The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-22

 and is sending back a series of arti elcs on what he has seen. In on Of these. published by the kansa City Star, Mir, White treats on tn work of the Y. M. c. A. As Mena an Polk county have joined in the Ma tion-wide effort to aid this wort and as even yet there are doubtles some who are not fully acquainte with it's aims and scope, a portio of the article is given here
 Somewhere in France on th letter of an average American sol dier may be taken to mean down i the Joan of Arc country. There tn bugles of the American soldiers their winter camp echo thru tn hills the new voice of the the ne' world. And they are calling th new world to a new liberty, to tn creation of a new heaven and a nP' earth in this world. Every day th Americana boys ride thru the hill and across the valleys where Jon tended her sheep and tifey, too, aI' hearing flew voices voices tha tell them the meaning of thei sacrifices in visions of humanity.
 Probably every American soldie who crosses the ocean has decide rather definitely and rather dramat ieally in his own heart that he wi never come back-thus does yout dramatize it's fears and aspiration II is all very high and fine and beau tiful But during the years that ar to come while these boys are i Europe, life must be lived thru an life for the European soldier is nc an idyllie existence
 Lonesome for Womenkind.
 His camp life will be rough at il best, and when he is in the irenche lie will be in the midst of a thou sand dangers and always among try ing hardships And above all, h will be lonesome for his women kind. He is at the mating age th age when in the very nature ( things the urge of the sex is stron upon him, however amhushed an concealed it may be. and the voic of a good woman is music to hi ears. and the voice of a good wOma is going Co be rather difficult to fin in France. Not that there are nc millions of good women i8 Franc' but they do not talk the EngIis language and they are not avail able to the American soldier $ the thing that he hears is the voic of the siren. She whose way of ol has laid hold on he'll
 Those who have known fairly in timately the conditions of the sol diers of this war in Europe feel that the Y. M. c. A., or some simild organization. offers the only way [ combat successfully those socla evils so common and so general accepted in Europe and so deadly | the spiritual and physical life c our men.
 The Facts as They Are.
 gro explain conditions il may h well to set down in this paragrap some facts which may possibl make squamish reader wincl But these facts will be common place facts which our America soldiers must face, and if will no hurt the American public to knoy the facts. To begin, France Ina been battle ground for thre years. Five million soldiers at on time or another have been take from their homes and billeted i the villages of Northern and East ern France near the farflung baltl line from 0stend to the Alps. Som of these soldiers have been Britis soldiers. Moroccan soldiers, Ethi opians from Africa, Chinamen fror French China. New Zealanders. Al gerians. South African Dutch, Aus tralians. Canadians, East lniian and Russians.
 Tt may be imagined that they hay a variety of notions about the thing which we disguise under the nam of morality these soldiers from tn ends of the earth They have bee living in French houses with Frenc women whose husbands are on tn battle line; or these soldiers hay been living in tents or barracks nea the homes of French soldiers wh are on the battle line. Hundreds a thousands of women at the roman tie age, attached and unattached married and unmarried. daily hay been associated with these million of soldiers. It takes no excess 0 imagination to know exactly wha has happened in this awful socia confusion.
 One must not get the idea tha the women of France have acte differently from other women Tn same number of soldiers e0min from the same far corners of tn earth with the same varying idea If morality. if they were billeted | Kansas villages or Maine villages, Q bnuiSiana villages. or California VII lages, where the men were gon' wouid produce the same results.
 ''lt Is into this social anarchy tha we are sending our America troops. It is the social anarchy ne cessary in every war It is by product of war. And yet tt is pos sihle to save our men--to take ou soldiers into this and keep theT normal and wholesome to the ens But the only organized influences a work for the salvage of our men | this dreadful social eataclysm ar