The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-06-07
Y. M. c. A. NOTES
st. Clair County War Committee of Y. M.
c. A. at Work. Aim to Raise
$4,000 This Week.


$4,000 This Week.
At one o'clock Monday a group of
men i'm several towns of st Clair county
started OH their mission OF raising the
money that is used to supply the 200
buildings and 100 secretaries necessary
to give the boys who enlist the necessi-
ties of successful training camp in
army and navy life. The work that
has been done on the Mexican border
and is now ! eing done in the training
camps has made the Red Cross and its
brother the Red Triangle of the Y. M.
G. A. necessity wherever men are
brought together. One young soldier
in a letter to his pal" at home says: 81
feel as if you ought to know something
about the work of the life saver, the
Young Mems Christian Association.
You will find it wherever there are men
and there are men here on the border
tonight. The "Y" is here good and
strong with a big comfortable shack for
every brigade.
Since our shack opened the Mesa bar
and Bills place are pretty well deserted.
Mothers get more letters and the U. S.
Government gets more efficiency. If
you have loved ones at home, you can't
resist the open ink bottles and the pens
and the paper. 1t makes you ashamed
to think that the "Y" is more interest
ed in your loved ones than you are.
1t hands out religion in doses man
can take.
1t tightens up the halter that gets
loose when a man gets away from
home.
1t assures you that some one is inter-
ested in you, no matter who or where
you are.
Who pay? l don't know, but who
ever it is, God bless them. They are
the fathers of thousands of boys"
Also some words of appreciation
given by one Of the Catholic Fathers
who was on the Mexican border. In
his farewell address to the men he
thanked the Y. M. 9. A. "for its num-
berless kindnesses and untold helpful
ness. 1t is one friend that has never
failed us; mas never found difficulties
too great if there was any chance to
help us; that has never left US even
when we thought it would have been
justified" Then after telling how the
"Y" had followed and ministered to the
men in every activity from the day they
took the train for the border till they
were discharged and returned to their
homes he finished by saying: "Do you
think the Y. M. G. A. will leave us nowp
No Sirl Just late this afternoon l re-
ceived telegram from the home Y. NJ.
G. A. saying that they will be glad to
welcome us home. Their building is
open for our use. And they will assist
every man in the outfit in getting
job and settling back to his useful
civilian life. Men, they haye been our
friend. In your behalf, want to thank
them with all my heart. They haven't
asked us our special brand of religion
they've welcomed us all and tried to
help us all. The Catholics felt at home
in holding mass in the Y. M. G. A.
buildings and we have enjoyed our
Roman Catholic services here every
Sunday morning just as the Protestants
have enjoyed theirs in the evening.
The Y. M. 9. A. has been God-send
to the men on the Border"
Other men will give their lives. What
will you give2 100000 will finance a
standard camp association; $4,000 pays
for building and $500 will equip; 81 900
for delivery truck; $500 will buy 500
copies of the New Testament; $3.50 for
motion picture outfit; $3.50 buys apiano;
$50 graphaphone.