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New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
reat Fighters as
L Real Human Beings

Perhaps the greatest advance in the
support given the army and navy came
from the realization that soldiers and
sailors were first men and then drilled
fighters, and that in order to assure the
success of the latter they must be sus-
tanned as human beings. The Y. M. C. A..
grasped this at once, with the result that
there appeared everywhere through the
cantonments, ports and bases large halls
Tor writing and recreation, organized
professional entertainments and games
and contests of skill 1t followed the
men in troop trains and TRANSPORTS. in
Great Britain and France, at rest bill
lets, leave areas and under fire; it con-
tinued overseas it's programme of recrea-
ton and added canteens where, at quar-
termaster's prices, chocolate and tobacco
and countless other little necessities and
comforts could be had.
In the greater part of this the Y. M.
G. A. was supplemented by the Jewish
Welfare Board and the knights of Co.
lumbus, both with special facilities in
the assistance of the members of their
faiths, while the War Camp Community
Service, concentrating it's energies in the
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
By Joseph Hergesheimer

VT USED to be that there was only
one class of men who had worse
reputation than soldiers, and they
were sailors. Everything that went
with professional fghting-idleness, scar
let trousers and brass buttons and
marching bands of music-made the sol
dier a public nuisance. The sailor was
more of specialist in his trouble-mak-
ing; they are almost invariably better
looking men than landlubbers, but they
yet contrived to make the nights hideous
with their songs and disrupt all feminine
tranquility.
Now, however, nearly everything is
changed; the scarlet and brass buttons
have given place to sombre olive drab
and there is little leisure in the present
business of being soldier The sailors,
who once rolled on melodious waves Of
strong waters through the ports of the
world, now go about in orderly bands
buying informative picture postcards.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
+ ntertaining Soldiers
L. on the Transports

The Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation, as well, devoted itself through
women, but largely to women. 1t, too.
went overseas in the establishment of
rest and recreation houses for the nurses
attached to the Allied hospitals and for
warding stations; but the great work of
the Y. W. c. A. lay in the provisions it
made, first, in hostess houses throughout
the environments and bases in America
for the visiting families of soldiers, sail
ors and marines, and, second, in it's care
OF the multitude of women workers
drawn into the vortex of the war.
The Y. W. c. A. supported clubhouses
for permanent workers and houses for
transients; it had in connection with
these country places for change and re-
taxation, and maintained lunch counters
at the great munition plants. The Amer
lean Library Association, operating
through central distribution points in the
larger environments, and in compact. NOV
able collections of books on special sub
Jects, supplying military and naval hos
pltals, availed itself as we'll Of the faci1i-
ties of all the other organizations for
establishing Libraries on the TRANSPORTS
and throughout the Allied armies in
Europe.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
An Ohio Town lnterprets
The Meaning of Hospitality

missioned and non-commission.a om.
from the armies and navies of America and
OF her allies. There would be private. a.,
seamen. There would be preachers ms..,.
posVnasters, insurance agents, bsegaesm.n
ticket sellers. cooks, policemen and s.o.s
raisers. There would be former presidents
OF the United States, blacksmiths ba,tsnd
ers and writers of best sellers. Tbers vor,
De fathers and mothers, come TO hid ,.,.
farewell to an only son about to densr, A.,
the Great Adventure. And there wou,d !.
oy actual observation, little yellow Do,
IN the arms of wisp of golden-haired s;,,
Ter exuberantly wagging its tail in the nrs,.
ence OF its master, lately evolved into :,
heroic suit of khaki.
Such. are the visitors who follow A,..,
lcas defenders to any camp town Timidin
ana transportation cost may keep some 4
them away, but never all of them.
~ is no uncommon thing to see an off,r
IN nigh command at Camp Sherman da,cir,
alongside a private who has been yscr,.oS
in,o the service within a fortnight This
lhtimacy OF contact is notable in ths res.
taurant, IN the smoking room. at the eon.
certs, IN the library and beside the fra.
places.
This democratic contact between oT.s,
and men is only a part of General C;sn,,,
scheme of inspiring discipline in his raut,
by teaching the respect rather than thu t.,,
of authority.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
ustihes Hopes
J For Future Good

