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Have you a boy at the Front? If so,
what are ybu ddtKg'lo'keep the MHbme-
Fireb" burning, for him, and to brin hirft
back as clean ;and strong as when you
saw him go? If ybtf have rib boy tHer.
what are you doing for somebody else's
boy who. is there in his place serving
YOUR country, as well; as his own?
The messages and the appeals ori thi3
paj?e are to YOU, in either case. What
will you do about it?
The least you CAN do is to read every
vrord on this page. Then the least you
WILL do is what is asked of EVERY
PERSON in Wilmington.
$35,000,000 NEEDED.
Million? of soldiers each month thank God'for the fnbhd
!y V. M. C. A. centers as a relief from the hard, cold life
f.:' camps and trenches. But it takes millions of dol
1; ; s to continue and to extend this vital home touch to
kr-cp these home ties from breaking.
At the meeting of the National War Work Council of
the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United
S: 't held at the 'Bankers Club, in New York City, Sep-
tuber 21, 1917, and largely attended by members from
:.:vy section of the country, the program for this War
v ',: !: to July 1, 1918, was faced with solemn earnestness.
Reports based on accurate and painstaking investigations
i: leat.d that at least $35,000,000 would be required to
. the needs with any adequateness. It was with a
s :.-:e of deep conviction and obligation as well as confi
i' ;.c(- thcit ihe National War Work Council voted unani
1 usly to set aside the period November 11th to 19$h in-
H:sivc. to undertake the raising, of this large sum of mon
, -. thn !r,.rgc f: ever called for at one time for any similar
purpose. ,
It i:; proposed to distribute these funds as follows:
Yd:- work with U. S. Army and Navy Men m this
country $11,120,000
For Work with U. S. Army and Navy Ivlen
Overseas 11.994,000
For V. M. C. A. Work in Russian Army . .'. . . . 3,305,00')
For Y. IT. C. A. Work in the French Army 2,649,000
For Y. M. C. A. Work in the Italian Army 1,000,000
For Y. M. C. A. Work in the Prisoner cf War
Camps 1,000,000
Total 31,068,000
In addition to above budgets to provide for in
evitable exDansion 3,932,000
Grand Total $35,000,000
The estimated cost of the other phases of the war to the
Touted States government is over $50,000,000 a day. Shall
not the American people contribute at -7nsi -"35 000 000
for n.'ne months of thn constructive work of the Y. M. C. A.
among American troops, among the 14,000,000 and more
iroopr. of our Allies and for the 6,000,000 prisoners of war?
?rIiilions for defense through war; millions also for the de
fn;:c of oi:r warriors !
A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT WILSON.
TO JOHN R. MOTT:
"Mav I not, in view of the approaching meting of the
Y;-r Work Council, express to you the very high value I
have attached to tho work which has been accomplished by
Hie Young Men's Christian Association in bphalf of our
own Army raid Navy as wel as in behalf of the prisoners-of-wor
5nd (he men in the training camps of Europe, and
iiiny I not express also my interest in the large plajis of
the War Work Council for the work which is still ahead
of tho Aseociation?"
NEWTON D. SAKER, Secretary of War.
"For many years the Y. M. C. A. has been established as
a prominent feature of army life in times of peace. The
wnr, however, has developed for it a large degree of pronii
r.t ;-.c?e far larger and a fiefild of usefulness far wider than
even its friends could have uoped. Its capacity for mobi
1!:: 1 1 ion on a large scale and the readiness with which
i! has fitted itself to the needs o the troops in traming
p;: and trenches in this great world-war make it an
;;vli: pmsable factor in any future military plans. It pro
vhie , for the social side the home side of the life of the
sr.Pi; -r and its influence in rationalizing the strange envir
onment into which this crisis has plunged our young men
has been and vill be most efficient."
PERSHING SAYS: IT'S IMPORTANT
A Paris Cable from General Pershing to John R. Mott
"Tho work now being done by the Young Men's Chris
tian Association for the comfort and entertainment of our
soldiers in France is very important. As an organization
it:-, moral influence is highly beneficial. It performs a real
r rvice that makes for contentment. The Young Men's
H-r'mMan Association has won its place by unselfifish per-r-nnsl
devotion to the soldiers' welfare and deserves staunch
s'-pnort bv our peoole at home."
