Arizona republican., 1918-09-18

time. Many soldiers, the speaker said, went to France with the expectation or being sent at once to the front line. Instead they were sent many of them, to some great base, a pick and shovel placed in their hands and they do man ual labor for maybe months. This IS where the r. NJ. C. A. is needed, he de- clared. These men need wholesome amusements. and the men provide baseball games and other sports that keep the men from becoming homesick or discouraged or stale. The Y. M. (. A. keeps them from questionable -amusements.
 It is the aim of the Y. M C. A, said the speaker, to keep the soldier in the paths his mother would have him if he were at home In this work they are wonderfully successful. He described the many camp jokes about the new officers, somewhat called Sears, Roe buck officers" Sometimes he thought them the most lonesome ones of all in the army on account of the army rules that prevented officers from mingling | with the privates.
 But I am not laughing any more at these young officers" said the speaker q have seen them coming back from | the front I have heard the stories their men tell of them, and I know now that they are making good and bearing out 1 the best traditions of Young America Spirit of Unrest Prevails
 He recalled the dissatisfaction of the l boys, always wanting to be somewhere else from where they happened to be stationed. Those who are in the United States. he said were longing to get to | France. and those in France want to get back home. Of one soldier he said he heard remark: If I ever get back to the old United States I'll never go out side my back yard"
 | Next Senator Benson was sent to Chateau Thierry. He described the town where so much history since has been made The American army al- ready was driving the Huns back. The senator camped the first night within | hearing of the great guns. the next day moving to the very banks of the Marne.
 He described the river and the peace ful scenery all about. At that time he was attached to the 4th division. Early | in the morning he was notified to go out with a truck loaded with supplies and try and locate the 3rd regiment in the front line or near it. AS they approached the front they saw discard ed uniforms, then ammunition and shell holes. That anyore could have been on that field during a pombardment and lived was a wonder to the speaker. The shell holes were not farther than 30 feet apart. Great empty cartridges were all about, from the 75s and 175s. Also there were graves of French, Eng fish, Germans and also Americans. No distinction in the graves, all buried alike. Most of them had small cross at the head and helmet. The speaker said he discovered what probably had been main headquarters of the Hun di
 vision There were signs of great revelry before the Hun officers were hastily forced to evacuate the building.
 Hun Ammunition Poor
 Also they began then to see little red flags. sometimes hundreds of them. showing where a German shell had fallen and had not exploded, thus prov
 ing the growing inferiority of the Hun ammunition.
 Soon a long train of American mo-
 tor ambuances passed, all filled with American wounded. Some were severely wounded, and others not so bad that
 they could not wave their hands at him . while they were on their way to the hospital. The speaker spoke of later visiting these great hospitals and learn
 ing that the great concern Of the
 American boys there is that the folks
 at home should not grieve, that they
 are not weeping. They want them. , however, to realize what a serious task is before the soldiers and how urgent it is that they must keep on until victory , is won. Most of all, he said, the boys l fear they will lose their organization. , Great Duty of Churches
 ''The Church of Christi said the
 speaker, should learn a lesson of love for fellowman from these American boys overseas, lesson of love shown
 to their fellows in those hospitals. The . church ought not let slip this oppor-