Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-13

IHSdlIS seating o,OOO Inen Wlln snow of some kind every night. It is al ways packed to capacity. At Paris the Y conducts half a dozen hotels where they furnish accommodations at practically half the price of the French hotels. They conduct tour. ing trips to all the points of interest gratis. In Coblenz they have an en- tertainment "Feist Hall" and two large theatres which are filled twice a day. At every point of scenic in- terest iR France and along the Rhine they furnish means for the soldier to see these places at a very small cost. At St. Nazarie the conducts a school for soldiers who have theatri- cal ambitions and they put these men in companies which travel the Y circuit and give them the neces. sary experience and the soldiers the entertainment. There is hardly a camp of over 800 men where the Y does not operate a hut of some kind and give the men reading matter and stationery, handle their mail, money remittances and a hundred other ac- cancellations which the army organiza, ton does not provide The state ment that the Y did not get to the front is utterly false, as the records at headquarters show that 49 of them were killed, S9 were seriously wounded and 23 were cited for ex. ceptional bravery, while hundreds of the Y me hand women risked their lives at the front many of whom saw personally.
 Gen. Pershing Praises ~"
 General Pershing in his report cabled to the Secretary of War on Jan. 18th, 1919, states: "The welfare of the troops touches my responsibil- ity as Commander in Chief to the mothers and fathers and kindred of the men who came to France in the impressionable period of youth. They could not have the privilege accord ed European soldiers during the period of leave of visiting their families and renewing their home ties. Fully realizing that the stand. ard of conduct that should be estab- lished for them must have perman- ent influence on their lives and on the character of their future citizen ship, the Red Cross, the Y. M. c. A, the Knights of Columbus, the Salva- tion Army and the Jewish Welfare Board, as auxiliaries in this work, were encouraged in every possible way. The fact that our soldiers, in a land of different customs and Ian guages, have borne themselves in al manner in keeping with the cause for which they fought, is due not only to the efforts in their behalf, but much more to their high ideals, their discipline and their mate sense of self respect. It should be recorded, however, that the members of these welfare societies have been untiring in their desire to be of real service to our officers and men. The patrio- tic devotion of these representative men and women has given a new significance to the Golden Rule, and we owe to them a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid"
 Investigation Report
 While at Chaumont few months ago I met Raymond B. Fosdick, chair man of the Governments Commission on Training Camp Activities of the War Department. General Pershing had asked him to investigate the vari- ous Welfare organizations and report to him the results. After an extend ed tour of the camps in France and Germany he submitted this report, which gives the best idea of the actual situation and condition in the Welfare organization that I haveI heard of. In part his report is as fol- lows:
 "Of the seven organizations that joined in the united war work cam paign for the $170,000000 fund last fall, six are working with the troops in France-the Y. M. c. A, the Y. w. c. A, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salva- ton Army, and the American Library Association. The other organization, the War Camp Community Service, is not represented, as it would be