The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-14
Hell
Y. M. C. A. Helping Take
it Out Of War.
Nv Ella Parker Butler.

When you get over yonder where
the raw edges Of the war grind 70
cethcr and ii is as much 4 ease OF
crit ia the nerve boxes of the soldiers
as OF grit in tn. fighting ranks, the
Y. NJ G. A. doesn't mean stss!.stu1I
BIZ any manner OF means.
We have, over here in our home
town Of Flushing. on Long Island. 4
Young fellow named Arthur Clark VINO
has lust come back from year WIN
the British Tummies in Mesopotamia
and he went into Dag,lad with them
when they were painting and sweating
at 10 degrees in the shade lie dio
not find half hour of the sissy hoy
business from start to finish.
clark had three months in India be-
fore he went TO Mcsopotamia. lie ma"
rs side partner II scotsman n'iieu
PAYNE ana they worked as co-associttc
I. NJ. c. \. secretaries.
for five months, while the BRUSH
torccs were fighting toward Ragdad'
a, was running Il Y NJ. Z. \. hut III
hospital camp of 10 huts, each with
100 beds and every man seriously
Wounded. The camp was at .Nh'ira'
100 miles behind the fighting front,
On the Tirris. Side paddle conveys
frightfully oy,Vcrowdcd, brought the
wounded down the river and before
,bo noor fellows were landed Clark
ma his helpers would be aboard han9-
ne out comforts and other daintles
they so much needed.
What the British army heads
Nhol,gh, Of the y. ~ G. \. work IS
told W tn, fact that Clark NofhihS
force Mas i sergeant major, II corporal
ana tive priNutcs detailed TO l. VI.
! &. 4. duty from the regular forces.
When the army went into Bagdad.
| The famous Arabian Nights city, 1he
| y, NJ. {. a had been using field quar-
| tiers composed of sserics OF ma1kec
| tents strung together. The Turks left
! Bagdad seven hours before the British
| evolutionary army entered. and the
| kurds came into the city i'll the interim
! md looted every building. one OF the
F.! first things Clark did was 10 establish
| 4, y. NJ c. A. library by gathering up
| the books the kurd hooters had scat
| tered in the streets.
The y. NJ G. A. was given as head
quarters the big Red Crescent hos
| ,ital building, which had previously
/! been the Bagdadi hotel. The big din
| lng room was transformed into Il
| ,ounging ROOM {; bakery was erected
| for the cakes and buns dear to the
| palate of the Tommy, and ice cream
| md soda plants were started, The l.
NJ. c. A. made it's own soda and rugged
up an ice cream freezer The Turks
had left an unchanged ice plant anu
the army brought up another tlarh
told me they found an old Arab with
several COWS and three wives, and this
| Arab drove mp the COWS every morn
ing, the wives MIXED them. ana thus
ice cream Was possible with 4 SUI
that pushed the thermometer up (
| So degrees and then broke Il.
In the hotel headquarters al thu
help was Arabian, mostly Turkish
army dcsertcrs About 500 Tommie'
| made use Of the y. NJ. &. y. ever.
day, the number sometimes going III
| to 1909. Checkers and the ancien
| reel; game of halma were the fayorit'
! ports, and periodicals and other read
| mr. matter was in constant demand.
I Clark found much work among tn
wounded soldiers and tells of one ste
! cal Tommy who WAS riddled with ma
.hine gun bullets and asked the y. NJ
Z. \. man to write Il letter to HI
ather back in England, His ]ette
vas this. Dear Dad look like Til
TOD side of 4 pepper box. jack
No, the Y. NJ. {. \. in war time !
rot Il pink tea affair. 1t marches Wit
= the men, works rs hard as day labor
,rs. thinks quick and hard. leaps I
necessary expcdicuts. and keeps NIL
by just one big effort, from heln
, ! uttcrly and entirely hell.