Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-07-14
Requires Men and Women Of
More Than Usual Tact
and Resource.
MONEY WILL BE NEEDED
Organization That Fights
Lonesomeness Asks Help
From Parents.

IAfF OF me UAllhNAl WAT NNfh toNU
C.I of the association. has announced
that they must recruit 1000 new
workers for France and lialy and
~ course they must have money Co
support tho VurR already going and
that to bc started soon.
The exlct sum has not yet been
announced, but whatever Il IL the
people of this country viii give H.
IT, give 10 tho Y N G. A. is 10 con-
tribute directly 10 tho comfort, hap
plntsB and, tn u very great extent.
tho safety OF our own enlisted men
IH France / have been ON dozens
OF S NJ e.. g. huts and Ctntorus. ana
I say cmphiuUaNy that our army
A, could hardly maintain ia highest,
efficiency without these places They
are The nearest substitutes for homes
that we're ever devised Tor any army.
When troops are quartered lu am
interesting old French city. as some
OF our troops are. there are many
things IN which the soldier OF duty
can interest himself In But the
vast majority OF American soldiers
are not quartercd I'm cities or even
~ towns They are In camps diff
ferlng very little from the training
camps az home. or else they are
blioted In villages In that case
they sleep In barns or In peasant
cottages when they are of duty
there Is not a blessed thing for thom
Co do except walk up and down the
muddy streets and talk.
Must Have Their Hut
Those French villages of t,c north,
especially In. winter. are picturess- -
. ln tho extreme when viewed from
ntfH ~
dcnce they leave much TO be desired.
\ stranger might have some am
Guilty IN distinguishing between the
houses and the barns, the huge ma
rure heaps, which are the CHIEF
wealth Of the owners. being about
equally distributed before all the
buildings have seen scores OF
these little hamlets. with their signs
on each door. giving the number OF
officers, men or horses billeiod win
in and | have sometimes wondered
by what process the authorities de-
cidod which buildings were for the
"hommes' and which for "cheyeaus.
Those are tho first TWO french
words our soldiers learn over there.
But where our eoldiers are quar-
tered. they must have a Y. NJ 9. A
hut. They oannof set along without
Il II serves as club, night
school a shop. a library, n theater.
I6cture room, movie. gymnasium,
/rkritinE room. II is great place
n As which TO get acquainted with the
y ponch people. for next 70 the Red
h ross the y. NJ. g. A. Is the most
= imlred OF all American institutions
IL ith which the French have come In
X ontact.
' They pronounce It "Esrec, EN-,
say' An and most OF them have not
the slightest idea OF what the let
ters mean. but thay highly approve
or the thing itself In The towns
and cities they flock TO the Y. AZ.
c. A. entertainments, especially tho
military band concerts. There Is
very little music In France Just now.
aside from our bands.
Tho Y. NJ. G. A. hut and oantsen
does It's greatest work In the Isolated
camps whore the soldiers are cut OF
from all other recroations re-
member a hut I'm one OF the largest
aviation camps, miles away from any
town or village. Life IN an aviation
camp is something ,ke working IN
a planning mill The sound OF hun
dreds OF aeroplane motors goes on
iu ceaseless clatter for hours every
day. There Is always a strong wind
'ANNAINht hNhAAtt AVIATION camps are
located on the biggest, emptiest
treeloss plains that can be found.
He's Human, That's All.
The particular aviation camp OF
which write was on the widest.
--LATEST plain In France. should
think. There were not nearly enough
machines there when visited IL
early In April, and the men had very
iu France have never had a chance
Go do any flylug az an, and IN this
camp, az they said. III fellow got
d hop once week he was Iucky."
What those boys would have done
without their y. NJ e.. A. hut / can
not imagine. or the secretary. lie
haA been professor OF mathematics
iu a college somewhere. ffe was a
middle aged. intellectual, rather shy
man, and az first / wondered why
ne had been appointed 20 such a post.
hut when | saw him In crowd Of
soldiers | no longer wondered. He
was easy genial sympathCtic. TACT
lul, what The politicians call q per-
frct mixture When he stood up
to Introduce the speaker OF the evea.
ing the boys stamped their feet and
Whisiicd through their fingers like
kids
How Will you ever go back 10
teaching mathematics after thts2" I
asked him.
IL never will go back" he replied.
l.m going TO be human for the rest
of nay lie"
Ito was being human In that camp
t' successfully that he almost sue
'''1ri I'm otfsettiug the hck-of the
l.''rs Al least he did wonders ln
I.'hHE alive tho spirit Of courage
anu h"ptulness among the men.
o dozen miles or 80 from large
''N .N'ru seaport where many thou
,.'' ot our mon are at work Wise
'a another Y. NJ. G. A. place. one
".Nh mas become the soclab 0rV 80
an entire French town In The
r' own there Is a flourishinE Y. NJ.
49, ana when the building camps
10 string along tho river har-
''I miles the secretary In charge
y... ,NNl extensions OF the work
' nave 90 Doe made.
Girl Start. IL.
Io picked from his staff re-
s..... young Nassar girl who
-'ul French and asked her
,rr.ri Would F1 down TO a certain
t,t."H ,'"H. ihe central point OF hair
- "~'l camps, aud establish a Y NJ
~. HealVgartera gbs want she