Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-03
CARDINAL UPHOLDS
/ WAR WORKAPPEM|
Predicts Americans as uue
People WIN Give victnEyM
Fund Campaign. X
NATIONS UNIQUE PURPOSE
~ JAMES QAaDMAI. anDOHA

~ JAMES QARDHAL 6UD0NA
America, through her soldiers IN
Franco has voiced the sp1Kft that
leads to victory. They are our sons
and brothers, flesh Of our flesh. ana
the spirit that inspires them inspires
US also. We have sent them ACROSS
the sea to fight. but We have fn heart
and in soul gone with them. We are
determined that they should know
that the people at homo are lighting
with them, standing with them. shool-
der to shoulder.
America In this war has done what
no other nation ever did. She has
carried the presence, the atmosphere
OF home into the camps ACROSS the
seas. that everywhere the soldier may
realize there are fatherly hands to
help him. motherly hands to console
him, friendly hands to entertain him.
Stand Upon One Platform.
Into this splendid work OF sustain
ing the morale Of our fighting men,
of making them realize that we, their
loved ones, are ever with them, the
have thrown themselves generously.
They are again about to appeal to the
American people for the financial sup
port necessary to carry on this work
That work is of a single character,
as expressed by the Secretary Of War
the recreational work for the men
OF our Army and Navy. All these
seven organizations now stand upon
one platform-that Of providing rec
reation, entertainment and home COM
fort for our troops. From that COM
mon platform, all, together with one
the American people.
National Catholic War Council.
which includes the Knights Of Column
bus and other war activities; the
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation, the Jewish Welfare Board,
the Salvation Army. the American
Library Association and the War
Camp Community Service - have
agreed, by direction of the govern
ment, upon definite budgets and all
are working under a general national
committee, upon which all are repre-
scented, for a united war work cam
paign to raise the sum of $17o, 100000.
Enormous Task; Enormous Sum.
Enormous as that sum may be. the
American people will raise it-gen-
erously and gladly. When one con-
siders an Army of more than 1000 900,
a Navy that musters more than 100000
men in its service, the number and
size of our camps, the buildings to be
erected, the secretaries to be main
tanned, the equipment to be fur
nished, the visitors houses to be
built, the community service to be
extended into every city and town
of the country, the protective work
most necessary and vital for all our
people, which this war has given to
US as our share to maintain, one
will see that Nthe sum is none too
great for this enormous task. We
cannot shirk it; we cannot shift it
To attempt to do so would be to prove
false to the men who are giving their
bodies and their lives for our ma
tional safety.
1t is an American campaign. It's
appeal is one that no American may
refuse, and Americas answer will be
another triumphant announcement
that We are in this war as one peo-
pie and as one nation to see It
through to victory.
The National Catholic War Council
is one of the seven organizations that
have united under the government for
the raising of this fund. This means
that the entire Catholic Church of
this country is to summon to the
service of our country all her re-
sources; to voice again in corporate
expression the uneXcelled patriotism
that has ever distinguished her. Hun
dreds of thousands of her children
are in the ranks Of our Army and
Navy.