Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 8, 1917, Page 6

-of the'Splendid Work the Y.M.C.A. Does Among | Our: Men In:Uniform ‘Is Keeping Thiem in ‘I'nuch With the Folks at Home. finlfi!u'loul Ways in Which the Association Appeals to Your Boy, Your Neighbor’s Boy, or Some Boy You Know ,and: Love—; Creates.a Helpful Environment in Cantonment, on Way Overseas, in Front Line Trench and Beyond—First to Aid as He Comes ; Tottering Back—Give Your Share of the $36,000,000 Eeqxund | Moompush 'I.'hh ‘Last Evidence That Somebody: Cares.’’ T wes evening on the broad Hempstead Plain, Long. island, ! where the Ratnbow division was spending #ts-last night before embark- ing ¢or France. - It had been: raining bard in the afternoon—a cold, steady autumn downpour—aad - there was nothing to suggest the rainbow'in the outward aspect-of. the camp. Lines and lines of sodden: canvas: housed 27,000 men, gathered from 27 different states. The ground was dotted with pools.and quagmires. . Under the wet csnvas it was damp and cold, with & penetrating ohill. Lit by fiickering candles, the tents were far from cheer- ful shelter for a man’s last night in his native land. "But’ ‘there were seveid Ddig tents tric Iights, numbers and friendlin made the night-pleasant. unic, Gnmu. Guvd heacing and Cor least is on-its way to you. M one, of our 16 cantonments, where the new national army s being trained, is using-more -than s million sheets ot this plp-r every month. In:the.draft army.alone that means 16,000,000 fila ments of love every month reaching out from the great encampment where the men are- being- trained into the greatest army. this nation has ever dreamed and bdinding them to the: hearts et home. Multiply that by thinking of sll the other ‘places where Uncle Sam has men with the flag—in navy yards, on the high seas, ln arse nals and oficers’ training camps and “Qver There” in France. In all these places men are writing~home. Those ‘unessuming 1ittle sheets of motepaper gladden millions of hearts a day. They transfer more love from oa0 ondence Facilities In Y."M. C. A. BulldTnn. o = In: each ot these a somar was strum- ming on a plano; others were reading books and magazines;’ hundreds were writing letters home.: Behind the -r#ised counter at one end three or four m.nz men were buay passing out paper and envelopes, selling siamps and weighing. parcels, which the men were sending home. ‘One of the soldiers said to me as I atood in ho tent used ghiefly by men from Iowa: “We came. all the way here feom Des-Moines; and-we were mighty lonely. Then we found tnis Y. M. C. A. on the job, and it's been & home alid more than a home to us. It gave up: ‘what we wanted when we needed 1t ‘most. We'll never forget it. The boys’ best friend ia the Y. M. C. A.” Fige, Clean-Cut, Upstanding Fellows. | 'How close those beuches wers pack- ed: with .mon, bend ng over the lou ubln Ah;_orycd ln elr . wrl &h" an sppeal sympathles | o bhe greal xroup- ol diers make! !‘uio, clean-cut, upstanding fellows, IDIIID ol thom mera boys, one thinks immediately of the sacrifice they have miade for the rest of us and how pre- clous they are to some one back home. “Bomewhere, in far off farm or village, or clty street; there are pusng or 9t.h-:rs or wlven who would give ali they posuss Ior one zllmpié o t}zou sunburned faces as you and I #ée them on thelr last night before going across. And it was with a throb of the heart that I watched them, bent over their letter paper, in one after another of those seven big tents. ‘These were the tents of the Y. M. C. A. On that last night in America the wasociation was serving the soldlers in the best of all ways—giving them an opportunity to write home. On previous nights they had enjoyed box- ing bouts, movies, concerts, dramatics and a score of healthy entertainments as well as religious meetings. But on this last night home ties were strong- est. And perhaps that is the keynote of the splendid work the Y M. C. A. is doing among our men in uniform— _ keeping them in touch with home. Magic Words, “With the Colora® In these times there are some let- ters that mean more to us then any we