The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-18
f AS 7 FINISH
LANNED FOR
BIC CAMPAIGN
Committee Confident That City
and County Will Exceed
Their Quotas
GYPSY SMITH, Jr.,
WILL LEND AID
Famous Evangelist Will Remain
to End of Drive-Made
Five Talks Sunday

All is in readiness for driving finish
IN the local United War Work cam
paign. The response has not come ND
TO expectations so far, but the commit
tee is still confident that Pensacola
and Escambia County will do their
1ull part and over-subscribe the quota
substantial additions were made to tho
fund yesterday and the workers will
start out this morning with new de-
termination to raise the required
amount.
Gypsy Smith, Jr., will remain over in
Pensacola until the campaign has been
brought to victorious close. This
was the statement made at headquar.
ters last night, where members of the
committee remained until a late hour.
checking over the receipts OF the day
and planning the campaign for Mon
day.
Mr.. Smith will speak this morning
at II AS at the Pensacola Ship Building
plant and this evening at the Naval Air
Station
At the meeting which was held last
night at the First Methodist church,
under the asupices OF the ministerial
association, and in conjunction with
the United War Work Committee. the
Oiti ShI "oo GioNubu 10 It's utmost Ca
pacity and a fund OF seven hundred
dollars was raised in cash and pledges.
AT. the meeting. one of the largest
ever held in the city, people stood for
more tnan an hour, every seat having
been taken, hundreds filling he aisles
and rear part Of the church, in order
to hear the evangelist deliver his mes.
sage to the people of Pensacola
In his ringing challenge to those who
have failed to measure up to the high
est patriotism in their response to the
United War Work drive, Mr.. Smith
stressed the need of the men who have
fought the battles of freedom, their
spirit. their sacrifices, their
courage and their humanness. He
smoke Of the lonei3ess, the WEAKNESS
OF routine, now that there is no longer
the glamOr of war, and he urged the
people to remember these boys in this
hour of opportunity, and to show them
by the response made through the
seven associations banded together. for
service, that the peoDle at home are
back of them until they step off the
gang pjank.-and afterwards, If need be
Mr.. Smiths talk last night was rich
with anecdote and personal experiences
Of boys who have been at the fron.
who have offered their lives for lib
erty. Many of these anecdotes had
been told to him by his father. the
great English evangelist, who worked
behind the lines of the British army
IS chaplain, and were largely in ref
erence to the Y. NJ C. A., with whom
he was most familiar. But Mr.. Smith
pointed out that each of the seven or
is engaged i'm the same
work, only under different names The
fhn Ev,is rg,f aP C1J,,
he Salvation Army, are all working
along exactly the same lines as tho
Red Triangle.
Mr.. Smiths own experiences have
,een confined largely TO cantonments
lere, as he has not been on the other
;ide. He volunteered for service
abroad, but was asked to conf1ne his
work to the cantonments in the United
states. which he has done.
In his talk at the Community Sing in
he afternoon, Mr.. Smith contrasted
he spirit Of Germany and the spirit OF
he allies, pointing out that the Ger
mans as nation had been bred to
,lace might above right, and that the
pirit of cruelty which had been shown
" the Huns was a part Of the military
program.
Taking little Belgium as an example,
ailing 10 get pass the splendid little
rmy which held them at bay. they
urned upon the women and children
nd wreaked upon hem such barbara
les as he world had never known, and
ne Belgian army lost it's morale, ami
roke under the German horde.
Taking stories of the highest hero
I'M as his text, Mr.. Smith contrasted
le spirit that made possible a grudg-
lg response to the appeal for these
len who are have given up homes, po-
tions, everything, for their country,
nd declared that when he war Is over.
that response is not what it should
e. monument should be erected in
and painted yellow, bearing
black letters the names of those
no did not do their part, SO that, when
ley come home the men will know
no have stood by them TO the end.
He declared that when he reached
ew York, after being released from
and found that Pensacola
as one OF the cities OF his itinerary,
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