Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-08-30
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derstand that he is going to war. He
must be ready to do the thing that
comes to him to do. France is no
place these days for the man who
thinks he has mission. There is
| just one idea behind the whole work
and that Is service, what our boys
want and not what some missionary
thinks they ought to have. The man
who goes overseas must be a man of
conscience, integrity and high ideals
and ability. And he must realize that
he is tackling the biggest job that 1t
was ever given man to do.
Second a man must go in there with
the idea firmly fixed in his mind that
unless we win this war it were better
that America should be annihilated
than that she should retreat one step
barbarous Hun from imposing his I'M
merciful sway over the world and
sweep democracy from the earth.
Third, he must be man who be-
lieves in the war work of the Y. M. @.
A. and can grasp the meaning of its
wonderfully human and spiritual pro-
gram, and who, seeing all this, can
be enthusiastic about his job and con-
slider it great privilege to perform 1t.
"And last, he must be a thorough
bred-a dead game sport in the best
sense of the term-who can go through
the whole war game and not finch, in
spite of the slaughter, the blood, the
mud, the discouragements, desolation
and horror of 1T all. He must go
through 1t all by the sheer good ma
ture that sees above it his high ideals
and democracy vindicated
and scattering its blessings upon man.
kind"
Scope of Work Boundess.
The scope of the Y. M. G. A. enter
prise is practically boundless. The as
ISOLATION has gone far afield from its
widest dreams of service have the
leaders, OF the Y. NJ. c. A. conceived
he possibility of their becoming man
lfacturers of chocolate and purveyors
If tons and tons of cigars. cigarettes
md smoking and chewing tobacco. Yet
.oday the "Y" sign hangs over the
loors of more than 600 post exchanges
n France.
Because of the difficulties of trans
,ortation only three to four thousand
ons of supplies can be shipped from
america each month. Hence the Y. NJ.
:. A. has become manufacturer by
ecessity. Raw materials are shipped
rom the United States and the COM
leted products-chocolate. crackers.
tc-are made in France.
The "Y" needs. therefore. not only
usiness men who can sell goods. but
len who are experienced on the manu-
acturing end. The scope of the work
lakes 1t possible for statesmen, ware
ousem 2. accountants and clerks of
Il kinds to go overseas and do their
il in this war.
Sports. If there is one thing that the
calthy American young man, in khaki
eeds most in France il is good.
ealthy sport Some of the most ia
Gus athletic directors and athletes
{ other years are in France today
aiding men in pass athletic games.
Herbert L. Pratt. vice president of
lie Standard Oil company. who recent
returned from France to head the
cal overseas recruiting committee is
lthority for the statement that There
no job in France too small for the
ggest man in any American com
unity" mo president of Il railroad
a bank, or a college" he adds. mo
wyer or minister is too big fer the
b of taking care Of our boys over
as
Mr.. Pratt and others who have seem
e work that is being done in France
IN it all up by saying that il means
our boys over there, first % SID
nerica and home