The Mankato free press., 1918-07-05
Mankato Business Man to
Take Up Labors in the
War Zone
Others From This City Are
On List and Soon to Get
Into Service
Middle West Is Expected to
Furnish Largest Part Of
Quota Needs

o. W. Walker of this city Yeaves
for service in France tomorrow morn
ing. He will go direct to New York
and after two weeks of special in
structions, will be shipped across.
Mr.. Walker is the first business
man to be approved and get away
from Mankato. Mr.. Guy Smith be-
ing the first volunteer, but ON ac-
count of business will be held until
July %.
Several other applications are being
considered for this service. Minneso-
ia being called upon to furnish thir
this service.
These men are to be commended
for giving up their business and ans
wering the Y. M. c.. A. call in the
present emergency. Secretary ].
Monteith will call special meeting
shortly to explain how Christian bus
mess men may enlist and be sent
across at once in this branch of the
service.
Half of the men and women Y M.
G. A. workers now being recruited
for service in American camps and
overseas must come from the middle
western states, according to advices
received here today. The fifteen
states stretching from Ohio to Colo
rado and from the Canadian line to
Kentucky, and comprising what is
known as the Central Military De-
partment, are asked by the National
War Work council of the R. M c. A.
in New York to contribute 500 men
and 125 women per month for. the
next three months. Half of these
will be used in the home camps. The
others will see service with the
troops in France, England and Italy
Effort to Meet Quota.
Y. M. G. A. secretaries and officials
of this state and city are making an
effort to meet the quota placed upon
them for men and women to carry
forward the Red Triangle program
among the soldiers. The states in
the central department and the num-
Der of men they have been asked to
supply are as follows:
+ Colorado, 25; Indiana, 40; Kansas,
40; Michigan, 40; Missouri, 40; North
Dakota, 10; Ohio, rs: Illinois, Is;
Iowa. 40; Kentucky. 25: Minnesota,
30; Nebraska, 25; South Dakota, 10;
Wisconsin, So
The same proportions will be fol-
lowed in the work of recruiting ,wom-
en- for overseas work among the
troops.
During the month of May the CEN
trail department personnel board
passed a total of 529 men and eight
women for Y. NJ. c.. A. work over
seas and 210 men for work in the
camps in this country. 1t is believed
that this record can be maintained
throughout the summer months.
-Four thousand men and women
workers added to the Y. M. C. A..
forces overseas before September L
is the new goal of the entire or
ganization, following the statement
of Dr. John r. Mott. our general sec
retary," "The eight principal rea-
sons for recruiting this number of
workers are, briefly:
Ito relieve the $500 American
men and women already in the work.
They work on an average of four
teen hours a day and it is hardly fair
to ask them to bear the burden alone.
To Fill Gaps.
ITO fill gaps caused by death. phys
ical breakdown and the removal of
| a few misfits who have crept into the
service despite our most careful ef-
forts. Within the month four of our
workers have been killed.
ITO provide successors for some
who must now return to their busi-
ness and their families in this coun-
| try
"To increase our efficiency to as
near the 100 per cent mark as pos
sible and serve the soldier in TIE
best possible manner.
ITO meet the constantly growing
demands of an ever r-increasing army
landing on the other side. Many OF
our units have been without a single
Y. M. C.. A. man to relieve homesick
ness or extend word of cheer.
"To make our work strong in ter
ritory now only thinly covered ol
not covered at ALL Most of oul
buildings now established there are
terribly understaffed.
| ITO have reserve force so that
any critical situation can be triumph
antly met and the effectiveness of oul
ministry to the soldier not bes i'm
| paired or destroyed.
10 help the allied governments
win the war by meeting the requests
of General Pershing, the president
and premier of the French republic
the king of Italy and the king am
;, queen of England that the Y. NJ C
A. work already started be continued
without abatement"
j MARRIED IN MANKATO.
/ Charles w. Vintan of Owatonna au(