The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-12
THE XtMEs: NOVEMBER F, 1918

You gave us a great time when we went away, but you forgot us when you got rid ef us In this campaign 1t is case Of fSputrup or shut up. We ought to finance such a great move ment assthe United War Work Cam paign or shut up talking about our loyalty.
 Many of the boys are sick and wounded over there or on transports. It is more practical kindness to send a rose to the sick room of a friend than to smother / his grave with a wagon load of flowers.
 Thanksgiving time and Christmas Is coming. We are going to make both occasions times for the giving of such thanks as America has never known before. The people are going to express gratitude for the victory won by the champions of democracy. In many homes there will be a vacant chair. In the name of the ones who should occupy those vacant chairs should we not make the Thanksgiving and Christmas of our boys over there the happiest and merriest that they have known? The only way to do this is to finance the seven organ1- Zations, to carry our gifts of love and happy thanksgiving to those who are far away I ask if tbcre is a man or woman who will refuse to make it the happiest holiday for the boys who have made our Thanksgiving and Christmas the happiest in our his- tory?
 No Excessive Prices.
 People are going to say that some of the organizations have charged ex- cessive prices. Sift these charges and .hov all boil down to one little thing, a cigarette, a cake of soap or choco- late Suppose for the sake of argu- ment we admit this. Then ask how much was charged for the coal that heated the huts, for the building that sheltered the boys, for the hundreds of thousands of books that were sent to him. Will you refuse to erect 4,OOO buildings, 500 million sheets of writing paper, etc, because someone charged a little too much for a cigarette or cake of soap.
 "Jojhn R.. Mott, an honest man. and one worthy of the confidence of every Catholic. Protestant and Jew, has stated that ne mas lnVeSllSdleu yelASA strengthened out now the many diftl- culties concerning the price of artl- cles. Think also of the wear and tear. of the great line of service. 1nto the Alps, across the Adriatic, into Syria, the passes of the Balkans, and the steppes of Russia the seven agencies are laboring, in fact everywhere that Woodrow Wilson's crusaders are serv- ing to make the vDrIl' safe for democ- racy It is new job and it took lot of men to do this job. We are serving boys under abnormal condi- tD,ns, boys who are wounded, etc.
 "It is a business proposition and one that we must all go into. Do you knew any class of boys who have been refused services by the Knights of Co., lumbus, the Y. M. c. A, the Jewish Welfare Board? If you do not, you at home are bound to back up all of these.
 Think about the moral effect of all creeGs are bound together in a combination. We are starting now on reconstruction days. We must pull together. The other day in New York city in the midst of the peace rejoic- ing, I saw girl on Fifth avenue wave the red flag of anarchy and sheer in the faces of soldiers. When the paddock is taken off there is dan ger of a bolsheviki in our country as