The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-22
Y WORKERS HEROISM
Scores. OF Huts Have Been Captured
and Destroyed in Recent Advance.

The service and hercism of 7. M. G.
A. workers now with the American
and French armies IL made couspicu-
GUS in cablegrams Just received by the
national war work council from e. c.
Carter, general secretary Of the Y. M.
C. A. work In France Scores OF 7.
NJ. c. A. huts have Deen captured and
destroyed in the recent German ao-
vance, MI. Carter says, and many OF
the more than 200 workers under shell
fire have been wounded. gasssd and
killed in their efforts TO carry IN with
the soldiers.
"a great service has been rendered
by thirty American Y. M. c. A. work.
ers stationed with French troops un.
der terrific she'lfire and facing the
Germans along the Atsne." Mr.. Carter
cables. "An the stores of food were
distributed to the weary poilus whose
supplies failed TO reach them. Coffee
and soup were made and served In the
Y. M. C A. hut until 1t was shat
tered by German shells.
03 Huts Destroyed.
"Our workers have made their way
back Ecross fields swept by shrapnel.
high explosives and machine gun fire
from German planes and have taken
up new positions with the troops at
Aoldvaren. Ninety-three foyers du
soldat or Y. NJ C. A. huts have been
destroyed or captured. Three of our
warehouses were burned to prevent
'upplies falling into hands of the en-
| envy.
Miss Marie c. Heron of Cincinnati.
| sister-in-law OF William Howard Taft.
md Miss Jane B 3wler, also of Cincin-
| natl, both Y. M. C. A. canteen workers.
particularly distinguished themselves
iaboring with troops, refugees and
l M HA uvf1v 10 h,,vrv .
about them.
| Miss Bowler stayed at her post al
| Scissors thru the last offensive, hold
Ing it despite terrific bombardment
She left only when everything was In
flames and less than an hour before
the Germans entered. William Ed
| ward Wright. of Toledo, an Ohio
statesman, stuck to his work under
heavy fire and at each pause in the
retreat would gather supplies and dis
| tribute food from stands beside the
road that was swept with bombs. An.
other OF our workers helped hundred,
Of refugees and wounded to return
back Of the lines. He secured fiou,
from the Red Cross to supplement
his own supplies and baked hundred.
Of loaves of bread.
4 Y Men In Front Trenches.
/ "Our secretaries are going almos
constantly as close to the front as Il
peEmitteos giving the men smokes
fruit, chocolate and other necessaries
This service often takes them into tn,
front trenches.
Many of our secretaries are suffer
ing from shell shock or gas, but keel
going in intense attacks. When com
2 muntcation with the men in tn
trenches IL cut Off our men help fee,
those behind the lines aid the wound
ed and assist the chs plains. Soup
made from whatever supplies ar
} available for the men are nervous un
der the strain of fighting.
ii In q recent attack Halliday Smitl
OF Nyack, N. T., and Rev. Hadley H
+ Cooper of Piermont, N. Y, WERE gase
ed and died in a hospital on the Amer
lean front. Cooper was SO years oil
, and graduate of Northwestern Thee
I logical Seminary. Chicago. Smith wa
4 disqualified from The army because !
: dislocated shoulder. The two me
> lwere chums.
Smith probably sacrificed his lif
by continuing to serve the men afte
; being gassed. going out of the line G
. duty to lead an ammunition train ths
l had lost its way."
3 Announcement. is that the the Y, n
c. A. mas just entered a new drive I
{ recruit at leas. 1000 men for wor
overseas by Septembe, /.