The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-08-01
Y. N. c. A. GREAT
AIDTOG0VERNMENT
GIVES SELECTIVE MEN OPPOR-
TUNITY TO RECEIVE INTENSE
FLED INSTRUCTION.
FITS THEM FOR WAR PROGRAM
CARE AND COMFORT OF BOYS
ENROUTE TO CAMP is WELL
LOOKED AFTER.

The work of the Y. M. G. A. keeps
on with but little blowing of horns.
Everyone in Sank Centre who has a
man in the service knows what the Y.
M. C. A. means to him, because he is
so externally grateful to it that he
rarely loses an opportunity to write
home about it and if he doesn't actual
ly write about it, he uses the Triangle
stationery thus showing official sane
ton. Precisely the same remarks can
be made of the brother organization,
the K. of C.
The following account of what the
Minnesota Y. M. G. A. is doing is the
more interesting because VIM. Parker,
state secretary, is Sank Centre man
and prominent in the work.
To take the men of the selective
service into camp, smiling, willing,
loyal, intelligent, clean and sober, a
new link has been forged in the chain
of Y. M. C. A. service for the sold
iers and sailors of the United States.
On July 1, an order was issued by
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
putting into operation plan which
has been worked out and found eff
fective by Augustus Nash of the
Cleveland Y. M. C. A., whereby syste-
matte instruction of selected men is
carried on for some time prior to their
call to camp. This followed by active,
intensive service for the -"boys on the
trains, takes the men into the training
camps ready to fit into the war pro-
gram and puts them long way on the
road to becoming good soldiers,
81 can tell a bunch from Cleveland
just as soon as they land in camp
declared the commander of a southern
cantonment. "They come singing
down the street with the goal Berlin
definitely set in their minds and high
purpose in their hearts. We can put
1000 of these men through the pre-
liminary program in the time it takes
to put through 300 of the men who
have not had the Y. M. c. Al. training
and influence"
1t as this Endorsement which re-
suited in the calling of Augustus Nash
and John r. Mott, chairman of the
War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A
to Washington, and later in the order
issued by Provost Marshal General
Crowder, which is now being worked
out in cooperation with draft boards
all over the United States.
Twenty-Five Y. M. C. A. secretaries
with corps of volunteer assistants
played "big brother" to the thousands
of selected men who left Minnesota
for training camps between July %
and July %. With song sheets
checkerboards, gum, post cards
pencils and man other things which
the boys might need in transit, they
took up the task of delivering the men
at the training camp, happy and
courageous and with full knowledge
of "Why America Entered the War
"Why America Must Win the War;
and imbued with those qualities which
go to make up the character of the
American soldier.
Men from Minneapolis who accom-
panied troops to training camps were;
r. E. Broholm, r. C. Rasmussen, A. F.
Holmer, O. R. Trip, J. G. Mariner
N. l. Gordon, Harry Craddick, Harry
Jones, John B. Rayn, Carl H. Swan.
son, st. Paul men were A. X. Cox, f
r. Neibel, Gust Headburg, Henry Cap,
sur, Oscar Lampsland, Walter Halver,
son, B. H. Purdy and E. B. Fletcher
Rev. F. S. ROLAND of Winona accom-
panied the train that took the selected