The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-22
Uncle Sam Takes Good Care OF Soldiers
In Army Camps, Rev. King Tells Lions
Former Bluffton Mayor, Tells
Of Army Chaplain's
Activities
Worked with Bluffton Boys,
Formerly His Students, at
Camp Shelby

Uncle Sam is taking good care of
| the soldier boys entrusted to him, it
was stated by the Rev. ]. Norman
King, of the military home at Day
ton, at a meeting of the Lions club
at the Walnut Grill Tuesday night.
| Members of the Pandora Business
| Mems association were guests of the
Bluffton club. Rev. King who ad-
dressed the meeting was formerly
mayor of Bluffton, professor at
Bluffton college and Witmarsum
seminary, minister of the Presbyter-
| ian church, and teacher in the public
| schools.
CHAPLAIN 20 YEARS
He served as chaplain in the
United States army for 20 years
and after active duty as chaplain for
one year at Camp Shelby he was re-
leased from active service. He is
now chaplain at the military home
in Dayton.
The chaplain serves as spiritual
adviser to the boys in camp con-
ducting religious services on Sundays.
During the week he serves as the
go-between officer for the boys and
the commissioned officers. Many
other social and advisory activities
are taken over by the chaplains of
the camp.
In order to be able to endure the
strenuous activities of army life the
boys are worked hard in the camps.
This together with the good food
builds the young men up into tip top
physical condition.
MORAL PROBLEM
The army always presents moral
problem. You can not take $4,000
men and place them in entirely new
circumstances away from their homes
without certain moral and social
problems developing, the speaker
pointed out.
| 1iIllliOl dl WOliCll IldFC DSCA uIlNCI
away from the camps and if they
: are congregated in nearby towns the
town is placed on stay-off limit
, until the matter is cleared up. The
government is doing it's best to meet
2 this problem, Rev. King stated.
Attention is given in the camps
now to the spare time of the soldiers
and the United Service Organization.
are doing a wonderful piece of worl
in meeting this problem. The host
esses look after the leisure interests
of the young men in a most com
mendable manner, the speaker said
MEET BLUFFToN BOYS
: At Camp Shelby Rev. King ant
I another chaplain met the soldiers a
|. they came to the camp on the train
e In one of his opening addresses t,
about 500 men assembled he notice,
a group of boys standing on one sid
of the room and he saw they wer
all former Bluffton High school stu
dents of his when he was a teache
n here. After the address he counte
: ten boys from Bluffton who were i
t his classes here.
: Church services are held regularl
for Protestant, Catholic and JEWS
d boys. The government has recentl
/ printed 1,250,000 New Testaments fo
e distribution to the soldiers.
s The struggle today is for the Wit;
e. principles on which our country wa
founded and as yet we have not wo
that war, the speaker said. Thel
is a need today for firmer belief
the spiritual values of life and God
ct help is needed to carry us throup
c. to victory, the speaker said in col
n clusion.
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