EMPEY. AUTHOR OF "OVER THE TOP" SPEAKS FOR
THE ASSOCIATION WORK OVERSEAS
(From an interview in the New York Times)
"Then." he went on, with a change of tone, and with ad
miration in his voice that showed how he felt before he
l.r.d got to the end of his sentence, "there is the Y. M. C.
A. You people in America ought to do everything you can
to help the Y. M. C. A. It is the real home of the Ameri
tidier in France. It can't give him his loved ones,
h'u it rnves him the comforts and interests and pleasures
f h-.ri:.-'. It brings home to him there in the mud of the
iron' ho. And those Association men. aren't drawing any
wonderful salaries, either; they are volunteers, and they
nr. in the midst of tne mud and the firing, as the sol
" - are. to make the soldiers comfortable and help him
ir.r.fniain the religion and the manliness that he had when
hf vent into the war. The Y. M. C. A; doesn't make any
distinction 'in any way Protestant, Catholic, Jew, atheist,
r" -.y one is welcome.
"Show me the soldier who makes a disparaging remark ,
"out the Y. M. C. A. or its wortc, and I'll show you a sol-
i)o is a detriment to the army, who is constantly m
Miblo, and who has lost the respect of officers ana mates.
i'.p to you people here at home to help the Y. M. C. A,
I'd like to foil pverv mother in America," he added,
, no matter what her boy is when he goes into the
lie ii bo a manlier man when he comes out of it.
ii! ho Tnro r.oif-rpiiant more courageous; a great qual-
' v of justlco and fair play will have been instilled into him.
And the army is a great leveler; the highbrow, the rough
ek, the wise-and the otherwise are all on the same plane,
f ating for the same cause, and dH fighting for you. The
foul heaver' Enn onri tho millionaire's son, marching side
id" shnrimr iho ottmo, lif and in iUSt the -Same Q"J8'-i
oilier; a Cerman bullet is no respecter of social posi
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Ex-Presldent Taft SAya: "We should feel proud of the
Y. M. C. A. work so ably directed. Are we going to be
backward in, giving our men the nearest thing they can
get to a Christian home on the firing line?"
Major-General John P. O'Ryah ays: "Money 6an be
turned over to the Y. M. C. A. with every confidence that
it mill be expended ificientiftcally and along lines most ac
ceptable to the soldiers."
Major-General J. Franklin. Bell says: "I regard the Y.
M. C. A. as, being as necessary as the Red Cross."
Dr Henry yan Dyke says: "It is because America is con
vinced that the cause of the Allies represents ideals that
she; has soberly and firmly entered the war. at iheir side.
Call her a dreamer if you will. At leas her dreams ; be
long to the spirit of Chrisianity. And the humane and
democratic work of the Y. M. C. A. has helped and will
help, to make those dreams a reality." i
Gypsy Smith says: "The criticism of those who say
that while the Y. M. C. A. is doing a great social work it
Is doing very little spiritual, is not fair. The workers are'
constantly engaged In spiritual work as everything thejr
greatest orgaiiizaiibtL bi its kind in the world. ; What h
comfort it is to the men. for they are siitiplied wiifi plenty
to read and gdmes of All kinds, ii als& scuf el som 0f
the best talent . the iCOuniry- iaft ord which-njties iim pass
very deljgitluli; coiisidferihg Giyq-gto can't
sing my praises at home tcJo loudly iix jbehaif bf thiS. ibod
Old Y. M.;d,A,'!. , ,;5 ju, , M )
From, an . Irish Catholic bnian: .IHt n) Jrst
letter from my son today, written b'ii Y. M. C. 4. Statibngryi
and ohi I wish ! mighb. . tell yott the gratilude. he expressed
because he found the 'X' in Frahce. He has $lwiayS; bn
a good boy. hb bad habits, and when he . enlisted it broke
my heart, for he is all t have in this worid, , , But sihcfe he
has. told me about, your , splendid Tsjork .in, the aiiny cainp
there, it has made me feel different ahout hii going. He
told me in his letter .thismornlngtb bs:, sure to see you
and express his graUtude -J&iyoU.'' .: ,,v.
The day I left, my mother took me alone into the kitchen
and put both her hands on my shoulders, saying, "Son let
me get your eye. , It breaks my heart . to .seB yoCb. I'm
not afraid of builets or rigid military discipline. , I'm proud
s . ...
