The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-26

hotel maintained by the w c. c. S. that
provides clean bed for few cents
night. Through the w. c. c. S. the city
EXTENDS its greetings and places at the
boys disposal food. lodging and enter /
tainment
Finally the day comes when the sol
dier's company is ordered onto a troop |
train bound for the port of embarkation |
on this train also is Y. NJ c. A or |
X. of c. secretary who takes charge of |
their last letters or requests. At the |
port of embarkation there are other |
huts. the boys last night in their ma
tive land is spent in friendly surround |
ngs; to the very edge of the ocean goes |
the evidence that someone cares.
The friendly help of these seven or
CARNATIONS is with him on the trip |
across. at the port of debarkation and in |
the strange cities through which he
passes. in the training camps back of
the lines and even in the front line
trenches. After a long. cold night in a
trench. his feet wet. his whole body
chilled to the bone he joins in the shout
OF welcome that runs along the line
when the boys sec a secretary of tho
Y or X. of c. or Jewish Welfare Board ,
or Salvation Army-it matters not
coming with chocolate and cigarettes
and doughnuts and hot coffee and cocoa.
If he is wounded or taken prisoner.
representatives of these relief or
CARNATIONS stand by his side reminding
him that the love and care of the folks
back home still follow him.
The war work of the Y w. c. A. is
for the women who affected by the
war. 1t is the business of the Y. w.
c. A. TO back up the women who are
backing up the men. In France are
sixteen huts for American nurses and
fifteen for French women workers in
munition factories. Thousands of Amer
lean girls in the Signal Corps are looked
after in Y. w. hotels in Paris and Tours.
The Hotel Petrograd, the Y. W. c. A
Hostess House in Paris. has become a
center for American girl life in that city
In this country the Y. w. c. A. in
addition to its Hostess House work at
army camps, is establishing industrial
hostess houses for the millions OF wom-
en- who have gone into industry to help
| win the war At the request of the
government twenty-five Industrial War
/ Service Centers are being established
I for the tens of thousands of girls who
are producing war orders, and 81 club
centers have been opened for women
war workers.
The long arm of these great agencies
extends all the way from the 500 clubs
operated by the War Camp Community
| Service on this side to the front line
trenches where the Y. NJ. c. A. and K
of c. and Jewish Welfare Board dis
| tribute chocolate and cigarettes to the
tired fighters: the American Library
Association furnishes books. and the
Salvation Army passes out pies and
doughnuts, sews and mends for our
fighters. and mans ambulances. 1t
reaches into the factories through the
Y w c. A. to protect the girls who
are ma6lng munitions for the fighters.
I and INTO the shipyards and munjtion
plants.
In short. wherever you find soldier
or sailor, you find also the evidence OF
the loving care of the folks back home.
expressed through the medium of one
of these seven affiliated and cooperating
! organizations.
They 60 with the boy every step of
tho way"
A hundred and seventy million dollars
is a lot of money; but even that i'm
mcnsc sum means less than dollar a
week 10 the boys of our army and navy.
And certainly there is not man in
America who will say that dollar a
week is too much for their cheer and
entertainment. The total of this fund
and the proportions of each organiza-
ton were not determined by the or
CARNATIONS but by the War Department.