Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-18


to say ugly drunk And don't know
why | set store by the Dorcas So
ciety. But when he said that about
the time when he got lost, IT made
my cart go queer. Because | saw as
l didn't see before 'ow lonely the boys
must get and 'ow much they must
IKE place to sit and smoke and
write 'ome from. SO / send my little
money up to 'eadquarters every week
IT'S not much but II helps cheer up
some soldier boy. That's something"
Women as Walters.
Many times / have seen English
ana colonial boys pouring into Y. NJ.
I. A. huts in different places in Eng
land and France. They are sure oe
shelter, good food and recreation. In
the dining rooms Of the English huts.
English women wait on them for the
sake of their own boys; give them
help and companionship, try To with
hold them from the temptations of
the street In France there is equal
zeal. Once I was In n certain sea-
port. An English transport had safe
ly crossed the channel, escaped from
Submarines but not from rough
weather. The soldiers were disem-
barking, young unseasoned troops
fresh from their training In England.
hi'u hoW EolnS 10 IL DdSc camp IN
france. Some Of them were a little
pale from seasickncss; all looked
tired. The glamor Of foreign land
had not begun to inspire then. and
some OF them, I am afraid we~a suf-
1ering from touch of homesicllness.
Then they saw Y; NJ. CA. hut Some
Of them cheered and charged, and
went in boldly; others went in tim
idly. Once inside they were all at
meme. On the walls, indeed were
French posters instead of English,
but the good old red triangle was the
same. There were the tables for chess
and checkers; there were the English
magazines; there, above all, were the
paper and ink. In a moment. every
available desk and table space was
occupied by soldiers writing home. 1t
was very moving sight.
Now 1t is our own boys who are
over there, and who will need the
kind of comfort that only the Y. NJ
c. A. organizations can give. Letters
and boxes from home are not enough.
vital as they are; the ordinary volun-
tary canteens are not enough There
is no single organization that gives
such variety of necessary help as
the Y. NJ c. A. 1t not only gives
shelter-and to the boys who have
known the shelter the word ''hut"
ton: 1t not only gives food and rec
reation. but it gives what every wo-
man will want her son, husband or
sweetheart to have and what every
father will want his boy to have: a
certain intangible feel OF ho.ne.
Give Up Something.
They will he cold, those men you
love; the Y. NJ. c. A. will warm them
and feed them. They will perhaps
be depressed; the Y NJ. Is. a. will
cheer them. Think of the Y. NJ. c.
A. as serving for you, as giving these
boys of yours all you would give
them with your own hands. 1t can
not be done without money. And
those who are not making emotional
sacrifices by sending men TO the front
ought to give the more because they
are spared this sad cost Won't you
give all you can-everybody? And
then, won't you give more thar you
can? Sheltered woman with a warm
house TO 20 to, won't you give up that
new blouse you think you need and
y. NJ. c. A. fund? Or that set Of
furs? Or WONT you give up giving
Christmas presents for the sake OF
the men who must spend Christmas
in the trenches? Won't you, man
who are not in the draft, won't you
give up some of your cignrs and
wines, some of your cherished com
forts for the sake of the boys who
will face hardships of which you will
hear nothing till they come home
For they will not complain, those |
boys OF ours; they will carry on un-
complaininsly like the British and
the French. But you have the priv
ilege of making that carrying on cas-
ier. Remember what they give; at
the worst their lives at the best
months OF precious youth, The sus-
pension of careers, the lowering OF
wages and they do It for your safety. !
Think Of our boys laboring up out
Of the trenches after three hard days
during which they could not have
hot food dared not even smoke for
fear OF drawing the enemys fire, !
could only sit still under bombard- |
ment. Do you want them to he met
Mt the end of the communication |
trench with a Y NJ. C. a. fieid-kitch-
en-? They will, If you will give |
enough. If you don't they will march |
several miles to billets wet dispir-
tied, before they can have anything |
hot. Won't you give-give even till !
1t hurts? Give the money that will |
carry a little bit of home to the men |
who have taken upon their young
shoulders the hardest part OF this I