young Women's Christian Association, The National Catholic War Council (Knights of Columbus), The Jewish Welfare Board, The War Camp Community Service, The American Library Asso- citation and The Salvation Army.
 "The amount is the largest ever asked as a gift from any people in the history of the world" said Dr. Mott. "Viewed as a total it seems gigantic, but divide it by the four million men who will be under arms in our army and navy during the pe- riod it is expected to cover, and you will find that it means less than fif- teen cents a day per man, he said" Surely there is no father or mother or friend of soldier in this great country who will say that fifteen cents a day is too much to spend on his church or his home over there and his library, his theater and his club.
 The President summed up the whole appeal in recent letter in which he spoke of the work of these seven great agencies of "vital mil itary importance" He had in mind the fact that their activities are largely responsible for the mainte- nance of the splendid morale of our forces.
 ..There has never been in history so spectacular an example of the su- preme of morale as is now being pre- sented on the Western front. The forces that confront each other are not widely dissimilar in numbers or equipment, yet one army is constant ly withdrawing and the other ire sistibly moving forward. The differ ence is spelled in that single word: morale
 'sNapoleon said that morale is an- other factor in war as three to one. General Pershing, in recent letter commenting on the work of these agencies, quoted with approval the statement of one of his colonels who said. Give me nine men who have hut to spend their evenings in and 1 will have a better fighting force than ten would be without it.
 eff it is forth twenty-four billion dollars to keep our boys under arms next year, surely it is worth a hun dred and seventy million, and more, to add ten per cent to their fighting edge to bring victory ten per cent nearer.
 This is the appeal of seven United War Work agencies of America and particularly to those four million homes where service flags fly and we know what Aemrica's answer will