Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18
stin homesick for the religious
About Jewish BOYS.

lives.
About Jewish Boys.
< Yet the Jewish boy cannot be at
home in the religious atmosphere
I OF either place. He is not & Chris
{ tan; he is a Jew; and he is par
! iculariy sensitive in his own re-
/ Iiglous need-for the prayer he has
/ heard all his life. for the feeling
/ that his faith is recognized in it's
/ true dignity and ancient Eower.
The Jewish welfare board has
been encouraged therefore to set
up tents and provide leaders for
the Jewish services in all the lar
I ger stations. The intelligence Of
ticer in such a camp called my at
tention to group Of boys spread
/ ing away from the tent of the wei
fare board
We Americans do not all rea-
lie the significance of that he
said. They are Jewish boys who
have been attending their own ser
vices while the Gentle soldiers
have been kept at work. II any
one had told US in 1895 that the
army Of the United States would
some day recognize the Jewish
holidays-well, you and l would
have laughed. But we do recog
nize them in this war. The Jew
ish soldier gains something
through it, Of course. But the army
IS gaining more than the boy
Came Unexpected.
THE Salvation army entered the
service and made a place for it
self before many Observers knew
what was happening. 1t aims to
reach the particular boy who does
not respond 10 the appeal of the
chaplains of the administrations of
the Y. NJ. c. A. the Knights OF
Columbus and the Jewisl: w1lfare
board.
1t has a method of its own-tha
dOughnut method; and it works. /
Many a lad that would be abashed
TO talk OF his soul to the more con
VcntiOnal religious workers will /
talk of it to sisters OF the Saliva ,
ton army, and there is not a boy
in the whole service, as far as /
history records, who will not talk
to the Salvation army doughnuts .
and coffee.
One field beyond the service OF /
all these agencies remained to be /
filled. 1t was that of the bows .
leave of absence from camp. For
the work the government turned to .
the American Recreation associa-
ton and asked it to organize what
has come to be called the war
camp community service.
In the old days, places cordially
omen m nnlTSTnH Of
absence were the cheaper restau-
rants, the street corners, the pool
rooms, the gambling houses, the
theatres, and the red
light establishments. This was the /
period Of the boys greatest tempta-
ton. To eliminate that tempta-
ton the government had to foster
N the boy n new pride in the uni
form. and develop in the town a
welcome for that boy to its best
places not its worst places.
Throughout World.
"All of which great program is
low being fulfilled. It is being
fulfilled wherever the American
10Y is carrying the American flag
in every American cantonment.
navy barracks, the marine station.
n France, Belgium. Italy. England
Russia. Siberia and around the
world
This costs money. A great deal
If money. Such a sum as has new
'r been raised in the history Of
he world for character-buiIding
purposes. In one year we of the
tulted States shall spend on these
even agencies at least the stuDen-
Ous total of $17O.500 600. Follow
ny the most enormous subscrip-
ion to a war loan ever made bv
ny people, we are now undertake
ng to raise this money.
Is it worth doing? Can it be
one?
New Standard.
The result is now known to the t
World. Our troops are physically
quai TO any on earth and mentally :
efhaps more than equal. They \
re charged with moral enthusi- ,
SIN. They have set a new stand
-orId. /
rs there not in this very cam 7
align sign that the Kingdom NAV =
e nearer TO US than we have t
AIRED to hope2 For here. first in
ie stories of nations, the interpre- :
'uons of~God have come togethe- +
dis name and for His cause X
lie building Of character. The $
ost formal of our religious have
Ined hands with the Salvation
rmy, the Roman Catholic with
-e Protestant, the secular state
lth the religious state. that they
no bear Gods banner in the narn1
America shall have hands cleR /
carry it,"
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