The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-11-07
QUOTA INCREASED.
Reasons Why Fulton County J. Asked
to Raise Sl5.OOo Instead Of S9.l57

NI~ NJ JOY I union county I.ffIu tH
hecu raised frum S.il57 to Si-i.0su 60
. fhr drive Co start next Monday. Th.
reasons are set ouf in message from
llf Mott. general director. a~ follows
First Conditions are changing
constantly More men ARE over-cH'
now ih..n Go WAS considered pos~ihi,
fo move 900 thar length of Time Is.r
sunall lly = believe, fhe end of the stiu1
gle j. TAR away. Even though tie end
should come next muufh we viii -haNt
to reckon with fhc welfare uf mill
liou more MON than wr Iigurl-i ou last
May when uur budgets were uadr uI
and 90. k-d hy fhe war department.
Sccond lu framing our budgets
I tho navy was left uuf. When we rH-
/ fcred iie war we iad less fhau -iH
7 ships fy Christmas wr win have
2uuH pur navy to,luy g. larger fhan
an the naric~ of the world combined
faf fhs beginning Of fhr war Iook
what that navy has dune- Transport
ed over two million mon overseas with
las- thar 800 lives lo~f. Nothing in
/ HISTORY compares with if
~Thiri This h. war 90 iAe cutir.
people n b. al~u "a war Of machines
ln every war thc burden ha- 1c.u
heavier ou Tire women and this once
[
the women in munifion work Eleven
million graves are now filled and mil
lions Of manned must re provided for.
We viii see the effects of this war in
the hcnt backs 81 the women of thi.
and coming generations.
Fourth The center of era witty OF
war has been shifted from this side
to the other or. to put ir in another
WAY. the center ~ the heart interest
of America has been overseas. have.
fouched ,e. States recently and every
where iu the home uf TIE Ioor and
the rich. we see tiIe service stars.
"Fiffh Welfare work bears dis
prupvrfiouufe increase in the war
Gcncr.h per>hius admitted six swell
fare hulie~ fo tle military zune. The
only One in our combined oreauizn-
fiau which doses not work overseas o.
fhe War Camp Community service
Tht~c six hodit~ are asked fo du rhr
work of - ur 4o welfare aerncic~ I
The men in E4auce are 0it idtd u.ia
small groups which are moved quicklv
~ one 81 tloSc small groups of about
800 men Ia France. near the firing line
! found my own son eating and living
in The mud and the rain. What Amer
icsu father or mother with a SON
OVERSEAS viii not mortgagr a lot or
farm to have his or her son a. warm
and comfortable a. possible
-SiNth-Whut link in the chain shall
We leave outs Your boys and mine are
kept in touch with q welfare agency
from the time De- lcaves home until
be- gets back The greatest danger r.
no,v approaching with winter coming
ou in those forests and mountains ]
know what that viii be- because ] have
seen o. We must follow the men into
the enemv prison camps Before We
entered the war I inspected the Ger
man prison camps I know what they
were then and God help our men now
The greatest danger in the prisen
camp l. insanity and welfare wori.
keeps the soldier occupied.
--Sevcnth-This i comprehensiv"
service " must take the American
home libra ry college. club. stage. gym
na ~ium. athletic fields. churches. and
~ynasnglies o. the men Surrly the
American people will not allow W. 90
drop one of these
"Eighth-We cannot neglect our al I
lies. For three long years before we
recognized our duty. they saw theirs. I
have made i've trips to Europe since /
1914 The \ NJ. q. A. which | repre- 4
~cnted put up the first French foyer
do ~ol,iut or. fireSide. a. the French /
term IL. We did il only after repeated /
a attempts with French army officials I
Finally one general said he would al /
low one hut in one spot with one man
Ia charge 20 try II ont. We have just 1
dedicated our one th"uSandih foyer du
~oldaf. Every one OF the thousand
wuS made possible aud was supported
10y American money. | Ssiw y. Nj. &.
a hufS in the Alps GOun feet up. I
IL. a..
Russia. across Siberia. ga prison camps .
IN Macedonia. Egypt. Palestine. East /
Africa. NO longer German. and India. I
Where shall we begin o. Withdraw
thems
-Nnth-After all. war T. nothing
but emergencies and surprise AMI
that's what we must get ready for.
Last spring / sailed Tor Europe the
day the big German drive was launch
ed. While I was there II was report /
ed 20 me that ~ hut~ had been de
stroyed. l immediately offered Amer
lean money. surplus left over from the
v NJ. q. 4. campaign last year. 10 re-
build them. Within two weeks our
own American soldiers were In those
huts. although We had no notion Of Il !
when We rebuilt them. When l got
hack a. New York. the Germans were
at the Marine and 1O2 foyer du soldats
were destroyed. We rebuilt them az
once and before long our own men
were enjoying them The same thing
happened In Italy aud today the Amer
leans are reviewed ia Italy with 0peu
arms.
'.Tenth-We must be ready. when
peace comes. - that the period of de-
mobilization shall not ~ a period Of
deuoraiization. IL takes time 20 pre-
pare. | do not fear FOR our boys when
they are ON their toes. bur I fear for
them when they are relaxed At the
close Of tue franco-pruS~ian war IL