have ever read before. They are written on sheets of paper stamped with the Stars and Stripes and the _ped triangle of the Y. M. C. A, end ey bear the magic words, “With the Colors.” There are many more thc1 & million such letters in the mails now _*/while you read this. Perhaps one at part of the world to another than sta- tistics ran express. Statistics are pretty poor anyway when it comes to reckoning:in-terms of love and human tenderness. Let's put it this way: That the Y..M..C. A. is the biggest. ex- press company the world has ever seen, and the parcels it is handling are the loves and: devotions of human beings. World’s Best Loved Trademari. This war 348 made us thiok hard and fast. Your boy or your neigh- bor's boy or some ‘boy you know, and 1ove bas-been-called-to do bis share in-the big job of policing the worid for democracy-and -human liverty. 1ls 4t any comfurt to you to know that wher- ever his duty may. call. him your boy will save a friend that will serve him in body, mind and soul? Are you L Syl sopg g %u'flzo giasses {o teach him what- 1o wanls o lears, give him & pocket testament and lovite him to Join religious meetings of the faitp that he was brought up in? Did you realize that the association provides athletic equipment for his favorite games, teaches him games if he knows none and holds concerts, lectures, movies, Bible classes, dramatic enter- talnm ever whole- somé hms%&%n( &o eep‘n‘m infe?esl 287 Are you giad to know that this friend will go with him overseas, help to shield him from a score of difficult and dangerous temptations and follow him right up to the front line trench and beyond it? The last contact the soldler has with this life he loves so well is a cup of tea given him by the Y. M. C. A free just before he goes “over the top” to a hand to hand strug- gle with the enemy. And as he comes tottering back from No Man’s Land, wounded, but strong emough. and plucky enough to keep on his feet, even before his wounds are dressed the Y. M. C. A. is waliting for aim with tea and sweet chocolate, the great com- forts of the man in the trenches. Do you wonder that the Red Triangle is called “the best loved trademark fin the world?” One soldier in France hes called it “the last evidence that any- body cares.” If every thinking citizen could see with his or her own eyes something of the actual work being done for our men by the association there would be no question of the Y. M. C. A having to -appeal to the pubdlic for money Rather than let this essential work falter for an instant rich men would sell their motorcars, poor men weald seT0g0 OV cessities, lh *ro“ mugt g9 on; ha canse th~re ia no one thing that con- tributes so mruch to the apirit and ef: ficlency of the troopa. “The Y. M. C A. ts working night and day to belp the:govemnment win :this: wer. And evary:peuny that 1s given aid the work 18- s dlrect asdistance. to the bfl”il!ll and lm ot your. our men pass throu:h in large num- SI'AIIPEII ¥ STARS AND STIHPES AND RED TRIANGLE | bers, the Y. M. C. A. is operating | hostela, where they can get-beds.and the .American Y. M..C. A, nas erected ‘a/large; building for our soldiers and & lubhouse for American officers. There are Y. M. C.' A: dugouts right belhind the'front linetrenches, where ‘the soldiers can get hot drinks, crack- ers and other comforts at all hours. Over 2,000 men who had been rajecf- d. on .eccount of physical disability been able to get:into the British army by reason of-the physical work of the’British Y. M. 0,»A. A fleet of motor cars leaves the big Y. M. C. A. headquarters in London at ‘midnight every night to pick up sol- diers who are wandering &bout -the streets without any wholesome lodging in which fo spend the night. These cars are operated by Englishwomen of position and refilnement, who report that they never meet. any discourtesy ‘at:the hands of the soldiers. The im- portance of this service can be esti- mated by the fact that at leust 60,000 soldiers are on leave in London every week. Over half of these sleep in Y. M. C. A. beds every night. Entertainment on Vast Scale. The Y. M. C. A. has erected a big suditorium, seating 