The Weekly Corpus Christi Caller (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 2, Ed. 1, Friday, November 8, 1918 Page: 4 of 4
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Why you should give twice as
much as you ever gave before!
The need is for a sum 709& grantor than any gift ever nsked
for since the world began. Tho Government has fixed this sum
at $170500000.
By giving to these seven organizations all at once tho cost
and effort of six additional campaigns is saved.
UnloBB Americans do give twice as much os ever before
our soldiers and sailors may not enjoy during 1919 their
3600 Recreation Buildings
1000 Miles of Movie Film
100 Loading Stage Stars
2000 Athletic Directors
2500 Libraries supplying 5000000 books
85 Hostess Houses
15000 Big-brolhor "secretaries'
Millions of dollars of homo comfbrts
When you give double you mnltc sure that evory fighter
has tho cheer and com forte of those aovon organisations avory
step of the way from home to the front ntid back again. You
provide him with a church a theutra a cheorfu! homo a- storo
a school a club and an athletic field and a knowledge that the
folks back home are with him. heart and soull
You have loaned your money to supply their physical needs.
Now give to maintain the Morale that is winning the war I
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By Sergt ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT
Sl of "The Stars and Stripes" A. E. F. vtfjrvl$
YOU would turn your pockets inside out for the United
War Work Campaign if you knew dear old "Doc" of the
Marines a white-haired slow-speaking padre who is Y.
secretary with the leathernecks and so bexoved by them that
it's past telling. He was a preacher in Arizona had been I
think a missionary with the lepers when the war came and
he went from his pulpit to the Y. v
'They have always loved him the Marines. I think it was
because he had the genius for meeting all mankind brother-to-brother.
And because he would not spare himself
any hardship that the boys had to undergo.
If they hiked he would not ride. If they had to march
half-way across France as fast as their legs would carry them
Doc marched too and what is more carried the full pack
lest any boy should ever say old Doc did not know what a
real hike meant.
Of course their devotion became a cult on the Marne when '
it was he who took the hind end of a litter and went out
through a very rain of shells to bring in and save the wounded
colonel. And they did save him. Can't you picture it the
two of them creeping over the treacherous ground with the
private turning now and then and hissing back to poor old
bulky Doc not to "stick up so far" in the air?
That little expedition dropped Doc unconscious ' with '
gas and shrapnel and when he came to he found that
quite mysteriously all his Y ensignia had been cut away and
Marine emblems sewed on in their place.
Doc holds services now and then. I know of one a young
Jew organized. It was held in a deserted church which a
volunteer squad had spent three hours in cleaning for the
occasion three hours routing the dust and cobwebs and litter
of fallen plaster and broken glass. Then the congregation
trooped in and the service began with the distribution of
rosaries fished from Doc's capacious pockets for the Catholic
boys some of whom had lost theirs in the fight.
They have a way of looping their rosary through their left
shoulder strap and wearing it into battle as the knights of old
wore their lady's colors into the jousts. It is an inspiring'
thing to see a whole company thus beautifully uniformed butj
sometimes they come back with the beads torn away
Well Doc distributed his own supply and I doubt" if 'i
passerby at that moment would have suspected him of being
a Baptist clergyman. Doc and indeed most of the padres of
the fronthave to rake their memories to tell what denornina
tion was theirs before they took this great commuriipljrt
And Baptist Doc is only one of thousands who are serving your boys in the
great religion of Fatherhood whose creed and faith are Service. Keep
them on the job next year! Pershing needs a thousand like them every months
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Stayton, John W. The Weekly Corpus Christi Caller (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 2, Ed. 1, Friday, November 8, 1918, newspaper, November 8, 1918; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth144606/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .