The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-02-13
Football Stars.


Football Stars.
classes are I'm progress at many
camps. At one there is a school with
twenty-seven courses, twenty-five
hundred students, and sixty teachers.
Another has daily attendance O.
three hundred i'm summer and one
thousand in winter. Work shops and
gardens have been started-not only
TO offer useful production but for
training as we'll. At one point soap
factory was started. It developed so
well that tannery was put into op-
GRAFTON. IL I'm turn was followed by
chemistry. At other points the men
work at bookbinding. tailoring, wood
carving. and in .laundries.
In one camp alone the tailoring de-
partment made four hundred new
overcoats from old ones, the shoe de-
partment made three hundred new
pairs Of shoes and seventy five new
pairs OF boots. and repaired thirteen
hundred pairs Of shoes.
Athletics are encouraged wherever
possible. The men get along with
the best equipment cbtainable. Golf
enthusiasts held an exciting tourna-
ment recently, using tennis balls for
golf balls and ordinary canes as sticks.
Mr.. Hugh Moran. seer etary in the
Russian prisoner of war camps, in
one of his reports, writes:
II attended a football game be-
tween two picked teams. Among the
members were three international
players. two of whom competed on
opposite sides in the Olympic games
at Stockholm"
Hens Lay Eggs for Prisoners.
Special efforts have been made TO
provide nOurishing foods for the mon
IN the hospitals. Fresh eggs are sent
from Denmark TO sick men i'm the
German prison camps. In one case
a number of hens were sent to pris-
son in the interior in order that
fresh eggs might be available for those
needing them. In addition they pro-
vlded amusement and occupation for
men assigned TO take care of them.
More than $4,000 books have been
distributed among German prisoners.
and more than 10000 among Rus
sian prisoners in Germany. AS Rus
sian hooks were scarce, Bunyan's Phi =.
grim's Progress was translated into
Russian. Special editions of the Rus
sian prayer book and an A r G book
for Russian illiterates were issued. a
total OF 100000 French books and
pamphlets were ALSO distributed in
Germany.
Musical instruments. ranging fro.i
mouth organs supplied in individual
cases to full equipment for bands
and orchestras, were supplied. Wheat
Hour for making bread for the cele-
bration of Holy Communion has also
been provided in many places.
Wife Finds Husband I'm Picture.
One of the biggest pieces of work
done by the Young Mems Christian
Association in this connection for
the folks back home is the locating
IN prison camps of boys and men re-
ported as missing. More than ten
thousand have been located for the
home folks.
After searching for months for her
husband. who was reported missing,
young wife called on DR.. Archiba ii
I. Harte. international Secretary fol
work among prisoners of war She
travelled several hundred miles to do
so. During her visit some pictures
which he had brought from Russis.
were shown her. In looking over
these she suddenly discovered rer
husband in one OF them. An exultan,
cry, There he lisp surst from her
lips as she excitedly ran TO the win.
dow 10 make sure it was he. Then
she tainted. After she regained con-
seriousness. she clapped her hands. ex-
claiming, And he has even got
pipe"
Max, Prince of Baden. who is head
of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation Prisoner of War Work in
Germany in his farewell message to
the American workers when this
country entered the war. said that the
brotherly love shown I'm this work
would be the one solid pillar around
which the warning nations could
gather. In part he said
Il can assure you that the cooper