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Show WARCAMP FUND TO PROTECT BOYS Community Social Service to Save Soldiers From Temptations Tempta-tions and Vice. OF VITAL IMPORTANCE Secretary Daniels Appeals for Strong Support of Clean Amusements for Army. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. The four million dollar fund being raised this week for the war camp community service will, in the opinion of Secretary Secre-tary Daniels, do its part towards making mak-ing American fighting men ideal types of the democracy they represent. The movement, he declared, cannot be supported sup-ported too strongly. "We realize," said Secretary Daniels Dan-iels in a statement today, "that jou cannot place thousands of young men in rough camps on the outskirts of strange cities, you cannot neglect them or treat them as social inferiors without causing them to yield to the temptations which the hospitality of vice and dissipation invites. ( "So it is that we are giving some thought to the social organization of tho million young men we have gathered gath-ered together for training for the army and the navy. We are going to compete with the evils that have provod so costly to all former fighting forces. We are going to make the Inducement In-ducement to healthy recreation and clean amusements stronger than the evil temptations of city life. I might say we are going to tempt soldiers and sailors to be good. "The war camp community service has been requested to undertake this work by the government With the funds being raised this week will support sup-port the work for a year, a net cost of $3 for each man for a year. This is little enough when one considers that it will inspire our boys with the new national spirit, a higher Americanism, Ameri-canism, an eagerness in service that will carry them more quickly to the victory they must earn." |