New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
500 Applicants Daily Ask
To Be Sent to Front for
Red Triangle
Clubs Assist Drive
r. B. Smith Tells Yale Men of
Strenuousness of Work
in the Trenches

Inc campaign for recruits for the
ked Triangle army in France, which is
bringing out about 500 applicants past
oraft age daily, was continued last
night at the Yale Club.
George S. Chappell, of the club, pre-
S'oed at the meeting, which was under
the auspices Of the Yale, Princeton and
brown University clubs and the Alpha
Delta Phi, Psi Epsilon and Beta Theta
ri fraternites.
Herbert L. Pratt. chairman of the
overseas recruiting drive committee.
and Fred B. Smith. assistant to the
il. w. Johns-Manville Company, both
of whom have recently returned from
serving the Y. M. C. A. on the Western
front, told of the necessity for finding
l,Voo men OF the right calibre in this
CITY to serve abroad.
Men Are Overworked
:, 81 saw men breaking down over
there" said Mr.. Smith. Mr.. Pratt who
went over there as a business admins
TRAITOR to set up business plan, found
some OF those men so overworked that
he himself got behind the canteen
again and again to relieve the secre-
taries."
Mr.: Smith told of meeting a colonel
on the battlefront who inquired: al
would like to know how it is that the
Y. M. c. A. can find out where we are
gong two weeks before we know our
selves. Four times l have camped with
my regiment in France, and every time
when | got there I found Y. M. C. A.
nut and a secretary waiting for me-"
Are Ahead Of Army
"rhe explanation" said Mr.. Smith. ais
that the army men with General Per
shing think so we'll of that army that
they have passed the word to the Y. NJ
{. A. every time they are going to move,
so that it is usually known to the off
GERS of the Y. M. C. A. two weeks be-
tore 1T IS known to the army and
navy"
At the Wanamaker auditorium yes
terday afternoon DR.. Thomas Travis
the fighting parson," of Montclair
N. j., who has just returned from ser
vice as a "Y" man in France, told the
crowd that there were two things that
could keep the soldiers there from go
ing insane from omesickness-the Y
NJ. c. A. and letters from home. John
kendrick Bangs will speak for the Y
NJ. c. A. at 3 o'clock this afternoon in
the Wanamaker auditorium
Wants Chauffeurs to Serve
Mr.. Pratt has called upon the mem.
bers of the various automobile clubs
to release chauffeurs for overseas ser
vice. In letter to them he writes:
'To win this war the commanders il
chief of the Allied armies unite in tn,
statement that the Y. 81. c. A. is essen
tial from a military standpoint An
swering General Pershing's call, the
Y. NJ. c. A. is shouldering the RESPONSE
bility of sending overseas 1000 men
of whom 500 should be automobile
drivers and mechanics.
''You yourself are the man wanted
and without'the shadow of doubt yor
are fretting because you are not in the
thick Of the fight. But as you con.
scientiously cannot enlist, at least ge,
your chauffeur to enlist. Make him
your war contribution. Not long hence
it will be almost unpatriotic to be
seen driven by strong able bodice
man fit for war work. Won't you come
yourself or send your man to BAT Madi
son Avenue, Department of the East
to see Z. D. Pouch?"