Show CAN dia IMPROVE themselves educational courses tor for all enlisted men thit tha t desire to improve their time in the army arifin are being arranged by army Y al M C A secretaries wherever the men express a desire tor for it in this way the soldiers erd may fit themselves to secure bettor better positions and command higher wages when they return to private life after the war is over it also gives them a profitable way to spend their spare time WHERE YOUR HOYS BOYS ARE AKE AT camp lewis american lake wash where the drafted men ot of the now new national army are being assell assembled for training in the western department part ment the army Y al C A buildings thoroughly equipped and manned are awaiting tile the thousands that are arriving dally daily tons upon tons of 0 writing paper and envelopes are within reach books and magazines have bave been carefully laid out well lighted buildings with ample facilities tor for writing letters home tor for recreation and comfort are completed and everything 14 is tree G GOOD INI INFLUENCE FLUENCE WHATEVER the army a an navy T y 14 1 I C A can do to make a man physically si morally and aid mentally fit tor for service to his country it Is striving to do educational classes are instituted tor for those who desire to improve their leisure hours there Is religious inspiration tor for those who seek it there is healthy recreation for those who who wish it the Y M C A Is the great club ot of the enlisted man it it idomea open to them all no mat their creed it Is the bureau ea u ot of information in every camp and cantonment the aha center from which radiates itei ahtie aalthe physical and social activities tivi loid ties it Is the nearest thing to hon home letha that t afie enlisted enlisted meil men wm tad and in tie the army i r KID hafe GONE iv TO THE COLORS 4 t 11 W 1 BY wy P che ir the I 1 ron gone t 5 the colors t A e t hat to say lay the a and cuddled I 1 st stepped Step pea ti flag today we i I 1 ic ild a baby VV with iier never ear a at all but his big cou country tailed him man size and t the ie kid has haa heard the call he paused to watch the recruiting where fired by the fife and drum lie he bowed bo wed his head bead to old glory and thought that it whispered come the kid not being a slacker blacker stood orth with patriot joy to 0 o add his namo name to the roster and god wore were proud of the boy the kid has gose eose to the colors it seems but a little while since he drilled a schoolboy army in a truly martial style but now hes a man a soldier and we lend him listening ear for his heart Is a heart all loyal by the curse ot of fear ear his dad when he told him shuddered his mother god bless her cried yet blest with a mother nature she sha wept with with a mother pride but he whose old shoulders straightened was grandal tor for memory ran to years when he too a youngster was changed by the flag to a man W M herschell WHEN THE WAR WAH WILL E ND ABSOLUTE knowledge have I 1 done but my aunts sisters son heard a police policeman maik on his beat say to a laborer on the street that he had a letter lust just last week written in latin or r was it greek from a chinese coolie in timbuctoo who said the biggers in cuba knew of a colored man in a texas town who got it straight from a circus clown that a man in klondike heard the news from a gang of 0 south american jews about somebody in borneo who heard of a man who claimed to know of a swell society female rake whose mother in law will undertake to prove that her seventh husbands niece I 1 I 1 has stated in a printed piece that she has a son who has a friend who ho knows when the war far la is going toped to end western retail lumi oke ONE ofte OF the uses to which it Is proposed to devote part 0 of the p proceeds ot of liberty loan bonds is to atford afford to our our soldiers and aid sailors life and indemnity insurance and to provide pio for allowances allowanced to their de families while they them are in the ranks on this point secretary mcadoo of the treasury whose plan of insurance for our fighting men was endorsed by president wilson and la Is now embodied in a law pending before congress says every soldier and sailor who serves his country tn in this war war will earn everything the proposed war insurance bill provides to be a beneficiary of the proposed lawn law will be a badge ot of honor when we draft a wage earner wo we call not only him but the entire family to tho flag the sacrifice entailed is not divisible the wife and children the mother the father are all involved in the sacrifice they hey directly bear the burden ot of defense they suffer just as much as the soldier but in a different way and tile the nation must generously discharge as a proud privilege tile the duty of maintaining them until the soldiers and sailors return from the war and resume tile the responsibility we have drawn the sword to vindicate americas Am ricas violated rights to restore peace and justice and to secure the progress of civilization we cannot permit our soldiers while they hold the front to be stabbed in the back by uncertainty as to what Is being done tor for their loved ones at home li mo our tomorrows are in their hands theirs Is ours the national conscience will not permit american soldiers and their dependents to go with everything that a just generous and noble people can do to compensate them tor for the sufferings and sacrifices sacr luces they make to serve their country |