Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-06
MOBILIZATION OF
EP|SC0P PAL|ANS
Start Will be Made Tomorrow in
Every Parish of the Dcnomi-
nation in the Country.

A new mobilization day for pracn viii
dawn throughout the United States to-
morrow. Within ite q hours, 1000, 600
men and women will be organized into
compact unit TO help carry on the work
begun by the men who served in France
The million are members of the Episco-
pal Church In the United States. And
this mobilization day is the climax Of Tho
Episcopal nationwide campaign. For
almost q year the campaign has brcn
paving the way for the concentration of
the entire resources of the church behind
a definite program OF practical service
whicIt shall be it's part Of the task Of ru
construction
All over the country, tomorrow, 100000
trained canvassers will go out to enlist
every man, woman and child on the roster
OF the church behind this program.
They will undertake national plan
for Amsricanizing the foreign-boru IN CO.
operation with the Federal Department OF
the Interior. They will seek 10 discover
and to establish shrougt the country
substitute for the saloon. They will build
new churches and new community cen
ters, establish facities of education IN
lands remote from civilized institutions.
They will send medical aid 10 distant
countries where II Is rarely within reach.
They will help to increase the capacity OF
hospitals, and Of industrial schools and
other institutions They will make pos
slble social service work upon broader
scale in crowded cities and Isolated rural
districts And they will increase the salar-
les Of underpaid clergy1nen to living
wage. that these may morr efficiently
direct the work Of which they are IN
charge.
These are major provisions Of the
church's program. J o carry thcin out ttf
church must recruit 800 new worker
for the homo and the foreign nrids II
must build approximately 2, 900 new h'nld-
churches. community houses, schools
hospitals and other institutions and cen
ters And it must provide new equipment
for hundreds Of Others
Tie program Of the nationwide cau.
paien is based upon a recently completed
survey Of the church's needs and opnor-
tllnitios in the next thrcc years, both ID
the tnlted States and its territories, and
in Latin America Africa, China and
Jsnan The survey was reduced TO q
practical budget, and this budget call
for SO. 900. 600 Of which x1i,WH,Vto IS
for the work taing done by the Episcopal
dioceses in the United States; $4,000 ,0OO
for the general missionary work ni the
church at home. and SIS. 1000, 900 Tor the
work in the foreign field, for religious
education and social service, and Tor eX-
pansion Of the activities Of the churchs
subsidiary organizations.
Not ONLY tho lHading clergvmrn OF the
church. but its foremost laymen put them
selves lehind this program from Its m
ception such men hayp gwen their
services to the direction Of the campaign as
Lewis B. Franklin. who directed the gov
crnment war loan organization through
the five liberty loans, and Henry !.
Dawson. directing head of the American
Red Cross
The personnel Of the commission IN
charge Of the nationwide campaign IN
cludes Bishop Charles P. Anderson OF
Chicago, chairman, Bishop Charles Sum
ner Burch of New York, vice-charman;
Burton Mansfield, New Haven, Conn,
secretary; Mr.. franklin, chairman eSecu-
tive committee; Bishop John q. Murray OF
Maryland, Bishop Arthur ;. Lloyd, presl-
dent OF the Episcopal Board Of Missions;
Bishop Frederick /. Reese OF Georgia
Rev. Or Ernest NJ. Stircs, New York
City; Rev. DR.. Z. ;. Rousmaniere, bos-
ton; Rev. DR.. 7 T. Freeman, Minneapo-
lis Rev. Dr. William II. Milton. Whining
ton. \. c; Rev DR. Alexander Mem,
Boston; Rev + H. Nelson, Cincinnati,
Henry P Dawson, New York City,
George Wharton Pepper, Philsdelphia;
Oliver J. sands, Richmond, Va. James 4.
strong, short Hills, y j.; George c.
Thomas, Baltimore; Charles " Folds.
Chicago. George G. MackAy, st. Louis;
Governor r. 1 Manning Sumter, :. g;
Reynolds d Brown, Philadelphia; ". n.
Baldwin. Garden City, |. l., Frank A.
Nanderlip New York City; + G. More
house, Milwaukee; DR. John " Wood,
New York CITY; Robert II Gardiner,
Gardiner, Ne, and W Y Kellen Bee-
ton