The New York Times from New York, New York • Page 10

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Ml I AD KUT1KEMKMT. I FROM jolin Do Rocke 'Jr. 1 J-ii II! i r. i- r- I ii 1 j. To the PeotdeX of Greater New York: have faced death in every form what wouldn't we want to do for them! No one, would count the dollars then; not one of us would stint in his giving.

To-day the United War Work Campaign be gins. It starts at a supreme moment in human history. I Victory is in the air! The triumph, of all we have been hoping for and all that our boys have been fighting andrdying for, may be finally achieved this very day.j Think what all this will mean to the soldiers of our Allies. I Their home.folki will surely "take the lid off" when their boys come home. Street lights, dimmed now for several years iii a thousand cities and towns, to avoid giving direction to enemy air raids, will7 shine but as never before.

Window shades ordered by law to be down at night in millions of homes in France and England, will ba raised. -V-'i The boys of France and Italy can get home immediately. They will march; through Paris and Rome to the sound of a nation's cheers. Nothing will be good enough for them; and oh what it Will mean to (them to be there among those they love. --t- 1 And the Tommies 1 What a tiine they will have hurrying to the first boat, and, only a few jhours later, jumping off at railroad stations and swinging through the streets of their home towns, while bands I play I and all England shouts its welcomed vv.

Even the Tommies who must stay in France awaiting their turn to go home 'will get the home papers next morning. Mails next day will be full of letters packed with love and joy. Every Tommy will immediately hear and feel the sense of Eng land's happiness. and pride. One day our boys will come home.

It will be the biggest day New York has ever seen. But that dav is not vet; miles of ocean lie between us. A few of the boys can but hundreds of thousands of them must stay behind and wait. It will seem a 'very long time both to them and to. us.

What wouldn't we -have given what wouldn't they have given they could have been here last Thursday and seen that marvellous It was premature, to be sure, but the public instinct was sound. The people knew they weren't celebrating a fake; they were celebrating woru return immediately; a victory they, kne had been And if our own boys could come swinging down the Avenue, those boy3 who have slept iii the mud, who -have endured every discomfort, who There is only one real way we can celebrate this victory in a manner which can tangibly express our feelings toward those in the service of Our 9 Country either abroad or in camps in the United States. The United War. Work Campaign gives va this opportunity. Through giving to it we 'can show our boys the feeling which is in our hearts, and send them our message of gratitude, not at some future time whei they return but now.

The sum of at least $170,500,000 is to be raised for our soldiers and. sailors, to add to their comfort and happiness, to help them in their temptations and difficulties, during the period which must elapse until they are safe home again. The purpose for which this money is to be used, and the methods whereby it is to be spent, have been approved by the Government. The President of the United States has requested that in this campaign a united effort be made by the Y. M.

C. the Y. W. C. the National 'Catholic War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, the War Camp Community Service and the American Library Association.

Surely one other thought is in our minds at this vital1 moment; that is, of gratitude that the victory has been won so much sooner than many thought possible. How anxious we were as these splendid fellows went out from our how thankful we feel now that so many of them will comeback again safe and sound. Let us, then, make the United War Work Campaign both a thank offering and a celebration of Victory. Let th cables carry a message to the men over there of what we have done to warm their huts and warm their, hearts against the cold and the loneliness of this coming winter. Let our message be expressed not alone in the amount contributed, but in the number of those yrtio give.

Let us in New York join the whole American people, and in this hour of victory, by our act of giving, say: We are proud of, and we stand back of, every man serving in the uniform of Our Country. Chairman, Greater New York Committee, UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN I i.