The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
Y. M. |. 4. PLANS
 MORE BUILDINGS Importance of Army and
 Navy Features EPISCOPAL BISHOPS College Called Together for Octo- Der 26-Pope Plus and the Catholic Press-TOpics of
 Mems Campaign
EPISCOPAL BISH,

New York. September 2.-tSpecial.)- j. The Army and Navy Department of thi Young Mems Christian association will open its new Newport building in Octo- ber. President Taft had been expecting to assist at the function, but new plan! came in and so the programme at the mo- ment is incomplete. The building, unlike some others of the department in that il is for both army and navy, cose s25oooO with s40,0o0 more for furnishings. The building was given by Mrs Mary Emery of Cincinnati, and the furnishings by in. dividuals and organizations. Many wo men resident in different cities have fur nished rooms as memorials.
 The department expects to erect al Panama an association building that vii equal, perhaps surpass, the Newport one No money is yet in sight for 1t, but the need will soon be, it learns, since the canal Notifications are to surpass in ex. tent almost any other American maya station. Locations have not yet been de, cided upon by the government. The de pertinent is also hoping to erect a great building at the Presidio in San Francisco for there coast centralization is to be made, and at least 10000 men will be stationed there
 Growing out of the association service with troops while guarding the American frontier from Mexico incursions last win ter and spring, appeals for newsbuildings from enlisted men themselves, with ap- proval of government officers, have reached the association from Fort Sam Houston in Texas, Fort Riley, Kansas the Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, Col umbus Barracks Ohio, Fort Logan. Col orado, Fort E. A. Russell, Wyoming Fort McPherson, Georgia and Fort Benj Harrison. Indiana. The department will 5 endeavor to erect headquarters at some oi these points, but will be guided by the governments plan to mass enlisted men in few large posts. rather than many small ones. It announces its purpose to meet greater needs first, and states that demands upon its limited funds have been unprecedented during the past two years.
 At the moment the department plans 10 send with the Asiatic fleet Mr Benton S. Swartz, who has seen much experience with enlisted men at the New York navy yard. There are 12 ships in the fleet. but MT. Swartz will be on board the fla gship
 
 Swartz will act as volunteer one, under the new plan successfully tried out dur ing the past year. The fleet goes to Cheefoo and some other points for targe, practice and for longer of shorter stays and it will be the association's plan where possible to get into touch with American missionaries located there. MT Swartz is a Syacuse university man Speaking of Christian work among en. listed men of the United States navy MT. George A. Reeder of the association who helped the government to demon. strate the value of the volunteer chaplain plan. said day or two ago:
 Within the past four or five years there has been a marked change in tho enlisted men in our navy. Now our men are practically all Americans. And those that come in contact with hail from the rural parts of our middle west Born on farms, they have taken to the seas. The average age of the sailor is only about 2z years. A great desire on the part of the men is that they be thought better of by the American public And I want fo tell you that they are just as good American stock of young fellows as we have. Swear at times? Why that is only a fashion come down from the days when enlisted men were salts, foreign born for the most part, and perhaps a tough bunch.
 l know the enlisted man in our gov ernments service. l have eaten, slept, shot. marched, played. studied--done ev- erything with him. Reared as he las been and young as he is, his vocabulary of words is not large Swear words he uses chiefly to fill up, not because he means anything by them. They have come down in the service, and he uses them as he does other traditional things, The American public ought to change its estimate of enlisted men, ought to do 1t radically and do it now.''