Show 5 o V I 1 r I p I Ire I 1 I l 1 a 1 Il Ir r I S Si r r r f I J I r r The Thc activities of o the Y V. M. M Wha the the- the C. C A. A in ur the he training camps 2 I I throughout America and althe at al M ell if I Green Q T 1 I the front have hate been among r the outstanding features of es A re Do in for 1 t the rte War tear The practical success o of oj g these activities has given the Red nn u Triangle a significance scarcely sec sec- 4 t the h e Me llen h In i f h I 1 to 0 that flat thal e of the Red Cross P The writer o of the tor comments at the e Front and in a has been in this ibis work work- taking laking an act wc part parl n He gives a athe graphic picture of oJ the ministrations 3 th U C C om- om nome e amps amps-a r j at the thc front rent by hy the men in green ctrl uniforms uniform I j jY I Who Also Go G A By B Y G GT Gayne ayne T. T K 7 N Norton orton T 0 ver t h e 1 0 I the tha lh p. p to brother o r II Red Triangle has become II I 1 I ui f f I J r THE I Red fled Cross The man in green has become brother to the flue man in in Khaki EG tt or l f F kG e r F r I iJ The boys in c ca camp J hand and at nt the iho front particularly front particularly r n with that stormy stonny front need front need terribly and without without f The Thc activities of o the Y V. M. M C. C A. A in ur the he training camps throughout America and althe at al the front have hate been among r the outstanding features es of t the rte War tear The practical success o of oj these activities has given the Red Triangle a significance scarcely sec sec- to 0 that flat thal e of the Red Cross The writer o of the tor comments has been taking laking an act wc part parl in n this ibis work work- He gives a athe graphic picture of oJ the ministrations 3 at the thc front rent by hy the men in green ctrl uniforms uniform I By B Y GT Gayne ayne T. T K 7 N Norton orton II Red Triangle has become brother to o the tha lh THE I Red fled Cross The man in green has become brother to the flue man in in Khaki The boys in c ca camp J hand and at nt the iho front particularly front particularly n with that stormy stonny front need front need terribly and without failure or stint supplies and equipment They need every attention medical science can bestow But they ther have h yc other needs needs so eo urgent that all else elsema ma may sometimes seem Beem to become insignificant What more than anything in tho the world worM do our boys want during that black silent march much up to the front line They need soul comfort comfort n a spirit spirit- spiritual un ua ual brace V Comforting ting Hand Of or what is that boy hoy of yours In khaki drab that brother or husband in marine blue blurt that sweetheart or friend in navy nary whites whites ot of what do our fighters think and long ions ong for tor most as ns they I I face their Maker Without light tight by br which to read readi i rocket pocket te testament shorn of or the time crude comforts that have given a home touch to life in billet t or barracks barracks bar bar- racI racks they stand physically uncomfortable mentally men men- tally alone alone amon among strangers following followingS S n a blind road in a foreign land Jand waiting the order to move nove S 1 All AU their training has not made them entirely entirety Into machines They I e are still men with human emotions Actions arc are automatic fear is not among I 1 them hem but from each ach breast up pent-up agony cries 1 1 the thc silently the cr cry for consolation of ot a distracted soul This I take to be their greatest need l Whether he ho be lie green or seasoned anguish becomes be conies comes more heartbreaking heart with each minute As gray dawn streaks streak's the s1 sky over o.-er him be it o on n laud land shore or sea the tension increases In des des- he fingers t a trinket b but it Js Js' cold cold It its sentiment gone Who could blame courage fors for 1 GO n g too it Then Ih n are arc our O boys 1105 comforted Dark green uniforms uniforms uni uni- forms ar are among them Men as worn as the they m move me e rapidly stopping for a moment by each Your r bo boy is given some chocolate and a hot drink A brotherly arm encircles his shoulders and words word v of comfort and cheer fro fire re whispered His soul is answered So is s he touched b by the only agency r t thaI can give it the It-the the Red Triangle men For a t tj t j second only I II the fife dul dull grew green n uniform by his I j I On the Right A Y Y M M. 