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viewpoint. One drive prevents any
possible misinterpretation."
This telegram puts the case for q
Joint drive in a nutshell. Following
Supreme knight Flaherty's recent
statement in the press 1t crystallizes
American Catholic opoinion on the
subject. And the whole situation has
nowhere been better expressed than
in leading editorial in the current
issue of America:
United Effort Needed
1.-The great results obtained by the
agencies engaged in helping the men
behind the guns are attributed to
united effort. From the front-line
trenches to the camps at home a
chorus of approval has greeted the
work done by the different organiza-
lions occupied in soldier and sailor
welfare-work. All have labored
together as one man. The first men
ace to this splendid union has come
with the announcement that there
are to be two separate drives for
funds to finance the work Of the diff
ferent organizations. According to
the press notices from Washington
the reason given for separate drives
is due to different financial year
periods. This is all the more sur
prising, as the fiscal-year difficulty was
not mentioned at the recent meeting
of the representatives of all the or
CARNATIONS in Washington when the
Knights of Columbus put themselves
on record as favoring joint drive at
such a time as seemed best to the
Government
"At this meeting DR.. John r. Mott,
speaking for the Y. M. G. A. and the
Y. w. G. A., declared that these or
CARNATIONS were opposed to joint
drive because those who supported
the Y. M. C. A. and the public to whom
the Y. M. G. A. looked for its support
after the war were unwilling to en-
ter combined drive in which two
of the organizations engaged in war
work were included. At another
meeting of the war work agencies a
nationwide joint drive was again dis
cussed and DR.. Mott was asked if
there had been any change in the at
titude of his organization. He answer
ed that he could report no change.
This official protest against two
drives has been entered by Bishop
Hayes and Bishop Muldoon in the
name of the National Catholic War
Council, the body that directs all
war-work in America:
1--WE most sincerely hope that the
announcement of the divided drive
does not reflect the final judgment of
the government. For unity, economy
and Americatization let us have only
one drive which, without doubt,
would be an immense success from
every viewpoint. One drive prevents
any possible misinterpretation."
"The Supreme Knight of the knights
of Columbus has also voiced the
opinion of the Order deprecating the
separate-drive proposal in a telegram
to the Secretary of War:
II earnestly trust that the rumor
that you are to order two joint drives
for recreation funds-one for the
Catholics and Jews and the other for
the Y. M. G. A. and three other agen-
cies-is not true. This would be
drawing a religious line in time of
war that cannot fail to cause great
criticism and disturbance throughout
the country. l am sending a copy of
this wire to Chairman Fosdick."
Religious Lines Drawn
Catholic, Protestant and Jew have
worked shoulder to shoulder for the