New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1918, Page 5

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Their prompt use is beneficial to the system, and will Prevent Bilious Attacks Directions of Special Value to Women are with Every Box Sold by druggists throughout the world. In boxes, 10c., 28c. Y.M.C.A WORKIN | LAND OF BOLSHEVIKI | f Visitor Reports on Conditions and i Affairs in Russia { - New York, Jan. 23.—Since Septem- ber last the National War Work Coun- | cil of the Young Men's Christian | ciation has been sending 8roups secretaries to work with the soldiers of Russia. Some of the groups have gone across the Pacific, entering Rus sia through Vladivostock, or through Dalny in southern Manchuria. Other groups have crossed the Atlantic and have found their way into Russia | through Scandinavia. Altogether ! isfactory report has come from Major ; | A. in Russia as follows: MO INSTITUTE, who is at all times ready to take measurements, adjust abdominal | nearer to meeting the soldier half-way New Britain, Conn. ig it e | Zf’ that it was full about 90 men have gone, and these, with secretaries already in Russia | who were formerly in prison camp work but are now with the troops, make a total of over one hundred | Americans serving in this way. So interrupted have been the lines | of communication with these secr: taries that practically the only way of metting reports of this work ha been through courler. The first sat- Orrin S. Wightman, M. D., a member of the American Red Cross Mission to | Russia, who has just returned to g New York city. Major Wightman has responded to an interviewer with regard to the work of the Y. M. C Russia Undergoing Strain. ‘It must be borne in mind that the Russian people, besides going through | i a great war are also undergoing the | most severe strain that Russia has | ever known. The democracy so often | heralded as the savior of states has | come to a people 90 per cent. of whom can neither read nor write, and their failure to grasp what freedom means | has turned freedom into confusion. Tf the Russian problem is to be solved - the human mind it must be in a hguage and in terms that even a poor Russian peasant soldier can un- derstand, and 1 honestly believe that { the Young Men's Christlan Assoc tion and its present methods come than”all the political activity that | so rife at present throughout the Rus sian nation. I never saw anything grow so rapidly, nor be so much in | i | | | | | | ! demand, nor meet such material suc- | cess as the work that these young | men are doing in the great country of ! Russia. “The American Red Cross Mission | " to Russia aid not include any co- | operative work with the Young Men's | § Christian Association, but after view- ing the problem. and seeing the able | way they were combating this phase | ‘ of the situation. I fell in gladly. and | did all in my power, both in Mos- { cow. Odessa, and Jassy, Roumania. to | further its work. Consider these voung men of the association, going into a strange | country in war time, speaking but few | words of the language which they had | i to learn, organizing a great body of men, rolling up their sieeves and do- ! ing a great part of the labor them- | selves! They secured quarters, fur- nished them, lighted them, and then when everything was ready, invited soldiers to enter without money and | of co-partnership. to be for the first time'in the Russian soldiers’ expe: ence an integral part of a ¢ b. “When I saw the progress of this work in Moscow, Jerome Davis, of Oberlin, Ohio, and Crawford Wheeler, | of Eau (laire, Wisconsin, had started a shack in the suburbs of the city. They were showing moving pictures to the soldiers at night. The demand | was so great in this particular that they had to place the sheet on which i the pictures were thrown in the mid- | dle of the audience so that the thou- | ' sands of men looking on could view [ the picture from both sides of the | soreen! “I entered the shack and found that within evervthing was as neat as could be, and this in spite of the fact that the Russia peasant knows not the meaning of dirt. and many of them, until they had joined the Youns |j Men's Christian Asociation, had never attempted even to wipe their feet on entering the house, and did not know was necessary. The reading | of men, the writing was crowded with who had been urged | to write home to their people on pa- | per, envelopes and ink provided for | the purpose. Real Sugar in Tea. “In another room the soldiers were able to secure tea with sugar (a thing which is almost a luxury here now) for the sum of three kopecks a glass, when, as a matter of fact, the same would have cost me several roubles bhad I ordered it in my own hotel, room likewis many a man hisjob | No matter how efficient a man may be, if he has an ugly skin-eruption, there are positions in which he eannot be tolerated. He may know that it i | not in the least contagious, but o/ker peopleare afraid, theyavoid him, and he | must make way for a man with a clear, healthy skin. Why run this risk, when Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soa; itchi p stop itching and clear away eczema and similar bumors, go quickly and easily ? T 1 gry language getting the men to come; { question was to provide space to ac- commodate who desired to enter. u Rain Coats Sold " Mi ed only 20 worth today, $20 to $22.50, Thursday Only = Shop Aprons While they last. do day only without price, to enjoy the hospitality | ¢ ‘“Connors---Halloran’’ hursday THRIFT DAY AT OUR | Reorganization Sale Men's Suits This lot consists of 22 light weight Kuppen- heimer Suits sold up to $25. Thursday only, Men’s &12.50. litary eifcts, assort- fabrics. Thursday up to $4.98 $9.75 Young Men’s Overcoats Coats, sizes 33 to 38, ‘ ; $10.98 | Sweaters Five Men’s Sweaters, some sold as high as $4.00. Thursday only 19c $1.98 Articles advertised One to a Customer. Thurs- £ zen in all. CONNORS-HALLORAN C0. and the boys three kopecks a glass they were able sia to make money. “On another the shack, was placed a blackboard, while near by were tables and rough Y. M. C. A. wooden benches. throng of men, rudiments of arithmetic, writing, spelling, and to know Hqthe ¥ thrown entirely | sources; they had to confer one with | another to decide what was the best thing, and then go through a limitless as T amount of red tape on account of the Russlan government to secure it. The ian soldie how voung men would come from a foe co their many things glven them fre out having some hidden mot; convi 248 Main St., New Britain “ALWAYS RELIABLE” Rus- I talked with would reply, ‘We don’t vet why they come here; they must have a good reason for coming, but we will find out after awhile.’ Branch Out. leaving Moscow again s they know told me that even at nd spot, to one side of At these sat a great anxious to learn the and English, and even hun- how to write their own It was not a question of the great “Just before months after my first visit to the shack in the outskirts of the city) T learned that there were five br of the Young Men Christian siation, where formerly there had been but one. I went up to a build- ing where Crawford Wheeler had started his Central Branch, and en tered a large red brick theater. Tt was ideally situated for the Associa- tion work. The large auditorium seated nearly two thousand men, and cntered as escorted to a box T noticed two intelligent-looking officers in the box next to me. Wheel- cr told me that they were two men who had been sent from another city clubs for by the soldiers to learn more about with the Young Men's Christian Associa with- | tion, with a view of inviting it to their Time | own town. ““The audience was a sea of faces These soldiers had organized the eve- ning's entertainment and were asking for volunteers from the audience to amuse them. One could hardly be- lieve that this hatless, well-behaved crowd could be the same jostled mass of men, the idler of the park, the shuffling deserter, that I had met in other parts of Russia. Yet under this even a fraction of those secretaries were their own re- M.k, upon could not understand untry, establish enience and comfort, (two | nches | Asso- | modern wall covering.” You can finish Neponset Wall Board with Paint, Kalsomine or Wall Paper. 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