Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-13
RESOLUTION OF THE WEI FARE 0RGAN|zA AT|ON OF THE AEF

ciety would demand but on that day
 I also noted even the highest officers
 in the American army were doing even worse stunts than she was, so that out of some 25OO Y girls it is not a great catastrophy if there should be one black sheep among them.
 One Y girl, one Salvation Army girl or one Red Cross girl had more influence in building up the run down morale of the men returning from the front line than fifty men secre- taries of any of the Welfare organiza- tions.
 I have never heard of an Ameri- can soldier speaking of the American girls there with any other terms than those of the greatest respect and ad- miration and who would not defend the character of the American girls regardless of the occasion.
 After being isolated for some five or six months in lot of little French villages where an American girl was never seen and then to accidentally meet real American girl was one of the greatest God sends the soldier had. I remember one time after we had been in France for over four months some one discovered that there were two American Red Cross girls in a city about 20 miles from where We were billeted. During these four months we had never even heard of one, much less seen one, so that evening there were some fifty applications for passes to this city. All the men in the company wanted to see what an American girl looked like. Unless a person has been in a foreign country away from his kind for a while he cannot realize how quickly perspective changes and how home ties are forgotten and their in fluence banished from the mind and especially under the conditions we were living in. have seen hundreds of soldiers go into one of the huts and just sit around looking at the girls there, with no intention. of speaking to them, but perfectly satis- fled to see what they looked like again.
 Girls Like Officers
 The only objection to the Y girls and Red Cross girls ever heard of was the fact that they almost in, variably, when off duty, associated with the officers which caused a feeling among the men that they considered the enlisted man below their social scale. Of course this is not legitimate complaint as the girls had a perfect right to associate with whenever they pleased when off duty. One of the men in Coblenz spoke to me about it one evening and we walked around the streets that evening and took in all the prominent cafes for the purpose of seeing if this condition was a fact with the result of finding 26 girls and 12 Red Cross girls and 100 per cent officers.
 This reminds me of the usual form in which the soldier usually started to tell story. He began something like this: "When the American sol dier has returned to the United States, the Y secretaries have left Paris and the officers have said good bye to the Y girls" etc. The aver age American soldier is no boob and he usually forms a pretty correct estimate of the situation which is hard to disprove.
 The Knights of Columbus did an excellent piece of work in the A. E. F., with their policy of giving away whatever they had. Their organizsr ton operated in fewer number of places than other societies but when ever they did do anything it was we'll done. Cigarettes and tobacco were always on the counters for those who cared to help themselves and any legitimate request for. athletic sup plies was always granted in a way that gave the impression to the men that these supplies were for the sol iiers and the men always appreciated anything in the way of out door sports.
 "Y" Money We'll Spent
 Now the question naturally comes up as to whether or not the money donated by the people of the States was wasted. From my experience will say that as a whole the money was we'll spent Naturally these or were not 100 per cent ef' ficient. But can anyone mention a war industry of any kind that was 100 per cent efficient The Ameri- can army was far from being 100 per cent efficient, the people at home were not 100 per cent efficient in their work The very nature of war made it impossible.
 The truth about the Y work lies between the Y enthusiast who claims that everything they did was fine, and the disgruntled soldier who says the Y did nothing for him. Both sides are far from the truth. Good Work By "Y"