Weekly journal-miner., 1918-11-13
CREEDS UNITE ID AID THE BOYS
 OVER THERE
CAMPAIGN TO RAISE A BIG FUND TO KEEP UP THE MORALE OF OUR EXPEDITIONARY FORCES TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK.
(From Fridays Daily0

a combined effort to raise al least $f7O, ,50O,OO0 for the work of the Y. N. (. A., the Y. w. C. A., the Ma
 tional Catholic War Council, lK. of : e. the Jewish Welfare Board, War
 Camp Community Service, American 1 library Association and the Saliva
 ton Army.
 Ten years ago cooperation be-
 tween people of different religious
 beliefs was news. When you heard
 about the Catholics, Protestants or
 Jews working together in any com munity you wondered whether the
 time would come when everyone
 would do the same thing? That time
 is here. The war has fixed the idea of a democratic army so firmly in peoples minds and the need of CO., operation in @ll methods of keeping
 the soldiers fit and happy and of
 keeping women of the nation solidly
 behind our army, that today, all over
 the country, the people of every faith are uniting, in their war work. "Thc United War Work Campaign" is moi
 just a title It means what 1t says The seven organizations each have
 their particular work to do, but each is as a matter of fact, just one de-
 partment of one big business, and
 that the helping to win the war. II
 the individual workers for all the
 societies could but see the way the
 united idea" colors everything al
 campaign headquarters this same
 united idea" would never have to Dc
 explained. One thing is to be donc
 and everyone helps to do it. Colonel
 Wm. Baker, head of the Salvation Army overseas force, just returned
 from Europe, talked recently to a gathering of the Jewish Welfare
 Board, not to tell that the Salvation Army was the most important or
 ganization working on the Western front, but to tell them how hC
 thought they could best frame their next plans, giving them every pos
 sible suggestion and every benefit oI his recent experiences. Bishop Peter I. Muldoon. chairman of the Nationa'
 Catholic War Council. through let
 ter asks all the workers of his faith
 to forget all religious differences iT
 the drive. The United War Worl campaign offers an unequalled op
 portunity for all American citizens tC work together in the common causs
 now so urgent and so dear to all Thus happily united in single-hearted devotion to our country, one com
 mon appeal will reach from one end
 of America to the other and find .
 response in every true American heart.
 It has been the intention of tho
 "Journal-Miner" to place before it.
 readers some of the work which i'
 done by each of these seven organi-
 zations and that of the Y. w. C. A
 is no small part In France,.it pro
 vides social workers, recreation
 leaders, physical directors and cafe .teria managers: foyers and hostes' houses, working with American wo
 men in France in nineteen centers
 nurses, signal corps (women) anf other .English-speaking women with the American army. For the French women, at the request of the Frencl in nine centers. Work ing in munition factories, in stores and in French war offices. In Rus sia there are three centers for club cafeteria and educational work foI Russian women. War has opened tC a woman a variety Of employments hitherto regarded exclusively a men's work. Of the nearly 100000 women in the United States at worl today. 1,500,00O are engaged in "wa' orders" These war supplies are for the direct support of their sons anI brothers at the fighting front + other industries immediately affected by the war, 100000 more women are facing the necessity of speeding up" These women form our sec ond fine of defense. During the frs year of the war our army numbered ,5OO,OOO men 2.225.OO0 men are to b, in camp by July lst It IS expected that 100000 men will be in Franco by the close of the year. Who is tC take the place of these? As the sons of America have been given to figh for world democracy, so will each and every community all over the land be called upon to give their daughters to this great industrial army in its forward march. England has over l,5OO,0O0 women in the fac tories, directly replacing the men who are at the front. Many of them are doing highly skilled work and many of them arc engaged upon ex cecdingly dangerous tasks in the of high explosives. They arc risking their lives for their coun- try. Our military operations de pend upon urSindustrial efficiency As a nation we are trying to put about our men every safeguard tha' will ennoble them and make for ef | ficiency, and We must do likewise