Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-08-30

/ 3zO,OOO pounds of chocolate that the
American troops are eating every
month in France. Or through his
hands go some of the cigarettes and
tobacco that are shipped to the west
ern front in hundred-ton lots.
When he is not too close to the front
he runs motion picture shows and lee
lures In the evenings. If his billet is
small one and there is no sports lead
er assigned there, he leads the men in
athletic games in which all may take
part And under the same circum-
stances il may be his job to arrange
religious services for Jew and Gentle,
for Catholic and Protestant. He sends
money back home for the boys without
charge to them. In the "Y" dugout
they write their letters, and the hut
leader starts them on their way. He
listens to tales of woe, answers ques-
tons by the hour, admires the picture
of the baby that was born since father
answered the call to the colors, and
works about three hours a day longer
than the working hours of the man In
uniform
If he be assigned to the trenches
near the front line, it is the "Y" mans
Job to make hot coffee and hot choco-
late, late at night, fill his pockets with |
chocolate, gum and smokes and go |
through the communication trench to |
the front line so that the boys on watch |
may have their comforts from home. |
And If there be listening post near
by in No Mans Land, he goes there,
too. The "Y" goes everywhere with
the men except over the top and is not
Jar behind then.
The Kind of Men Not Needed.
What kind of man is the Y. NJ. c. A.
seeking, them in this drive to keep pace
with the rapid expansion of the mill
airy establishment of the nation?
Surely not the kind of which sam
de appeared Mt the Offices of the Ma
ional War Work Council, 347 Madison
venue, the other day. Il
1.-The Lord has closed all doors to
me-" he began, 'all except one, and
hat one opens to France. The Lord
as made it clear TO me that it Is my
AAJ " 50 ONtA tHCAC anu CuCl ~
hose boys"
II happened that the listener was
ames A. Whitmore, who has been a
I. Nj. c. A. secretary for years and !
no recently returned from the west I
IN front with broad views inspired 1
Y watching pastors of big city pulpits {
ELL plug tobacco to soldiers on Sunday +
fternoon and the like. Mr.. Whitmore f
as explicit In his reply p
"Your kind is the last that's needed e
said Mr.. Whitmore. "When
on go to France for the Y. NJ. C. A. b
on go on a blind assignment, to do n
hatever is most important at the f
me and always to do what the boys n
uniform want" h
Mr. Whitmore went into details re- n
riding the Y. M. O. A. program OF b
'rvice. and as he proceeded the visl-
r palpably weakened. He thought h
mt he would be willing to go to n
rance with revised point of view h
fact. he said that he would be will m
g to do anything that he thought the o
ord wanted him TO do. lie
WELL replied Mr.. Whitmore, lin
at case you'd still be bit restricted Il
ne Lord gives his message to only ly
e Y. Nj. C. A. man In France-hes IL
ad Carter, our chief secretary-and al
u'd have to take Ned Carriers word is
r II that you were getting the Lords bi
essage straight" m
Type of Man That is Needed. OF
And as the messenger whose message la
yer will be delivered went on his 10
" Mr.. Whitmore shot after him his sc
ton of the kind of man who Is need
in France today by the Red Tri- tn
gle He said: ST
FIRST Of ALL the man who is sent TO
France by the Y M. C. A. must I'M Al
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