Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1918 — MERCY MUNITIONS NEEDED IN TRENCHES [ARTICLE]

MERCY MUNITIONS NEEDED IN TRENCHES

Lieut. Coningsby Dawson, Fighting Author, Makes Stirring Appeal for Y. W. C. A. Lieut. Coningsby Dawson, who wrote •‘Carry On,” says of the war work which the Y. W. C. A. is doing: “You at home cannot fight with your lives, but you can fight with your mercy. The Y. W. C. A. Is offering you just this chance. It garrisons the women’s support trenches, which lie behind the men’s. It asks you to supply them with munitions of mercy’ that they may be passed on to us. We need such supplies badly. Give generously that we may the sooner defeat the Hun.” What Lieut. Dawson says of the Y. W. C. A. he might have said of all the national organizations which are coming together for the biggest financial campaign that organizations have ever headed. All the $170,500,000 to be raised by the seven great national organizations the week of November 11 will be used to garrison and supply the support trenches behind the lines. They are the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the National Catholic War Council, Jewish Welfare Board, American Library Association, War Camps Community Service and Salvation Army. American girls in various uniforms mingle strangely with picturesque Brittany costumes In France. The American Y. W. C. A. has a hostess house in Brittany where tiie Signal Corps women live and a hut where the nurses spend their free time. Both these centers are fitted with many of the comforts and conveniences of home. “At a tea given at the nurses’ hut one Saturday afternoon,” writes Miss Mabel Warner, of Salina, Kansas, Y. W. C. A. worker there, “there was an odd gathering—one admiral, a bishop, a Presbyterian minister, a Roman Catholic priest, a doctor, an ensign, one civilian and myself.”