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Show MERCY MUNITIONS j NEEDED IN TRENCHES Lieut. Comngsby Dawson. Fighting Fight-ing Author, Makes Stirring Appeal for Y. W. C. A. I. lent Conlngshy Dawson, who wrote "Carry On," says of tha war work which the V. W. C. A. Is doing: "You t home cannot fight with your Uvea, but you can fight with your mercy. The Y. W. C. A. la offering you Just this chance. It garrisons the women's support trenches, which He behind the men's. It asks you to supply them with munitions of mercy that they I may be pnssed on to ua. We need auch supplies badly. Give generously that we may the sooner defeat the Hun." What Llent. Pawson says of the Y. W. C. A. he might have said of all the natlonnl organizations which are coming com-ing together for the biggest financial cnmpalgn that organizations have ever headed. All the $170,500,000 to be raised by the seven great national organizations or-ganizations 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, Coun-cil, Jewish Welfare Board, American Library Association, War Camps Community Com-munity Service and Salvation Army. American girls In arlous uniforms mingle strangely with picturesque , Brittany costumes Iti France The i American Y. W. C. A. has a hostess house In Brlttuny where the Signal Corps women live and a hut where the nurses spend their free time. Both these centers are titled with many of the comforts and conveniences of home. "At a tea given at tho nurses' hut one Snturday afternoon," writes Miss Mabel Warner, of Sallnn, 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 saiga, one civilian and myself." |