Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-01
The Army Y. M. c. 4.

actual service Is rendering to the soldiers in the training camp and in the field Is the Young Mems Christian association Or ganized hastily but effectively to meet the enlarged demand for its services 1t occupies niche hard to be filled by any other insti tuition or aggregation.
 At the beginning, the Y made mistakes as any other body of men must, when called upon very suddenly to undertake vast new effort However, the men at the head of the movement had brains, tact, the de- sire to sacrifice self unselfishly upon the altar of country, and above all else, the con stunning desire to get in close daily contact with the men in training for war to give them the best advantages surrounding con ditions would allow. With such men at the head of the Y movement, the problems offered, while difficult, were as certain of solution as the night follows the day.
 Gradually there was an assembling of men of high attainments in the pull pit, the school room, from all walks of business and specialists in athletics. Unavoidably there were some square pegs among them who failed to fit the inches of usefulness they had been chosen to occupy. Kindly but with rapidity, these men were shifted out ot the scenario and new men, more capable of bearing their share of the burden, with a broader understanding of humanity re- placed them. With might and main these men work for the betterment of the embryo soldiers, striving to make them better men morally, mentally and physically. Earnest effort to cooperate with the army in every field of activity where cooperation Is possible Is evident at all times The army at first was suspicious of the Y but this feeling has been replaced by one of friendship for the institution and its workers. We use the word workers ad- visedly for there is no opportunity for a drone to hang onto the skirts of the Y in the army. He simply does not fit in with the scheme of things and is dropped.
 No one must get the idea that the r. M. C. A. men in the training camps are satis- fled to be there They, like the men of the army, show a disposition to feel that the period in the training camp Is but proba- tionary one which necessarily must be en- dured before they can hope to go across to do all in their power to make the men actually fighting as happy and comfortable as lies within their power.
 Exultation and exaltation are the emo tions exhibited by Y. M. C. A. worker no less than by the soldier, when told he may go overseas to get in the thick of things But in his heart of hearts each man in the Y uniform knows he Is serving when he works in the training camps even as the soldier knows he is serving while in train ing. Each has given up his daily avocation, his home hopes and opportunities, to serve his nation in his peculiar way.
 And do not get the idea that the Y man Is a stacker in any sense of the term. Al most without exception 1t will be found that in some way these workers do not come up to the army standard and so cannot enlist or be drafted for service in the front line, or they are men of more or less mature years who yet preserve a great part of their physical vigor but who, on account of their age, would not be accepted We person. ally have known men in the ' service who tried again and again to get into the army itself and without success.
 To the man who has been accustomed to observe the tactics of denominations in civil life, each claiming to represent the true religion and in many instances decrying all others, there IS e peculiar beauty in the workings of the Y. M. C. A. under war conditions Such thing as sectarianism IS not recognized. Men of all protestant faiths work together. The Baptist, the Methodist,