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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
FUNSTON is FIRST
Takes Leading Place Among the Sey-
eral Training Camps.

I. G. Mccormack, leader of the Y.
NJ. c. A. war activities of Kansas, is
in Wichita today. Mr.. Mccormack
has been in Red Triangle work in the
environments of this country for four
teen months. the last seven of which
were spent at Camp Funston. At Fun
ston Mr.. Mccormack has charge of the
work in the camp. Before taking up
this war work he was university pastor
at Ohio State university.
Since Funston ranks as the largest
military training camp in the country.
and Mr.. Mccormack is leader of the
Y. NJ. c. A. activities there, he occu-
pies an authoritative position in re-
gard to the work of the Red Triangle
in the camps of this country. splen-
in regard to the number of men each
week who pledge themselves to a
Christian life. Before the influenza
epidemic this number averaged 500
each week. and these men came volun-
tarily, without any evangelical serv-
ices or other special impetus.
The influenza siege at Camp Fun
ston has changed somewhat the work
of the Y. NJ. c. A. the past few weeks.
The reading rooms in the huts are
closed, and the secretaries work is
now chiefly with the sick in the hos
pitfalls. The secretaries are busy with
the sick all the time. At present, nine
of the Red Triangle men are i'll with
influenza, and one man has died as a
result of the disease
While in Wichita today Mr. McCor-
mack conferred with pastors in the
city, and with President Rollins and
other workers in regard to the stu
den army training corps at Paramount
college.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
in A GREAT WORK
677,722 Soldiers Visit Y Huts
in Month.
These Men Write Total of Co.,
$50 Letters.
AN INTERESTING REPORT
IS Educational Lectures At.
tended by 1925.
43,99S Took Part in Various
Sports.
INTERESTING REPORT

The reports of activities Of the Army
Y. NJ. c. A. just compiled for the
month of September by I. G. McCor-
mack. camp general secretary, show
that during the month the attendance
at the twenty huts in camp was
677,722.
Educational Report.
Sixty-eight educational lectures were
given which were heard by 23,725 SOL
diers: 442 educational classes were
held with a total enrolment of 7,174.
The twenty Y buildings circulated a
total of 1928 boz ks. The membership
in the thirty-five educational clubs
was 1850.
In the Physical Department.
In the physical department the rec
ords show that 43,99S men took part
in the various sports, which were wit
messed by 91.011.
Religious Department.
In the religious department the rec
ords show that 259 religious meetings
were hid with total attendance of
51,130. One hundred fifty-four Bible
classes were held with an attendance
of 7,491. Scriptures distributed DUR
ing the month amounted to $3.50 and
.. 1887 personal Christian interviews
were held, which resulted in 956 Chris
tan decisions. A total of 1909 war
roll cards were signed.
Social Department.
The social department reported the
holding of eighty-one entertainments,
attended by 57,447. Motion picture
shows proved a favorite pastime
among the Camp Funston soldiers, the
records show that a total of 70.S37
men attended the 165 motion picture
shows given during the month.
The number of let e's written in the
Y. NJ. c. A. buildings during the
month was 609,3S9.
A total of 1859 money orders were
sold to soldiers, which shows that a
great per cent of the men are sending
home as much money as they can
possibly spare
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
IN FLANDERS FIELDS

