The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-06
EPISCOP PALIANS PLAN ID CONDUCT
 HUGE CAMPAIGN

New York, Dec. 6-A new mobili- zaion day for peace will dawn throughout the United States tomor- row. Within it's 24 hours, 100000 men and women will be organized into a compact unit to help carry on the work begun by the men who served in France.
 The million are members of the Episcopal church in the United States And this mobilization day is the climax of the Episcopal Nation Wide campaign. For almost year the campaign has been paving the way for the concentration of the en- tire resources of the church behind 8 definite program of practical ser vice which shall be it's part of the task of reconstruction.
 All over the country. tomorrow. 100000 trained canvassers will go
 out to enlist every man. woman and
 child on the rostor of the church be
 hind this program.
 They will undertake national
 plan for Americanizing the foreign
 born in cooperation with the fed eraI Department of the Interior. They
 will seek to discover and to establish
 through the country a substitute for
 the saloon. They will build new
 churches and new community cen-
 ters, establish facilities of education
 in lands remote from civilized insti tutions. They will send medical aid
 to distant countries where 1t is rarely
 within reach. They will help to in crease the capacity of hospitals, and
 of industrial schools and other insti-
 tutions They will make possible so-
 cfaI service work upon a broader
 scale in crowded cities and isolated
 rural districts And they will in
 crease the salaries of underpaid cIergy1nen to a living wage, that
 these may more efficiently direct the
 work of which they are in charge
 These are major provisions of the
 church's program. To carry them
 out the church must recruit 1,500 new
 workers for the home and the foreign fields It must build approximately 2 900 new Idings-churches com mun1ty houses, schools, hospitals and other institutions and centers. And 1t must provide new equipment for hun dreds of others.
 The program of the Nationwide campaign is based upon a recently completed survey of the church's needs and opportunities in the next three years. both in the United States and Is territories, and in Latin America, Africa, China and Japan. The survey was reduced to a practical budget, and this budget calls for $42.OO0.O0O of which s14,oo0, 900 is for the work being done by the Epis- copaI Dioceses in the United States; s1O,0O0,000 for the general mission ar-y work of the church at home, and s1S,OO0.00O for the work in the for efgn field, for religious education and social service, and for expansion of the activities of the church's subsid- iary organizations.
 Not only the leading clergymen Of the church, but it's foremost laymen put them selves behind this program from its inception. Such men have given their services to the direction of the campaign, IS Lewis B. Frank lin. who directed the government war ! loan organization through the five l Liberty Loans, and Henry P. Davison, 1 directing head of the American Red l Cross.
 The personnel OF the commission l in charge of the Nationwide cam paign includes Bis>-op Charles P. An derson of Chicago, chairman; Bishop 1 Charles Sumner Burch of New
 York, vice chairman; Burton Mans l field, New Haven, secretary; MT. l Franklin. chairman executive com mittee; Bishop Joohn G. Murray Of | Maryland, Bishop Arthur. S. Lloyd, | president of the Episcopal Board Of | Missions; Bishop Frederick F. Reese l of Georgia.