The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-21

RAISING BIG
WAR FUND
Elks Undertake Campaign to Raise
$4,000, 900 for Salvation
Army
THOMAS +. DUNN IN CHARGE
OF DRIVE IN THIS COUNTY
Drive Is Sanctioned by President
Wilson and War De-
partment

Inc ElkS drive to- raise SlO,VVO,-
600 for the Salvation army in the
United States started on Wednesday
and will end Sept. 20. The Gold
field lodge now is arranging to raise
the Esmeralda county quota n
active soliciting will start immedi-
ately under direction of Thomas F.
Dunn, exalted ruler of the Gold
field lodge.
The state quota for the drive is
$4,000, which is estimated to be
about 10 cents per capita. The
county quota is $500.
This drive, sanctioned by Presi-
dent Wilson, the war department
and state councils of defense, will
be conducted entirely by the Elks,
and in Nevada will be under direc-
ton of H. H. Atkinson, district dep
uty for Nevada. While the Elks
have undertaken the campaign, they
have done so merely through a
kindly feeling toward the Salvation
army, which is represented in this
state only to a slight degree.
That this campaign is being made
in a worthy cause does not need to
be mentioned. In almost the first
dispatches from the Associated
Press and other correspondents tell
ing of the battle of Cantigny, the
first engagement of size in which
American troops took part, the Sal
walton army was mentioned as be-
ing close behind the first-line
trenches, following the advance.
In a recent letter received by the
Goldfield lodge from Sergeant Isaac
Bair, past exalted ruler of the Gold
field lodge, Bair highly commends
the work of the Salvation army at
the front and behind the lines.
For the work done thus far in
aid of the American and alliedy
forces, the Salvation army has as
yet raised no money in this country
and the present campaign covers
the work of 1917 and191S The
Salvation army also will receive
money from the big drive coming
in November, but the money wanted
now is for expenses of the past.
1t appears to be the general
opinion expressed in letters from
the front that these men and wo-
men get nearer to the front and do
more dangerous work than any 9TH
er organization for aiding soldiers
and at points behind the front-line
branches, coffee, doughnuts, choto-
late and pies are fed to the fight
ing men without cost.
None of this work duplicates L at
done by the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.
knights of Columbus or any other
organization.
The amounts that will be asked
during the drive will be small ana
the campaign is one to which every
OLE can make a contribution
Lowell Daniels, secretary of the
Tonopah lodge of Elks, is the sener-
al secretary for the campaign ON
I. Ittee in Nevada and the Nevada
First National bank at Tonopah will
be used as the treasury. After the
drive has been finished r~emistances
will be made direct to this bank.
Committees are now being ap-
pointed by the Goldfield director
and it is confidently believed the
quota will be far oversubscribed in
this county.
President Wilson says of the Sa:-
vation army. Il am much interest
walton army has undertaken fc~
money to sustain it's war activities.
l want to express my admiration for
the work it has done and my sin
cere hope that it may be fully sus-
tanned"
Secretary of War Baker says: Il
am very glad the Salvation army is
lending its powerful, and in many
ways unique aid in general cooper
alton with the military of the coun-
try. The war department welcomes
and is grateful for such help"
General Pershing says: The Sal
walton army is doing splendid wora
with the American army in France
and is much appreciated by our