Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-05

ik There will De 10 admission to the E
 editorial or composing rooms. R and ver;nin, who furnishes the warm l flreside, the cup of coffee, the dough
 nut and the other little bits of home? 1 Who gives the expression of kindness that every mother and father and 1 brother and sister of every American soldier in France would wish to give to the defenders of America in their hour of terrible sacrifice? The great organizations whom this drive is to finance are to carry on this marvellous work of American love. Who can be hard hearted enough to refuse to give the best that is in him for the sue cess Of such an undertaking? I would be ashamed Of my brother if he failed now to do his full duty to America out on the front lines. My brother and your brother and every man in the service of my country should despise me if I should fail to do my full duty now. There is only one way to trans- late nay love and gratitude for America land Americas defenders now, and that way is by most generous gift of good
 American dollars to the war work fund. Men say they are tired of giv- ling. So are the soldiers tired of bleeding. God help America if our war-wofn soldiers should quit now. God help our soldiers if we stop back
 ing them up now. Until victory tperehes on our banners, until the Hohenzollerns have internationally
 surrendered. until PershipS,s victori- lous crusaders walk proudly down the
 gangplank under the shadow of the
 Statue of Liberty and receive the
 honors due to home coming world , heroes, then only shall the big heart
 ed people of America cease to pour out our generous expressions of love
 and gratitude to our defenders
 Some people ask what is the need of s259,000,000 for this work?" Any
 honest, intelligent person knows well that it costs tremendous sums to serve millions of soldiers in our camps and naval bases, on the high seas. along
 the lines from Bruges to Vefdun
 through the valleys of Italy, among : the passes of the snowy Alps, through Syria and the Holy Land across Rus ! sia, in.the Balkan countries and every l where that Woodrow Wilson's heroes l are fighting to make the world safe
 for democracy" The needs grow every { day. The general wear and tear, the 2 raDid changes and great destructior l that var involves, the rapidly in = creased numbers of American soldiers
 land sailors and flyers and marines, al s pile terrible burdens of expense Of
 s4ch organization that the govern ; ment has employed to help our boys . soon to win the worst war of history The seven organizations for whom w - are asked to work during this drive { keep up the fighting spirit of our he. 1oI- pI Nv mentally and phyhicalIy All ar'
 working in the same field and all asl
 Jus to combine uor resources to he'l
 them in their work. We give our boy for the common cause of Americai ' l,hohor Why not likewise combine ou e gifts of money for the same purpose e We Catholics go into this campaign n with no desire to make Q specia S Catholic drive or to' collect any specia f lump sum. As fair minded Americal T citizens we have organized from tn q 10000 Catholic parishes of Americ f an army of one million intelfgent A honest broad minded, active. willin g workers, all ready to take orders iron : our commander, John P. Mott to q - anything that he and his subordinate - deem necessary for the success of thi o drive. Our Catholic noys have neve e failed in heroic patriotism along tn
 battle line Their Catholic fellow cit e iZens will stand second to none i - generosity back home. We must fuk Il and blend and bind together every en n ergy and influence in America 10 carr t this great campaign to successfu ii outcome. There never was a time i k the history of America when practica 2 unity among all our citizens was S e necessary. In the words of Bisho - Milan, we must bury our animositie T. and combine our resources to produc z the desired success in this drive. Le e us pray God that every dollar and ev d cry sacrifice that we put into thi |, work may serve to bind us all--Cath e folie, Protestant, Jew and unbeliever- u together more closely than ever, nc e merely as heighbors and fellow cit! IS Zens. but as brothers in the grea " family of liberty loving peoples.
 d Following Rev. T7r. Keefe's tall ,- Chairman Gale introduced Rev. 1t Roneyn Danforth of New London, wil 1t in his talk spoke of the way that a ,e nations, all creeds and all peop 1t should pull together in this great wor 4- of providing the seven greatest wa le work organizations with funds d carry on the great work of keeping U
 the morale of the boys in the arm - and navy and in giving them touc II this country and abroad. The gfeate! word in the English language, quote q Rev. MT. Danfefth, is the word t( ). gether. This one word means mucl
 Nations cannot exist if they do not gt B together; the family must work tc 8 gether, and the individual must wor } tremendously with his neighbor if bi g things are to he done. This is tF 6 greatest sum of money ever asked fC 3 a people to contribute and if the peep 6 are going to put it over they must a
 pull together.
 After Rev Mr. Danforth had con
 pleted his talk. Chairman Gale read 4 letter from W. c. Bushnell, sta
 chairman of the campaign, which con 10 plimented Norwich upon assuming Il ', squota of $100,Q00 and Campaign Diret 4 tor Case for the exposition of u '' Norwich plan which he made at Il
 Boston meeting. and said that the No 5 wicll example had proved most helpf B arg Stimulating throughout the stat I6 Campaign Director James L. Ca 70 gave the tearI members Ihejr final il ,s structions regaTding the coIrFassiH '' ] of every person in the city The pl5
 of the canFlss has been outlined
 4 the press before but Car9palgn Dire 10 tor Case brought out many new poin l0 that will be of benefit to the tta 70 workers to secure subscriptions. Eat 4 l team member was instructed to r 10 port all refusals to contribute and 10 get the individual signature on ca,
 pledge It was also state1 that an, Il one desiring to contribute in Iiber
 Bonds might 1o so at their n3r yah