The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24

for each speaker.
 Miss Katy Boyd George daking her own word for it) born in briar patch in Mississippi, the daughter of sumter countian, (this state) though introduceo as being from London by MT. Adams was the first speaker on the programme and her remarks were pertinent, and very impressive. She spoke of conditions in the Y. w. c. A. huts in France and or the work of the Y. W. c. A. in aiding the nurses, in order that they might gel their nerve back, and then be of more service to our boys.
 .sFor instance, a nurse comes into the hut. tagged out, and she says that she does not want anything-just wants to rest and get her nerve back, so that she can go back into the operating room anu help the doctor aid our boys. Now if we don't do any more than help them to do this we are doing wonders for our boys.
 q have never seen finer type of the American woman anywhere than the ones who are wearing the Red cross uhi- form in France. Then, too, l have never had a man in uniform treat me any other
 than most courteously, and have
 travelled by day and night all over France. We erected g. building for the
 women intuition workers in certain
 city in France And when they got into
 it the first thing they did was to take
 up small collection and buy pair of
 curling irons. Don't laugh at that, for
 it is not funny, but it properly shows the
 spirit of the women of France. They
 don't propose to let their men who are
 fighting in the trenches get the idea that
 they have given up, and that they are tired of the war; but they curl their hair as a means of showing them that they have hopes of it soon being over, aud that they want to be attractive as they did before the war. For when the women lose heart, the men do, too
 CAPTAIN DINGLE'S TALK Capt. George S. Dingle was the next speaker. and being a Canadian business man before he went into the Canadian ..Y, service, he explained the business side of the Y M c. A. work in England and France with the Canadian troops. He has seen nearly two years service with the Canadians in Y. M. c. A. work '"rhe first question that is asked, ana that you will hear here is: Is this really a business proposition or is it just an other one of those religious affairs? l can speak for the '. M. c. A, and say that for every dollar that we have taken from the Canadian people that we have given them 991s per cent service. what we preach is business efficiency and serV- ice in our unit, which is recognized by the Canadian army. You will get the bes, value for your money Tn this united war work that you ever got from ally invest- ment."
 When Gypsy Smith, the last speaker, was called upon, he stated that 25 min- utes of his 30 minutes were gone. The audience cried out: "Give him all the time he wants: take your time, we'll listen 10 your' and they were as good as tnelr word, for when he had concluded his ad- dress of about 90 minutes he was com pelled to sing a song-that is he sang chorus of just few lines, much to the delight of everyone.
 SERMONETTE SPEECH There was fire, fight and fun in his talk. There was love, light and leader- shin in his sermonette. for it was hap billy mixed sermonette speech Gypsy can't talk without preaching, for un- doubtedly he is man of God He IS, III plain languaSe-rlSnI uoWH WhCio .iiS masses can get it--a regular fellow with a heart of gold. and a love for humanity that is everlasting and always forth- coming.
 He loves the boys--the boys love him. To hear him is proof positive. After urging Catholics, Protestants ana Jews to get together in this drive. polnt- ing out the fallacy of creeds and churches in such a crisis, stating that God hau just lots of good men in every one oi these camps, he said:
 "These people are your brothers, ana you must not forget that. You had Just as well fill your bath tub with water ana call it the ocean. There is no color line with Calvary. Your great President mas said that there are no more CathoiicS and Jews and Protestants, but that we are united in this big war work drive. .sOne of the boys coming out ot one or our huts sover there said to the other' what kind of religion is that in there, Harry? To which Bill replied: Tam no religion at all, it's just Christianity PRACTICE IT NOW .rrbe hoys don't quarrel over there, and vo,, here at home ought to be as big as tbev are over there, for you have been 1 nlaying at religion 'iong enouSh-now practice it. l ..you will never repay England for what 1 sba has done for you. She entered this war in 1914, and her navy, which was raaav has saved your coast from Ger many's navy. But no country has ever hiurdered like Germany. She blundered ! when she sank the Lusitania. She bun