Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-12

saunter ieisurely to the train or ONCE.
look after your own business and realize
late In the afternon or early evening
that you might have put in half an hour
or so on Red Cross, Y. NJ. c. A. or Liberty
Loan work? Or have you given two
hours or three hours or four hours OF
YOUR time TO your Government each day7
Think II over carefully. We do not ask
you 10 answer us, but make answer to
yourself. Determine IL this has been suf-
ficient and then ask yourself. rs II the
value OF my citizenship as an Amer
lcan?'"
Mr. Leach had but little difficulty
in getting the pledge cards signed after
this appeal.
With the school children Mr.. Leach
| took somewhat different tack He
| would gather the little folks into one
| school room and would first ask How
m my OF You chicks have brothers or
fathers in the warp" Hands would 20
up all over the room--in one place there
were 1l2 responses from 1870 children.
After Mr. Leach had expressed his
satisfaction over the showing he would
continue:
We'll, you want to see them we'll
! taken care of. don't you? And that's
/ what we are here for, to get YOU 10
help us make this possible. We want
YOU TO promise to work with us. First
read this Christmas card with me- and
then promise to get one Red Cross MEM
ber for each one of you. You can get
your mother. That's easy. Any child
can get his or her mother. And you can
get your father He's easy. too. II you
go at him right. Then there's the lady
| who lives around the corner You can
| no her M
the street. You can get him. Everybody
can get these folks can't they?" And
| there would be cries of "You bet I" and
sure y from all over the room
Very WELL" Mr.. Leach would go on.
then It's promise. Now let me ask
you what you call a fellow up here who
makes a promise and doesn't keep IL?
Down my way we call him whacler, ;
something like Stacker. you know"
The children would laugh with him
and repeat their determination 10 make
good on their promise. II was n half
hour holiday in the school and Mr. Leach
left each such meeting confident that he
mad secured good support and that the
pledges would be kept Returns subse-
quently showed that In many places 1OO
per cent fulfllment of these promises
had been made.
RED CROSS CHURCH SERVICES
on the two Sundays occurring durinp
this preliminary. or inspirational. cam.
paign Mr.. Leach conducted services IN
churches. The first Sunday was spent
in Warren County. There were fourteen
church services that day. beginning at
O'Clock in Hackettstown and ending a.
IL o'clock that night at Phillipsburg
More than $50 miles were covered by tn,
= campaigners in autos.
, The following Sunday there were sery
, ices in the Newark churches. At thes,
> Mr.. Leach would cut out the Circus
features of the tour and would preacl
p little sermon, using as his text tn,
parallels of the good Samaritan and tn,
man with the ten talents If he becam,
especially eloquent and touching in hi
' appeals it was on these occasions, an,
, he generally ended his talks with tn,
? following bit of verse:
= In Flanders field the poppies grow
- Between the crosses, row on row,
Ihnt mark our place. and in the sky.
scarce heard amid the guns below.
p We are the deal; short days ago
:, We lived. felt dawn. saw sunset glow.
=" Loved and were loved and now we lie
p In Flanders fields. where poppies grow.
s. Take up our quarrel with the foe!
e ,rhr To you, you from on falling hands we throw
. II ye break faith with US who die
3 We sha IN not sleep
In Flanders fields where poppies grow.
,h RESULTS OF DRIVE"
i 1t may quite properly be asked at thi
n point, What were the results" Ne'
n Jersey was asked to get "a membershi
a OF 100000. II got a membership {
II 100000. and Mr.. Dryden, who got abo,
y three hours sleep night when III
:, drive" proper started, Is confident I'll
- plan he and Mr.. Leach worked out wa
=. responsible for the 100000 above II
II allotment Mr.. Dryden believes, ais
y, that had not the terrific snowstorr
more or less isolated the rural section
II during the drive that $4,000 more men
Z bers would have been obtained.
AS for the direct effect of the pr,
liminary campaigr-take Sussex Cour
II ty. widely and sparsely populated SCI
z, ton. There is "A town there called Star
r, hope, with a population of about 40