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Show RAISE BIG MR FL1Q Knights of Columbus Will Use $1,000,000 for Recre-ation Recre-ation of the Soldiers. NEW MA VEX. Conn.. July 21. A na-tlon-wicle campaign to raise a million dollar w:ir fund to he used to furnish recreational re-creational and social facilities at the various military camps to all men, re- ' gardless of treed, and for t he safeguarding; safeguard-ing; of t heir morals in tills country and In the trenches is to he started tomorrow by the Knights of Columbus. It will lest a week, ending July 29. This activity, it Is explained in n statement state-ment by William J. MeGinley. supreme secretary of the order, is in co-operation with the government's commission on V training camp activities and has the approval ap-proval of the war department. It is a!so stated t hat the orders committee com-mittee on war activities, with headquarters headquar-ters at Washington, already lias contracted con-tracted for the erection of imildings at the sixteen national army cantonments and plans to establish centers In the national na-tional guard encampments, regular army, expansion camps and the tra Ining sta- tions of other units of the service. It is also planned to establish intelligence bu- reaus at the front to provide for com-munication com-munication for men in service and rela-tives rela-tives at home. Indications, according to the statement, are that the fund will be over-subscribed. New York City, it is stated, plans to raise 15'.000; Detroit, $100,000; St. Paul, '4 $J5.000; Denver, $25,000; Indiana. $50.04X1; Massachusetts, $100,000; Connecticut, 525.000; Pennsylvania. $100,000. |