Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1917 — GREAT DRIVE FOR Y. M. C. A. [ARTICLE]

GREAT DRIVE FOR Y. M. C. A.

large amount desired and JASPER COUNTY TO DO HER PART. Jasper county is called to do Jier “Super Bit” next week in the nationwide army and navy campaign for $35,000,000. Jasper county is asked to give at least $7,000.00 toward this Indiana is to raise $1,000,000 and the northwestern Indiana district, including the seven counties of Newton, Jasper, LaPorte, Lake, Pulaski, Starke and Porter, is to raise $115,000. * None of this money goes to the support of the local associations but it is to be used in providing the Y. M. C. A. service to our men and boys in military service. E. L. Hollingsworth, of Rensselaer, is chairman of the campaign in Jasper county and the campaign is to reach Rensselaer, Remington, Wheatfield and every other section of the county. . The association has the official approval of the government in its work and this wonderful work for soldiers and sailors in this country and in Europe is being done at the suggestion of the governments of the United States, France, Russia and Italy. The Y. M. C. A. has been charactedized as the “war zone home for our boys ‘over there.’ ’’ The following gives an indication of the service that the association is rendering in the army camps and at the front. $12,500 will provide a hut for one year. $6,000 will build a hut in America. (Cost of hut in France is $15,000.) $1,500 will equip a hut. SI,OOO will provide an auto truck. SSOO will provide 25,0000 testaments. $250 will provide motion picture outfit._ ; - ■ ' SIOO will provide stationery for a hut for one month. SSO will provide talking machine and records. Thousands of men will give largely of their time, interest and money next week in carrying out this campaign and Jasper county can be counted upon to do her full “bit” in providing comforts, entertainment, fellowship and homelike influences for our boys in uniform.