The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
THE UNITED WORK
Something About Campaign
Soon To Begin.
Opening Announcement of the
Jewish Welfare Board.

Jacob Billikopf. of the Jewish Wei
fare Board, New York. has written
H. A. Auerbach Of Topeka. its Kansas
representative in connection with the
coming United War Work campaign
| a broad. vigorous statement giving a
| clear, concise idea of its aims and
| Importance. He says:
THE war has taught us many les
sons that we needed very much to
| learn: it has made impossible things
not merely possible but essential. And
| there is hardly a man or woman in
America who has not in some degree
| been lifted by it out of his old pre-
| JUDGES, onto a higher. broader plane
| of thought.
| This fall. in the week of November
| Ills, we shall see the truth of that
statement splendidly demonstrated. In
| that week the seven agencies engaged
ors are to unite in a great campaign
for funds with which to continue their
ministry.
| "Of the seven agencies two are
Protestant, the Y. NJ. c. A. and the
Y. w. C. A., one. the National Catholic
| of Columbus, is Catholic; the Jews
| are represented by the Jewish Welfare
board, and the other three. the Ameri-
can Library association. the War
| OdIHp SSTFlCe anu the odI-
| Walton Army, have no UNCONVENTIONAL
affiliation. For a year they have
| served the army and navy as no troops
were ever served before; they have
| regarded themselves as co-laborers,
yet there has been inevitably in their
service some spirit of rivalry.
| They cannot be brought together
men have said. You cannot unite
Catholics, Protestants and Jews
| yet on September President Will
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that in their campaign this fall, they
| appeal to the country together, instead
of individually. And on the very even
ing of that day meeting was held in
| New York consisting OF five represen-
| tatives of each organization. On mo-
| ton of a representative of the Cath
| olics. John r. Mott, a Protestant, was
| nominated director general of the
| campaign; the motion was seconded
by Mortimer L. Schiff. representing
And in that spirit Of unanimity the
seven organizations. that could not be
united are proceeding shoulder to
shoulder. with solid front.
1.-The impossible was achieved in a
single day: what years of discussion
and convention had failed to bring
about, the larger spirit, which the war
has engendered, achieved without an
effort.
THAT such a spirit Of concord. de-
pear with the conclusion of the cam
paign is impossible. Men and women
who have thrown their souls into a
great common effort do not easily lose
touch with each other. There grows
up IN them a mutual regard and at
tachment that Is far stronger than the
differences of creed and race. The
campaign OF November will be mag
nificent thing for the boys, over there
but its influence on the men and
|
yond the campaign itself, to solidify
: and fortify the nation in all the years
to come.
THE sum sought by the seven agen-
cles is immense. $40, 100000. the larg-
. est single gift ever asked of any people
at one time. Yet compared with the
figures to which the war has accus.
toned us, it is small. Measured agains,
the huge total which we shall pay to
keep our boys under arms next year
this sum which is to provide for their
comfort and cheer: becomes almost in
significant. 1t is less than ten cents a
day for each boy-less than the aver
age man spends for cigars.
IT Will be raised mot grudgingly
but in spirit of splendid enthusiasm
me country will go over the top for
the Big Seven as it has gone over the
Cross
"And in the fervor of its sacrifice I,
. will shave won for itself a great and a
lasting reward. The gift which goes
out to bless the boys in France and in
our camps and on our great ships
everywhere will return to bless the
givers a hundred fold
They will have learned in theil
giving a finer patriotism, a larger toll.
GRANGE, and wider appreciation OF
the good that lies in every creed and
faith. The united war work cam
paign will leave us more than ever be
! fore a united people; more fitted te
carry forward Americas great destiny
better qualified for leadership in a re.
CONSTRUCTED and reunited world"