Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-11-07

tables aDSOrDeQ ln IueiF WfltlnS: What an appeal to the sympathies those great groups of soldiers make! Fine, clean-cut. outstanding fellows, some of them mere boys, one thinks immediately of the sacrifice they have made for the rest of us and how pre- cious they are to some one back home. Somewhere, in far off farm or village or city street, there are parents or brothers or wives who would give all they possess for one glimpse of those sunburned faces as you and sec them on their last night before going across. And 1t was with a throb of the heart that l 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 association was serving the soldiers 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 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 colors."
 In these times there are some let ters that mean more to us than any we have ever read before They are written on sheets of paper stamped with the Stars and Stripes and the red triangle of the Y NJ. c. A., and they bear the magic words, With the Colors." There are many more than B million such letters in the mails now while you read this. Perhaps one at least Is on its way to you. Each one Of our l6 cantonments, where the new national army is being trained, is using more than a million sheets of this paper every menth. In the draft army alone that means 16,000,000 fila ments of love aAery month reaching out from the great encampment where the men are being trained into the greatest army this nation has ever dreamed and binding them to the hearts at home Multiply that by thinking of all the other places where Uncle Sam has men with the hag-in navy yards, on the high seas, in arse nals and officers training camps and "Over There" In France. In all these places men are writing home. Those unassuming little sheets of notepaper gladden. millions of hearts day. They transfer more love from one part of the world to another than sta ttstics can express Statistics are pretty poor anyway when it comes to reckoning in terms of love and human tenderness. Let's put 1t this way: That the Y. M c. A. Is the biggest ex- press company the world has ever seen, and the parcel. 1t Is handling are the loves and devotions of human beings.
 Worlds Best Loved Trademark.
 This war has made us think hard and fast. Your boy or your neigh bor's boy or some boy you know and love has been called to do his share in the big job of policing the world for democracy and human liberty. Is it any comfort to you to know that wher- ever his duty may call him your boy will nave a friend that will serve him in body, mind and soul? Are you glad to know that this friend will place books and magazines at hts disposal, organize classes to teach him what ever he wants to learn, give him a pocket testament and invite him to join religious meetings of the faith 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 tainments and every kind of whole some amusement to keep him interest ed7 Are you glad to know that this friend will go with him overseas, help to shield him from score of difficult and dangerous temptations and follow him right up to the front line trench and beyond 1t? The last contact the soldier 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 lover the top" to hand to hand strug- gle with the enemy. And as he comes tottering back from No Mans Land, wounded, but strong enough and plucky enough to keep on his feet, even before his wounds are dressed the Y. M. c. A. is waiting for nim with tea and sweet chocolate. the great com.