FOR A MILLION MEN

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3340, 8 September 1917, Page 3

FOR A MILLION MEN

AMERICAN V.M.C.A. EQUIPMENT.

With characteristic promptitude and energy the V.M.C.A. of the United States is meeting the tremendous opportunities and demands created by the entry of America into the war. Tlio leaders" of tho association immediately planned to cater for an army of a million men. and they estimated that to do this satisfactorily the following equipment would bo required : 200 wooden buildings, 1000 experienced secretaries, 20 pianos and piano players 200 moving picture machines, 268,000 ft. of films a day. 200 graprophone'*! and 10,000 records, 3,000.000 sheets of writing paper daily, 40,000 pounds of ice daily, 10,000 pens a day and barrels of ink, a Bible to every man, 95 automobiles and trucks, magazines by the hundred tons, and 3,000,000 dollars in three weeks. It is abundantly clear already that the association will far exceed this ambitious programme. The slogan for May wa s 3,000,000 dollars in thirty day's. On June 1. the subscriptions as reported to the Bureau of Finance, aggregated 3,100,000 dollars, and a week later another half-million dollars had been added. The association now plans to raise 4,500.000 dollars for its war work this year, apart altogether from 2.000.000 dollars reqtnrod for soldiers in tho war prison camps of Euro i>e.