El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-06
PLANS AIDFOR
MEN WHOLABOR
Y. M. G. A. to Serve Those
Who Stay Behind While
Others Go to War.

General secretaries OF the 1OunS
Mems Christian association branches
Of the southwest. met in conference
at EI Paso at a meeting called. by
Interstate secretary. W. H. Day. FL
Paso, Douglas. Clifton. Bisbee, Miami,
Ariz-. and Albuquerque, y. NJ, were
represented by secretaries and H P.
Demand. secretary for the boys work,
and c. a. Grummere. army secretary,
were present in addition 20 Mr.. Day.
Plans were discussed concerning
the activities which are being carried
on in the branches TO aid the indus
trial men For every man VINO goes
10 the army service there are y men
working in the United states and an
effort is being made TO help these
men in a fuller way than ever before
Glasses in French are being given IN
practically all the branches
Mack H. Donaldson, the new secre-
AIRY Of the Bisbee association,
graduate Of the University Of Denver,
and also a Cecil Rhodes fellow Of OK
ford university. England. who has
been in the prison camps in Austria
for a long time, is planning 70 de-
velOp many new lines at Bisbee-
To Help the Boys
Making a concerted effort to evade
the unpleasant deterioration IN the
morality Of the nations youth due to
war depriving the boys Of home care
the United States government has
made an appeal to the Young Men.
Christian association TO help through
their boys departments. This is be-
ing done in several ways, and a oeIl-
mite campaign will be carried on in
FL Paso. The patriotic service league.
which viii be a branch Of the boys
work, is a movement to make the
bows realize that the can serve the
nation better By living we'll ana
keeping themselves physically moral
" and spiritually fit, and by helping
in altruistic service in church civic,
and Y N. work, in place Of the older
men who have gone 70 war. than by
living about their age and thus going
TO war. This is a serious problem
as criminality has increased 90 per
cent in Germany alone since the be
ginning OF the war. and has gone as
far as TO commit murder and highway
robbery. IL is said
The Packet" system OF patriotic
service is 10 be extended to the FL
Paso boys also. Packets containing
food OF sufficient nutritive value TO
keep a man alive a month are 10 be
sent by the boys TO the prisoners IN
the camps in Europe, who are being
fed starvation rations, principally
made Of grass and roasted nuts, and
are dying for lack OF nourlshm enl
The packets are put up in England.
and cost 81 apiece. and are distributed
10 the prisoners by the Young Mems
Christian association secretaries IN
the prison camps II is hoped that
The boys viii raise the money for
the packets themselves, and that
1 56O. 900 packets may be provided IN
the next ten months In each packet
there is a card with the American
flag upon il. the 7. n c. A. emblem
and the name and address Of the
bovEiver. these cards are signed BY
the prisoners and sent back 20 the
giTers.
ss8Iove Up Campaign Coming.
During the first ten days in DC
sober, Arthur Cotton. international
high school boys secretary, viii con-
duct a Move Up forward campaign
in FL Paso. These are campaigns for
right and clean living and were
named by the boys Of Pittsburgh
from the signs in the street cars,
Move up forward" Similar cam
paigns viii be held IN Bisbee, Albu-
0uerQue and Phoenix