Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-02

Back from eighteen months work as director of Y. M. c. A. activities in the Service of Supply branch of the United States army in France, Rev. J. E. Fry, one of the Warren districts best kEown pastors, will occupy his pulpit in the Bisbee Pres byterian church this morning for the first time in more than two years.
 Rev. Fry was one of the first to heed the call to the service of his country when the United States en- tered the world conflict in the spring of 1917 He volunteered for Y. NJ. c. A. service, was accepted, and left his pulpit in Bisbee for the broader field of army welfare work. From Bisbee he went first to Camp Cody, the huge training camp at Deming, New Mexico, where he spent month in ~" work From there he went to Fort Bliss. near Fl Paso, Texas, where he spent six months in the service. His opportunity for service overseas then came, and he arrived in France in March, 1918, when the Germans were at the height of their
 
 In the year and half of continu- ous work with the army in France, Rev. Fry was at many important allied bases over a wide stretch or territory: ne was in Paris at the time the mysterous Big Bertha first began smelling the French me tropolis: he was in Paris at the time
 Nnr there when Germany signed the peace treaty The feature, in all ms work, which impressed him most declares Rev. Fry, was the qulet' self-sacrificinas heroism and devotion to duty which characterized the men in the service of supply.
 These boys were all wild with impatience to get to the front salu Rev. Fry. Their devotion to duty under the circumstances was herolc' They had a great and vital task 10 nerform behind the lines task as necessary as that of the men in the trenches but task without the gIamor and dramatic stimulus or actual battle. They suppressed thelr impatience and stuck to their drao and arduou swork in true soldier fashion of sacrificing personal lnch- nation to the exigencies ot duty' Here and there the bonds ot re- straint were burst and some men ..deserted" to the front to get hand in the actual fighting. Ihese would come back and report later, and we could not blame them much.
 In the service of supply the |. M' C A. filled a doubly valuable mlssloLi in furnishing amusement to the hleH as a counteractant to their lmpa- tience to get into action.
 Arriving in France in the darkest hour of the war for the allles, When the kaiser's hordes were thrusIihg simultaneously at Paris, .Amlens anu in Flanders. Rev. Fry was sent hrsl to Romorantin, one of the ereaC s air service centers, where Ile Tjhertv planes were assembled. Here he had charge of two Y huts' lie saw the first Liberty plane assem- bled.
 From Romorantin Rev Fry wen' to Cievres. the huge U. $. ordnance
  denot Here he had charge ot the religious work of an entire dlvlslo1 oopnrising 20 huts. It was d' Cievres that the Red Cross the M C. A. and other welfare orgaiiiZa tione had their own warehouses ol
 Mext Rev. Fry went to Bourges ,,,horo be became divisional dlrec tor Inf Y. M. c. A. work. Here was tbe central records headquarters o tbe entire United States army III cluding the central poslollice "li, pos,al express, and offices Tn "l'loi were kept a card index record O every man in the American EXpedi tionary Forces.
 Rev. Fry's last and most extensive work was at Vierzon, which Wa headquarters for the entire Third Region of the Y. M. C. A. army or ganization. in his duties here, Rev Fry was personally in charge of 5O Y. M. C. A. secretaries, and looked after the placing of the Y worker at various stations
 The territory which Rev. Fry GOV cred in his work extended iron Anglers to Lyons and from Orlean to Claremont Ferrand. He travele extensively over the entire division spending considerable time at IssoU dun. where American army aviator were taught to fly.
 Rev. Fry was in Paris when tn German longrange gun began shel ing the city during the German driv of March. 1918. "The people wer at first curious Co know from whenc the shells came, but their attitud was devoid of fear" said Rev. Fr, After they solved the mystery the took but little interest, in spite ( the fac. that 9 shell tell every twenl minutes. The airplane raids wei