Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-10
Cabbage
Rolls : Doughnuts

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 After the supper the men sang the following songs which were Y passeh ont on sheets headed War songs for New England boys in the great s35.-. 29o 900 gar % york fund fund esnpaign; ig o, Up. Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, Till the Poys Come Home. Eat tie Hymn of the Republic and The New; America. '-
 master then introduced the speaker of the evening. B. H. McLaine, of Se- attic. Wash, o-ly a few months in this country after service with the ,red triarsle with the troops of General Ma ifde i;1 Mesopotamia.
 MT. Mel aire described the country where Fa Ed worked as one of the most God -forsakon on earth. He did not blan Adam and Eve in the least for leaving the country which is noted for four things, fes, foods fleas and filth. Tn winter the country is COW cred with from six to eighteen inches of mud and in the summer the tem- perature is from one hundred and the shade with very littla shade to be found. Much of the time the men are on half or quarter rations. The keepers of the bazaars in the cities will not accept their money and they are always exposed to snipers. The big: aim of the Y. M. C. 4. is to make the men forget the trenches as soon as they come out of them. The follow ing is a sample of the weekly pro- gramn1e in some of tine. camps: Mon day, games: Tuesday, movies; We'd nesday, lectures: Thursday. games: Friday concerts; Saturday. writing home: Sunday, religious services by chaplains of all denominations.
 Another great branch of the werl; is the work in the hospit taiss where the iS r.T1 military surgeon said that his great est problem was to make the men want to live. Another thing that the association is doins e;bi is iseepins the the neighborhood of the camps. Many thousands, of men from the Canadian army were incapacitatc:f by disease during the early days of the war. The army looks to the association to pre- vent this in our army and to mals', the camps; as safe as their homes were. No man can refuse to contribute to this cause and it is Q foolish. question to ask whether. Norwich will do her bit or. not. s:
 ' Col Gale 'sthen~- introduced Mayor Allyn L.. Brown. who; said that while he. had nc such persoEal. experiences to- narrates he, would tell oe his visit to Camp pevens in the carly part Of the week. Major Hodges said in ad- dressing a number. of association workers that the Y. NJ c. A. is the fireSide Of the camp. The, education al feature of the work at Camp Dev- ems can. readily be appreciated when it 5s known that there are 111o men in the camp who can neither read O. write Enelish. The courses in F'repch conducted by the assoc1arion are also we'll patronized. At Camp Devers alone there are distribute:1 each weeN 200, ,00G sheets of writing I.aper. Tn fact the Y. M. C. A. are the clearing house of everr thing outside of the military affairs of the camp. h Boston Mon day nigh. heard John R. Mott speak on the work of the association in wa:' times. MT. Mott said that the mag nitude of the work coui,1T be estimat- ed when one realized that there are s8.00O.000 men under arms today and before this war the largest number of men enEaeed, in wa was 2.000, ,00O. Besides this there. are 6.GG0, 900 in the prison -camps. We should be able nc willing to sacrifice something for the men: who are. giving, ups two or three years or perhaps tl1ei.' lives for us. r. Col. Gale: then told 2 story of see ing a carpenter working on the can tonnlent buildings for Sa1s60 per week and later seeing the same man who had been dfaftfd doing tlle same work for s3s per mont7f.t ssI1e then called on Jainess.C. Macpherson ;;s the first af several two minutes speakers He said that there was no apology nee esSalve for a man who vas canEass1nss
 
 was next called upon, aud he said that he believed that Norwich would ex- eeed her total in this carapaign as sh@ had in tho Liberty Loan campaign. Secretary Hill said thar from his two months experiences witl. soldiers dur ing the summer he had reached the con ciafsion that the sofdia@s' worst en- en1y was not. the Hun, hut the devil irnpnrity ard rum. Coi Gale then an1,ointed Shepherd B. Palmer a com n1ittee Of one to. thank the ladies for the fine stlppsr. The committee car ried oait the work. President Jamea 1s Case then spoke of the plsns, for the campaign. He spoke on the in- portance of the camp1 ign and urged every man to follow the rules as set down an the envelopes which had been passed. out. It is pla;ined to, assign each team worker. thrAa pages of ti7e directory to cover, After MT. Cases talk Col Gale dea1ared the meeting adjourned until Monday night Au team workers were asked to fill out their own pledge cards before start : ing out. After the supper, Secretary Hill gave out of town workers special instr1lctionss while Roy's Secretary J. H. Ely explained the work to the boys.
 While, the supper was under the general supervision tos' the Ladies auxiliary the following ladies acted as waitresses: Mrs Fred Fox. Mrs. Grace Foster. Mrs Wi!iiam Ps.cher. Miss r.. McDougal. Mrs. Thomas Has