Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-17
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Y. NJ. c. A. PLAYING 4.
BIG PART IN WAR
Author of%Pigs Is Pigs" Writes.
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POTATOES LEAP FROM PATCH.
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Everything Is Needed to Win
the Giant Conflict in g.
Europe. asaM
OTATOES LEAP FROM PATCH,
BY ELLIS PARKER BUTLER. !
Author OF "PIrs Is pipro ~,

send 4 whole Methodist conference oft
yachting or have couple of NICE eid5Ta
way on desert island. but there .Wak
one amusing. combination he newer,
thought of: the Y. NJ. {. a. going 10 Z
war If he had cast about for Nsyearss
10 find the most amusing, unlik ely. im-Ss
possible combination in the world. t.
cont believe he would have ever hit
on the idea of taking the whole Y. NJ.
{. a. up by the roots. loading IT on
ships and sending it over the oceanatoss
n hinrs the tns GeT IN ms; 1t is one oftss
for belief. In the first place. the Y NJ :.
=. A. Is too soody-soody to go toAwarss
IN the second place. it is TOO 'sissy.;t4
.ude things like war; and in the third
place. such things don't happen ,Tho =
only trouble with the logic Is that.sias
has sonc to war! 1t has gone to- war.s
as you may say. with both feet. .i'rSs
1,o Weii; cS yer has gone to .wsT.
atches and have gone to war shouts;
ing that grand, old battle cry Of trees
dom. Food will win the war! and !
grandma has gone to war counting
bitches and shouting the grand, SoIdn
battle cry of freedom, Socks will Win Is
the war" and little Jessie has gone to-
o. tipfoil and shouting the grand, old
battle cry of freedom, Thrift stamps5S
VII Nv win n, the war. SO far the statis.
5t6 things the doing of which wilt aba i
solutely win the war. Sugar WILMER s
the war and ships will win tho watf,,ss
fazors VIII! win the war. And orgarif-ss
cations are winning the war firurNTl
that IN the United States of Amerjtass
which Is the greatest Joining" nation y
or the world, each man. woman and s.
child Ton pverage) belongs to ten clubss :
societies. leagues or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ii the United States, and every onA, Of
them Is doing its level best to win the y
war; 1t would be odd IL 1,099.9ss,ss s or 81
CARNATIONS were trying to win tha war
and one lone organization. all by itself,s
where the Y. NJ. c. A. comes in. Asw
be won, the Y. NJ c. A. lined upsWith !
SLIPS and potatoes and knitterssansts
said, Me, too" sa $3.50. ~ ft9ss,ses.r.SNSss
GET INTO, BIti GAME AND M
n OUT OF WAY OF FfGHTE6Hs
To mo it is a perfectly dandy thouEhtH
that all kinds of organizations lik6Ethss.
NJ: c. A, Y. w. c. a., National caths.
15ic War Council. knights ofCoiumhuss
Welfare Board, American Library ASH
ISOLATION and Salvation Army gotTintos
ser var be as ceSa n af thsy
out being in the way of the real hEhtas1
ers. AS matter of fact. the T. NJ NJ
e: A: was tough old, heel. blistessa
into the war at all. ssA41S.SrS
1t was marching up to Bardad WITH
the British long before we got into !
Russia sn to have the sas m snrasEn boys
placed in seperate prison camps, away,
from the mature degenerates. long bees,
Berlin. crsssysssl
The Y. M. G. A. made good in EnroRse.
and in Asia before it ever asked Amef2ssa
lea for dollar of money for war worksSS
this country give single dollar. Ton. &
united war work unless he knew-iess
would be orthwhile dollar e. e. ~ Z. .
that the Y, ii. c. a. the z. W. C. . A. ahss
National Catholic War Council, Knishts,.4
OF o. Columbus orn1ns the War Camp comagnI5s
the American Library Associations and 4
I he Salvation Army think they are az I
important ni,t"d as the righting forces otsthes 4
cations in the united war work cause
palgn ask for $40, 500, 900 now. For;
the . real lighting business the United
lions of dollars. Neither you nor I, can IN
tell how much the United states fiEhtssss
ing forces. land, air and sea, Will need !,
to say that what the united servics or =.
sanizations ask for is less than 81 sfors
every 6 very $500 that will be used for real,
know is whether the Y. NJ. C. A. and
the, other organizatid&s will do sons-s2
thing worth while with the money. rsr
WHAT THESE ORGANIZATIONS 49,. 49, ~
Another way of looking at its
that we Will have, say. roughly, 3, ao6,.
So9 men under arms here and abroad
seven service organizations ask fkrss
viii be fraction less than 81 cartas =
worth OF good in. say. one yearraor =
each man. se.ss
Take writing paper. Nearly alisthslx
paper of the Y. NJ G. A., the Knirhts
OF Columbus. the Jewish Welfare RoSFd:s
or, the salvation Army Together. thssy
i 5.ooO.oOo sheets month Free t9sl
lighters II | could get along WhoIassl
year y.e on $3.50 worth Of Writing papers
me seven organizations si7o.Soe. asSs
Just FOR writing paper alone! ItSias
eleven letters you get from your boy.
at the front or that your neighbor IAfSsss
you read with such pride, never would
be written at all IL these organizations,
did not have paper and envelopes handy
for the lad and Il "hut" handy With,
pens >and writing tables. -. 80 = 80,
that bimns our ar, of f Go
day and week by week with tic, s
more close and personal than the. liEass
ment that, united the Siamese Twinssrp
is tho work of these organizations ana
the smallest part OF the work. When.
the sun,scorched steamer. hove up st6 S
soldiers. the Y. NJ. c. A. men were+tttSH
lirst aboard, carrying the cigarettea tH&SXz
craved for. ssssasiessSt
can imagine council OF the sblgss
men or the British Y. II. c.. A. gettinkd-t
together when war began. I can irnaRTSs
inc them saying: Here's nice Kettle:
OF hsh; War, b'gosh, What good arc G
we going TO be when all Britainb:iesa
neck deep In war work? Where do.ss
we come in? Are we going to be az &C.
useless as we will be youthless q OH y
say: another chap says, we g6an't
bit. what?" That's all right. but how f,zSS
asks a practical-minded chap. "WelL-ssf
Its war, don't YOU knoWgX
rhe lads will all be across the chaunefS'
In the trenches--mud-co coo tiea---0lkn
not bit like home, you know"
No. that's IT," says tho praStfeECH
shap. not BIT like home. MAakxsssI
nothing a bit like home. Mud,rkptfl
nlsn- N !he Trenches and wsss!tlxsss{