Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1918 — DIRECTS FARM CANVASS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DIRECTS FARM CANVASS

United War Work Campaign Now on in Indiana. L. H. Wright, State Highway Commissioner, Addresses Appeal to the Farmers of Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind. —L. H. Wright, state highway commissioner, will direct the rural canvass in Indiana in the coming United War Work Campaign of the Young Men’s Christian Association, Young Women’s Christian Association; National Catholic War Council—K. of C., Jewish Welfare Board, War Camp Community Service, American Library Association and the Salvation Army. These seven organizations have combined to raise a fund of $170,500,000 to carry on their war relief work for our soldiers. Indiana’s quota is $5,000,000.

Mr. Wright has devoted his entire life to farming in Bartholomew county, coming to Indianapolis two years ago to take charge of the state highway bureau. As head of the Indiana State Grange, a division of the largest agricultural organization in the United States, he has wide acquaintance among farmers in the state and he has addressed the following appeal to them through the ninety Indiana branches of the Farmers* Grange, urging that they get solidly behind the United War Work campaign : "In order to insure the raising of so large a sum particular emphasis must be laid on the canvassing of the rural sections of the state, as farmers generally have promptly responded to every government call. Every man. woman, boy and girl in the rural sections will be asked to support this cause, and as director for rural canvass of Indiana I appeal to you to lend your hearty support to the campaign organization in your county In addition to subscribing liberally to this vitally Important request for funds for the welfare of our noble boys at the front whose heroic efforts to win the war have touched the hearts of every father and mother throughout the nation. "For the first time in the history a great nation setting out to build an army has provided wisely for the protection of its soldiers while in the making—and events of the last few months have clearly demonstrated that the small investment in providing facilities for keeping our boys morally and physically fit has been repaid a thousand fold. Can we do better than stand loyally behind these organizations that are doing so much for our fighting men, providing so far as possible, under superhuman difficulties, the comforts of home? “Increased demands upon all of the organizations participating have necessitated the unusually budgets, which have each been scrutinized and endorsed by the War Department and Navy Department Commissions on Training Camp Activities, and at this crucial period of the war, we must conclude that whatever we are to do for our boys must be done now.”

L. H. WRIGHT.