Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-23 | Page 2 | Utah Neglects Hall of States

IIlSTIITES . Beehive Boys Find Little Welcome Spirit on Arrival Arri-val From France. Two Salt Lake Women Volunteer Vol-unteer to Keep Vigil at Desk to Meet Soldiers. Spf'i-fii! to The Tribune. .NKV VOJlK, May 2-. Service men of! ( 1 h h returning to New York from for- ! i-:n li- lris ha'-e hitherto met disappoint- I im:iiL v. hi-n tli--y sought home folks at j .' ih'J Hall of SiaU-n which th New York : W;jr i.'ainp Coinmiinity service established 1 o -give op port mi Ity for the men to get f iii'loucli with their native tuwns. This .' 11;. II of StaU-: Is a Inrge n-sidence in the : cMUcr of the city v.iiero all the states of the union ;irc all-Hted space, in which the veterans! of all branches can iind at h:itit a tjuUo of what Ui home feeling is ;jtuong people from tho tame state, if not lur-alltv.' All or the other states have raised funds, torn.: through h-gJslutivc appro-pi'ia appro-pi'ia tion, pome iliro'ugh l no generosity of - I ic assochi t ions or iiidividuals. to insure that then own men and women, too. lor tin; nurses are iuWuded in the welcome V be welcomed immediately on their return from abroad by their fellow citizens of t lid home state. , Utah Has Done Nothing. ( tab has neither made a state appro-; appro-; print ion nor has any other plan been ' tormulated to provide the money neees-, neees-, Ma ry to adequately carry on the work. 'or a considerable time after the hall : wh 5 established Utah was not even rep-resenled. rep-resenled. llecenlly, however, Mrs. J. l.JeVvey rtichanls of New York and Salt I.aKe and Mrs. Krauk Mctlonnell, wife of i 1 urine r Salt Lake newspaper ma n, have been hostesses to the L'tah men who have visited the building. A. H. Cowle or Salt Lake, on a recent visit here, learned of the need for de.-iks, tables and other equipment for a L'tah booth and supplied them himself, so that now there is a center whore; the newspapers from Mtrious parts of the state help tho L'tah - men who are once, more getting in touch with their western homes. More Than Booth Required. But more than a. booth and newspapers are required to do all that can be done ; lor tho service men just returning from overseas. There are many who arrive without funds, men who have never seen . New YorU, and who, without the loan of a little money, would not bo able to lake ' advantage of that opportunity. At the booths of the other states small advances arc made to the men. Then, too, there is the service which can be rendered to , 1 he men recovering from wounds or illness ill-ness in the many debarkation hospitals about New York. Lvery day sees many ; of , these men thronging the booths of . thoir home states, eager for word of friends and of the familiar places they po long for. Automobile rides and excursions excur-sions of all sorts are provided for the men. by other btates. ': Personal Problems Solved. Some of the men come to their home '. state booths for help in their personal affairs that they hesitate to take to anyone, any-one, not of (heir own kinship or locality ' at least. The stale booths have been the- means of arranging domestic difli- culties, or effecting reunions, and in hun-; hun-; i reds of ot her ways. They minister to 1 the-, home needs of-tho men. And it costs a little money to do Xhese things In the way to be of most help to the men. It's 1 the sample of the homo town in ." New York that has appealed most of all t o the thousands who have enjoyed the .hospitality of the Hall of States. Other .stapes have made this sample a substan-' substan-' tlac slice, and It is hoped by the workers ; herp that Utah w ill find some means of ; dniiiLr as well as its western neighbors.