The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-01
Generous Oversubscriptions Asked of Cities, Counties and States, But No
 Fixed Amount Stated
OF NOT
 LESS THAN 50 PER
 CENT REQUESTED
Dr. Mott Gives Full Explanation of Needs of War Work Campaign and Why Oversubscriptions
 Are Asked

Generous oversubscription and not a change of quotas is the request made of Dr. John R. Mott, director general for the united war work campaign, which begins November II and con- cludes November Is for the seven war camp agencies.
 "As newspapers have incorrectly re- ported me as having said that the war department and President Wilson have authorized us to increase campaign goal to s25O, ,00O, ,000, desire to give an exact statement of the facts and clear instructions" says Dr. Mott, in a telegram to R. H. King, campaign manager for the southeastern divi- sion; copy of the message was re- ceived Thursday afternoon by W. Car son Adams, chairman of the state ex- ecutive committee for Alabama. Dr. Mott continues:
 The national general committee of the united war work campaign composed of 8 members, representing the seven or ganizations after careful consideration, unanimously decided that we should ask the American people for an over subscription of 50 per cent. l then went to Washington last week. Tuesday, and discussed the matter with the Fosdick commission of training camp activities.
 While not fixing specific figure the commission voted unanimously in favor of a genrous oversubscription I then laid the matter before the war depart ment and they concurred in this proposal Of generous oversubscription as did also the President, whom I saw later that day. It should be added that my conversation with the war department figure than 50 per cent increase but l did not ask them to authorize this. or any other specific figure.
 We do not consider that we have authority to fix new goal, but that it is our duty to call upon the American people for an oversubscription of at least 5o per cent. otherwise the majority of the seven organizations, including those with the largest budgets, will run out of funds before June and necessitate an other campaign in May or June'
 Dr. Mott calls attention to the fact that convincing reasons why We need such a large oversubscription already have been given. Our national commit tee authorize and request you to call upon every state in your department as We are having done in the other five Apartments to do their best to secure an oversubscription of at least 50 per cent, he concludes.
 Among the reasons given by pr. Mott for asking an oversubscription are:
 Because of the remarkable increase of the American army and of it's inevitable continued increase. The budgets of at least three of the seven organizations uniting in the forthcoming campaign were based on data assembled last spring, when 1t was thought there would be not more than 100000 American soldiers In France by November 1. As a matter oi fact, the number there by that date will be 100000. When those budgets were made, moreover, 1t was thought that the total number of American soldiers on both sides of the Atlantic by next sum- mer would not exceed 3,0B.o00, whereas our military leaders are now preparing for an American army, before the end of next summer, of between 10000 and 5 0o0 900.
 Because of the marvellous expansion of the American navy. When America entered the war we had less than 7o,000 men in the navy. There are now over 800 900 sailors and marines and the num- Der will be further greatly increased Relatively, the organizations which are uniting in their campaign have neglected the navy, but It Is their desire to help this arm of the service as much as any other, and therefore much larger sum of money will be needed for this purpose than Is now included In their respective budgets
 WAR AFFECTS ENTIRE PEOPLES