The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-19
VERMONT'S QUOTA
COMES TO S471,7O5
Seven Organizations Including Y. M. c..
A. Y. w. c. A, K. of c., Jewish
Welfare Board and Salvation Army
to Participate in Drive.

TO the real ''big time show that keeps
him cheerful while he's resting back
of the lines, the American soldier is de-
pendent for his comfort, his touch of
home on the seven great organizations
now merged in the United War Work
| campaign, He needs these organiza-
tions every hour, aye, every minute
from the time he enters the service
until that happy day when American
arms have triumphed, and he's mus
tered out
Talk with any of the fine Americans
who have come back from France, arm
less, legless, blind, some of them, gas
wrecks, others. They will tell YOU how
these organizations helped them Tower |
| there the Y. NJ. c. A., the Y. w. c. |
| A., the X. of c., the Jewish Welfare
board the American Library associa-
ton, and the Salvation Army. The
boys who haven't been lacky enough
to get over vet will tell enthusiastieal-
" how the War Camp community has
carried them past that first homesick
ness right after they were sent TO camp.
Generous America is preparing for
the greatest free viii offering in its
history. The United War campaign
the seven splendid organizations in ono
, must have $I70.500,000 to keep the
/ boys happy The drive for it starts
Nov. / and goes through till the 18th.
, In the week, generous America will
be asked to unloose again its money.
2 And generous America will. The fact
z that this country hash { failed in
: single thing the sudden demand of
2 world war asked makes that certain
Day and night the welfare organi-
cations are striving to make our sol
7 dierS the most efficient. the cleanest
and the most intelligent that ever
! fought the big fight. Perfect morale is
i welding them into perfect fighting
force, just as perfect government or
ganization is welding them into a stu
pendous man-power machine that is
rolling the terrible Hun ruthlesslv back.
4 General Pershing himself voiced the
! need of the welfare worker in a state
:, ment to his staff.
i Gentlemen, he said, "this army
i of ours has heart and conscience,
and that heart and conscience must be
! fed. =
great
e army's heart and conscience-the sew
/ en- united organizations-that is the
reason of that Nov II drive
u The country must offer the $170,500,-
n 000-and will
New England will do its bit: as New
l. England has ever since the making of
& this wonderful nation was started q
N century and more back. along the road
TO Lexington.
Our New England quota in the wal
work drive isn't much We are asked
to give just $l5,439.373. That is divid
ed by states as follows:
Massachusetts. $9,04S.435
Connecticut, 100000
At Rhode Island, I.29Q.515
NJ Maine, Qc6- 3o-
IS. New Hampshire 10 sel
i. Vermont, ALTOS
lie New England, her boys right in IN,
~ thick of it along the far flung battle
III front, will gladly come through, to b,
ed colloquial
Here S what the organizations tina
need financial help do:
= The Y. NJ. G. A. and X. OF c. hay,
!. thousands of secretaries and hundred
4 C0IIl
"A here, and right back of the lines owe
h there from the North sea down to Swift
~ zerland and along the monntainou,
he Italian front They accompany th
q fighter from tie time he's inducte,
till he S through. They provide no
drinks, faes athletic equipment an,
entertainment
ID, They furnish libraries with the nil
ur lions of books collected by the Amer
lean Library association. They wor'
he hand in hand with the lewis
Welfare board which has huts, soc
de and cares for the thousands of jew
Ssh heroes who are doing their Bit
Hundreds of Jewish men and wome
~ workers already have gone overseas
They teach the illiterate English. an
nj have more than bridged what littl
ehasm stretched between Jew ana Gen
Inc tile before the great war welded Anne,
lea s different clements into ono glt
,r, rious unit FL
The Y W. c. A. hostess houses ar
famous now through Europe, gla
-ty refugees for the soldiers who come wea
rily back from the trenches Y. w. {
mn A. girls 90 right un to the front an
help the wounded. So too, do the Sa
,be vation Army lasses, whose relief wor
has made their story one of the prett
no epics of world conflict And the wor
of the War Camp Community Servc
in this country needs no praise Th
're millions of Youngsters who have bee
taken into homes. when far away frol
.av their own, pay sufficient tribute
The war work drive Just natural
appeals to the spirit of generous Anne
lea.
4cBUY Ll6tREY soNDs &C.
Buy over here to win over there.