The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-02-13
Delivers Address on
Overseas Work

I con giTSn a. the Y. NJ c. A as the
oDen-ns affair OF the campaign for
funds fo- the support OF the Caron
City association. he state work and
the Estes Par;;. work. DR.. c. L. Meade.
pastor OF the Trinity Methodist Epis.
copal church of Denver, who was for
six months with the Y M. C. A, over
seas as secretary, delivered one of
the most inspiring addresses on the
work which that organization has
been doing overseas and in the home
fields that has ever been heard in
Canon City.
There were about rs men present at
the luncheon. including the members
OF the teams. Congressman G. u
Hardy was the POSTMASTER of the eve
ming The music for the occasion
was furnished by male quartet COM
posed of Messrs. Hubert, w E. Fish
er. Tremayne and E. H Fisher. For
mer Secretary Van Patten lead the
guests present in some rousing army
songs.
Toastmaster Hardy in a few we'll
chosen words of Introduction stated
the object of the occasion and ex-
planned the reason for going before the
people at this time and asking for
support of the local work. the state
work and the Estes Park summer
school He then introduced DR.. Meade
as the principal speaker of the eve
ming, who in an eloquent manner ex-
planned in a very comprehensive way
the variety of service which was per-
formed by the Y. NJ c. a in its over
seas work
For instance, the matter of handling
the canteen service. the providing of
entertainment for the soldiers. the
conducting of French and English
classes. the money exchange service.
hospital visitation and the personal
attention given TO the soldiers by the
secretaries wherever possible
DR.. Meade speEt the first six weeks
of his overseas time at Brest. meet
from the transports He was then
sent over TO Bacarrat and Toul sectors
and also the aviation camp at Colon
bey. From thcre he went TO Neuf
Chateau and Goudrecourt and other
places along the line
He dweIt Ia length on the loyalty
and fidelity OF the soldier boys to the
sacred IDEAS OF home land. He
spoke especially of a little Jew boy
from New York city whom he met and
entered into conversation with. The
boy was returning from the front with
a shattered arm and, was visited by
Dr. Meade in the hospital after his
wounds had been dressed. He showed
frf~sa A, lat ..-l.
had beer read many. many times. and
a picture of the little home in New
York with a swsef-faced mother. and
after he gazed at the picaufe Tor fully
I'VE minutes. he finally looked up and
said; Shes mighty finer
He also sros,e OF TIE vhoie-hearted
saeriHce which the boys were making.
telling Of a hne American soldier who
WIS tod by the Red Cross nurse that
the doctor he'd said he must go West.
and alter a few minutes Of silence. he
looked pp With IA smilirs face ard
said ''Nen that IS what I came
over here for.
DR. Meade mentioned re fact that
there had been some criticisms on the
work OF the Y. II. G. y ovs-seas, but
that in most Instances the matter
could he easily explained SO that any.
iair-rifnded person could see thht the
y. A. C. a. WIS Hot rcs1onaible fcS the
circumstance co-nertsd with The af-
tair EIe meutioVed the fact thar the
whole saFvice OF the association VAS
-nder military discipline. ind that the
military often has TO. Of necessity, in
terfere with The service which the Y
NJ. C. \. would otherwise have rem
dered
He rseited ore incident where
truckload OF produce was being taken
70 the front lines by y. N c. \. sec
resary and was met BY group OF Of
.heers with wounded men who imme-
diate'y took possession or the cannon
cites. as they are cHlied over there.
laying the supplies TO one side and
using the truck for the traEsp portatiol
OF the wounded men to the rear. This
Of course was rendering piece of
service. but it was hard tofeSplain to
the men AT the feont why their supply
OF tobacco and chocolate. etc. did not
arrive on time.
Let us remember" said DR.. Meade.
the tremendous piece of service
which the Y ri c. A. has performed
at home and abroad, and rally to its
support. for it is such Institutions as
the Y. II. c. A that contributed so
largely in the maintaining of the mo-
rale of the young manhood OF this
country, and our task is to see that
the morale is maintained as these men
return TO us"