Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-16
Msn Seys ''Y'' i Il
Debt For Var Work

New York, Jan. 1.-the Y. NJ. c. A,
has no fund Of 500 900 900 unspent aud
IL operating today ON borrowed money
declared John X. Mott. chief executive
OF the Y. NJ. G. A. national war work
council, replying TO the dispatch OF
Edwin l.. james. published recently
which gave the reasons why the Y. NJ
q. A. was unpopular with the Amer
lean soldiers.
The very nrst thing that impressed
me with Mr.. James story" he said
was the fact that people reading II
would got the idea that the Y. NJ, G. A.
is-rolling In money! and that there Ia
likely To he n surplus. The facts are
thuIe We had used up by oct last
all ot our funds, which was so gener-
ously given by the American people
In oar financial drive of the autumn
OF 1917. We then had the united war
work campaign OF November last, and
in the interval between the campaigns
We hard to conduct our vas, work on
borrowed money. We had deficit.
AS viii be recalled, the united war
WORK campaign brought In S20S,o0o,ooo
To the seven ORGANIZATIONS participant
ing. OF that sum, only about S15,0o0,'
O0O has SO far been paid into the cam
paign's treasury, II was decided re-
Gently to pay 20 per cent OF each
ORGANIZATIONS pro rata share or the
proceeds Of the campaign. The Y, ~,
6. A. received its 20 per cent about
so. OO0, OO0. This was all expended on
Dec. 81. and We taen had TO borrow
s.. 000. 600. Since then We have Dor
rowed 100000 more, and have mr.
ranged to borrow. within "A few DAYS.
another 81 500, zoe. Thus within ten
days we will be paying interest on SIS
900 900"
DR. Mott declared that the signing OF
the arm!sticc had disarranged the
plans Of all organizations working
overseas. and added that at a meeting
held last month al the Hotel Biltmore,
new budgets had been drawn mp. He
said that the budget OF the Y. NJ. c. A.
had been forwarded to Secretary Baker
and to Secretary Daniels for them To
examine, alter or approve. He expected
that much additional light would be
obtained on the work of the Y. VI. {.
\ abroad when George w. Perkins and
Mortimer l.. Schff. members OF the Y
NJ. &. A. finance committee now In
France, make their reports.
Says ~" Canteens Lost Money.
AS for the criticism OF the " cam
teens" DR. Mott continued, in all OF
them we have brought down the prices
OF all articles. AS "A result we lost, up
to oct. 81. about 100000 francs and
we expect hes, vier losses for November
and December when the reports FOR
these months are at hand BEGINNING
on the first OF this month we stsrteh
to sell in the Canteen,s at the same
prices charged in the army canteens
and we have an agreement with Gen
eral Pershng that. should there be any
profit. all income above our outlay viii
he devoted to the good of the men in
the service.
Point No. - said DR.. Mott. relates
to the personnel. I want to express N
the strongest manner possible my
agreement OF the entire association.
with Mr.. James position that mist axes
have been made in the choice OF GER
tam workers, the same as he VIII
freely admit mas been done in all
agencies called upon to recruit large
numbers of men and women on sud
den call TO meet untried and different
conditions. We have no object in re-
tanning incompetent workers, and l,
for one weed them out as soon as !
hear of them.
In regard TO the complaint that the
V NJ. c. 4. is devoting too much time