Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-04
DOING WAR WORK FOR
Y. N. {. A. IN ENGLAND
Harry II. Lukens of Wilmington
Writes of His Many Activities
in This Enterprise.

Henry II lukcnS. son of Dr J Paul
lukcns of OIL Washington street. has
written home. describing hs experiences
IN y NJ G. \ work IN England, THIS
organization, he says has been moor
poratcd into the Amcrlc,n FNpedItionary
Force. and hls work IS IN connection with
the purchasing department. which handles
thrrc million dollars per war
This of course, Is the hardest work,
he saws Food IS very difficult to obtain
without obtaining the necessary permits,
etc etc Then all building material, motor
cars and everything vnu can imagine
Huldug and equipment department
which locates grounds, obtains leases,
etc etc plans out the huts Motor
department winch keeps our various
cars IN repair and looks after the trans
portatinn bv motor Tonnage and
Transportation department which takes
care of ocean travel and railways Stores
department which ~ the various ware
houses and dispensing supplies at the
various ~rntcr- and lasl, library DO
partmrnt whIrh keeps the men supplied
with the hooks and magazines From this
vou So, that | have my hands full
have a building for my department and
ot ,r,urec have mon who arc The direct
heads ot each department, hut Il takes
tune to get things INTO shap" 'h course
y lot of the timc I glvc comes from my
ncrSonal hours Fut ! can think " No
better work for a man who IS past the age
hnut than to make things comfortable for
the soldiers have practically gwen ~
night entertainments so that am ht
tor work getting good sIccr and plcnt, ot
The \mcr,can~ IL London rrccutl,
started The Nncucan hamhcr ot Com
mcrcC IL London and ain one ~ the
d,r-rtNr- ami member NJ The financial
committee cur main Wnrh Is ~ promot"
cummcrca relations between England
and \mcrta and We are pretty active
body having 4 membership II nov SEQ
and nlorc VIII 6 heard from thl> organ7a
unu "a rhc near future
Ihc Rutlsh ANA rcnch troops are
lighting ~piendsdl II ouI, Tho Amcu
cau auuz wa~ here tn force u wouid
h,uc,c enable tia Nllc~ tn wiu tms
wear rlt We arc AN hoping fcr The
h,~t tueu,a can du more hN hutldng
Ships han ANYTHING else Nothing mus.
lut,rtrr, however lt \mcrica wants to
ranh With France and England as to ~hat
each hay, donC IN thc War Nth aN tho
pcoptr ajt thc MONEY aud ail the materials
wr have ii seems vac should bC ahCad
of vhcrc NC arr iNrry day iuSt IS rrim-
lnal England has p,lt over ihrc nuulon
mcu In thc hcid and yci increased her
productlon> az supplies asioundugk
She has financed hcr AWc> and the people
have and arc paying - cents oi every
dollar thcy make - the government as
income tan \rar1 cvcu home has rs
/ casualty \cv wcrk the age amt Is raised
Ii f.~ rAv
motors street cars work lu machine shops
u lact ever, hlnd 81 worh thry du 40
married mau T. exempt piaNcj The other
dav to 500 men whu were Totally bind
and vct these men are doing wonderful
work already \mcrIca is II nov but sire
clu never suffer as thc1 have here and IN
rance ~ il hchoove> her TO pat every
energy To alleviate ihc people over here
den, ryCrl Injury possible and let uS have
The mann Things 10 live un She wound do
this know il she could onl1 see what We
sec over hcrc The American people
would speed M lend their money and
food and supplies w}iHnElv | know 4 We
cO}Ud Tuu INTO thc VARIOUS railroad sta
tions N the American cIticS the hospija.
trains that are even nov bringing the
wounded "a London from the battle nov
acsnc fouch' i!ut America being 50 far
away. II Is hard 10 hear The guns diff
cuit to realize the situation a II ~ and
every American should remember this,
tha1 Il !, was not fur the English nay,
NOT one soldier ID every hundred could
cross The Atlantic and very probably he
would bc Wounded when he got here
Nr LGkcn> has been Tor many years
with the du Pou1 ana spent several
wears ~ Cmle IN their interests as we'll a.
ID London where be Is now located, at
Lurtuou q suburb ot that city