New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
War Work Plans
To Be Outlined
At Great Meeting
Urgency for Oversubscrib-
ing SITS, 500, 600 Fund
VIII Be Outlined
Sec. Baker to Speak
Sousa, Car,rso, Billy Sundays
Choir and Paulist Choris-
tiers VIII Be Present

I>gent necessity fer tremendous
ever subscription 60 the sr7o, so0, 900
United War Work fund will be out
lined this afternoon IN Madison Square
Garden. Interest manifested in the
distribution OF tickets yesterday indi-
Gated the meeting viii De the most
notabel, not only in point of numbers,
but in the many religious sects gath
cred for one purpose, ever held IN that
historic structure.
Secretary of War Baker is expected
TO disclose many hitherto unpublished
secrets of his trip abroad when he
speaks. Incidentally, he viii tell just
what he saw OF the work OF the seven
allied organizations shat are carrying
nome comforts to the front Line
trenches Charles Evans Hughes, who
will preside. has taken u personal in
terest IN the drive and will outline
series Of suggestions for the benefit
OF canvassers. John D Rockefeller,
Jr.. chairman of the general committee.
VII make the principal speech for that
organization.
Although practically all of the seats
are reserved. it was stated that no res
CREATIONS would be held after 3:I5
O'Clock The speaking will begin ff-
teen minutes later
Sousa and Carousa
Sousas Band. Carousa. Billy Sun
days choir of 1000 voices and the
Paullst choristers viii furnismh the
musical programme
douglas Fairbanks, OF motion pict-
ure fame, and Mr.. Rockefeller en-
Ivened the business hours of the after
noon IN the national Headquarters. SO
Vanoerblt Avenue, when they ap-
peared before The entrance to the
building and werefilmed in character
istlc poses Clad in soiled pair of
overalls. the moving picture star fin
lsned dig sign announcing the pur-
poses or the campaign. leaped from the
ladder and announced ne was going TO
make tour or the continent, the r1r-
pose OF which was "to back the public
up against the wall and take the money
away from it,
When asked to pledge himself to
raise a stated part OF the fund. Mr.
Falroanks took piece of paper from a
desk and wrote in d bold scrawl:
twenty-five million dollars"
Few minutes later whaki-clad SOL
dler, wounded and unable to move his
lower limbs, was wheeled I'D bv a Red
Cross nurse.
i want to make the first contr;hu-
ton to that fund you Just pledged he
said
Dupont Makes Talk
The workers about the offices left
their desks and cheered while the
wounded man wrote his name, Gaylord
NJ Conroy, i6zvh Infantry, on the first
page of new ledger and handed a.
So note TO Mr.. Fairbanks.
General 7. Coleman dupont, who has
returned from u two months visit to
the American front IN France, esti-
mated yesterday that if peace were to
De attained tomorrow the demobiiiza-
ton Of the expedirionary forces would
take two years.
This face" he said, gives double
Importance to the United War Work
campaign, which I am glad to find IS so
well under way. One who has not
lived with our boys cannot imagine
how vitality important the service of
these seven great organizations is. No
one who has studied the history of
other wars can overstate their irnpor-
lance IN the period of rehabilitation. -