The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1918-02-05
LOOMS TELLS WAR
CONDITIONS IN EAST
OUTLINES GREAT WORK
BEING DONE BY Y.M.C. A.
Finds Three Honolulu Men
Leading Big Meeting in
New York City

Charles f. Loomis. the Y NJ G. A.
general secretary for Kauai. gave a
very interesting address at the Lihue
Union Church, last Sunday. He gave
"reminiscences of his trip to New
York, and drew lessons of spiritual
ity from the lessons learned. He said
in part:
81 was very glad to visit the Eastern
States just at this time. | think the
effects of the war is felt to greater
extent in the East than they are here.
| got into the atmosphere of war on
the train and in the training camps.
| could note the change from home
conditions in churches in homes and
while visiting various Young Mems
Christian Associations. ! had hardly
got out of Oakland. before | noticed
red dheaded. freckleface boy who sat
in a seat with his mother. He was
knitting very industriously In the
dining cars | noted evidence of food
conservation.
In some of the cities | visited |
noticed that in nearly house in blosk
there were food pledges, and in three
fourths of them could be seen the
notices stating that from that house
had gone a soldier to fight for his
country In every Office one can see
the service flag, with a star for every
man from that firm who has gone to
the front or who is in the service OF
the government. BY the time | had
seen those service flags in residences,
Offices, union stations. universities and
churches, it made a very deep I'M
preston upon me. | could not help
wondering whether we of Kauai were
doing all in our power to help those
\ men who are sacrificing so much for
us. When they are Offering up Their
lives. we ought at least to give money
and the little volunteer time. That
seems to me to be the least we can do
At Danforth I heard of man who is
giving all Of this years profits for the
cause of humanity.
had the first touch of war on the
steamer, when, at a Sunday service
the sum of $207 was given toward a
war fund.
OF course I visited Missouri. That's
where | am from. Every county there
knew of the Red Triangle, and what
it stood for. AS a result of letters
received there from Missouri boys
now at the front, Missouri decided
to raise a fund of 100000. But they
gave two millions instead.
L Davis. who was president of st.
k.ouis concern, is one of the first men
who agreed to work for the United
States at yearly salary of one dollar
He started out with lead pencil and
went to Washington. Within six
APARTMENT house, with hundreds of
weeks he was occupying a seven-story
clerks at work. All Washington is
now packed with new bureaus, com
missions. typewriters, and clerks. The
White House is very carefully guarded
| naturally wandered over that way
and was looking about innOcently as
YOU please when a man in plain cloth
es came up and told me to move on
| moved.
In New York there was a blizzard
raging We had to don heaFiel
clothes. We had no sugar, that day
All the lights were out on Bro 1dway
the great white way. The first thine
| noticed when | got on the street cal
was a woman conductor. | asked he
to put me OFF at the Woolworth build
ing. | felt sure that | could find it
but | didn't want to be rubberinl
around. you know.
That night | went to attend big
meeting of Y. NJ. c. A. secretaries
who were bound for France. Judg
of my surprise when ! found that tn
three big men who We're leading thu
meeting were Super Ebersole an
II'ice, all of Honolulu.
| went to one of the big Y. NJ, G. A
huts. and | saw a great deal of goo
spiritual work going on. 4 busines
gman who had volunteered to help wa
talking to every man whom he coul
get hold Of ! saw him ask a yOun
man who came to the desk to ge
stationery, if he wasn't interested i
the Bible He said he was, and tn
business man gave him one.
On Sunday | went to hear some c
the big preachers. | heard Jowet
LYMAN Abbott, Sherwood and Edd!
Everywhere on the pulpit or some
where on the platform service tlal
| saw on several of the church calel
dars a roll of honor. That include
members Of the church who We're SER
ing their country. The little suprem
roll of honor at the bottom gave tn
names of those who had died.
Most every one of the colleges
Svisited had sent many men to wa
The University of California has tW
thousand less students this yea
What are the preachers saying
bout the war? Is Christianity a fai
ure because the world is at war? E,
ucation has failed in this crisis, b
cause it is foolish to fight, and W
know it, But is education therefor
an entire failure, and must we discal
it? International law is a good thin
vet it has failed to control this va
business. Shall we then throw asit
International law? We tolerate