The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-15
PERKINS POINTS
GREATER NEEDS
OF U.W.W.FUND
ny GEORGE W. PERKINS
Famous New York Financicr. and
\. VI. &. 4. Representative on
the United War Work


Campaign Committee.
Men have said To mo In the past
few days, with peace here, how
much of the tifo.b 900 will the
seven war work agencies nccd9"
And the answer is that those
great agencies which have done 30
much for the comfort and welfare
OF our boys will need EVERY CENT
OF the amount for which they are
asking. yes. and MILLIONS MORE.
No man who has read the history
OF great wars can doubt this for a
moment For history shows that
tho months Immediately following
victory are often more trying and
perllous for an army than the days
OF battle themselves.
Thousands OF men have stood the
porils OF battle. only 60 hav. their
moral fibre loosened and the pur'
| poses undermined in the days OF de
mobilization. That must not happen
I In this year, No matter when our
/ boys come home whether IL be at
tho end OF six months or year or
even two ycars--they must come as
/ BETTER and STRONGER and
MORE USEFUL men than when
they went away.
/ II ~ for this great task that the
seven war work agencies are plan.
ming to equip themselves with the
/ funds raised In the United War
Work campaign.
/ The thousand athletic directors IN
France must remain there. and
I other hundreds he added Athletic
supplies. which the agencies are
I shipping In lots that total millions
/ OF dollars worth. must continue 20
go across For wholesom. outdoor
play ~ the best cure for homo sick
ness and the dangers Of too much
leisure.
The movies are being taken 10 the
boys AT the rate OF Is miles OF film
a week they Will need movies more
than ever In the next few months.
They will need warmth and com.
I fort and often. In those villages
where coal IL $50 or $40 a ton, the
/ hut IN the only place where boys
can bs warm or can write letters
I home TO you.
Every hut became university
class room the day that victory was
won. Leading educators from Amer.
/ lea have laid out "A comprehensive
course OF study: text books are being
sent by the hundreds OF thousands.
one order was placed las, week for
two million dollars worth. Amcri.
can business men will so across
with the best teachers on this side
50 that your hoy may come back
/ further along in his studies and bet
ter equipped for business than when
he went away.
/ There are six thousand big
l friendly secretaries I'm France do
/ ing for your hoy what you fathers
I and brothers OF America would do
n you could 20 across.
There are more than thousand
woman secretaries To them the
boys so. eager 20 talk with a woman
In a language they can understand.
to them they show your pictures
you mothers and sisters and sweet
hearts.
Shall we call those men and WON.
en- homo now. when the boys need
them most
shall We stop the movies and the
baseball games. and the books and
the Photographs and the lccturcsf
Shall we shut up the huts that are
home and church and store and
theatre and club for the boys over
thcrc7 Shall We shut them thru
the long winter days and evenings
that arc coynirg7
NEVER IL must never h- said
Of us that we left our task half
done. We have stood by Loyalty
thru the hard days OF battle; let
us stand by now thru the trying
months 20 come.
For these months arc going TO
| have tremendous influence on the
life and character Of those boys
and in the hands Of those boys lies
the future OF America.