The following answer to the poem
'In Flanders Fields by Lieut.. Col.
John McCrae, is made by Lieut.. Col.
r. G. Caldwell of the Twentieth in
fantry al Camp Funston. Colonel Cald-
wells military career is an interesting
one. He rose from the ranks and has
seen service in Cuba, the Philippines
as well as in the present war. When
the National army was in the making
he was appointed a maj or in command
of the First battalion of the 331 in
fantry of the Eighty-third division. He
went across with this division. After
four months of service in France he
was returned to this country with the
rank of a lieutenant colonel and as
signed to the Twentieth infantry.
Both poems are printed below:
IN FLANDERS FIELDS.
(By Lieut.. Col. John McCrae Canadian
Expeditionary Forces.)
In Flanders Fields the peoples grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
; That mar, marx our our Placs, and in the sky
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We lived, felt down, saw sunset glow
Loved and were loved; and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe,
To you, from falling hands, we throw
The torch. Be yours to lift it high,
If ye break faith with US who die
We shall not sleep. tho peoples blow
In Flanders Fields
An answer to Lieut.. Col. John McCrae's
poem by Lieut.. Col. r. G. Caldwell, Tween
tieth United States infantry.
In Flanders Fields where heroes fought
From dying hands the torch was caught
The flaming torch of Liberty.
They died to make the whole world free.
we carry on their work and thought
Sleep on. o dead, In days to come
Echoes or our victorious drum
smell be your glorious requiem
IN Flanders Fields.
Nor doubt your quest is braveIy sought
TIT lear t your sacrifice for naught;
Inc torch uplifted ever CLEANS
Zen in your sleep you'll sense its beams
"here peoples blow your rest you've
bought
In Flanders Fields.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
A NEW BOOK RECORD
October Best Month in Camp Ii
brary's History.

All previous records for book loans
at the Camp Library were broken on
Saturday, October 10, and Sunday was
Just a little better. The month of Octo-
Der also promises to be the busiest in
the first year of the library. A capac-
ity attendance evenings has been the
regular thing for weeks, and the camp
librarian hopes to induce his national
board to authorize an addition to the
building.
The classes of books most in de-
mand now include mathematics, in
addition to military and technical
works. On several days this month,
mathematics books have circulated
better than any other class of nom
fiction. The lowest class in circula ton
is religion and the next lowest fine
arts, the proportion being in each case
about one volume to each two hundred
taken from the library.
The library staff was strengthened
last Monday with the arrival of Prof.
j. H. Miller of Kansas City. Professor
Miller has recently been director of
extension work for Kansas State Agri-
cultural college, and for ten years was
at the University of Nebraska as pub
lisher-of the Northwestern Journal of
Education.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
THEY MAKE HISTORY
Work of AlI-Kansas Can Never Be
FORGOTTEN

Eloquent testimony by Col James
H. Reeves, commanding the 353rd
infantry regiment. as to the bravery
and soldierly conduct of the All-Kan-
sas regiment is contained in a letter
to Bishop James Wise of Topeka In
the letter Colonel Reeves asserts the
part this regiment is playing in the
war will go down as one of the i'm
perishable history of the state
An extract from the letter to Bishop
Wise follows:
You may give assurance to all the
friends and relatives of the men of
this regiment that the men over here
are behaving in such a manner that
they may be justly proud of them. So
far as 1 know each and every man is
performing his full duty generously,
gladly and with true soldierly spirit
and is looking forward to the day
when he can, do more for his country
than he is now doing. When the day
comes, I feel perfectly confident that
the record of the men of the regiment
will be such as to form a part of the
imperishable history of the state of
Kansas. ]. H. REEVES,
"Ce4 353rd Regiment,
"All-Kansas Regiment"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
OLDER MEN FOR Y
Only Nom Draftable Men Accepted for
Service.

Only Nom Draftable Men Accepted for
Service.
Because of recent questioning on
the subject the Y. NJ. c. A, now af-
filiated with the united war work
campaign, desires to call attention to
the fact that only non-draftable men,
or men assigned to deferred classifi-
cations are now accepted for Y over
seas service. and these last only with
the understanding that they are liable
to service whenever called.
The Y. NJ. c. A. service never has
conflicted with army needs and regu-
lations in the slightest degree, and all
Y overseas men open to draft were
promptly ordered to report to the
nearest military authorities upon pas
sage of the new draft law.
1T is well to add" writes F. H.
Scott, chairman of the central de-
partment war personnel board. that
Red Triangle job in the fighting zone
of France is no Stacker proposition.
The Y. NJ. c. A. already has lost TWEEN
ty men and women who were serving
the fighting men, altho not a part of
the actual military force, under shell
fire"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
JEWISH WELFARE BOARD

