The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-10
PEACE MAKES NEED
OF WAR WORK FUND
c R EATER
BY GEORGE w. PERKINS.


New York, Nov. 9.-Men have said
to me in the past few days, III peace
is coming, how much Of the S1lo,oou'-
600 will the seven war work agencies
need?"
And the answer is that those great
agencies which have done so much loi
the comfort and welfare OF our Dogs
will need EVERY CENT of the amount
for which they are asking; yes, and
MILLIONS more.
No man who has read the history
Of great wars can doubt this Tor
moment. For history shows that the
months Immediately following victory
are often more trying and perllous ior
an army than the days of battle tleiii-
selves.
Thousands of men have stood the
perils OF battle, only to have theF
moral fibre loosened and the purposes
undermined in the days of demopi-
lization. That must not happen Ia this
war. No matter when our boys come
home-whether it be at the END OF SIX
months or a year or even two years
they must come as BETTER ana
STRONGER and MORE USEFUL men
than when they went away
1t is for this great task that the
seven war work agencies are plan
ming to equip themselves. with the
funds raised in the United War Work
Campaign.
The thousand athletic directors in
France must remain there, and other
hundreds be added. Athletic supplies,
which the agencies are shipping in
lots that total millions of dollars
worth, must continue to go across
For wholesome outdoor play is the
best cure for inconsistencies and the
dangers of too much leisure.
The movies are being taken to the
boys at the rate Of Is miles of film a
week: they will need movies more
than ever in the next few months.
They will need warmth and comfort;
and often, in those villages where coal
is $50 or $40 ton, the hut is the
only place where boys can be warm
or can write letters home to you.
Every hut will become university |
classroom on the day that victory IS
won. Leading educators from America |
have laid out a comprehensive course |
of study; textbooks are being sent by |
the hundreds of thousands. One or
der was placed last week for two mill |
lion dollars worth. American business |
men will go across with the best teach |
ers on this side, so that your boy |
may come back further along in his |
studies and better equipped for bust
ness than when he went away.
There are six thousand big friend.
ly secretaries in France doing for your
boy What your fathers and brothers |
of America would do if you could go
across.
There are more than a thousand |
woman secretaries. To them the boys |
go, eager to talk with woman in a |
language they can understand: to |
them they show your pictures-you |
mothers and sisters and sweethearts. |
Shall we call those men and women
home now when the boys need. them j,
most?
Shall we stop the movies and the |
baseball games, and the books and |
the monographs and the lectures? |
Shall we shut UP the huts that are
home and church and store and the
alter and club for the boys over !
there? Shall we shut them through |
the long winter days and evenings |
that are coming?
Neveri Tt must never be said OF us !
that we left our task half done We |
have stood by Loyalty through the
hard days of battle: let us stand by |
now through the trying months to
come.
For those months are going to have
a tremendous influence on the life and
character of our boys-and in the
hands Of those boys lies the future Of
America.