Even brief statement of activities
spread over practically all the needs of
normal men must give an intimation of
the new horizons of responsibility and
service opened by the great war. In
merging even for brief space Catholics
and Jews and Protestants, obliterating
old lnhlbltions and dogma, the United
War Service of America has justified q
nope Tor future built on a democracy
OF humanity. That depends upon lust
such things as these, and they depend not
on governments, not on laws nor princes
nor presidents, but upon you.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

ME Camp Sherman Community House
at Chillicothe Ohio, would be too
expensive for most of its guests if
it were operated for profit and at
a place where it does not present such
contrast to its surroundings, say, off the
Boardwalk at Atlantic City. Hotels SINH
larly equipped, and with such elaborate
sources for entertaining their patrons,
usually be patronized only by persons of
considerable means. Folks who spend only
rs cents day for room and less than that
tanned by an orchestra during meals, and by
concerts and dances nightly-at any rate,
not gratis, with the 75
The guests of the Camp Sherman commu-
nity as of any camp community are Sc
lected. The government selected them when
1t went into every home in the country and
called into the same camp and company
men who never before had been associated
with each other or each others kind.
-o ASoooH IiIc camp community
house has an atmosphere which is unique.
1t is dignifed enough to make the most alb
sent-minded visitor unccnsciously throw
back his shoulders and straighten his spine
before he is twenty PAGES within. But it is
not "stiff or cold" 1t is homelike and
warm. There is place for every soldier
and his friends and relatives, whether thew
come from fashionable residential district
OF large city or from a cabin in a eul]v
back in the Ohio mountains.
Could the guests of year pass in review
upon these pages the spectacle would be
amazing. They would be wearing all man
ner OF garments, made in all manner Of
ways, and in manifold places and times
Ihey would be carrying all sizes of pocket
books There would be D. DIS. PHI D,s
LII DIS, high school freshmen, and folks
VINO six months previously had never heard
there was a war in Europe There would
De simple country folk, prosperous Ford
owning farmers, presidents of banks in
towns of less than a thousand population.
persons whose names appear on tba soc;o,
registers OF the largest cities, and million
are manufacturers. There would be COM
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
The Red Triangle Has Been Powerful
Factor in Maintaining the Morals of
The Fighting Man--Praise From Pershing

gave up $4,000 income On this side to
conduct the soldiers store and his sal
ary over there is not even a dollar a
year.
Keep boy active and you keep his
mind happy and his body fresh. The
'Y" had its athletic directors in France.
with the first troops and has been send
ing them by almost every boat since.
And with the men has gone equip
ment both for the camps and overseas
more than 100000 baseballs, indoor
balls, soccer balls and volley balls, 5000
first baseman's gloves, 5000 sets of box
ing gloves, 1000 footballs and carloads
of bats and masks and punching bags,
etc.
Every month the shipments of athletic
goods increase. These figures will be
far out Of date by the time they are
published. The "Y" has Sal athletic di-
rectors on this side and more than 800
in France.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
ITO Italy-Even
Il to Russia

High-salaried men all of them in pri-
vate life. And, like every other "Y"
representative in France, they are serv-
ing the boys without salary-receiving
only their living expenses.
Recently the French Minister of War,
through member of the French Com
missions, asked the "Y" to increase the
number of huts in the French Army
("Foyers du Soldat" the French call
them) from 1900 to 1000. He quoted
Napoleon's phrase that morale is to
other factors in war as to /, and he
said, "The greatest agency for creating
and maintaining morale is the Y. M. G.
A."
The King of Italy asked to have the
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