Another outdoor gathering was held
last Sunday afternoon and turned out
to be a grand success; a number OF
the boys who were victims OF the
Spanish influenza and now fully re-
covered. were present and enjoyed the
socia bility which the occasion offered.
Mr.. Gelfand. field representative, adj
dressed the men.
A community branch of the Jewish
welfare board has recently been or
ganized in Kansas City and will CO.
operate with the field representative
at Camp Funston in serving the men
in uniform and especially will aim to
provide hospitality and comfort to the
soldiers while visiting in that city.
Headquarters have been established at
the Y. NJ. C. A building. 3123 Troost
avenue, and Mr.. Herman Passama-
neck, executive secretary of that or
gan zation, is also secretary of the
J. w. B. branch. A very cordial in
vitation is extended to all soldiers to
make use of the building and utilize
its facilities during their stay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
Cen. VIM GOES UP
Commander of seth Is Major
General.
kilbOurne and huffman Are
Generals.

Word from overseas announces the
promotion of Brig. Gen. Frank L..
Winn, who assumed command of the
Eighty ninth division when Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood was relieved al the port
of embarkation, to the rank of major
general. 1t is believed that he is still
in command of the division.
Charles f. Kilbourne, chief of staff
of the Eighty-ninth division, who went
to Europe with General Wood last fall
on an inspection trip and was wounded
at the same time General Wood re-
ceived slight injuries, has been pro-
NOTED from the rank of a colonel to
that of a brigadier general
Colonel huffman, commander of the
356 infantry of the Eighty-ninth di-
vision, has been promoted to the rank
of a brigGdier general.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
men
Y Magazine Contains Interest.
ing Data.
Best Way To Keep Posted on
War Events. -.

Men of the army-iSn't it true that
one of the greatest problems you have
in the army is trying to keep the
Folks Back Home satisfied with in
f.rmation-informat about this
great war that you are taking part
in. The Folks Back Home want to
know more about your personal well
fare, how you eat-how you sleep
how you drill, etc.
Never before in all your life men,
have the Folks Back Home been so
anxious about you and things you are
taking part in-when you went to
school and college they were very anx-
ious about you-tbut they are more
anxious about you now than any time
in your life.
One of the best ways you can solve
this problem and give the Folks Back
Home not only the best and most valu-
able information, but many of the
most interesting war pictures gathered
by government permission and pub
lished in Association Men, the Red
Triangle magazine, is to hand in a
subscription to it. The Y. NJ. C. A. has
published this magazine for more than
twenty years and today it is the lead
ing human interest story magazine on
the market.
1t is published every month, has
about eighty pages many pictures and
human interest war stories and 80 per
cent of the entire contents is overseas
war activities. 1t sells at all news
stands for Is cents, but the Y. NJ. C.
A. will send it for you to the Folks
Back Home every month for less than
it costs to publish it-only rs cents for
a whole year.
If you want Association Men, the
Red Triangle magazine, sent to the
Folks Back Home, hand your subscrip-
ton together with rs cents to any Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Secretary E. F. Boyle has returned
from a visit with his parents at Still
water, MINI.
sistant at No. 2, has been promoted to
building secretary, at building No. A.,
and has entered upon his new duties.
Tom, as he was affectionately known
by the boys. is a competent secretary,
and We are pleased to learn that his
worth has been at last recognized.
The material having arrived for the
new building at Fort Riley, the con-
tracto1- are at work under the dIrec-
ton of Secretary Lannan
Several Improvements are being
made at building No. 4, among them
the installation of two new furnaces.
Secretary Neuhause has been tenn
porarily assigned to building No. 2
during the absence of Secretary Ryan,
who is acting as chief clerk to the
general secretary, J. H. Gallagher.
Secretary McCracken has returned
from the base hospital, where he has
been assisting Secretary Casey, and has
resumed his position upon the Ford,
relieving Secretary Ryan.
ST. Louis, ILL.,, arrived Monday and has
been assigned for duty at building
No. l.
Secretary J. J. Lannan spent the
weekend in Topeka, transacting Off
cial business.
Secretary r. E. Mccain has been
transferred from building No. l to
building No. 4.
Three new chaplains, Lieuts. Rev.
Fathers Fitzgerald, Grohman and
Canty have arrived and received their
assignments to the Tenth division.
Rev. Father Roche, of ogden,
spent Monday in camp undergoing a
physical preparatory to becoming an
army chaplain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
SHORES DISTURB ARMY
Many Types of Shores in Funston.

