The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-15
Miss Jones. Capt. Allen
and Gypsy Smith in
the Drive.
INCREASE IN TOTAL.
One Days Pay Plan
Proves Popular With
1 Employees of All the
Large Plants.

The women's committee OF the
fintted War Work Campaign commit
- held an enthusiastic meeting al
the auditorium of the Jefferson hotei
~ o'clock yesterday afternoon and
Sssrs addressed by GYPSY Smith. Cap
tain r. Muir Allen. of the British
4rmy, and Miss Caroline Jones.
Following the speaking business
meeting was held and plans for the
thorough house to house canvass by
she women were completed. Regard
lexs OF the work OF the men and wo-
men are determined to Ike direct
appeal to the women OF this city 10
exceed the quota allotted to Richmond
and to place this city squarely behlho
four boys over there
The brief, but eloquent. appeal OF
Gypsy Smith was enthusiastically ap-
p3Auded. his words having gone TO the
hearts of every mother, wife, sister
and sweetheart The men in the
audience cheered his every utterance.
Al the outset GYPSY Smith made IL
pain that ne was bringing a message
from "our boys over there and our
boys In the sense that they are not
limited by any particular creed or
faith They are all our boys
.-They are the nohiest boys in the
worid--Russ!ans, Serhians. Montehe-
kYAIS. lldttdhSs DC8Etabcs
nr4stsh and Americans, Poor little
Heigium, Denuded OF all that waa
keautiful. Three hundred and nifty
AActisand Of her sons have fallen IN
battle and her women and children
have been bayoneted and outraged ps
Ethe oncoming Hun. The casualty 'ist
u France numbers 100000 And 40
-,inn- know that four years before 6 :, M :
kelTnited States entered the war $4,000
yAaserfcaHsL is, crossed the Canadian
l,nTsiar and fought under tha iaritisla,
nag?
THE British official casualty list
numbers 2aoo.a0 out OF which Bss
1.Ge0. 600 of her sons have been
hurried This is more than one 10
every home. In many families every
male member has been slain ana
Inoshers Nil the asyiums- hut Eng
land had only one thought and that
was that II it had taken the last man
Ne would have seen IL through.
.AH Our Boys"
.I speak OF my boys and / don't
know the difference between an
American and Britisher. between a
Protestant and Romanist. between
Jew and a Gentle How can we
hook askance at any when Jews ana
Protestants and Eomanists died to-
rether for one cause? And when you
rpt a chance give hack some of that
religion and don't talk OF religious
.cr,,ries- The more seruples you have
the less religion. When you say my
religion Il soon becomes the religion
and by the same reasoning ina. yoH1
an your hathtub with water and call
/ the ocean.
.4The majority of our honored dead
xrere Roman Catholics and II was
& their death which assured your liher-
ties and freedom. SO don't talk about
religious scrupies: II you do get out
INF The country where your liberties
were made safe by their death.
Unfolding q banner of allied hags
tsvnsy Smith cried out: Are there
H any here 70 reiig1ously and humanefy
NJ email ~ to refuse to give, saying that
E - cannot give because all the boys
b are not members of their church,"
ssYou say that the war Is over and
there il no reason to give. What have
We got? An armistice signed by 2
& rovernment that no longer exists. II
Il T.ermany IL telling the truth 1t is for
N u ~ first time In her life. Remember
thia. SELF spells Germany, the
stnr of the Lusitania and the out
rnring OF Belgian and French. Give
ana give freely by making some sac
! rIfice in return for the supreme sac
rifce that our boys made?
$ I'VE need your money for the rum
ming expenses of Germany
sl3fye In the same spirit OF an arm
n l~sa and heroic American soldier who,
II ,when pitied by an acquaintance in
this country that he had his arm
( taken away answered: didn't lose
N Shat arm; / gave 1t gladly Can you
rive enough to repay boys like that
Il And II you refuse can you lay your
y Nnnd OF, your pillow and think OF their
willing sacrifice?
~ CAPTAIN Allen then spoke to the
IN audience in an earnest and quiet
II senanner. Captain Allen was with the
u Yaratish army in 1914 at the battle OF
1nra and later was gassed 80 that his
I R~art i still affected. He presented
shn true spirit OF sacrifice Of our boys
M Sver there and appealed to the great
n Seart OF America" to answer the call
1 "A their boyA For now. when war IL
\ nver ana the discipline OF the war II
M rslaxed, the temptations will become
n ,.ranffold and the work OF the seven
" Examinations is multiplied to great
Ss extent.
Niss Caroline Jones recounted the
Of the Y. w. c. A. and told oil
1ke great work of the women In
aenpa and In American ard of their
mart In winning the war Show.
Il Sa how the present war had proved
scnn doubt that victorious army
* not be surrounded with .crims
A3eeaSe Mis- Jones' plead that ths
N people do not deeer. oul
NJ g &c
i3 $4,000 = R1sa HivAl