Wilmington s
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New Hanover
$1500
One Dollar at Least From
Every Man,-Woman and Child
Will Do It
$1.00
Buys
Only
4 gal Gasoline
1 ft Best Candy
10 lbs Sugar
20 Movie Tickets
2 Theatre Tickets
20 Soft Drinks
10 Good Cigars
Can Yon Do Less to Saye
Somebody's
Boy
are doing is a means to that end. Indeed, Ihe Association
has accomplished a far bigger spiritual work than we
dreamed."
Major Gerald W. Birks (Canada): "The Y, M. C. A. is
an absolutely essential part of the Allied army. Its work
is to supply a touch of home; it is a home away from home.
It asks for money not for itself, but to do thework for
your boys which you would do for them if they were here."
'LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.
"Say, mister!" and Secretary Chesley turned in his walk
through the hut td the good looking Sammy sitting at onu
of our Boche prisoner made tables. ,
"I guess maybe you'd be interested in this letter I'm
writing to my mother."
When he had read it, Mr. Chesley writes, he secured a
copy. Here is just as he wrote it. -
"I am attending "a French class that is gotten up by the
Y. MjC. A. Mother, you can't realize how much good the
Y.xM. C A. Is doing over nere. 1 reauyinmitit js - i
to have my boy give his life for our country,. but I fear
most the awful moral conditions. Can you 'come back, if
God permitslyou to return; as clean as you arfe now? When
you do return, we'll come ihtd this kitchen to stand as we
are now. You will not need t3 tell me-Jf yon are clean.
I'll see it in your eye. Can ybii keep clean, my boy? Can
you do it for your mother f'V ., -
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL ON MEN "UP AGAINST,
.. v IT."
The Foundecpf the Boy Scouts "Disguised as a Y, M. C. A.
Secretary," Gives a Chapter of His Experience in
His Breezy Way, at the, Opening of an
: Association Hut. V .
I arrived here late with an aching hand, and a grimy ooe
at that! The reason was this: I came by the tube and
in it were three great hulking Highlanders, with mud and
tin helmets and all the rest of it, andjhey tacked , them
selves on " to !me. Talking, to them; I ; missed the station
.and went on bit,, but
inoi-row. and I wish I were going with them! The reason
they knew m$ again was that when I was last over there
, XAk Serving; beWhd the" bar jn the Y. M.Jiut, in a filthy
bid Sweater,.' disgui&ed asa Y. M. C. A. officer.
. ; Wha j wish to point out is the wbnderful value of these "
huts. .1 do hbt .meaTi only the material advantages. My
jobwas behind the counter of the. .bookstall,, which was
tiext to tn QUifet rpom, and over that hung up the Scout
iluies.bf tlie Boy Scouts. If there was one, there were
'fiti&dtdvbf' men who came to me about those rules. f
Gbutdn't they sigh on to them, they, asked. The idea of
signing on to Something wks what always appealed to
theni. .. . t , . .t -
. ATibthei thing. I learned, from various private talks la.-th.-uiet
rbbin. These men had hitherto always feli
theibaelves ot be one 01 a herd. They had never realized
that thfey were individuals, that they had individual bourles
aiid sbuls. They had been to school as one of the hdrd, to
Sunday-school as one of the. herd, to Army drill is a herd,
ahd, if I may say so, to church parade as a herd. - They
only realized they were "up against it." They were going
'forward to be killed, not as a herd, but individually. Th?n
it; was that a man wanted to know something of himse'f,
and how ho was oiug lo face this venture. Ho wanted
a little quiet talk, and goodness knows 1 am no i'U :d to
talk to men ih that way. Yet I now get letters from those
men thanking me Tor those few minutes.
There is. one' thing I do hope, that, we shall covsiinuo to
get .the splendid support which Mr. Yapp has secured by
his. "Honey Cadgins" efforts.! Yet even if we don't, if we
had to stop supplies of fags, and buns, etc., there is -si ill
the quiet room. And that, is doing more good than all the
lot. put together. If we only support it, we are putting the
right spirit into the men for meeting their God.
MY PRAYER.
White Captaih of my sOiil, lead on;
I follow Thee come dark or dawn.
Only vouchsafe three things I crave:
Where terror stalks, Help me Bs Brave! .
Where righteous ones can scarce endure
The siren call, Help me Be Pure! J '
Where vows grow dim, and men dare do
What once scorned, Help me Be True!
ROBERT FREEMAN.
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A BISHOP OF MEN.