BY w. s. TRAVIS.
You can put soldier boy to bed
after a hard days work, and he will
sleep if all the bands in camp are
playing beneath his window; his eyes
will close with smile IL all the bu-
glers in the division toot their meanest
blast before his bed: and if you have
a grudge against him you can kick
he's asleep and he will never know
the difference. The only thing that
will keep that boy awake is to have
a buddy with a fog horn snore.
If there is any one class of men
that is doing more than anybody else
outside of German propaganda to dis
turb things around here, it is the man
that snores. There are all types of
snorers in Camp Funston. Almost
every barracks is cursed with three or
four. and they are generally scattered
pretty well. There are those who roll
a little to one side and gently ripple
like a leaky water-tank; there are
those who buzz like the little coffee
mill the dentist puts inside your
mouth; there are those who moan and
groan and wheeze in diabolic COM
bination that would cause any family
to leave home; and there are those
who just lie back and throw their
arms as far apart as they can reach,
and open their mouths and let some-
thing that should stay in place fall
clear back inside on something that
should let their wind thru, and growl
and grunt and give great gutteral
groans till all peace hath fed. But no
matter to which class the man belongs,
he does it with the greatest regularity,
and that regularity is what makes IL
SO bad-there is no chance to sneak
in between and go to sleep. It's sim.
ply awful.
There ought to be some action
taken to put all the snorers in one
company, and when they get so they
can snore in unison. send 'em over
and have 'em hooked to horns to
snore thru and keep the German
troops awake till they're all worn out
Here's hOping
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
C. O.'S GET rs YEARS
Six Conscientious Directors Disobeyed
Orders.

A true conscientious objector is a
man who belongs to a bona fide re-
ligious sect that disbelieves in killing
men. The privileges and exemptions
granted to members of these sects
have been grossly abused by takers
and slackers who claim to be objec-
tors in order to dodge the service to
which the men of the country have SO
nobly responded.
Six of these self styled DIRECTORS
have been tried by courtmartial at
Camp Funston and found guilty of dis
obedience of orders and other offenses.
They were sentenced to hard labor
for life. but Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood.
commander of the Tenth division and
Camp Funston. has exercised clemency
in these cases, and has reduced the
sentences to twenty-five years at
Leavenworth.
The men are Fred iron. Lyman
Bloch, E. w. Thomas, Jake Conova-
loft Philip Caplovitz and Julian DOM
browski.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
$40, 100000 VIII Be Raised for Wal
Work,

