The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-11-15

7 In the light of the above letter it
q both interesting and Illuminating :
glance over the statement itself, ex
/ actly as 1t was issued from Red Tri
t angle headquarters, 81 Montague av
cnue, Paris.
J The Y. nj. c. A., in its work for tn
: American, British and Canadian force
has provided recreation for ofiicerl
and men Of both arms of the service il
training camps, at the ports, at trans
fer and hating stations, at railheads
in billets, rest camps, and dugouts al
the front.
/ II has established clubs, cafes, hos,
tells and information bureaux. 1t has
carried on lectures, educational class.
es movies, musical and theatrical en-
tertainments, indoor and outdoor ath-
letics. 1t has established Libraries,
reading rooms, cafes for light refresh
ments and counters for the sale of
candies, tobacco, etc. At the time of
the great offensives, hot drinks have
been distributed free. The regular re-
ligious activities of the Y. M. C. A.
have been conducted.
For men on leave, both in France
and in the United Kingdom, hostels
and clubs have been provided, and ar
rangements made for meeting trains.
The Y. M. C. A. has provided the
necessary motor transports, guides
and hostels to enable relatives of the
dangerously wounded men to visit
them in the hospitals.
Wherever clubs, or other hostels for
nurses or other women war workers
are required, the Y. M. C. A., with
the assistance of experts provided by
the Y. M. C. A., will make the neces-
sary provision.
In view of the serious menace of
prostitution to the physical life and
general morale of the fighting men--a
menace to the successful prosecution
of the war--the Y. M. C. A. will con-
centrate its efforts against this evil,
with every possible form of direct and
indirect attack.
The international committee in New
York has cabled its full APPROVAL of the
American Y. M. c. A. in France un-
dertaking recreative work on large
scale for the French army.
No wonder Reginald Wright Kauff-
man, the well-known author, who is in
France at the present time making a
study of social conditions among the
soldiers, and who has absolutely no
afiiliation with the Y. NJ C. A. work,
but on the contrary frankly states that
until very recently when he has
thought of it at all it has been rather
scornfully, writes thus glowingly of
the Red Triangle War Workers at the
front: Consider the job of these
workers. AS things are now, the av-
erage worker tolls through a day that
when it isn't seventeen hours long, is
twenty hours. He is up early finish
ing such cleaning as he did not do the
night before-sweeping out the hut,
carrying away the empty ginger ale
bottles, filing the ink wells, scrub
bings the tables,--and then he must
arrange the days program. That
done, he opens the canteen, snatching
such a lunch as is possible when the
lunch hour arrives. He is still pre-
siding at counter while he runs the
athletic sports in the afternoon, and
he may have class in French, his
tory, penmanship, or arithmetic to
conduct between whiles. The evening
finds him with hut full of men to en-
tertain and keep busy-and he has his
books to balance when the men have
gone to bed.
There is almost no limit to what
these men attempt, and not much limit
to what they accomplish. The Y. NJ
c. A. workers do it all ungrudgingly
and ungrumbling-I never heard one
word of complaint from a worker all
the while | was along the line
In the face of this sort of evidence
can the Y. M. C. A. be blamed for
being proud Of its accomplishments,
and confident Of its ability to handle (
The really gigantic program that has |
been thrust upon it now that Italy and {
Russia have bcgn added to the field of /
It's endeavors? All it needs is the
necessary money-and the $35, 100000
hat is required to continue and carYy !
IN this great humanitarian work is go {
ng to be forthcoming the minute the 3
mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers,
wives and friends Of the {
,oys "Over There" learn exactly what
he Y. M. c. A. Red Triangle War
Work means to every mothers son of '
hem. q
Barney Mead Of Brattleboro, had {