The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-11-15
Urgent Appeal From Publicity
Department of
State.
AID FOR PRISONERS
Statistics Show Them to Be
Most Lonesome Men in
the World.

Since the war started millions and
billions have been talked with such
loOseness that few people realize what
the amounts really comprise, and this
Is best illustrated by statement Of
Mark Bartholomew, Y. M. @. A. secre-
tary who has spent two years among
the prisoners of war In Russia.
IF the six million prisoners of war
which the Y. M. G. A. war work now
seeks to reach should walk down the
main street of a city, said Mr. Barthol-
NEW 'the procession would take more
than month to pass a given point.
These men are tine most lonesome
men In the world. Some of them have
been interned for over two years. They
have nothing to devert their minds, no
comforts, nothing to read except what
the Y. Nj. g. A. warkers can give them.
These men Qeed attention. They need
the help of Vie Y. NJ. G. A., the frien,
ly spirit of the association. They are
homesick, disheartened. discouraged.
"The sum of 1,0OO,O00O0 has been
budgeted for work among the prisoners
Of war In the $35,00O,000.O0 drive
which the Y. M. G. A. is making t this
time. This viii carry y rid OF
comfort to those men who a,o shut of
[ from the worlG, Why, there are men
there who .'ave lost hope, men who do
not leave heir cOuches except for their
meals. These men are bordering on in
sanity. They must be given something
to do, something to occupy their minds.
THE Y. NJ. G. A. overseas Is the only
organization allowed among the pris-
oners. The peple of this country must
make 1t possible to save these men.
This vast sum of money must be rails
ed. This Is a condition that no words
of mine could possibly describe. /
could not picture to you the utter help
lessness and hopelessness of these pris-
/ oners. We must reach them 1t is our
4 duty as Christians. No one has the
i right to refuse to answer their appeal"
i Every day In every city, town or
village In this country there arrives a
/ letter from soldier boy written on
the stationery supplied him without
cost by the Army and Navy Y. NJ. G..
A. said X. Il. Randall secretary OF the
Boise Y NJ. c. A., Saturday.
|. IN every home where this letter with
its significant Red Triangle arrives
there Is joy. If Ii were not for the
! kindly attention Of the Army and Navy
/ 4. Nj. G. ~. If Ii were not for the build
ings, tents and huts of this organiza-
/ ton, there would be thousands of
4 homes without word from their loved
ones called into the service.
In every Y. NJ. {. A. center there
Is a sign that reads. have YOU written
mother today?" 1t Is an appeal that
the soldier hoy cannot resist. His heart
Is with her and he goes to the counter
gets paper and envelopes and sits down
beside another comrade who is writing
and jots down his message. Hundreds
of thousands of boys all over the world
are writing letters home in Y. NJ. c. = .
buildings on u NJ. G. A. paper every
day and night.
To make 1t possible for these BOYS to
have paper and envelopes and place
to write. TO give them entertainment,
reading matter and so occupy their
leisure time that they will not become
homesick and down-hearted, the Y. NJ.
g. A. started its national drive for $780,
0O0,0O0.00 to continue and extend its
work among the American soldiers at
home and abroad. You may be getting
IL letter ON Red Triangle stationery in
Your home. III you do, you know what
/ it means to you. The " M. G.. A.
needs your support it counts on you
! and the soldier counts on the Army and
Navy Y. NJ. &. A.