Evening star., 1918-11-16
D. c, MUST RAISE
$4OO,0OOF0RFUND
TOKEEP UP RECORD
Total in United War Work
Campaign Here Is Now
$685. ,O62.
COMMITTEES ARE URGED
TO SPEED UP EFFORTS
Team Twenty Is Days Leade, in
Drive to End on Monday
Afternoon.

Afternoon.
With a total Of only $59.S75 collect
ed during the last twenty-four hours
in Washington. making grand total
of 1898, ,062 to date, the National Capt.
tai faces the problem OF raising about
s4oo. 900 before Monday afternoon IL it
IS to achieve the honor of raising its
quota in the united war. work cam
paign.
At the MONDAY meeting Of the local
campaign committee and man and
woman volunteer team workers these
figures were announced. Although
the committee realizes that some
thing heroic must be done be-
tween now and Monday if Washington
is to come through with flying colors.
as has been its distinction in liberty
loan and Red Cross drives, it does not
feel discouraged.
Committee Is Confident.
The committee expresses every con-
fidence in the patriotism and spirit of
! the people Of Washington. and it feels
j sure that the response will be far
moro liberal in the last hours Of the
intense campaign.
The honors Of the day in the matter
of the largest collections during the
past twenty-four hours were won by
team No: 20. captained jointly by
Messrs. Dolph and Fadeley. This
team turned in $11 1877
Team No. 1. captained by Mrs Frank
=. Noyes. was second on the honor
list, with collections amounting to
$4,000 to its credit, and team No. l..
captained by Mrs. Edward Mitchell,
was third with $4,S5O,
Urged to Add to Efforts.
In addressing the team captains and
members Corcoran Thorn. chairman
of the local committee. impressed
upon them the Importance of increas-
ing their efforts.
! Make your appeals strong and con-
vincing," Mr.. Thorn declared. do not
. let Washington fail in this great
4, patriotic cause. The whole nation
| looks to the capital to set the pace
in all such movements and Washing
| ton must not falter now.
Gipsy Smith, the evengelist, who
has been in France engaged in wei.
| fare work for the Y. M. C A., ad-
dressed the meeting and made brief
but exceptionally impressive appeal.
He declared that the work of the
| relief organizations will be more than
doubled now that activities have
! ceased.
End Drawing Near.
Pointing out that the end Of the
great drive is rapidly drawing near.
| Mr.. Thom appealed to the public to
contribute to this worthy cause. He
explained that the funds are neces-
sary for the continuation of the well
fare work among the men in arms and
emphasized the fact that the cessa
tfon of fighting naturally makes the
| work of the welfare organizations all
the more important and necessary.
Washington has a proud record for
its responses in past liberty loan and
Red Cross campaigns and in all other
| civic and patriotic causes. These
| splendid organizations will be called
upon now to do their utmost to keep
up the fine morale of our fighting men
in the trying and tiresome days of
waiting during the period Of armis-
tice, throughout the ong-drawn-out
peace negotiations and through tho
long. monotonous period of demobil-
izatton. This may take year. and
during that time the temptations of
the soldier with much leisure on his
hands will be great.
| 1T was because of these conditions
in view that 1t was decided best to in
least a so per cent oversubscription."
Reports Of Captains.
The team captains reported as follows:
Division A-Team: No. 1, Mrs. Frank
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