Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-10
NEEDS WORKERS
IN WAR DUTIES
Necessity for Secretaries In Young
Mems Christian Association
Is New Acute.
TO FURNISH MEN OVERSEAS
Nation Wide Recruiting Campaign
for This Branch of the Service
Is Being Made.

The necessity for increasing the
number of Young Mems Christian
association workers with the Amer
lean and French armies is set forth
in a statement received here today
from the national war work coun-
Gil of the y. NJ. c. A. by o. J. Stir
raft, general secretary of the local
Y. NJ G. A.
Cablegrams from army Y. M. c.
A officials now in France point out
the extreme Importance of this SER
vice for the soldiers and call upon
America to furnish $50 men in ad-
dition TO the regular quota of 800
men already asked for and the 300
previously requested for the French
army.
Our chief secretary in France,
E. c. Carter, wires that there are
more than a hundred important
ports without workers." said Mr..
Stirratt today. 'Forty-seven Of
these are near the front and'38 are
actually under shell fire. We be-
lieve that no college or bank pres
idency or big city pulpit is of so
great national Importance as hut
secretaryship in France.
The French government, through
its premier and commander-in
chief, has asked for an immediate
extension of the Y. NJ. c. A. to the
French armies. knowing that we
could not supply all the needs at
once they have asked US to supply
$50 men a month to man their Foy-
ers du SOldat The Italian army
wants so men A once and promises
to place at their disposal young
Italians who can be trained quick
ly to extend the work on the Aus
trian front
Every Y NJ. c. A. secretary in
the country is burdened with the
extra task of finding other men fit
ted to take up Y. NJ. c. A. work for
the soldiers at home and abroad.
We are seeking to enlist in the
country at large 400 men for ser
vice in the United States; 400 for
service with the American exped1-
tionary force under General PERISH
ing; 300 for the French army hutS;
100 to supplement the work in Eng
lish Y. NJ. c. a. .huts and rs to be
sent to Italy.
nigh NidsS MICH W dHJtus
This is the service which re-
quires the highest type of man
hood. We are particularly seeking
successful business and profession
al men, those of high Christian
character, good mixers, men re-
sourceful and adaptable to condi-
lions as they find them. We want
the highest class of men America
has produced for the highest type
Of work for their fellowmen which
can be offered.
Some of them will be sent close
to-perhaps actually up to the fir
ing line. All will see conditions
which tear mems souls. It is not an
filled with romance;
there will be plenty of drudgery,
long hours, and high tension,
work. 1t demands
ability to keep cheerful and bring
to otAer men who are
war weary, homesick and dfscour-
aged. and who are facing unusual
It involves actual
danger. It is not task for a man
fond of ease or of low physical vi
tally. Yet we believe there are
plenty of men who will find in the
call to this service an opportunity
Of doing the greatest work of their
lives, and that there are many who
would offer themselves If they
thought they could qualify.
Also Need Mechanics.
I'VE also want chauffeurs, nec-
hanicians, accountants, clerks and
construction men to
build huts, shipping men to handle
the supplies and many Others"
There are at present more than
two thousand American Y, M. c. A.
workers in Europe One hundred
and fifty of these were compelled to
retire before the German advance
into Russia and are now in Siberia
awaiting an opportunity to return.