"Y" work extended among his troops
also on the ground that it strengthened
morale and so helped to win the war. A
few "Y" men were sent to Russia and
kept there at the express wish of Presi-
dent Wilson. And SO effective has their
Allies that the Germans started spe-
cal propaganda charging that the "Y"
is "capitalistic organization seeking to
exploit Russia"
The Frenchman on furlough goes
home; the Englishman leaps for the
first boat across the Channel But the
American boy, 5000 miles from the
folks he loves, has no home to turn to.
And furloughs are sometimes dangerous
to homesck boys in a foreign land.
But the "Y' has thought of furloughs.
Away back from the firing line, at AK
les-Bains and other attractive points in
France, the "Y" has rented great sum-
mer hotels. They have no tourists in
these grim days, and the owners were
glad enough to rent them for the use
of the American boys.
Here, in the beautiful country, with
tennis and swimming pools, and billiards,
and baseball, and clean beds and plenty
of war baths your boy may spend his
furlough After the trenches it seems
like heaven-which means that it's al
most like home.
1t costs lot of money to rent these
great resorts, and to send to the boys
the best preachers, lecturers, actors and
motion picture films in America. But
there is not man in America who
thinks that the best is too good for our
boys on furlough-not if one of the boys
is HIS boy.
Prison camps are bitter places; they
would be far worse were it not for the
work Of the Red Cross and the Red Tri-
angle. From the very beginning of the
war "Y" secretaries have been carrying
on their work among prisoners. That
work still goes on, though in Germany
it is now carried forward, by Dutch and
Swiss "Y" men and through other neu-
tral agencies, such as the Danish Red
Cross; but it is all financed by American
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
America Has Not Forgotten Her Men Are Human
Beings First
Beings First

and hereditary tyranny; and it is un-
doubtedly that clear principle which
gives our forces their sparkling and yet
austere bearing.
1t is all better, the soldiers, the sailors
and the war; and the civilian popula-
ton, democracy, is enormously improved.
The ignorant and selfish attitude of old
days, the cold preying on simple men,
banished by a nation determined, with
such cause and such splendid troops, to
see that the "boys" had every reason to
believe that their supreme service was
understood and supported to the last dol
lar and breath of patriotism
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
\ Hut Every
~ Creed's Church

At the opening of one of the big huts
a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi and
ministers of ten different Protestant de-
nominations took part. In France many
a hut is used by priest for mass, and
by the rabbi and the Protestant chap
lain, all within forty-eight hours. There
are no creeds at the battlefront; priest
and rabbi and minister work side by side
and the hut is the soldiers church
for all.
The "Y" makes no effort to force
religion on any man; no such effort is
necessary. At the front, where boys are
face to face with the great realities,
they turn eagerly enough to men who
can talk to them of big things in a
manly way. Surely $3,O00,00o is little
enough to spend next year in maintain
ing the soldiers church.
WHAT am going to do when the war
is over?" That is the question that
thousands of the boys are asking; they
do not want to lose these years; they
want to be equipped to hold better jobs
after the war than they had before.
So the hut becomes the soldiers COL
lege, under the direction Of such men as
Professor E. H. Wilkins, of the Univer-
sity of Chicago; and Professor A. c.
Trowbridge, of Iowa State University.
DR.. Anson Phelps Stokes, secretary of
Yale University, spent months in France
laying out comprehensive plan for
making every hut school house; and
Professor F. E. Spaulding has given up
his work as superintendent of the public
schools of Cleveland to become the "Y's"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Welcome Unity Idea
THE Young Mems Christian

THE Young Mems Christian
l. Association, the "Big
Brother of seven organiza-
tions associated in the United
War Work Campaign, well
comes the unity idea because
OF a belief that the strong will
be enabled to help the weak.
1t is in the interest of the coun.
try; it is in the interest of mil
lions of men under impossible
strain; it is in the interest of
winning the war that every one
or the organizations which is
serving the troops be made as
strong as possible. No one of
them alone can meet the tre-
mendous situation. The Y. nj.
{. A. will continue the service
in home camps and overseas
which require a personnel of
more than 10000 men and
women, more than six hundred
motor trucks, and the expendi-
ture of $1OO,OOO,OOO during
the second year of the war to
provide recreation for the
lighting men and keep up their
mnraIa
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
4 Change
In Community Life

