The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-07-03
s. D. LYNCH TELLS
OF HIS "Y' WORK
Former Kennewick Merchant
Has Finished his Work with
1sY" at Camp Lewis

S. D. Lynch, formerly of this city,
has finished his work with the Y.
M. C. A. and by way of reporting to
his 1aany Kennewick friends. he has
written to the Courier Reporter as
follows:
Having finished my work in the
Y. M. C. A., and feeling myself some
what of representative of -Kenne-
wick, will ask you to give me little
space in your paper, as this will per-
haps be the only way I will have Of
thanking you and the people of Ken
newick for your support.
avery briefly, viii say the Y at
Camp Lewis maintained eight regular
huts besides two large play houses,
the latter with seating capacity of
$500. Also constantly going into the
barracks with lectures, musical en-
tertainments, ETC., also furnishing I
men for troop train work thruout the
period of the war, these men making
total of over $4,000 miles.
aThere were furnished free to the
boys, 1,785, 900 envelopes, with paper
to 90 with them. Over 18, 900 enter
ttainments, such as movies, concerts,
ETC.; 10000 lectures, many Of them
Iby the best known men in the world,
over 10000 religious services; with
something over 10000 conversions,
Land 25 600 war rolls signed. Glasses
in all the branches Of school, from
4 the fundamentals to the most adj
vanced sciences, were carried ron dur
ing the entire period, and it was made
possible for any boy to take any line
/ of learning, being graded and receiv-
4 ing credits that were recognized In
any college or high school in the
Land These are just q very few OF
the many, many ways in which the 7.
I'm. c. A. served the boys at Camp
lewis which was duplicated in every
camp M the United States. And you
know the kind Of soldiers the boys
made wherever they were And now
Just 4 few words to your readers as
| to the part you have had in the great
struggle. 49,
esYou who have kept the home fires
/ burning will never Know what it has
| meant to the boys over there. You
who have stayed at home little realize
\ how much the world owes ycu. Not
only for the gifts and sacrifices such
as this old world has never known
| before; not only for the millions Of
Esweaters and socks you women of the
Red Cross have SO faithfully made as
offerings Of love to those who SO gal,
|llantly went forth to fight for freedom
and right-it was the fact that YOU
|lwere there at home backing up every
1 effort of cheese boys, so that when they
were in the home camps or on foreign
4 fields OF wherever they trained and
II fought and bled, their thoughts were
II that the folks back in the old home
Htown were with them, and this made
them into fighting machine that ne
army Of any size or training coul{
stand before, as they sometimes went
lagainst odds that were simply appal
Hing, such as the breaking of the Hin
|Idenburg line, whore one division
| charged what was c1lled the Gibraltel
Eof that most formidable fortification
/ going against II crack German divis
| lions, facing over 1900 cannon, larg'
/ land small, with their bank on bank o
/ machine guns, and yet these gallan
i lAmerican boys from the hills o
IINorth and South Carolina walked thr1
j not only breaking the line, but break
ling the spirit Of Germany. And s.
Il / want, in the name of the boys, t
thank you and the people of Kenne
/ wick for doing your part SO nobl,
|Ifthat they across the water caugh
|Fti1fyour spirit and did the big job jus
I'D they, knew you would have then
do it. s.sG H3s
Il 1Yours very respectfully, ~
II IL; 1S. d. LYNCH."