Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — PLAN TO AMUSE NEW ARMY [ARTICLE]

PLAN TO AMUSE NEW ARMY

President and Secretaries Indorse Move for Good Entertainment for Boys in Training. Washington, Sept. 21.—President Wilson indorsed and Secretaries Baker ahd Daniels jointly authorized a national campaign to raise about $3,750,000 to provide entertainment .for the men of the new army and navy in the cities and towns near the training camps. The campaign will be directed by the war camp community recreation fund committee, composed of prominent men in different parts of the country. The war and navy department commissions on training-camp activities have delegated the task of supplying amusements to communities adjacent to camps to the Playground and Recreation Association of America.