The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-11-12
YANKS' NEED
! GREATER NOW
+. THAN IN WAR
Correspondent With Pershing's
Y Army Tells Why Fund
Is Necessary
ASSOCIATIONS MAKE GOOD
Soldier Boys Find Spiritual and
Social Comfort at Hands
of "Big Seven"
ISSOCIATIONS MAKE GOOD
BY C. G.. LYON.

N. Z. A. Staff Correspondent. ..
With Pershing's Army. Ill France -
Regardless Of peace, there, is 4
big work for the organizations
= which have been contributing TO
the welfare of American soldiers
in France. Two years will be re-
quired to bring oil Of the boys
back to America. 1t may be long
er than that, for there is much yet
ITO do in Europe. :E' T,*-
y Therefore the United War Work
campaign, for $170,50O,O 600 for the
a,swark sef thsese sorgar rlzat lions, upeulgE 4
ing today, will be pushed as vigor-
p ously as though the war were still
Z on. .. J. NJ
c. G. Lyon, staff correspondent Of
the Newspaper Enterprise associa-s
ton with the army of General
q Pershing here tells Of the activities
IN Of the relief organizations.
4 The American people are being asked
to contribute $17O,5OO,OOO to carry on
the; work of the Y. NJ. G. A., knights
of Columbus, Salvation Army, Y. w. c.:
A., Library association and other or
ganizations doing welfare work among
our soldiers.
That's a lot of money.
Is the work Of these organizations
worth the cost? -
For some time I've been studying
very acrefully their activities, in order
to be able to give the folks back home
some real enlightenment, free from ex-
cessive praise or uncalled for "knOcks. "
I was prompted to do this by a num-
Der of letters I've received from men
and women in America.
They're all doing good work, and it
is seldom that a knock is heard against
any Of them. -.
The Knights of Columbus, for ex-
ample, specializes in good fellowship
and the free distribution of cigarcts,
Cigars, chocolate, etc, among the
troops. H.. = 20,
The X. Of G. secretary general is q
big, joyial Irishman who's had a lot
Of training in ward or city politics
back home, and he has brought to
France with him a 5handshake and a
manner Of talk that makes a hit with
the doughbors. s.S s..AsS' 81 a-a..
CHANGE IN PERSONNEL.
The personnel Of the Y. NJ. G. A. IS
rapidly changing in this respect. The
fellows they're sending over now, for
the most part, are real HE men, and
the ranks have been pretty well clear
ed of an element of cold, clammy fish,
es who hurried over in the first days
Of the war, intent, solely on saving the
souls Of the doughbOrs. This type of
worker wouldn't trust a doughboy for
a nickel's worth Of chewing gum the
day before pay day, and he was always
being shocked speechless by the aver
age doughboy's fluency in profanity.
Y. NJ. G. A. leaders discerned early
in the game that the army doesn't want
it's soul saved, but, instead, it wants
plenty Of smokes and chocolate, and
movie shows, and vaudeville acts and
writing paper.
So, instead of securing America for
men who are full of inward piety, they
have been putting into the service now
fellows with enough piety to get by,
but who aren't ,agraid to give away
a truck load of candy or smokes once
in while.
In a word, from being, at first, q
rather cold, unrespOnsive organization,
the Y. M. G. A. present personnel is
making it cordial, real flesh and blood.
DOUGHNUTS FROM LASSIES.
The Salvation Arrny's speciality is
doughnuts. My, what doughnuts those
good women do make! That is. when
they can get supplies. But in oil France
there are only about two score Saliva
tion huts, as against the 1900 huts of
the Y. M. G. A. with the American ar
my, so the sum total Of JOY that the
Salvation Army dOughnut makers can
give an army of two million men is a
drop in the bocket. With the various
divisions constantly on the move, a sol
dier has been lucky IL he came across
Salvation hut once in two weeks.
I The Y. w. G. A. confines its work
to the thousands of American wom-
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