After writing about the August calendar poster on Saturday, I looked up the United War Work Campaign to find out more about it. I was also confused about the dates it ran from November 11-18, 1918. Wasn't the war over by then? Why would they have a war campaign if the war was almost over?
From the Oct. 1, 2011, Duke Magazine.
On September 9, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson wrote to Raymond Fosdick, coordinator of the War department's Commission on Training Camp Activities. The end of the war was in sight and demobilizing the nearly 4 million American troops was going to be a huge undertaking. the president figured the process would take at least two years and require a staggering sum of money. for programs to maintain the troops' morale.
He requested that organizations pool their resources on a single massive campaign to raise money for these programs.
--Cooter
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