New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1918, Page 5

By JOSEPH LEE, President of the War Camp Commu- nity Service, for the War Depart ment and Navy Department Commis sions on Training Camp Activiti Our ecidiers and sailors are not Jeisure time in Ihey an almost physical need for tnz to spend all their the camp or traininz station of scene. for a change of social environment, for some revival of those s to the community at large, heme conditions, and especially to and women, In which a normal ife <o Iargely consists. If this need fts it will find it in another. ioes not tind satisfaction in one It is also outside the eamps that the est recreation will e found. These roung men's hunger for chanfle, for rdinary human society and surround- ings, is a normal and a wholesome one, One commander who began by insist- ing that his men should spend their leisure time in camp has ended by in- shall spend it outside the camp in the neighboring communi- ties. Normal social intercourse is the best aid to health and to morale. The War Camp Community Service i nee: essary not only to prevent possible evil, but to provide by far the most effective means of making our men | well and fit their best. “The spirit with which our soldiers leave America and their effi on the battle fronts of Europe will be vitally affected by the character of the envi- ronment surrounding our military | training camps.” The method of doing the work is as follows: to do eney The Playground and Reecreation As- rociation of America sends to each community near a training camp one or more of its trained community or- | ganizers, whose business it is to form | a strong representative local commit- tee, with 1 sub-committees, and to cooperate with these in protecting the | soldier from exploitation and m;lkm:i him feel at home. The Association is now working in 140 or more of these communities. The Association also supplements lo- eal resources, especially when the local community is small in proportion to the number of soldiers (as for instance when there is a training camp of 40,000 men and the only community within | reach of it contains than 5,000 inhabitants) the provision of Sol- diers’ when in | other ways, 1 As to concrete achievement less) clils and necessary ~hospi tality is a matter of the spiritand can- ' have bought an old church and fitted 'arranged for special trains or had Jit-|are the receptions, parties and other'The girls at these parties cone on per | tunities | summer not adequately be described by e of the:forms i Cerfainly the spirit abundantiy in th ties near our training which the War Camp Communit fee has heen able to rende pression i indic has sent g S ex- partly of lowin that 1ecount hings Soldiers’ Clubs. One form of this War Camp Commu- nity Service is the 1 which usually missioned officers, | for chance to music, the soldic through n which find bowling, hilliards, to smoke and to read 1eir women clubs: s themselves, non-com- they opportunities quiet games, talk and U write letters, A sten or to receive visitors, to buy ind other thi for and sailors manifest a which soldie spe: sometimes, in the navy men, to secure a nig ing. The largest of these clubs is at Newport where a tract of acres has heen secured it, fitted for poses of a club; with a grove of trees, n which 100 hammocks slung, & bathing beach, ample oppor- for every kind of outdoor e, an outdoor th as many s 00 navy men were somefimes present. The naval authorities have so appreciated the re- sources of this club that they spent $4,000 on a special foot hridge to con- nect it with the vy X 3 Another club in Newport is located in the quarters on the government landing formerly occupied by a saloon. closed by Admiral Knight. There are a number of other cases in which this typical supplanting of the old order by the new has taken place, especially the e of on now up have Athletics. Another thing the War Camp Com- |lege he is a gr: munity Service is doing is getting up | fond of singi games and athletic sports between sol- diers from different camps, and be- tween soldiers or ors and teams. Some of the football ed over or other athletic supplies. Mobilizing Community Resources. The more important, though visible, part of this Community ice is not in doing things directly the soldiers but in getting the com- munity itself to do them, At Ayer, Mags; , near Camp yevens, the Odd at the sug- gestion of the Community Or nizer, been | atre at which last | may assume. | communi- | Ihe aid | a mere | been | v Sery- | > fol- | arting of soldiers’ | ft drinks, chocolate, | | al hunger— | t's lodg- | with an old mansion | Il the pur-| A War Camp Community Service Club House in Boston, Mass. it up for the 0dd Fellows within the | They were able to invite their | o | camp. own member hecause the mandant, Major General Hodges, had {& census made of all the men in camp showing what church and what frater- nity each man belongs to, of what col- duate, whether he is . what games he like special hobby Is. So the Odd Fellows but his what not only and that focal | every church, fraternity and college games | society can extend its hospitality, indi- have attracted large crowds of specta- | vidual tors, and the proceeds have been hand- | pers among the officers and men. to the soldiers to buy footballs | similar census has been made at al- and by name, to its own mem- most all the camps. The Churches Doing Splendid Work. Miny