The Coconino sun., 1918-11-08
"" SERVICE IS
 FOLLOWING FLAG

Arizona does not have to go far afield to find out what the Y. M. c. A. is doing for the boys in the service. Letters come constantly with allus- ions to the work which is being done at home and abroad. Here for exam pie is what Howard J. Smith, of King man, Arizona, writes t6 his mother from France:
 Tt it were not for the Y. NJ. C. A. here l don't know what the American troops would do. No tobacco would be obtainable until it was brought in by this organization, and in many other instances it has been bless ing to us."
 Privte Donald c. Blair of company k. Eleventh Engineers Railway, A. E. F., France, writes his mother:
 "As 1 said before the Y. M. c. A. quarters here are very large and nothing is lacking to help the men feel at home. They sell hot and cold drinks and sandwiches all day at a minimum price; also candy and to- bacco. They always have reels of good film in the evening and some times dancing and games. There are several billiard tables and a large reading room, and in the after noon there is generally concert"
 Private Blair is from Tucson. Waldo White of Yuma, who is with the 15Sth Infantry in France, writing to his father, c. M. White, at Yuma, says:
 The Y. NJ. c. A. man caught up with us yesterday (the regiment was evidently advancing at the front) and says that as soon as the front line is supplied that he can get a truck of tobacco for us. The supply department was very prompt in get ting grub to us and good American food was certainly welcome after eat ing English chow for so long. Tobac- co and matches cannot be had in the village and when we ask for candy the people throw up their hands,"
 Russell Meadows of Douglas, writ ing to his brother, pr. Feland Mead ows, also of Douglas, had this to say:
 "At noon l went to the Y. M. c. A. for dinner For four and half francs , I was served with fried eggs, beans, potatoes, cocoa, lemon custard and ice cream" (Think of this at that price in France where there are few eggs, ice is almost unobtainable and all food costly). Continuing Corporal Meadows writes:
 "The stores all close from IF to 2 p. m, so after dinner l went up stairs and out on the porch where they serve ice cream and spent a while <bara It ;c ,,calacS to cau fhaf | an joyed the ice cream for it was the first l had eaten since leaving New York"
 Sergeant Moffatt Dean, formerly of Tucson but now with headquarters de- tachment, 164th F. A. brigade, A. F.. F. in France, writes has Dearest Mother" at Tucson:
 "Last Sunday I went down to BOr- deaux on tour, or rather, an edu- cational sightseeing trip and l sure had dandy -. The " there has institutde a tour and one of the members takes you around and ex- plains all these things to you"
 This is a side light on another "Y'' activity to help make our boys in France happy and contented. Bert J. Coffey of Kingman, writing his sister and mother, tells of Y M. c. A. hut for French and Ameri- can soldiers. saying:
 q am writing this in a French and American Y. M. c. A. and there is q French Sergeant who can sure play on the piano. He happens to be playing Dixie at this minute and what mean, it sure sounds good to me Most of the boys are singing and who can't are whistling."