Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-01
HELPING THE HOME
TO FOLLOW THE FLAG
How We Are Backing Up The
Boys United War
Work
is SEEN AT A GLANCE

American home has had 70 stop AT
the soldiers own front gate All that
made life comfortable and happy for
him deserted him there when he kiss
ed his family goodbye.
In this war the home follows the
I flag clear up 20 the front line trenches.
That. in one word. is the story of
these seven cooperating war work
agencies.
Let us follow one single soldier on
/ the long road that leads from his from
door TO far-away France, and see how
these seven organizations join hands
TO form a great chain of helpfulness
all the way.
He steps aboard a troop train that
is to carry him to the cantonment. A
/ long, lonesome ride, full of homesick
thoughts, but. perhaps, there is a
band furnished by the Jewish Welfare
League or the War Camp Community
Service to speed him on his way, and
on the train are friends whom he had
not expected Y. NJ. c. A. or X. of
1 c. secretary-a big friendly fellow,
who has travelled for months with
her boys just like him, and knows
how TO help.
AT the cantonment the evidence
that the folks back home are thinking
of him lies thick on every side. Here
are the $50 great honey huts of the
X. of c., the Jewish Welfare Board,
the Salvation Army and the Y--as the
soldiers speak of it. Places where he
can write letters home, play games
at night, witness motion picture shows,
hear helpful lectures, attend church
( service, and keep up with his studies
under the direction of the best col
| lege professors and teachers in the
country. Here also are the SIS Hostess
Houses of the Y. w. G. A., where moth
er, sister and sweetheart may make
their headquarters when they visit.
In all these buildings are branch Ii
braries provided by the American Lii
brary Association, and filled wi.
books and magazines. In AZ of the
large camps and several hundred
smaller ones are library buildings
.
comfortable reading-rooms.
| A hundred and seventy million dol
/ lars is a lot of money; but it means
| less than a dollar a week for each of
the boys of our Army and Navy. And
Ger .ainly no man in America will say
that dollar a week is too much for
their cheer and entertainment-at
least not if one of the boys is his boy.
The field army of these seven great
agencies comprises more than fifteen
thousand uniformed workers on both
sides of the water, and General Perish
ing is asking that additional workers
be sent at the rate of at least thou
sand a month.
They represent every type of activ-
| ity-secretaries athletic directors, Ii
brarians, preachers, lecturers, enter
tanners, motion picture operators,
truck drivers, hotel and restaurant
workers, etc. Many are bearing all
their own expenses; those who cannot
are paid their actual living expenses,
if single, and are given an allowance
approximately equal to the pay of a
second lieutenant to cover their own
and their families expenses, if they
have families.
The long arm of these great agen-
cies extends all the way from the
500. clubs operated by the War Camp
Community Service on this side, to
the front line trenches where the Y
NJ c. A. and knights of Columbus and
Jewish Welfare Board distribute choc.
olate and cigarettes to the tired fight
ers; the American Library Associa
ton furnishes books; and the Saliva
ton Army passes out pies and dough
nuts, sews an dmends for our fighters
and mans ambulances. 1t reaches int
the factories through the Y. w. G. A
to protect the girls who are making
munitions for the fighters, and int
the shipyards and munition plants.
In short, wherever you find a sol
der or sailor, you find also the evi
dence of the loving care of the folk
back home, expressed through TIL
medium of one of these seven affili
ated and cooperating organizations.
They go with the boy every stel
of the way"