The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-03-15
RETURNED YANK
MISSES CLUB AND
HIS GYMNASIUM
Nothing to. Do, Nowhere to Go,
Is Complaint Of Home
~ coming Boys
NEED THAT MUST BE NET
Renewed Agitation for Facilities
Catering to Young Men
Is Begun

Bismarck's need for an athletic
club, public gymnasium or some,
thing of this nature never has been
so evident as it Is now, with the
streets filled with returned soldiers,
with no place to 60, nothing to do
Gosh, I'd like to get into a gymn
for a good work out this morning and
then plunge In the pool and show
er-bath and rundown" remarked
one Yank today. aThis town sure
hasn't much to offer q young fellow.
Why, we can't even buy a cigarette in
this burg after today"
l.& They Want Smokes.
Lucy Page CASTOR and Elizabeth
Preston Anderson and other reform
ers doubtless would be Mortified to
learn that one of the things the boys
miss most are their punk sticks or
pills. Those who roll their own may
be able to supply their wants, but the
edict has gone forth that after today
no cigarettes may be sold except sub
ject to heavy penalties. e,
Every Yank in the American exped-
itionary forces smokes. A majority
il them smoke cigarettes. In Europe
no disgrace attaches to the smoking
of one of these little rolls. Chaplains
and Y. NJ. c. A. religious workers and
Red Cross aides smoked 'em ana al
ways had a package about their per-
son for dough-boy who CHANGED to
be out. About the first thing a
wounded. man asked. for was cigar
cite, and it was. sometimes, the last
thing that boy asked for before he
went out. .,,--s.
Pool Rooms Only Clubs.
"What in thunder do they expect a
fellow to do, anyhow" asked dis
gruntled doughboy. Course we can
beat it to a pool room and shoot a
few games, but that costs money, ami
anyway. fellow doesn't want to
knock 'em around all day long.
81 tell you, there's going to be a
change when the boys all get back.
There's more going to be done for
young fellows than has been done in
the past We're going to see to it
cent time without running down to
the cities for it.. We've fought for
this country and we fe glad we did,
but now we're going to have some
thing to say about running it. and
we're going to make it mans coun-
try. II the mollycoddles don't like it,
they can move on" I-.. -
May start Something.
The time seems ripe for renewal
Of the agitation which has been more
or less continuous for years for an
athletic club Such, an institution
probably would cost $4,000, but it is
believed that sufficient number of
shares could be sold to warrant begin
ming work on building tlis spring.
There seems to be no question as to
where the returned soldiers would
stand on such proposition. The
army has developed in them club
spirit and desire for keeping fit.
They demand in civil life some of the
privileges which were theirs as SOL
diers, and it seems altogether prob
able that if Bismarck is to keep its
young men at home and cOntented 1t
must rise to the occasion.
Political Factor.
Politically the returned soldier will
be- the biggest factor in North Dakota
in 1920. There will be some 10000 of
him, and each soldier boy will have a
great deal to say about how his father
and his brother and his mother and
his sisters and his sweetheart vote.