The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-06-01
AID FOR MOTHERS
IS PLAN Of
Y.M.C.A.
NEW BRANCH TO DIRECT LET
TIERS AND ANNOUNCE
CASUALTIES

NEW IOINN, May oV- "oo
the John Smith reported as wound
ed today my SOM"
How can 1 get a gift to my
husband in France?"
How ian 1 be certain my let
ters reached my b~rother?"
These questions are of the first
Importance to millions of women
in America today whose husbands,
sons, brothers are at the front or
on their way to the front as mem
bers of American contingents. To
answer them is an important aid
to the military authorities of the
country, who are authority for the
statement that a soldier worried
about his family is a poor soldier.
The task of answering these
questions positively; of educating
relatives of American soldiers how
to properly send their mail and
parcels, and of assuring Mrs. John
Smith of Petaluma that the John
Smith wounded yesterday was a
resident of Baltimore, is to be car
ried out by the American Army
Association, an organization of wo-
men working under the direction
and sanction of the War Work
Council of the Y. M. C. A.
This organization, launched and
financed by the Association, with
George w. Perkins as it's treasurer,
has commenced the labor of open
ing of communication be-
tween itself and the families of
soldiers with the purpose of giving
every possible assistance in main
tanning steady and adequate COM
m%unication between wives and
mothers in America and men at the
front.
It's offices in the Equitable Trust
Building at BAT Madison Ave, will
be open every day, to offer it's ser
vices to those who have difficult
ties to solve.
The work will be largely edu-
cational. 1t is the intention of the
organization to supply every sold
ier's family with a card upon which
will be printed his name and the
precise and correct OF ad-
dressing letters to him under the
regulations.
Not only this, but the organiza-
ton plans to have envelopes con-
tanning soldiers mail from the
front stamped with a return notice,
giving the address of the organiza-
ton at BAT Madison avenue, New
York City.
The Y. M. C. A. through it's
auxiliary organization will supple
ment the reports of casualties from
the front. 1t has made arrange
ments for definite data regarding
casualties, and will e that it
reaches privately the persons con-
cerned. 1t is hoped that no Mrs.
John Smith, or William Jones will
be required to sit for days in an
agony of doubt as to whether her
son is the victim of the Hun, but
will be treasured within a short
period.
Parcels for the soldiers have been
restricted very considerably under
new regulations. This Organiza-
ton has found a means of getting
gifts to soldiers without clogging
the mails, without using up valu-
able tonnage necessary for mill
tary shipments, and without re-
curing from the sender the pay
ment of high postal rates. No
woman need now pay % cents to
send an 1S-cent pot of jam to
George.
The new system is simple, eff
cient, saving. 1t consists in a
book of coupons, which will be &C
copied in any Red Triangle Post
Exchange in France as cash. These
coupon books. will be n~on-transfer-
able and the coupons will be in
terms of French currency. Any
relative in America al buy these
books and send them at insignifi-
cant cost to her sOldier-relative
abroad, where he will be able to
use them to purchase what he
most desires or needs.
AS the work develops it will
broaden; there are no limits to
the service it can perform for sold
iers' families in America. 1t will
endeavor to make the lives of the