Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-06
| M. c: A. OUTLINES PLANS.
FLOR GREAT FUND DRIVE.
John Kerr Branch and Carter Glass
Elected Members OF Committee
S. Preliminary TO Campaign.
EEK TO RAISE 500, 900
Demands Upon Or
ganization In France Make Urgent
Large Budget Immediately to Con-
& tinuc Work.


Large Budget Immediately to Con-
tinuc Work.
~ Preliminary to the Y. NJ. 9. A. gen
ffS:eral campaign in Virginia, the national
SEwRr work council at its conference in
iENew York City Monday afternoon
John Kerr Branch. OF Rich
ss1lSFnond. and Congressman Carter Glass,
skof Lynchburg. members OF the cam
sSpaign committee for the State. The
gssassociation is now conducting a cam
Sspaign for zoo secretaries for foreign
ssservices to I'll most unusual demand.
ait is expected that other activities
4swill be started by tho Virginia commit
sAtee In the next few weeks. Another
AsRtchmonder in attendance on the New
,AYork conference was John Stewart
& Bryan.
~ The conference Monday was the an
S:nual meeting OF tho national war work
council of the Y. w. c. A., and il was
3 decided TO initiate 4 campaign for $780,
8 600, 600 to defray the expenses OF the
organization for the coming year. The
Z meeting was attended by about 800
prominent business men from various
rs parts OF the country and large num-
skber OF Y. NJ. G. a. secretaries. The
q speakers included DR.. John r. Mott,
fkgeneral secretary. who told of his ex-
tperiences In France, and outlined the
sireasons for the large budget: George
4 w. Perkins, chairman of the finance
4 committee. who read the financial re-
n port OF last years work. and Justin
Il Godart- former secretary of war OF
s Franco William Sloan, chairman of
# the executive committee, presided.
I DR. MOTT TELLS OF NEEDS
81 FOR GREAT WORK IN FRANCE
Detailing the reasons for the fund of
4 500. 600, 900, DR.. Mott said that unex-
IA pected losses have to be met. Within
& the last i've six days the Germans
n have captured $50 foyers du soldat.
4 known to the Americans as the '"Y. NJ.
& G.. A" huts. he said The association has
s. appropriated 100000 TO replace eighty
81 nine huts and dug-outs lost by the
* British Y. NJ. c. Ain Flanders and
& Picardy during the recent drive. After
n telling OF the may moral religious and
< spiritual phases of American life that
A the Y. NJ. c. 4. must present to the
y American soldier, DIR. Mott said that
the organization was the only one that
4 could do this work on adequate
4 scale.
1--WE have 10 dr over there to
Il large extent what twelve or fourteen
4 agencies are trying TO do this side
I. of the Atlantic he said. The second
K reason Is that over there the forces
are scattered Over here we are ia
n miliar with the great environments
X where 10000 10000 or 10000 men
are massed IN each. You will find In
3 France a division OF less than 10000
= scattered IN thirty to sixty villages. I
{ heard OF two divisions that had arrived
in France and the association had only
!; one secretary to place al their disposal
s These sold!erg are hillctcd in small
h groups all ov,r the villages.
II had luncheon recently with Gem
( eral PershinS, and with great eagerncss
q he ventured 10 say that in his judg-
ment, not In the history OF mankind
I has there been a body OF men averaE-
ing higher IN personality and charac-
I ter. going forward on n more impor-
! tant errand. and animated by purer
motives or higher principles. wish
/ the whole American people could have
looked into his eyes and have heard
his vibrating voice as he spoke with
/ such intimate knowledge and convic-
tion."
COUNTRY DIVIDED INTO
SIX CAMPAIGN DISTRICTS
The recommendation that 100000
oco be raised was made by the budget
! committee. OF which Cyrus H Nc.
Cormick is chairman and was unani-
mously adopted by the council The
amount Is 10 be obtained in six ter.
ritorisl districts, as follows North
h
Hampshire. Vermont Massa chusetts
Connecticut and Rhode. Island. Slo,-
100000; Eas,efA. dfHartmcnt-New
York, New Jertey. Pennsylvania. Della
ware, Maryland. Virginia. District OF
Columbia and Island OF Porto Rico
s44.ooo,ooo: Southeastern department
Tennessee, North and South Carolina.
Georgia, Florida Ala bana, Mississippi
Louisiana and Arkansas. 100000:
Central depar;ment-West Virginia
Kentucky. Ohio, Michigan. Indiana,
Illinois. Wisconsin, Minnesota, North
Dakota South Dakota, Iowa. Missouri
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. SAL
1000 Southern dcpartment--Texas
Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona
100000 and Western department.
Washington, Oregon Idaho, Montana
Wyoming. California. Nevada. Utah
and the Territory Of Alaska $4,000. 300
Among those present were +. IT,
Baker, publisher Cleveland Plain Deal
er; A e. Bedford, president Standard
Oil Company; Edward Bok. editor La
dies Home journal; Mortimer L. SchiN
banker; Richard NJ Colgate. l.. A. Bros
sett, Cleveland il. Dodge, NJ II. Dodge.
General T. ColrnaR Du Pont. John j.
Egan. of Atlanta; william Feliowes
Morgan. William Cooper Proctor. OF
Cincinnati; lie Roy Percy. formerly
United states senator from Missis-
sippi: william J. Shepherd. George Otis
Smith, Washington, y. c.. II. II. Tinken
Canton, Ohio; Rodman Wanamakcr.
Bishop Luther Wilson. william
Sloan. Bruce Barton James g. Forgan
OF Chicago; Ralph W HARRISON. Of
Pittsburgh L s Hartnes. George w.
Perkins. Arthur Curtis James, Herbert
. L. Pratt, +. J. Kings bury. &. s. Krcsge.
>of Detroit; James ~. Rockhard. OF
Pittsburgh (. " McAlpin. Cyrus II
Mccormick. 81 Chicago; Alfred e.
4 irY o.
e. Is. Leacham. Of Cincinnati: Cover
nor Carl Il. MlliEan. Of Maine. and
John Stewart Bryan. Of Richmond
Give Benefit Picture Exhibition
Aerial warfare was depleted in sew.