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WILSON
TAFT, ROOSEVELT and other NATIONAL LEADERS

Indorse Y.M.C.A. work

To "Keep The Home Fires Burning” in the hearts 
of our soldier boys, the Y.M.C.A. has pledged 
its service to the Government.

A National War Work Council of 200 leading 
citizens has been organized to help direct Physical, 
Educational, Social and Religious activities among 
enlisted men.

Wherever American troops gather, and among 
French, Russian and Italian soldiers, and in Prisoner-
of-War camps, the Red Triangle of the Y. M. C. A. 
goes to help safeguard the home ideals. For the 
gravest danger of this war is that our boys may not 
keep true to these home ideals.

500 huts have been built -- warm, cheerful centers 
of friendliness where the soldiers find pleasant social 
recreation and relief from the hard, cold, camp life.

The cost of carrying on this work is tremendous. 
Already $5,000,000 has been used. But the amount 
is insignificant compared to the unique service 
rendered and the present need.

35,000,000 needed
At Least to Conduct this work to July 1st 1918.

YOU CAN HELP

National Campaign
November 11-19

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GIVING FURTHER INFORMATION

National War Work Council
of the
Young Men's Christian Associations
of the United States

WILLIAM SLOANE
Chairman

CLEVELAND H. DODGE
Treasurer

JOHN R. MOTT. General Secretary

124 East 28th Street, - New York City

PRESIDENT WILSON
who has issued a general 
order giving Y. M. C. A. work 
an official standing in the 
Army and Navy, says:

“May I not express the very high value I 
have attached to the work accomplished 
by the Y. M. C. A. and my sincere personal 
interest in the large plans of the War 
Work Council for the work still ahead of 
the Association?”

Ex-President Taft says:

“We should feel proud of the Y. M. C. A. 
work, which is directed so ably. Are we 
going to be backward in giving our men 
the nearest thing they can get to a 
Christian home on the firing line?”

Ex-President Roosevelt says:

“What the Y. M. C. A. has been doing in 
Europe has been really remarkable; and 
now our citizens should aid them to do 
work of the same type for our own troops.”

Secretary of War Baker says:

“The Y. M. C. A.'s capacity for mobilization 
on a large scale and the readiness 
with which it has fitted itself to the needs 
of the troops make it an indispensable 
factor in any future military plans. Its 
influence in rationalizing the strange 
environment into which this crisis has 
plunged our young men has been and will 
be most beneficial.”

Secretary of Navy Daniels says:

“From every standpoint -- military, political, 
moral -- it is our duty to protect these 
youths, so we can say to the mothers 
when the war is over, ‘We return your 
sons as worthy your family circle as when 
they left it.'”

General Pershing says:

“The greatest service America can 
immediately render France is to extend 
Association work to the entire French 
Army.”

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