Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-07
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are no stores except possibly wine
shop.
The only place where the men can
buy tobacco. candy, chewing gum.
safety razors and other necessities Is
the Y. M. c. A. Between July, 1917,
and August, 1918, there was shipped
overseas 1,95s,156 cans of fruit.
2.557, 481 packages of tobacco, S4S,-
7S5,S02 cigarettes, 32,35S,700 cigars,
tubes Of tooth paste. In an average
month the Y. M. C. A. gives away
loo. 900, 600 sheets of paper, and every
day 100000 letters are written from
Y. M. c. A. huts on Red Triangle sta
tionery.
What the Y. M. c. A. is to the fight
ing men in camp and trench the Y. w.
G. A. is to the Army nurses. the women
of the telephone wires in the Signal
raphers and the women in the vari-
Gus branches of civilian work in
France.
In Paris the Y. W. C. A. has taken
over the Hotel Petrograd. in the Rue
Caumartin, and has made 1t into a
women's hotel. Here, for a moderate
charge. the woman workers overseas
may live in an atmosphere of home.
In Tours another womans hotel Is
in operation under the management
Of the Y. w. C. A. Sixteen huts for
American nurses, who otherwise would
have no clubrooms, and fifteen for
women workers in munitions facto-
ries stand to the credit of the organi-
cation. Our business is to back up
the women who are backing up the
men,. Is the slogan of the Y. w. C. A.,
and they are doing it in France as
well as In the United States.
The Great Work of the X. Of
The Knights of Columbus is the
agency through which the National
Catholic War Council does welfare
work for the men of the American
army and Navy, both in France and
Italy: The K. of G. is an organization
45O,OOO strong, and it's war WORK be-
gan during the Spanish-American war.
Wnen returning veterans at Montauk
Point were given aid and comfort.
Wneh the American Army was mo-
of c. extended it's work, erecting a
row OF service huts in New Mexico.
ARIZONA and Texas. AS soon as the
CnlteQ states entered the world war
the X. or c. volunteered it's services.
cnaplains and secretaries were an.
pointed and general appeal for funds
was issued ~0
6ACoC sum OF $1l,241 ,529 was
quickly raised, and by September /
1913. 300 secretaries had been s.nf
TO France. $50 more were in training
ana zoo were in reserve. IT is ex-
Rected that 1000 workers will be in
europe by the first of the year.
On every transport there is X. of
=. secretary. At points of debarka-
ZION In France and Italy the ,organi-
zatlon is represented. One hundred
secretaries have been assigned to
Italy, where huts are rapidly being
putt: The order maintains three
Duildings in London, a Headquarters
IN Paris and forty-five permanent
buildings throughout France. A fleet
or motor trucks are in operation.
keeping pace with the rapidly adj
vancing allied ariaies. These carry
20 the soldiers cigarettesA tobacco
chocolate, writing materials. SOAP
towels and other comforts.
There is no duplication of Veffort in
any Of these organizations. The Jew
ish welfare Board, which is in the
war to help all soldiers, is especially
concerned with the morale of the
more than 100000 Jewish men IN the
Army and Navy. It's overseas actiyi-
ties began almost as soon as the first
American soldiers landed in France
and at the present time there are
eight Jewish chaplains in the Army