El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-15
ASK A HUNDRED
MILLION FOR Y
Big Need Is to Be Filled by
More Work Among the
Soldiers.

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budget adopted by the national war
work council Of the y. N. C.. A. for
the coming year a conference win
he held IN san Antonio June 29. which
James G.. NIcNary. Hal Z. Christie ana
other FL Pasoaus viii attend. 10 dis
cuss Texas's and the southwest's
plans for raising the money.
Mr.. NcNary is just back from New
York. where. as Southwestern repre-
sentative. he participated in the dis
cussiou Of plans for raising the $780,
100000 for next year The meeting
was attended by 200 Of the leading
men of the country. comprising the
war work council Tt was an insplr-
ing meeting. 1Ir. McNary reports, and
he returns much euthused-
Importance Of Work
"Dr. John r.. Mott. of New York. the
general secretary and directing genius
Of the worldwide war activities of
the 81 IT, T.. A.. had just returned
from an inspection of the allied armies
from the channel ports TO southern
Italy" said he. Herbert Pratt. vice
president Of the Standard oil COM
pany. had also just returned from "a
special inspection Of the T. NJ a. A.
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camps. The reports OF these men and
others quite recently returned from
foreign service. served 90 impress
every man present with the far reach
ing Importance of the work which the
Y. " c. A. is doing among the allied
armies and prisoners Of war.
After many hours deliberation.
based on reports prepared with the
utmost care for weeks In advance. the
budget committee recommended that
the country be asked TO raise $780,
100000 for carrying on the work for
the next 10 months and. though est
mates indicated that probably as much
as Sll2,0o0.0 would be needed, $780,
600. 600 vas asked for in the confident
hope that the amount would be over
subscribed, as Do was before I'm the
last campaign S55.0u0.000 was asked
for and nearly S55.000,000 was sub
scribed-
How II VIII Be Used.
The budget as finally adopted by
the war work council. was as follows
For Y IT, O.. a. war work
with troops IN the United
states ------------e -tr-l---.-
For Red Triangle w0-z
with the A. T. F. in
france --- .-- -----.--- +--l.N-N-l
For Red Triangle work
with the a E. T. in Great
Britain 600 -.--------- 100000
For ~T" work with the
French army ----------- 100000
For work in the Italian
army eco eel. -.-.-----.-- -.lI0. goo
For " H. C. A. work in
Russia ---. -------- 100000
al and the 555o Prisoners Saal Of 't war 100000
Working capital needed TO
carry on cauteeu e2-
changes p. =. ..---.-- -oolaoo1
For the workers I'm war iu-
dustrles in the United
states .-- Gee .-------- 100000
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The committee ON budget I'm pro-
rating the 500. 100000 among tre
states. adopted the plan. used Do The
previous campaign, OF dividing -l-
luud Up according 90 military dis
tricts. and the quotas Of the SIX mile
tary districts were assessed as fol-
lows, these figures being based on "a
fund Of S1l0.0g1.0uo- and each per-
cent representing SLuoQ.0l0.-
Northeast department. including
Boston and the New England states,
10 percent
-Eas--rn department including New
York City, 4t percent
Southeast department. consisting
of seven southern states, { percent
Central department. including
Chicago 81 percent
southwestern department IucLud-
ing Texas. 9 percent.
western department. including CAL
iforrla and Pacific states, 3 percent.
The southwestern department.
which viii be asked for $4,000. 0ll iu-
cludes Arkansas. Louisiana. Texas
Oklahoma. Arizona and New Mexico.
while no exact date was deter
mined upon for The campal gu. DO was
be fixed iu the early part OF October.
Operating All Canteens.
a -zcr was brought out. which ]
had not personally understood before,
that the " H. e. A. war work forces
have Deen called ou by the govern
ueLt 20 take over the entire manage
meut Of the army cauteeus, involving
an annual trade. on the present
monthly basis OF over 100000. 900 O.
year said AR. McNary.
The diversified nature o. p. NJ T..
A activities was also sreally empha-
sized Among the meu and boys iu
the American army and. 10 d great
extent among the allied armies. il is
called upon 10 take the place OF the
American home, the club, the library
recreation ground store. school and
church. To personifes and represents
before the soldier boys everything
that IS best in American lie. The
fact was brought out by the testi-
mony Of the highest representative
Of The American, French and English
armies that the war work being car
ried on by the y. n. o. a ON the
western front is today the greatest
single factor toward maintaining and