The border vidette., 1918-11-16
UNITED WAR WORK.
Great Agencies Planning for More
 Work Than Ever.

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 tions in the campaign work when
 any announcement of peace came
 and so there was general sur
 prise among the workers when
 it was found how generally peo
 pie appreciated that the demand
 upon the seven welfare agencies
 banded in the United War Work
 Campaign will be much greater
 with peace than with war. Al
 ready these seven great agen-
 cies, the Y. M. c. A., the Y. w.
 c. A, National Catholic War
 Council, Knights of Columbus,
 Jewish Welfare Board, War
 Camp Community Service, Am
 erican Library Association and
 Salvation Army, are planning
 for more active work than ever
 in keeping homes:ck soldiers de-
 tained overseas when they long
 for America, happy until demo
 bilization is completed.
 Dean Emery, who is attorney
 for the United States Shipping
 board and. therefore, in a posi-
 tion to speak authoritatively,
 when in Phoenix recently as a
 national worker for the United
 War Work Campaign, expressed
 the belief that 1t will be at least two years before all of the Am
 erican army in France is back home again. He said that over
 two thirds of that army had
 been taken 10 France in English ships and that with peace Eng land would have to use all of those ships to relieve conditions in her own kingdom. The many ships America has built aud is
 building are cargo carriers, poor " fitted tn haul troops. Mir. Emery expressed the belief that if they started to bring troops home immediately it would take very much longer to get them all back to America than it did, U = der stress of great need, to get them to France and it took over a year to get them to France at that
 America will probably have to act as the watchdog for the Huns until all peace conditions are met. France is expected to de mobilize first, then England. for those nations with their millions of dead soldiers need man power worse than any nation save Ger All these things combine to make experts with military that there is in store for the American army long period of watchful waiting which is far more wearing upon the morale of the soldiers than ac tual fighting.
 The seven welfare agencies banded in the United War Work Campaign, which is the only to be made by them in a year, are planning hundreds of things to help and keep the men as contented as may be when they long for home and are kept in the service. EXten- sive educational courses are to be conducted for it has been found that the soldiers take an intense interest in studies and other serious things of life. For thousands of physical with ample apparatus will not only help keep the men fit but keep them amused through athletics. Theatrical companies by the score will be used to en certain the soldiers in their leis- ure time while movie films will be used by the thousands of miles. Then, every three months, each soldier has eight days of furlough under army Iegula- tions. Great bases are main tained by these agencies where these men. denied by reason of time the chance to go home when on furlough, may enter tain themselves. One of these furlough bases alone has cost l just one of these seven agencies | many millions of dollars so far for the service must be accom- modated to the slender purse of | the private soldier.
 A few moments thought will l convince anyone that the task l for the seven organizations with | peace is much greater and more | costly than with war for as Dr. | J. R. Mott, director general of the | has said, it is a much | bigger task to look after the men I, when they have peace leisure | then when but fragment of their | tiroo i- 1oD0toH fn ,-o lo va tiDp