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A Field too but but it accomplishes somebody else's boy needs help too pUshes its purpose But Dul the Red fled Triangle men do not stop slop here uniforms go over The push is on The green on the heels of the troops They Thor arc are the first to prate praise the victors succor the tho th wounded and make bearable the feverish fe work of or consolidation If the tho push is his big the green uniforms are not numerous enough to Lo mingle with all an the men the Red Triangle huts between first and second lines too few to meet every ery need After the push comes the trail to to Gethsemane the he journey journer of the walking wounded Engineers 11 have pl planted lines line of white posts from tho the rear to the borders of oC Xo No o Mans Man's Land The They have ha gone two hours have passed Slowly staggering the they bp begin in to Ii II come back following the trail of tho l saints l posts They Thc stop at a Red Triangle hut but first it It lie lies nearest the front irons line nearer than thAl surgeon dentist st or 01 nurse There every ery nn is i if given foo an and a hot bot drink drink if if ho can take it it There two orderlies stan stand with hypodermics offering of fering the potion to nil And then they ther start larl on r along niong the Via way of the time painted posts to tor hospital and rest Sometimes while thc they are arc saving saYing lives the One of Nan Many DIany Cartoons from the Front Fron Suggesting the Cheering Work of the Red Triangle men in th the dull drill green uniforms get wind up ur They The ask no sympathy not even pay pa pay only only only the tb funds to carry arT on Tl The e Red Triangle and the green uniforms uniforms-ar ar arc behind the lines right here with us in fact as well as at the very verr front and the work is the Fame whether among res troops time oft off men the tho woun wounded d the prisoners of war or the boys bog in ramp camp Physical diversion and an entertainment U Li supplied homo home tics are kept taut and minds are fed Thoughts of ot life Prepare life Prepare to live for 93 33 out of er c every men will come back back aro arc planted and vice and immorality are shunted by bj sheer displacement Morale is built and tho the men are arc made into leaders of men They are arc made ready to go over vor and above all 11 made lad ready to come back And the 93 out of each who will return will enter re-enter civilian life liCe aa aj 3 men strong men strong physically alert mentally clean mor- mor morally mor mor- ally carrying ally carrying r into their life lite and into future generations generations gen ben Ideals of o clean living Jiving This perhaps U It Uthe the greatest work of the Red ned Triangle men The Tho Red Triangles Triangle's Call CaB CaBIl It Il is to continue and extend this service to service to give ghe morale io to our troops ease ase the sufferings rings of ot f those at home that home that the Young Mens Men's Association has been asking funds It is js to render other outer services less dramatic but no less vital fit a I services s no war department can cnn be bo asked to render ren ren- render der services ser beyond the power power of ot the Red ned Cross that President Vilson Wilson publicly helped L by passing passin a n hat Patriotism demands demand that we absorb our go governments government's gov- gov Londs of the Liberty loan Joan Humanity demands that we answer the call caB of or the Red fled Cross Perhaps I have been able to suggest considerations considerations ions that make malte it imperative that we should con con- consider consider consider sider with not l less ss of s sympathy the calls caUs of theRe the Re Red fled Triangle The Tile history of the war will not only have It itt more fervent dramatic recitals of Red heel Triangle work It It m ill record creditably bl those other sig significant sl phases suggested by hy the pictures on thu page page all all phases that are important features of the business busness o of war I 1 have said little of the worn wort S In In tho the camps mostly moUr because I wished to lay lav stress on the he crisis of ot the trench itself lf and 13 t movement and the supreme su sc bring forward the preme reme need and to it plain that the Red Triangle hoes goes a all tho way war through Camouflage for an Association Hut in France I r. r d r Jy y rig r f. f v j rR t a rL 7 J r lr ar arr F. 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