The Lord Binhop Chelmsford is one of the many bishops
of England who has found his greatest audience of men .,
in the Association camps. He said tho other day, "Dur
ing the last two or three 3reavs I have begun to wonder
whether 1 was a Bishop or a traveling secretary of the Y.
M. C. A. From end to end of Essex (his diocese) we have
the Y. M. huts. . This war has united men and women in
England. It has drawn out the heart feeling of English
folk in a way that nothing else in the world has ever done
and in many ways the Association has been the embodi
ment of this -influence. It-has become a tremendous asset
. to our common Christianity by removing this conception
.in the minds of great masses of our people as to what
Christianity really is. It ha3 removed prejudice in the
minds of men against parsons and against churches in
- these days when anybody must turn his gifts to anything.
I know no greater compliment that could come to me than
came to a' certain bishop. One day two boys were looking
at him as he walked down the street. One said, 'That is
the Bishop.' The other said, 'Go on, that ain't the Bishop,
that's, a - Gordon Highlander going to a funeral.'
'.With .all your concerts and all your entertainments,.
Christianity has never been ousted from its position. It
has been the center of all the work everywhere, the As
sociation has been as a standing witness to the fact that
Christianity has something to say, something to do in the
midst of this war. It has helped to, keep men's vision'
right, and in keeping the vision right has helped to keep
the men straight.
"I think that everybody throughout England is indebted
to the Association. Go wherever you will into the village
cottages, or into the homes of working men of our East
London 'What do ybuvfmd? The mother or the wife, as
" they nearly always do,' brings out the last letter received
from Tommy or Jack, and what do you find at the top of
that, letter? The Red Triangle! Not only, that. What do
you find in the contents of the letter? Oh, if I could only
ell you what I have seen and read- When the dreaded
telegram has come to the young wife or to the mother,
the last letter is again handed to me to read. What Las
baen he one thing that has gladdened her heart? 'I know
I wasn't quite straight. I didn't live as I ought to have
done. But out here last Sunday night I went to the ser
vice of the Y. M. hut here. We sang the hymn 'Jesus,
Lover.' When I was a lad, mother, you used to sing it.
I heard the story of the Cross and Christ. I know I have
nbt been straight, but there that night I looked to Jesus,
and found in Him a resting-place.'
. "Messages like that are the one thing that comfort
the mother, that send a thrill ill rough the wifo or daugber.
In many a hut not only ifc France but jn Egyptrlirdia Meso
potamia, in our own lane, many a lad has found Christ, and '
it has helped him lo live straight. That is the woirk of tho
Y M. C7 A.- Give it your prayer, give it your sympathy." ;
LORD ABERDEEN SECONDS THE WAR FUND APPEAL
Let me send a word of cordial and confident good wish,-' '
es regarding the rally-cry request which is about lo go It
forth on behalf of the Young Men's Christian Association
and its great work among tho men of the allied armies! .
And I would like to Join with the host of friends whor 1
from personal knowledge and observation, can offer testi
mony as to the far-reaching and beneficent work of that v.
splendid organization especially in the present world-wide .
crisis and emergency. ?
One of our two sons is now at the front with the Gordon'
Highlanders, and has therefore, opportunities of seeing and
appreciating the work of the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation in the very precincts of the arena of war. And
his brother, Lord Haddon, who is prevented from sharing-
that special privilege; has been entrusted with a leading ;
part in the work Of the Association, in which he isr to-;
gether"wjth his wife, assiduously and constantly engaged," ;
for multitude of soldier lads in London, when they-are ;
coming from or returning to t"ae battlefields. . -s
The Colonel, commanding the troops at Tronsport, Aus- '
tralia, has said that this card posted everywhere on the
troop shins and it is used in the addresses and talks of tho
transport secretaries: - --3
"Say fellows, let's bo the kind of men our ; "
.; - mothers think we are"
has practically eliminated rough language and indecent .
.'talk among the soldiers on board ship. One posted that
the soldiers could not stand, however, and asked to. have; 1
" taken down was ' . ;: i
-:- "Ifyou use bad language at home, use it
here; We want you to feel at home," : "
The stinc was so keen and the rebuke so sharn that It,
was removed but not forgotte. The soldiers .sald'.t'ifti?
at they are off again to the Front to v : ?
you . will keep up your other motto talk clean, live' clean,
fight clean
and our
they did it.
m, play the game,' we will undertake forjburselvs
as'sbclates to drop bad. language of all kinds," and . VlH,
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