Now that the liberty loan is out of
the way, there is just one more big
task for the American people-to pro-
vide comforts of life for our boys thru
the united war work campaign. John
r. Mott, director general of the cam
paign, in a statement issued an
nounces the state quotas.
The total amount to be raised, one
hundred seventy million five hundred
thousand dollars, was fixed by the war
president. 1t will be administered I'M
der government direction for the
seven recognized war work agencies,
the Y. NJ. c. A, Y. w. c. A, National
Catholic War council OK. of c., Jew
ish Welfare board, War Camp COM
munity service, American Library, as
ISOLATION, and the Salvation Army.
THE amount is the largest ever
asked as gift from any people in the
history of the world said Doctor
Mott. ''Viewed as total sum it seems
gigantic, but divide by the four mil
lion men who will be under arms in
our army and navy during the period
it is expected to cover and you find
that it means less than 5 cents a day
per man. Surely there is no father or
mother, or friend of a soldier in this
great country who will say that Is
cents a. day is too much to spend on
his church, his home over there, his
library, his theater and his club.
THE president summed up the whole
appeal in recent letter in which he
spoke of the work of these seven great
agencies as "of vital military impor-
lance" He had in mind the fact their
activities are largely responsible for
the maintenance of the splendid
morale of our forces. There has never
been in history so spectacular an ex-
ample of the supreme importance of
morale as is now being presented on
the western front. The forces that
confront each each other there are
not widely dissimilar in numbers or
equipment. Yet one army is con-
stantly withdrawing and the other ir-
resistibly moving forward. The diff
ference is spelled in that single word
morale.
Napoleon said that morale is as
other factors in war as three to one.
General Pershing, in a recent letter
commenting on the work of these
agencies, quoted with approval, the
statement of one of his colonies who
said, Give me nine men who have a
hut to spend their evenings in and
will have a better fighting force than
ten men would be without it.
IF it is worth twenty-four billion
dollars to keep our boys under arms
next year, surelyfit is worth hundred
and seventy million and more to add
10 per cent to their fighting edge to
bring victory 10 per cent nearer.
This is the appeal of the seven
united war work agencies to America,
and particularly to those four million
homes where service flags fly. And
we know what Americas answer will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
BOYS ENJOY FLOWERS
X. G. Floral Company Sends Roses
to Sick.

One of the most appreciated kind
nesses in Camp Funston lately was the
sending of a large quantity of pink
and white roses to be distributed
among the sick men in the various
hospitals.
AS a result, last Sunday saw nearly
every ward in the base hospital and
the various emergency hospitals
frightened and the mems hearts glad
dened by the presence of the beautiful
flowers.
The roses, hundreds of them. were
sent in care of W. W. Spangler of Y.
NJ c. A. No. IA, by the William Rock
Floral company of Kansas City. They
were distributed by the Y. NJ. c. A.
representatives. assisted by Mr.. Gel
fand and Mr.. Tangerman.
The Rock Floral company can be
assured that their very kind act was
highly appreciated by the medical
corps, nurses. patients and welfare
workers in camp.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
BATTALIoNs OF THE SOUL.


United War Work Campaign, Nov. II, II
Oh. We at home in comfort
Who laugh and love at ease,
Remember those who perish
To guard your luXuries,
Who on the far-flung ocean
Or thru the smoke -dimmed trees
Pay with their bodies anguish
For the souls lone victories.
You have been quick to strengthen
The sinewed strands of steel,
And squat and splitting monsters
Move forward wheel by wheel;
Across the whitened waters
Cuts swift the avenging keel,
And thru the fields of heaven
The awful dews CONCEAL.
But not alone with cannon
Are Gods stern battles won,
And not with driven thunder
We smite the shameful Hun;
But with our clean young splendor
We raze the walls of Sodom
And hell's battalions stun.
What will you give to guard us
Not in red holocaust
When the torn fields are streaming
And storms of shell are tossed
But in the lonelier trenches
Where faiths of home are lost
And only a day of living
Seems worth the bitter cost
A song of annie Laurie"
In a Y. NJ. hut at night,
A stamp and sheet of paper,
A book, pipe Slight.
A reel of Charlie Chaplin,
Two boxers squared to fight,
These are the things you pay for
That keep our bodies white.
What are your fields and burrows,
Your bursting barns of grain,
The haze of yellow harvests
Across the purple plain,
If, when the war is over
And your sons come home again,
The souls last fort is taken
And faiths defenders slain?
PVT. WILLARD WATTLES,
Camp Funston, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
SOLDIERS CAN VOTE
Ballots Will Be Sent to Camp

In order that they may be of ser
vice to the election authorities of the
several states where soldiers in SER
vice are permitted to vote, it has been
requested by camp headquarters that
each organization commander in Camp
Funston ascertain the number of yot-
ers who expect to exercise their right
of franchise in the coming fall cleo
ton. This is deemed imperative so
that the election officials may know
how many ballots to forward to the
camp,