Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-13

"The blue blooded, cold blooded New Englanders who boast of the Mayf1ow- CT ancestor, who are sitting down on l the job in this great struggle and are 1 not doing their bit, are worse than | Huns" said Dr. Thomas Travis in an | address at Davis theatre, Sunday eve ming, when the local Young Mems l Christian Association held it's anniVer- | sary service.
 | Dr. Travis is a Red Triangle work
 CT and has been right up among the 1 first line trenches on the Flanders front. He only recently returned to 1 this country and will return to the | boys over there in a short time. 1 Don't send the boys away with l sigh that would give a person pneu- monia 500 yards away. Don't talk to them as if you never expected to see them again They'll come back. Stati- sites show that 80 per cent will come back without a scratch, 10 per cent will be slightly wounded and the re- maining ten per cent will either be l killed or hopelessly crippled. Those who die will die the finest death that I know of. They will die in the great est cause in the world. If I knew that when I go back over there with the boys I would be killed I would rather die that death than to live sixty years in safety knowing I was a stacker. We can only die once and we have all got to die sometime. Everyone believes this except the Christian Scientists. And believe me. 1 should like to see some firm believer in Christian science organize a division of Scientists and go over the top and come through with
 out losing a man. When a six inch
 shell hits you it's something that
 Christian science can't repair.
 In describing a battle at Messines
 Ridge, Dr. Travis told of hearing after
 an explosion the cries of the Germans
 but the men never stopped to bother
 with them This may seem funny for
 clergyman to, say but if any red
 blooded man could see the atrocities
 that have been committed they would
 not try to help the German beasts. The thing that 1 want to press home is that these atrocities are done official
 ly. The officers of the Huns have
 ordered them. The Hun may claim that we have committed atrocities maybe we have, but they have no been under official orders. Girls have not been violated through orders iron the officers as the Germans have done
 But the atrocities on the western iron ; are nothing compared to those on th eastern front where the Turks unde
 orders from Germany have committed unspeakable crimes. We can make n diplomatic peace with this beast; thi :. war must fought to a finish. Ther must be no signing of an agreement , One side or the other must die, le
 it be Germany. /, In closing Dr. Travis said I an : honestly ashamed to be here tonigh :. when I think of those boys over there , I feel my place is with them and ever
 red blooded American should feel tn
 same. All of you must do your par
 and keep doing it until we have con 7 quered the German beast.
 There was a storm of applause a r the close of Dr. Travis talk and i
 responding he said, am ashamed t
 take this applause but I will do S Q on one condition and pass it along t F the boys over there, that condition . that all of. you here tonight make e new resolve and start doing somethin V Fthat counts in this war.
 Show Battle Front Views.
 Dr. Travis illustrated his talk wit f stereoptican slides showing the vii h llages in Flanders that have bee e wrecked by German shells and are no7 e lying in ruins. The pictures include n much of the section of the countr
 that is at present the scene of battl
 There were many other interestin
 slides dealing with the condition
 across the sea.
 ,. President James L. Case preside
 at the meeting and in a brief addres s spoke of the work of the Y M. C. {
 and of the success of the campaign fc
 funds for the new building. He als IT paid a high. tribute to the late ArnC j. A. Browning who was a former pres .- dent and director of the associatio y Music was furnished by Swahn's ol ,e chestra.
 ,e Secretary Hills Annual Report. in General Secretary Edwin Hill mac ss the following report of the years act l. vities in the Association:
 y. Once again we are called upon r, review the work of the associatio
 and once again we have abunda1
 and cooperation with us as we ha1 A, endeavored to fulfill the obligation " resting upon Us as those who a banded together for the sole purpo pr of maintaining the high ideals set f
 us by Him, who is the only one in (
 history who measured up to the fl of to the requirements of a perfect lii m We would not presume to state tn )n we have accomplished all that we S ut out to do at the opening of the ye le just closed, for at best we are but h IT, man, but to the praise of the kind F. at ther we believe we can say that not sd few lives have been blessed throus
 the instrumentality of the associate 1e during the days of the past twel SC months.
 as EventfuI Year.
 The year has been an eventful O
 in the history of the local institute
 and it has been crowded full of acti
 ity and real service.
 In the opening month of the ye D. an active campaign for the new bull m ing was carried out, though for sever en months proceeding great deal nd preliminary work was done, which W d. really the secret of the success of t as campaign, just as the foundation of h. building is the secret of a permane r. structure. During the campaign ". May, the sacrificial work of the wor
 CTS on the different teams was simr Id magnificent, and no praise could be t rs. thigh for these noble men. Some ds n. and we hope not too far distant, | entire community will rise up to c
 these workers blessed for the efft
 put forth to build and strengthen t
 manhood of the city is an effort a or proved of God, and appreciated oa men. How often during rece ir months we have wished that the nt H. building was a reality, as scores up
 scores of our noble men of the arr
 and navy have fiocked to our hea 'le quarters that they might be served
 their brothers in civil life. verify, - have done what we could. but in o
 present quarters it has simply be