Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-11-15
Y.M.C.k. STANDS BY
CLEAR TO FRONT
TEACHES FOREIGNERS TO BE
GOOD SONS or UNCLE SAM
CURES HOMESicKNESs.
FOLLOWS SOLDIER ACROSS
pug-outs Cheer Soldier last Thing
Before Battlc-"Last Evidence
That Somebody Cares"

Michigan through the y NJ. G.. A r.
IN Che midst Of the big drive 10 raise
& million and a quarter dollars for the
American soldier The man and The
woman who have been TO Camp Custer
do not ask What for2" Those who
have asked Michigan soldiers in camp
what they think or the y NJ c. A. do
not ask What for"
The great lighted buildings in the
rain and cold Of late autumn after
noon. place for homesick boys TO
hear music and play games and read,
they are what the Y. NJ G.. A is pay.
ing for
a bunch OF foreign boys. sitting
eager interested, before q y NJ G. a
teacher learning 10 speak the lam
guage OF Uncle Sam-that is what the
Y. VI G. A. is paying for A thousand
OF these speaking sons Of Am
erica are being taught 10 speak and
write and read 10 get in touch with
what the country is doing through the
newspapers and the men around them.
Men at play on the drill grounds af-
ternoons. men at play in the big clean
buildings at night that is what the
Y. Nj G. A. is paying for.
This is in Michigan. here at home
II Is only the beginning or the story
OF what the Y NJ C. 4, is doing
Standing BY Overseas.
When the soldier goes out from
Camp Custer down 10 the sea TO 60
across the y. N. c A will go along
In great tents or buildings at the en-.
barkstion points along the coast, when
the first great sweep OF distance from
home has brought its Inconsistencies
the Y. VI. G. A with its piano, its
lighted rooms. its games will be there.
II will be there 10 the boys or Michi-
gan just as it has been AT Camp Mills
on Long Island when the National
Guard armies Of the East have come
down TO the coast TO take ship
When Michigan boys land in France
the Y. NJ c. A. will be there. il is
there today meeting other boys who
have gone over and il will be there
then when it is needed a thousand
times more than it is needed on Mich.
igan soil. great as the need is here.
The soldiers OF Michigan will be in "A
strange land, land so busy that il
has no time 10 entertain the men Of
other lands: there will be no one TO
talk the language. and there viii be
the hard temptation OF women whose
invitation needs no language The Y
NJ &. A. will be there with the bright
clean buildings the songs OF home
and the friendly men
Finally when Michigan boys go down
20 The trenches, when they 20 out To
20 over the last great top. IN dug
oui within the range OF close fire. the
y NJ G. A will be present with
q God speed and cup of hot chocO.
late the y VI. c. A. Will give the last
evidence that anyone cares For
three weary years the British Y VI G.
A. has been down there behind the
thin. red line behind its army Now
the American army is coming and tie
American y. VI. c. A. is coming too.
Filing the holes. filling the vacant
spaces in the lives OF the men behind
the battle fronts, spaces that have
been filled with companionship with
wives and mothers in American homes
this is the business OF the y VI g.
a. overseas.
Not preaching, not telling the mer
not to sin but acting and giving the
men healthy activity and clean amuse
ment 10 take the place OF reckless de
bauchery in foreign towns fun Of bad
liquor and worse women this il the
job OF the Y. NJ. G., A.