3,000, in each of the big draft camps, and huge chautau- qua tents, seating 2,600 in the other encampments. The assoclation isrun- &ing & 22 week entertalnment circuit among the camps and is paying 16 companies of entertainers, who are traveling to 30 camps performing be- fore the men. In each of the draft camps the Y. M. C. A. has ten secretaries engaged | b -—---—— ——_—— in educational work. The association is aseeing to it that every man who cannot speak English is waught to’do s0. In many of tne camps the asso- cli¥ion has a singing director, who is teaching the men to sing the popular and martial airs that do. so much to keep up their spirits. ‘Of 64 Y. M. C. A. men -t Camp Dix only three are being paid full sal- aries. In all the camps the majority of the Y. M. C. A. men haveleft lucra- tive positions to do this work eimply because its_appeal is i;Tesistible to any red blooded man. Harry. Launder, the famous Scotch singer and come- dian, now on his farewell concert - tour in the United States, is giving all his sppre time to the service of the asso- ciation and is singing to the soldiers atall the camps he can reach. In one of the camps the Y. M. C./A. 1Is snpervlslng athletics on 120 playing: flelds, providing full athletic equipment. The:winners of the inter: regimental ,games will play the tham- plons of the other camps. One of' the greatest services render- ed by the association is the making A Red Triangle Dugout In the Trenches, out of money orders by which the men can send their pay home to their fam- ilies. In some of the big camps the Y. M. C. A. is providing banking facil- ities for the men as well Do Your Bit With a Tenner. This month (November) the Y. M. C. A. must raise $35,000,000 to carry on its work among our soldiers and their allies until next July. Of this $35,000,000 about $24,000,000 will be spent on the work with our own troops or about $10 for every man in Uncle Sam’s uniform. If everybody who has received letters from soldiers and sail- ors were to contribute $10 the task would be easy. Are your boy’s health and happiness and clean soul worth $10 to you? Your town mayor, your pastor, your school superintendent will know who is the treasurer of the campaign com- mittee in your county or town. Other wise send a check or money order to Cleveland H. Dodge, treasurer, 124 :I;t Twenty-eighth street, New York Only sacrificial giving by millions of givers will make possible the contin- wance of this vast work for Americas soldiers and for those of our allies. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PIONEER BUSINESS -AND PHOFE SSTONAL DR. J. W. DIEDRICH DENTIST _ Oftice 0'Leary-Bowser Bldg. “ Office Phone 376-W Res. Phone 376-R TOM SMART - DRAY AND TRANSFER [~ Safe and Piano Moving Res. Phone 58 818 ‘Amierica . Office Phone.12 DR. 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GILMORE & McCANN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Oftice—Miles Block A. V. GARLOCK, M. D. SPECIALIST EYE EAR NOSE . THROAT i Glasses Fitted S ————————— ] g DEAN LAND CO. Land, Loans, Insurance and cfty Property Bemidji - - - - - - - - - - - Troppmnn‘ Block GENERAL MERCHANDISE ~ Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, Flour, Feed, etc. The careful buyers buy here. ) W. @G. SCHROEDER Bemidji Phone 65 N. L. HAKKERUP PHOTOGRAPHER -Photos Day and Night DR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Office in Winter Block UNSINGWEAR UNION. suits continue to grow in po- pularity with discriminating people everywhere, because they fit and cov- er the form perfectly, they stand the | laundry test without - losing their- so well. "shape, fit or comfort, and they wear: 'NEW COAT ' Received This Week Beautiful Garments at $30, $32.50, $3, $40, $42.50 Some special values in _coatsat............. Former price $20.00 to 327 50 -$15.59 Showing a large lineof ladies dress shoes at from $7.50 To $13.50 The shoe shown - hereis a 9 inch kid shoe, welt sole, as good a shoe as is possible to make, in stock B and D wide, same shoe shown in wing tip in stock A and C wide. Price $9.00 "Leary-Bowser 202 Company Phone 87 Bemidjl, Minn. ‘Defective