churches, in various communi- have, at the suggestion of the War Camp Community Service, started soldiers’ clubs. Many union churches been built. Every- where the soldiers are invited to the church ices, and in some places the War Camp Commu Service has have ser NATIONAL ARMY CAVALRY MEN IN TRAINING photo zives a good example ol era and thorough training re- D e P o ; in training the big 1t overseas These men are in training on the border at Fort' tion from Unde un Jiouston Commit Informa- () on Public vood & Unde Al | | | | War Camp Community Service Hotel, JCIVI | sonal invitation froni§ | tully selected chaperd also selected, usnaliy nts of their coni responsibiliti very seriousl In one camp, were almost in a o of a d | of absence at g nt in despaifg r Camp Coms promptly - furni | ehaperons for a terwardsethat ;' the moral salvatig Even better thal igment and res zetting Yhem to Hi | ties of 14gnl on8 the choir, talk t0 | nish a chorus at | take part in thes |letic _exhibition preach, Home Hospitality. § | Out of these spgl {ous kinds springs u [relation, and thou: invited home to ding urday night, and & tained in the people’ | for instance, in one of | on Thanksgiving, wh | that some of the mén turkey dinners in one d | Other Activities. | Other things that the Community Service is dofl | ganizing community certs, organ recital tainments (in New York ' Theatre has been taken over on | day afternoons for the last nam¢a py | pose) ; stimulating municipal nieeting | and receptions, including Christma trees ; supplying directories and bulle- tins of local recreational réesourc securing teachers, especially of collo- | quial French; sending out entertaine { for the men in camp; finding lodgings { at possible prices for officers’ and sol- diers’ wives and families; finding em- " ployment for soldiers’ wives; protec Ing the men from exploitation by local tradesmen ; sending flowers to men in | hospitals and providing auto rides for | convalescents: forming women’s com- mittees to do mending for the soldiers ; thei e he | The | thes ‘ 01dY and spoken crated to thel and 1 an opportunity that belongs especially |to those communities that lie near | enough to the training camps to admit | of the establishment of personal rela- tions between the soldiers and the citi- Men Are Writing on Jay Gould’s Old Erie Railroad Directors’ Table, persuading communities to open parks, playgrounds, school center men |in uniform, to hold public receptions 49 W. 27th St., New York City. The zens. The spirit is also here; but the situ- to [=2 o { ney tines established to bring the men to church | Meeting Girls. | Even more Important than the club CHILL IS OFTTIMES FATAL TO A SQUASH ISNT HALRE LARGE ENOUGH TO COVER ME) SQUASKES RRE SUSCEPTIPALE 70 COLD AiD ac g:L'WE JAND FOR THAT REASON EHgULD E STORED I1i A DRY PLACE OF BETWEE 50 T0 60 DECREES F. SO0ASIe Ly e KEPT BY PLACNG THEM IN A SINGLE L AY-] [ER ON ADRY FLOOR AND COVERING WITH RUGS OR CARPE TS, £ Care in storage is best explained in the free book that will be sent any reader of this paper who sends a two-cent stamp to the National War Garden Commission at Wash. ington. DON'T GIVE A PICNIC FOR ALL THE INSECTS M)t 1 Hes=at) 413 WS R §i A Wi Lr i i W Vi ]I/J.‘[ AT i THE DRYING PRODUCT SHOUL| e ICOVERED WITH CHEESE CLOTH TACKED 7O A FRAME FOR PRO- TECTION FROM DUST AND FLYING (NSECTS RTGTA o GO CIrSTo _ Get the free drying book the Na. tional War Garden Commission of Washington will send for a two- cent stamp for postage, and learn all about drying, "GAS” THIS KIND BY USING A LITTLE SALT GOOD NIGHY 1T, HERE'S WHERE I GEY OFF | SALIY AS ThE SEA-Van) BEFORE CANNING CAULIFLOWER SUOU 8= SOAKED ONE HOUR. IN SALTED WATER YO REMOVE INSECTS 1R ANY ARE PRESENT. RATIGRAL ViAm GanoEs Lo WAY GO B The free canning book which the opportunities to meet g — | for them, to provide henches in parks, comfort stations, the pools, detention homes providi (as it uni event gitls f ation is new to us and the methods of ion do not all spontaneous- themselves. Our effort must lized to be effective. It is this organization which it 1s the busines of the War Camp Community Servie to supply. the s and older way, swinm its express| S org women in a mnatural which hurches, fraternities, college and other organizations are providing in the neighborhood of all the camps. ' o p MARY PICKFORD IN NEW ROLE, “MISS LOS ANGELES” NS for ard g these Itself when nec has been in some small patrol work m getting into dauger- s, way Iy societies be essary es) purposa of the Bureau of Pub. formation in their Allied War Rx« ition a from Oves J al war time It is Government propa. e the way for Liberty ings Stamps drives sage me; producing act onditio nda to pa nd Wa SKY IN DRYING lod pEAR 1T 1S GOING TO RAWN AND VLL B E | SOAKE D ~INSTEAD % OF DRIED! Loan KEEP YOUR EYE ON e = GO OD EVE- JUST BEFORE SUNSET AND bUR|NG RAINS THE PRODUCTS National War Garden Commission of Washington will send you for a two-cent stamp to pay postage will belp you save all the garden crop. SHOULD BE TAKEN INDOORS FOR THE PURPOSE Of! PROTECTION. ATIONAL WAR GARDEN COMMISS ION, WASHINGITON, D.C. Ini a 1ree book on drying, which will be sent readers of this paper for a two-cent stamp to pay postage the National War Garden Commission of Washington, you will find the best advice on. drying. iy American soldiers monumeént——-— Committee on Publie tion from Underwood & Underwood are passing (c) France, Informa-