Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1917 — Y. M. C. A. to Make $1,000,000 Drive In Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Y. M. C. A. to Make $1,000,000 Drive In Indiana.

Beginning November 11, all over , Indiana, a great financial drive is to be launched for $1,000,000 for the extension and support of Young Men's Christian Association work in ' the United States army and navy, in the camps and cantonments in this county and among our struggling allies abroad. The movement is to be part of a nation-wide campaign to raise a fund I of $35,000,000 for this great work. Men of large business affairs all over the country have volunteered to give! the time and money to this movement > for the conservation of young Ameri- 1 can manhood. The general campaign is to be conducted by the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. ‘ Indiana is being organized into 18 districts to push the work, with j campaign organizations in' every town and city. Harry M. Blair, identified with the banking interests of Philadelphia, said to be specially qualified for organization work of this character, will give his time to the campaign in Indiana in connection with the state Y. M. C. A. It is announced that this large increase over the estimate made for Y. M. C. A. work in the-army and navy, made in April, is due to the unexpectd military activities of the government at home and abroad. Millions will have to be spent in France for work with the United States troops. With coal at S6O a ton, it is estimated it will cost $750,000 to heat the American “Y” huts in France this winter. The budget committee, of which Cyrus H. McCormick, of Chicago, is chairman, estimates that it will take more than $11,000,000 to carry on the Y. M. C. A. work among the enlisted men in this country. The vast sum of $35,000,000 is to be expended in carrying on the work at home and over seas for the nine months ending June 30. The plans contemplate extensive work not only among our own men abroad but to the camps of the French, Russian and Italian soldiers and among the prisoners of war.