Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-20
Iv CIRCUIT RIDERS WILL GARRY EASTER
 MESSAGE TO SAMMIES WHO ARE OVER THERE
,omnent Speakers And Churchmen Will Deliver Addresses And Garry Messages From Home
 To The Men In Every Section Of Europe.

army. Some saw one or another of them killed or wounded, while work Ing at the front. And there will be tributes paid in many "Y" hut be- tween Bordeaux and Coblenz. Have Other Duties.
 Not alone for the Easter observ- ance are the American clergymen in France. Each is over here for six months or more, and as many are coming. They constitute, so to speak, the Y. M. c. A. reserves, sent at the request of the director of the refi- glous work department for France, President Henry Churchill King of Oberlln college. They are a special mission to interpret to the doughboys the assure of the ideals that brought them to Frame and make plain that those ideals must be carried back into civilian life.
 The Easter services in the "Y' huts will inaugurate a new phase of the religious work of the Y. M. c. A. with the American army, and Dr. upon two major foundations, the Klnv has clearly based that phase Welding by the Y. M. c. A. of still stronger influence or "pull' to offset the pull in other direction that is felt on every side by the fighting man who is no longer fighting, and to bring to the doughboy a vital and virile religion, religion that includes patriotism and world vision, and that applies equally to the life in camp and billet and to the civilian life which will soon succeed it.
 To achieve this work the Y. M. c. A., with it's 400 religious field work CTS, and the new force of the 75 itiner- ant speakers, is in close alliance with the 1,S00 chaplains of the A. E. F.
 Receive Literature.
 To keep these men fresh and equip ped for their work, the Y. M. c. A. has undertaken, through it's religious work department here, to supply ev- cry chaplain and every religious field worker with a five-foot shelf of re- ligious literature. The library, pur- chased in New York, Boston and Lon don at cost of $5,O00, is being sent out by mail to the field as rapidly as shipments are received.
 Meanwhile, in preparation for the work of the special speaking mission, department of religious music is being organized. Musicians with portable organs will accompany the speakers all over France and into Germany. The Y. M. c. A. service song book is already an institution in the A. E. F. Under the familiar Red Triangle have been gathered all the nc f11ot rIe music, and the old hymns that are like a glimpse of home.
 But the preparation for his cam paign has been thorough. Two and one-half millioon pieces of literature not tracts, but straight-away, in- structive talks to men-have been or dered at the Rue Boissey d'Anglais, from Switzerland, from England and from America, since France cannot supply enough paper and cardboard for the work. The supply is stream ing into the Y. M. c. A. warehouse and streaming out again.
 Reading Popular.
 It is set out on tables in the "Y" huts, for the doughboys to take or leave as they see fit. But the dough- boys like it. The Rue Boissy d'Ang- lais has ceased being surprised when a field secretary wires in from any part of France to say that his truck is on the way to Paris for more lit erature, and to ask that the stuff be ready at the warehouse. It happened even more frequently within the last few months-When transportation was perhaps the hardest thing to get in France.
 There are two organizations among the soldiers over here for which the "Y" is directly responsible-the "Com rades in Service" and the "Honey Bee clubs." The Comrades in Ser- vice grow up quite as unostentatious- ly with little groups of men usually centered about a popular sergeant. The idea was conceived by o. D. Eos ter, tried out in the United States and brought over here, where it has spread with unexpected rapidlty. Hundreds of thousands of dough- boys are already registered at the Paris headquarters of the "Y" and new registration are pouring in.
 Form Social Units.
 The Comrades" is not primarily a religious organization. It is rather ethical and social. In every unit, groups of Comrades" are leaders in athletic, educational and religious activities. But meanwhile, through the Rue d'Anflais, each member IS being brought into connection with his home church. The registration cards give information concerning hls home church connections. That in- formation opens the way for the "Y' to notify the home church that he's going back willing to affiliate himself with the home church work.
 So with the Honey Bee clubs" or ganized by John A. Metcalf among the negro troops. Clean mindedness and clean living are standards Tn the "Honey Bee clubs" and approximate ly 5O,0OO members are living up to them.
 Every factor in the Y. M. c. A.