w hen the representatives of War CAM
Community Service first arrived in Au
Camp Town the commercial amusemsa.
mouse was usually the chief place of enter
talnment open to the enlisted man. Bsfer
the camp came the average citizen pstron.
lzed these amusements only occasionally
he found his recreation in attending lodgs
meetings, church sociables neighborhM
parties and family gatherings. He bad
gwen much thought to the question
entertaining the transient--the person VII
could not at once become a part Of thsE
clal life of his town. He had thought ofia
problem in the large perhaps once in BIZ
llte-as a member of the entertsinmsE
committee of a Labor Day celebration
when. over his printed name, he had con-
mltted the community to sixteen hours
unrestrained hospitality to any and oil eut
of7town guests who would succumb to ns
lure of his alliterative appeal. BE remsn
bered with anxiety how the ingenuity Of ha
community had been taxed to provide enter
tainment enough to keep four hundred pss
pie amused from the time the 500 aFrFt'
IN the morning until the II :56 pulled ou u
night. For the other 360-odd days Q! ~
year the average citizen had left the a'h
sieut to the mercy of the commercial snuse
ment manager.
When the government revealed its pAh
establish military and naval training sts'An
throughout the country there was hulr'"
influx into many camp towns OF e''s
and vulgar amusements. The problem :"
providing recreation to 10000 or nas
transient visitors was larger than BE-
towns were able to solve alone. They ~
neither the powers to control undssans'
attractions nor facilities to provide w.
quate entertainment. A street caih'-
which came to one Southern camp w.
featured gambling devices, hoochi-Ae'',,.. 3.
show, peep" tent, and coarse im'es'.
OF Barbary Coast dances. This pafA'.'-
aggregation was practically ifan''a
group of prostitutes and traHlckeis
prostitution. parading as professions
tertainers. :.
When War Camp Community SER ~,
went into the camp towns these a'tiss's; as,..;s
left. For them were substituted a'as.
of all sorts, diversified entertainA'sI, '.,s
pageants, festivals, parties, dances II.
mobile rides, sightseeing excursions IL
mics, concerts and wholesome com"''
amusements at reduced prices. =
Americas outdoor sports requ" IA.
abundance of space and air. Given =,
the average American-reared msa ~
amuse himself at baseball, foqtoai',, q
ball, tennis and their kindred ou'''"
energy.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
EDUCATIONAL director over there.

educational director over there.
Glasses in French, in history, mathe-
mates and other high school and college
courses are held. Every month hundreds
of lectures are given by men like Will
lam Howard Taft, John Mase6eld, DR..
John H. Finley, Professors William Nor
ris Davis, Of Harvard; w. W. Atwood,
of Harvard, and j. w. Garner, Univer-
sity of Illinois. Besides these there are
almost nightly lectures by prominent
Americon business men to keep the boys
from losing touch with business life.
The monthly attendance of soldiers
and sailors at these lectures averages
more than 100000.
In one week in France the "Y" had
actors and actresses appearing in its
huts whose combined weekly salaries at
home would amount to $4,000. Twenty
five companies of players and 100 indi-
vidual players travel the "Y" circuit all
the time. If you figure only two shows
week on the averave and estimate them
at only SO cents apiece, your boy is get
ting $52 worth of good and wholesome
entertainments in the Hut Theatre.
You know what relief the movies are
after the strain of a business day. Sup
pose you were coming out from under the
strain of days in the trenches, your
mind filled with visions that clung in
spite of your effort to shake them off.
Imagine the joy of meeting Douglas
Fairbanks and Mary Pickford and Char
lie Chaplin then! The "Y" is the great
est exhibitor of motion pictures in the
world to-day. Every week boats bear
ing more than fifteen miles Of film set
sail for Europe
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

United States provided for the masses of
men suddenly gathered about towns and
cities with no accommodations for such
huge invasion. Clubs were organized for
officers and men, good. reasonably priced
food was made possible, information
booths established, entertainments con-
Quoted, invitations secured for dinner
with private families, and dancng-not
only the time and the place, but the
pretty girl.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

funds. If your boy is taken prisoner
he will find "Y" man in his prlsvi.
camp. The packages that you send to
him will get through to their destina-
tion if there is any human way of man
aging it. Your hand stretched out
through the long arm of the "Y" will be
doing for him, wherever he is in Eu-
rope, the things that you would do if
YOU were with him.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Organization Is Fitted
~ TOR his Task

