The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-08
UNITED WAR WORKERS
plan BIG CAMPAIGN
AT MASSMEET|NG
Speakers Outline Work To Be Started
Next Week to Raise Money For
the Boys Overseas-Rev. JUL
iuS klingmann PresideS.

which the money to be subscribed next
week is used by the various societies
joined in the United War Work Cam
paign at massmeeting held in the
high school gym Thursday evening.
The Rev. Julius Klingmann OF st.
Marks Lutheran hcurch presided The
members of the women's and mems
committees for the War Fund drive
in the city occupied seats on the
platform. The women's committee
consists OF Mrs. Charles w. Harte,
Miss Mary Shinnick, Miss Gladys Mol
art. Miss Abbie Norton. The mems
committee consists of Carl F. Now
ack, Eli Fischer, A. F. Mayer and
Henry Winkler. The Camp Fire girls
acted as ushers.
The evenings program was opened
by community singing led by William
Sproesser. The speakers were Miss
de La Fuchs of France and Miss Es-
Their Anderson Of New York, field Sec
rotary of foreign work The Rev.
klingmann in introducing the speak
ers said: "The war is won and vic
tory will mean much to us. This war
in the Revolutionary struggle. We
were liberated from autocratic rule.
I'VE will go over the top in this
war fund drive just as sure as we
went over the top in our celebration
here Thursday afternoon. The decla-
ration OF peace should not in the least
interfere with this work. The boys
will not return to our homes tOmOr-
row, but it may be two years before
the last Of the brave lads come march,
ing home. The speaker explained the
manner in which the drive in the city
will be handled. People will not have
to pay in full at the time the pledge
Is made, but need only to pay SO per
cent OF the amount by December l,
Is per cent January Is, and Is per
cent March l.
The next speaker was Miss de La
Fuchs. She modestly told how France
had endured the struggle four years
and would defend herself to the last
man. "The very children in France
are giving their ALL" she said.
Miss Esther Anderson of New York
followed with an interesting talk re-
plete with telling phrases. "This is
only the beginning of the glad and
glorious days. The soldier boys in
the trenches are waiting to come home
and We now are trying to make a
home for them over there until they
actually do come here. That is why
we need your help now The Ameri-
can boys must be kept clean, we want
to be proud of saying after this is all
over, that we maintained the clean
est and best army ever known.
The work OF these societies in keep
Ing up the morale of the boys as we'll
as the material aid they give cannot
be estimated. They have the sane
ton of the government and Pershing
himself has said, Il can do more with
900 men with a "Y" than with one
thousand without one" In their way
they are as necessary as the Red Cross
or the commissary department. Near
~ everyone is familiar more or less
with the work of the Y M C. A. and
that of the others is similar with some
OF the societies doing specialized work
like that Of the Salvation Army girls
LA AuA AiSA Tic SO1uIeIS Will pies ana
doughnuts. In word these societies
follow our soldiers with a watchful
care like unto that of mother from
the time he leaves his home on the
troop trains, into the training camps
and environments, to the ports of en-
barkation and debarkation, on board
ships. in the camps, and towns wher-
ever the soldiers are billeted over
there, in the trenches, up to the front
battle line and out into mo Mans
Land"-and the graves Of our beloved
ones who sleep over there are care
fully tended and when the war is over
their bodies will be brought back TO
their homes again-all done through
the labor of these societies. Their
work is doubly important at this time
with probable peace in sight for the
reason that by all careful estimates it
Will take at least two years to bring
our boys all back home after peace is
declared and decentralization is too
often time of decentralization" When
the tension OF strict discipline is re-
Taxed the moral tone is lowered and
the safeguarding Of our boys becomes
OF the utmost Importance. 1t is also
the plan Of the government to institute
schools for the education of the boys
during this period of waiting