Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-13

| to france, twenty-five per cent. dld
not reach the battlefront. They were
shot through with disease. That
means that IN the Army, winch must
| remain nameless, out of 1,OOO,O00
men, 250,UUU were killed by disease,
or made into such condition that
they could not fight. Inc \. NJ. q. \.
combats this eNiI. Mhen the boy
gets to the camp, the \. Nj. q. A.
secretary Is the nrst man TO meet
nm. lie SNAKES MS band and says,
! Hello, boy, were mighty glad TO sec
YOU The secretary takes HIM TO
| The Y. Nj. G. A. nut and gives him
some hot coffee or cocoa, ana then
gives hlm good warm reed. In
little while, tnis homesick, depress-
ed boy is made into a real soldier
again. The first forty eight hours OF
llIe IN camp are the hardest in the
!. life of the boy. He Is unused to the
routine, and he is nomesIcK. Ihe \.
Nj. &. y. reaches out helping hand
to him and pulls hlm up.
Y. VI. {. y. Is Necessary
Physical instruction helps great
ly. Inc other day an oruer was Is
sued, making boAIng compulsory IN
the Army. An order went from The
war Work Council offices Tor 1000
boxing gloves.
Down IN Camp Dix the other day
l met Colonel anderson, the COM
manuant. He told me JnaJ he couldn
run the camp without the ana or
the Y. NJ. Z. a. Tne work is done III
| nuts. no matter whether the build
ing Is one of those magnlncent es-
adjustments in London ana RaTlS, or
one OIL the small houses IN the camps
and on the fronts, 1t IS called u nut,
TOR it seems SO much more like
nome.
When your boy leaves home, you
| look into his eyes and say, Now, boy,
| write home often. Tell us how YOU
| are and what you are doing. Did
| you ever know that in the whole
| camp there is no place tor the boy
| to write home? He has no place
| unless he lies on the floor and writes,
| or maybe goes out INTO the open,
using u tree for his desk. The Y.
NJ. Z. y. hut furnishes writing paper
and envelopes free of charge. In ore
camp million sheets OF writing pa
per and envelopes We're used in one
/ uay. The Y. NJ. c. y. hut is every
tnIng to the soldier. 1t is his club,
theauer, bank, readingroom, writing
room, his library, his home. 1t is
the nearest touch of home he gets
IN the Army.
Met With Warm Hand
when the boy leaves the camp
for the ship, lie is sent out with a
warm handcIaSp from the \. NJ. Z. n.
] secretary. His last touch OF home is
| u handsnake given by Il secretary at
the loot OF the gangpiank, who says,
| 'Good-by, boy, ana go to it, When
he reaches the top OF the gangpIanl<
| there is another secretary waiting
with outStrctchcd hand. He says,
| Now, boy, ii there is anything you
! want, come TO me. L have chocolate
/ and cocoa and coffee, and writing pa
| per and envelopes and everything you
will need. Come to me- When the
boy gets to France, secretary meets
him and says, Mighty glad to see
! YOU i'll France When the boy gets
! on the French soil, there are the
harpics and the vultureS and the
birds of prey waiting to pounce on
him, but, thank God, there's the v.
NJ. c. A., TOO. The secretary takes
him to the Y. Nj. c. a. and gives him
warm, comfortable room and
plenty To eat. When he gets to the
camp he is welcomed by another
secretary, and from that time on
till he goes over the top the boy
is cared for by the Y. VI. c. A. And
when he does go over the top a Sec
retary stands by him, giving him
hot drinks, and he has two cakes of
chocolate in his pocket, given by the
| Y. NJ. G. A. If he gets lost Ill No
Mans Land, or is wounded, there is
that chocolate-enough food to sus-
| tain life for two days"
Y. NJ. c. A. Hotel
"One Paris hotel has already been
| purchased by the Y. NJ. c. A. Two
more are being purchased. and ar
! rangements are being made to buy
/ fTtrap en- EnNrS
can stop in Y. NJ. c. A. hotels. Every
| boy who has Paris leave, must stop
in one of these hotels. He is under
military orders. If he is ordered TO
go to the Hotel Continental, and does
not arrive there, the Hotel Cont
| mental reports to General Pershing
When the boy gets back, he must ex-
| plain why he disobeyed orders.
AT these hotels, there are a num-
Eer of motors. They scour the
streets at IL o'clock at night look
| irg for the boys who are lost in the
strange city, and take them back to
| their hotels. If you know of any
thing better to give your money to
| than this Y. NJ. c. y. doing this great
work for the boys, don't know any
thing about it,"
There has been a very misleading
report before the public. Many peo-
! PIE say lndl the VI. - a. SeCIe-
! taries are slackers. Never. One Y. NJ
l.C. \. hut was shelled six times in
| five days. Ten secretaries were
| killed. Were these slackers? A Y. NJ
/ c. A. secretary was in the habit of
/ bringing a white rose home to his
| mother every evening. His arms are
| shot Off now. but he brings the rose.
| He goes to the shop. where the pro-
prietor takes the money from his
| belt and puts the rose between his
| teeth. His mother takes the rose
| from his lips when he gets home. Is
/ that secretary a Stacker?
Money Beats Applause
| France can't ask one thing of
| America that America can't give. It's
| easy to applaud that statement but
| it's harder to give the money. You
men and women who are applauding
we want you to give, too.
! How 1t Works
THE Y. NJ. c. A. doesn't say BE
| good and you'll be happy 1t says
| BE happy and you'll be good Down
! in the prison camps the Y. NJ. C. A.
/ takes care of six million prisoners.
| when those German prisoners come
| ir they S~e unhappy and disagree
able. Germans are human beings
/ Just like the rest of us. Into that
mass of prisoners went a secretary
/ and said: rs there any one here who
( can lead an orchestra or a band?'
/ Some one said: Yes, l can, but where
1 are your men and your instruments?'
/ The Y. NJ. c. A. purchased instru-
| ments and they had a band. A sec
! rotary found a professor of German
history and another of German PHI
| losophy, so they opened a university
in the prison camps. Now the Y. NJ.
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