Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-14
ARMY AND NAVY CLUB
DOES MUCH FOR SOLDIERS
Efforts of Camp Community Service
Arc Greatly APP
prcciatcd

Surely no ono can lay Mt Richmond's
doors the charge OF having In any way
neglected or overlooked tho hundreds
Of soldiers and sailors who visit this
city weekly. Through her camp com
munity service machinery she has for
months been bending every energy TO
add TO tho comfort and pleasure OF tho
boys who wear the uniform OF Uncle
Sam and none has been too poor CT
humble to receive the attentions they
merit.
Although the Army and Navy Club.
which has its headquarters at Seventh
and Franklin Streets, is the chief local
rendezvous Of soldiers and sailors from
camps and naval stations, this we'll
equipped organization by no means
represents the only activity OF tho
camp community service workers.
There are perhaps dozen other
mediums FOR the comfort. recreation
and help OF those who have enlisted or
been drafted, and scores of good mon
and women arc daily engaged in de-
visinE schemes which Will bcneht
Americas fighting mon who nnu
temporary home on Virginia soil.
The various camps near Richmond
this city every Saturday. and, in addi-
ton. At least 1000 more have been
1uartered within the very gates q. the
State capital. While II is true that the
first quota Of 500 men at tho training
schools detachment. which had It's
headquarters at the Fair Grounds has
bid The city adieu. its place Will quick
" be taken by "a many more soldiers
Meanwhile the balloon squadron OF nr.y
men and the aero squadron OF 200 men
still remain most welcome guests and
the ciEhty-three enlisted men now
serving at Richmond College Hos
pital Will shortly have their ranks
swci!ed TO 800. All these temporarily
adopted sons need attention OF one sort
or another and they do not lack for II
Best OF all the agencies for givint, the
soldiers and sailors pleasure II tho
Army and Navy Club whose doors arc
never closed. day o. night. to uniformed
visitors. Then men can dance there
lounge there, smoke there cat there
read ana write there. and perhaps best
or all, sleep and battle there For rs
| cents one gets n cot with snowy sheets
The privilege OF a shower bath and 80
US" OF d "rohc de nu..." True some q,
the huskier rural lads OF simple habits
don't bother much one way or Tho
other about the robes de mutt" bu,
the more sybari-ic warriors roFard
Every Saturday evening there 4. g,
sound OF rcvelry by night" a, the club
Tor II is then that tho social entertain
ments OF the organization take placc
and the visiting lads ind an oppatun
ity 70 meet Rlchmond's matrons and
their lovely daughters. These care
fully chapcroncd affairs arc immensely
popular. Last Saturdays dance. FOR
example. was attended b. 1000 men In
uniform and by 3a5 women. Count on
II. there were no "wail-fowers" among
the girls. though the older women re-
ceivcd equally as much attention.
Many of the soldiers In fact prcfcr
the chapcrons TO the dcbu,ants. the
Inatrons remind them OF home and
mother"
on Saturday and Sunday evenings
from 10 I. ladies representing vari-
Gus organizations serve chatty CONVEX
sauon tea and doushnuts-a comb
nation which appeals eloquentIy TO
the military appetite. Last Saturday
committee from the Methodist
churches entertained tand fed) 200
men. and on Sunday representatives
OF certain woman's club acted as the
much appreciated hostess for $50 more
In addition to all this officers OF the
Grub make arrangements whereby the
soldiers may dine on Sundays in scores
OF hospitable Richmond homes. which
gladly throw open their doors to the
ads in khaki.
To sum things w. the Richmond
war camp community service is do
ing noble WORK in n thoroughly or
gained. practical way, and many a
mother in distant lands would re-
Joice II She knew into what kindly
hands her boy Is certain 10 fall when
ne visits Richmond. The soldier who
says otherwise must either be
strangely different or forbidd!ngly un-
sociablc.
hMCpIcsh nou, norc uo,rv