The Republican journal., 1918-11-07
$17O,5OO,OOO


Salvation Army $500, 900
Total S17O,5 900
Do you realize, folks, that the vast sum
of S17O, 100000 is the largest sum of
money that any Nation of people have
been asked to raise as free will gift in
the history of mankind3
And now what is it all to be spent for2
1t is to be spent for your boy and mine,
OF somebody's else boy, so that when he
comes in from the front line trench "over
there" wracked in mind and spent in
body, he may find a welcome and SEM
blance of home out there in that inferno
of bloody war.
1t is to be spent for chocolate and coffee
that is handed him steaming hot, even as
he reloads another charge for the benefit
of the Hun.
1t is to be spent for books for him to
read so that he can at least temporarily
forget the ever recurring horrors that he
goes through.
1t is to be spent for clothing so that he
may cast aside his mud soaked uniform
after sloughing all day long through the
Flanders country on rainy day.
1t is to be spent for recreation and en-
tertanment that he must have to keep
his poise.
Yes? It is to be spent for your boy and
mine cover There" and cover Here"
Both General Pershing and General
Foch has emphasized over and over again
the great principle that morale is the
chief factor in winning the war.
But this campaign represents even more
than that 1t stands for the eventual
home coming of your boy and mine, or
somebody's else boy, still clean in mind
and body--and in many instances with
an increased breadth of character that
will mean not only much to the home that
he returns to but to the whole life Of the
country in the future days to come as
WELL
Millions of boys cannot suddenly be
snatched from their homes and grouped
together in camps and environments with
out the loss of home influence.
At the cantonment and in the field,
nome is missing and the gentle influence
of womanhood is absent. There is bound
to be a departure from the wholesome
amusement, the religious influence, the
Young man is used to-all factors that
tend to keep a man clean, high minded
and well poised.
That is of course unless some substi-
tute for home influence is created.
And there is the story, folks. The
work of the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C.
A., the National Catholic War Council
*. of Co. the Jewish Welfare Board,
the American Library Association, the
War Camp Community Service, and the
Salvation Army is this substitute for the
home influence.
This great United War Work Campaign
is simply our own community work car
ried into the training camps and among
the troops in the field. In word it is
case of YOU contributing your bit to
make the life of your own boy or some
body else's boy just bit more comfort
able during the stress of the mighty con-
flict which is being waged for the very
safety and future peace of this great
country of ours.
Let us follow one single soldier on the
long road that leads from his front door
to far away France, and see how these
seven organizations that you are asked
to aid as one Join hands to form great
chain of helpfulness all the way.
He steps aboard troop train that is to
carry him to the cantonment. A long
lonesome ride, full of homesick thoughts,
but, perhaps, there is band furnished by
the Jewish Welfare League or the War
Camp Community service to speed him
on his way, and on the train are friends
whom he had not expected-a Y. M. c.
A., or X. of C. secretary-a big friend
ly fellow, who has travelled for months
with other boys just like him, and knows
how to help.
At the cantonment the evidence that
the folks back home are thinking of him
lies on every side. Here are $50 great
honey huts of the X. of c., the Y. M. c.
A., the Jewish Welfare Board and the
Salvation Army, and in the adjoining
towns are the club houses of the War
Camp Community Service.
These huts are where he can write let
tiers home, play games at night, witness
motion picture shows, hear helpful lee
lures, attend church service, keep up
with his studies under the direction of
the best college professors and teachers
in the country.
Here also are "a hostess houses Of the
Y. W. c. A., whore mother and sister