The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-10
NEW YORK CARES FOR RETURNED MEN
Entertainment and Housing Provided Free Or At Cost, Every Effort Made to Show Appreciation
 of Service Abroad.
New York, Jan b. Some show!' alN.-, I2,.Sn arI-r1- fn,. 1,,I-. nit,

New York, Jan. 1O.---'Some show!"
 Yep, Broadway for mine!"
 Veterans of the ''big show over somewhat blase first nighters of the atrical performances given without hearing of the crash of battle, a fish erman from Maine and Q Kansas far mer, respectively sergeant and cor poral in the United States Army, were i talking 1t over" as a midnight train bore them frcm an evenings amuge- ment in New York to a nearby de- barkation camp.
 With several score of their com rades. gucets of the War Camp Com raunIty Service, which had provided orchestra tickets for star attraction of the metropolitan dramatic season, they had enjoyed one of the nuner- ous features of the welcome to home coming troops conducted by this or ganiZation. Backed by a fund of s91o, ,G0o appropriated for It's work in the immediate future in this vicinity, the War Camp has arranged an at tracttve program of entertainment covering the months of detbarka lion and intended, while giving evidence of the country's appreciation of it's soldiers sacrifices. to combat the most insidious enemy of army morale {, loneliness.
 | During year or more of constant change of scene---frOrn cantOnnent to transport, to training camp abroad, tc the hardening trenches, to battle. to rest billets and back into the fight again---the American soldier, the War Camp directors say, has developed in an extreme degree the Where do we go from here?" habit. Returned to home soil 1n the process of demob- ] ilizaztion, 1t is inevitable, they de- clare, that he win chafe over deten- ] ton at a debarkation camp. To meet this situation the organization pro- vides theatre parties, automobile rides meals and sleeping accommodations for men on leave in New York, while for the bed-rfdden wounded in the de- barkation hospitals almost daily en. tertainments are given by players from the leading Broadway produc. tions, appearing on professionally 1 equipped stages in the wards
 The New E1rk War Camp makes itself felt as a cheer up" agency fol honeward bound troops as soon as their transports enter the harbor. It: activities continue until the returning
 units start for the demoh1lizatior cantonments, when other branches O. the country organization, whicf is to receive approximately s20, 900, ,Ool
 of the United War Work Fund, taks
 up the task which leads eventually tc the soldiers hearthsides.
 Some of the earlier conttngents greeted as they came up the bay bJ the Citizens Committee aboard a DO
 lice boat and by choruses of siren:
 and whistles, were skeptical regard ing the material side of their vel
 come.
 They give US an official 'how-dye
 do'---but what does that get us?'
 was the comment of 8 "doughboy,
 and his comrades nodded assent.
 Their first moment ashore was on.
 of enlightenment. The pier was pla Iearded with announcements of tht
 "Communitys'' weekly vaudeville
 show, to which Your uniform is you pass" and at the eantonment the mer
 found War Camp workers waiting fo
 them, circulating information con
 eerning the organizations numerous
 stations in New, York and arranging with their officers for various type of free entertainment. As result the soldiers typical Let's go' fount ready outlet,
 T To Keep 'eH smiling" the Wa
 Camp distributes every week amons returned troops. along with othar sol