Headquarters is confident that Idaho will go fifty per cent over the top and be one of the "honor states" to first reach her quota. Colonel Roosevelt issued a statement at New York urging a national rally to this great drive. He says: "If the nation failed in its duty at this time and gave our soldiers belief that we have forgotten them since we have ceased risking our lives in war, it would be a dreadful act of ingratitude. We stay at homes, owe everything to those men at the front and unless we subscribe and oversubscribe the amount demanded by the allied war work council we will have come shamefully short in our duty." New York city has raised her quota from thirty-five million to fifty-two and a half million.

Cardinal Gibbons, New York, says: "To slack in our efforts now, to lessen our generosity would be a great ungratitude to these men who have endured such hardships and dangers for our sake, and are bringing to a happy end the greatest war in history. They have earned the best and the most we can give them. An American who will not give all he can and help all he can is unworthy of the noble army and navy and the holy cause for which they fought. God has blessed us wonderfully in bringing a sudden end to this horrible war and everyone must show his gratitude by helping the brave men, who, under God's protection, put an end to carnage."

State Headquarters appeals to Idaho to do it now and do it right. 