This is very heartening. The improve
ment, too, goes far below the surface; the
men are different--or such, at least, is
the report-and the reason for Amer
ica's warfare has justice beyond all
mere former conquest or aggression. It's
single purpose holds the aspirations of
an entire earth sick of brutal oppression
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Y" Hut Home for Two Million Americans in France

three-sided development of the strong
mantle physical, the intellectual and
the spiritual; in other words, symbolic
Of the influence of the best American
homes.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

the 'Y" to add this extra 10 per cent.
to the fighting efficiency of our armies;
TO maintain that indefnable quality
which wins wars-MORALE.
The "Y'' has built 538 huts of various
designs in American cantonments; and
in France the number is larger already
and is growing at the rate of hundred
a month. If they were gathered to-
gether they would make quite city.
And besides these, there are "huts" in
cellars and dug-outs, right under the
guns in France; for the "Y" follows the
bows straight up to the trenches.
In some of the French towns, where
the BOYS are billeted in barns and ware
houses, the hut is the only place where
thew can be warm or write letter.
Coal was $50 ton in those towns last
winter, but the ''Y" kept the hut fires
burning. Every day 100000 letters
arc written on "Y" stationery.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
By Bruce Barton

Lieutenant Colonel E. S. Wheeler
in a report to General Pershing in
May, 1918, said:
"There Is no one factor contribut-
ing more to the morale of the Amer
lean army in France than the Y. M.
c. A. The value of this organization
cannot be overestimated. Give me
600 men who have Y. M. c. A.
rather than 1000 who have none,
and l will have better fighters every
time"
General Pershing directed that
Colonel Wheeler's letter be sent to
the Y. M. G. A. officials, and himself
added this comment:
"The conclusions and opinions of
Lieutenant Colonel Wheeler are con-
Cured in by these headouarters."
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

INE men who are happy and
entertained can Outright ten
who are homesick and lone
some. 1t is the business of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16
Modern Steam Car Possesses Great Virtues and Notable
 |Possibilities" Says De Palma
1continued from Page Three,

init the power to the driving wheels. An idler gear meshing with the main gear of the differential serves to drive an electric generator which charges the storage battery, operating the lighting system and furnishing current for ignition purposes.
 STEAMERS OUTLOOK
 have been asked whether l think the steam car has any chance of dis the dominant type in this field. Frank ly I do not see it. at the present time. The gas car is firmly entrenched in the affections of millions of people who understand it. know how it works and are able to keep it In repair or at any rate running. The steam car would be beginning all over again for most of these people The old adage that possession is nine points of the law, holds here too. The gas car has a long lead, deep hold on public af- lection. It will take a revolution to force any other type to the leading role. Of course, there might come a really catastrophe fuel crisis, which would give the steamer so great q handicap that it would take the lead, i, lieve the gas car will maintain it's po- sition This I will say: If the early steam cars had been relatively as ef- ficient. convenient and generally satis- factory to operate as those of today,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16

he says, "come from homes where the things of the house have always been done for them by well-trained servants. I asked one of these girls why she was spending her spare time in learuing how to boil cabbage and make potatoes look attractive.
 'I want to feel independent sho said. I expect to be married shortly, and l should feel such fool if my husband c;tme home suddenly on leavo and I couldn't cook him a decent d;n- ier We can't count on servants these days"
 War work. the writer concludes, whether it is work in an office or in a hospital or in a factory, is teaching women to be businesslike and orderly It is teaching them that if a thing has to be done at all, it is more pleasant and infinitely easier to do 1t we'll than i'd do it badly. And, above all, it IS teaching women to be self-dependeni, giving them the desire to make a slc- cess of whatever they undertake.
 One of the hardest-worked of the new order of women employees is the con ductorette' of the motor bus. Her joo is particularly nerve-wearing and pny- sioally hard. She is exposed to all kinds of weather and she must be constantly the narrow winding stairs to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16

the roomy rear seat readily permits carrying another passenger.
 The windshield being of new style and carrying but one piece of glass, is much heater in appearance. The top being low and narrow like the body does not detract from the racy beauty of the car when the top is up.
 The top material is khaki and fitted with regulation Collins curtains, the doors operating with the curtains; an arrangement as simple and convenient as door on closed car.
 The color of this car is Rolls Royce blue-a new shade of wonderful beauty The upholdstering is in a green blue pencil grain leather to match. A Eickeled metal moulding is used to edge the upholstering instead of leather gimp, making finish of rich appearance and splendid utility
 The instrument board and rear tor- neau cowl are finished with mahogany panels in cabinet style. In the rear panel are two compartments with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16

Wages for women and minors are reg ulated in Oregon.