Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-11-09
THE RED TRIANGLE

With friendly bit of sarcasm a sub
scriber to The Register told US this
week IL couldn't get along without
your paper. Why, if didn't have it !
wouldn't know when to save food or
when to give away money ~
How true it is that the newspapers
have all given themselves over to cam
paigning for one cause or another, but
what would any patriot have them do
in times which make such demands upon
the whole nation?
The burden is on the newspaper and
not on the reader Nne-tenths of the
mail that reaches the editors desk
these days is in one form of appeal or
another for the support for some
worthy cause.
This week there looms big 1.-The
Story of the Red Triangle" which APP
pears on page two. 1t is not a bit of
fiction, but record of what that trade
mark means to millions of men who are
to face terrible winter in the trenches
If ten years ago we could have known
to a certainty that the world lie en-
gagged, as it is now, in such a maSsing
of men in the pursuit of war, something
more efficient, per- APPS, might have been
organized for the moral and physical
comfort Of these hordes OF men, than
the Y NJ. c. A. organization has af
forded II mint have been but as the
case stands, or as it stood at the out.
break of this war, there was neither
here nor abroad any organization so
well equipped and organized on a more
all-lncluslve basis of service than was
the Young Mems Christian Association,
and the military authorities here and
abroad so soon found this to be true
that they freely acknowledged that
they themselves, pressed with other de-
tails of military organization, could not
have COPIED with the situation which the
Y. NJ. c. A. has from the first handled
so admirably.
Tho Y NJ c. A. buildings in the mill
tary camps and at the front are in no
sense sectarian in either the privileges
they hold-out for the moral upift of our
boys at war nor in the religious services
held in them. The meeting place is
open to both Protestant and Catholic
services, and both are held with equal
pllNlH BeS' Tue IedutIS nave UGeU III
spired only with the first aid they can
render in helping our boys lead clean
lives, whether they lead them in one
faith or another.
There is no place where time hangs
30 heavily on mans life as in warfare,
strange as it may seem when one pic
lures the activity of the battle front.
But with so many millions to serve,
this activity is shared by any one com
pany of men only for short periods of
time and the lay-of is all the more
marked after the stress of service. 1t
is then that the soldier needs all of the
encouragement which he can have to
keep him from evil ways. He needs
strong, clean environment, something
suggestive Of home and its ties. He
needs companionable shelter, needs
books, needs papers, reeds stationery,
needs music, needs games, and moral
instruction and leadership. 1t is such
that the Y. M. C. A. is prepared to
give so efficiently and so universally.
1t is calling next week for the large
funds that are necessary to carry on its
Importance service. Read its call, con-
slider well what your contribution
means in helping such a big work along,
and DO your duty with patriotic spirit.