The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-17
page FOURTEEN
BY Ellis Parker Butler
(Author of pigs Is pics"O

fchool and send it for voyage on ;
c,iratc ship, or send whole Metho
list conference out yachting, or have
couple OF nice, elderly old ladie,
;shipwrecked and cast away on Z
Desert island, but there was one
musing combination he never
hought of-the Y. NJ. c. A. going
% war. If he had cast about for
ears to find the most amusing un-
kelly, impossible combination in
lhe world, don't believe he would
ave ever hit on the idea of taking
rg the whole Y. NJ, c. \. up by the
,oots, loading it on ships, and send
pg it over the ocean TO fight the
niermans 1t is one OF the things
hat is simply too impossible for be
jef In the first place. the Y. M.
=. A. is too goody-goody to go to
var; in the second place, it is too
sissy to have anything to do with
rough, rude thing like war, and in
he third place, such things don't
Sappen. The only trouble with the
.ogic is that, in the fourth place,
.he Y. M. c. A. has gone TO warl 1t
las gone to war, as you may say,
With both feet.
Well, everything has gone to war
Potatoes have clambered ont OF their
patches and have gone TO war shout
ing that grand, old battle cry OF free
Plom, Food will win the war" and
,Irandma has gone to war counting
'titches and shouting the grand, old
tattle cry OF freedom. Socks will
vim the war; and little Jessie has
zone to war, picking up siXteenths
If an ounce OF tifoi and shouting
The grand old battle cry OF freedom,
Thrift Stamps will win the war;
SO far the statlSticianS inform us
here are exactly 81 $40 things, the
loing OF which will absolutely win
he war. Sugar will win the war,
md ships will win the ar. And or
Plantations are winning the war.
igure that in the United States OF
America, wlSeh is the greatest Join
ng' nation e the world, each man,
woman and child (on average be-
ong to ten clubs, societies, leagues
or associations. As we have about
100000 organizations in the
United States and every one OF them
5 doing its level best to win the
var, it would be odd ii 100000, 900
organizations were trying to win the
war and one lone organization, all
by itself, was not trying to win ii.
SO that's where the y. NJ c. A..
comes in As soon as there was
'eally, truly war to be won, the Y.
Nj. {. A. lined up with ships and
potatoes and knittcrs and said, Me
90"
TO me it is 4 perfectly dandy
hought that all kinds OF organza-
ions like the Y. NJ. c. A., Y. W. c. /
A., National Catholic War Council, |
+. Of C.. War Camp Community
Eeryice. Jewish Welfare Board. Am- !
Frican Library Association and Sal
|ation Army got into the War a, /
oon as they could see where they .
Fould put their feet without being
II the way Of the real fighters. A I.
matter OF TACT, the Y. NJ. c. 4.
vas a tough. old, heel bli,tercd vet
Rran before the United States got
nto the war at all, 1t was marching
,p to Bagdad with the British long
before we got into the efight, and it
was struggling in Russia to have
he immature boys placed in sepa-
ate prison camps, away from the
mature degenerates. long before we
told Gerard to come home from
Berlin.
Made Good Before Asking Funds
The y. y c. A. made good in
Europe and in Asia before it ever
|lsked America for a dollar OF money
or war work, and | wouldn't have
b single man in this country give a
single dollar for United War Work
unless he knew it would be a worth
while dollar.
In the first place, do not imagine
! hat the y. NJ. c. A., the y. w. c.
a., The National Catholic War
Council, X. Of c., the War Camp
Community Service, the Jewish Wei
Fare Board, the American Library
Rssocviation and the Salvation Ar
|ny think they are as important as ;
The fighting forces OF the allied ma i
lions. These seven organizations in +
the United War Work Campaign ask y
for $l70,500000 now. For the real {
lighting business, the United States I
asks each year billions on billions OF
dollars. Neither your nor can tell
how much the United States fighting {
forces, land, air and sea, will need t
,or the next twelve months, but il I
S safe to say that what the united c
service organizations ask for is less |
han one dollar for every two hun \
lred dollars that will be used for ,
'eal fighting expenses. What We S
want to know is wehther the Y. NJ. i
want 10 know is whether the Y. NJ.
will do something worth while with Il
he money. a
Another way of looking at it is "
hat We will have say, roughly s. y
10000 men under arms here and O
broad before long. The $l70.500.- @
90 the seven organizations ask for &
,ill be a fraction less than 81 cents t
'orth OF good in, say one year for
ach man. Y
Take writing paper. Nearly all il
he letters that come home are on a