| Show KEEP HIM reasonably BUSY preacher serving in Y M C A hutin training camp finds his duties many and varied it there Is a notion that Y M C A work in the camps consists in selling stamps and handing out pocket testaments let it be dissipated at once one preacher serving in a hut in a new jersey camp reports that he has done almost everything under the except preach lie has built fires swept floors looked after hundreds of packages of laundry umpires basketball games or a glee club stage managed a circus sold ice cream at the canteen and driven a flivver ten miles and back three times a week to provide bald cream lie has written letters home for boys who could not write and he has taught those bame boys their first lessons in the english lan guage lie has been a repository for hundreds of heart secrets and he has served as trustee for the care of as many as thirty liberty bonds at a time perhaps oddest of his many tasks was one that came his way on a wild and stormy night in april when the master of arms at the military station entered the Y hut after taps carrying a red bor under his arm say eald the master of arms weve got a lot of N T mines stored at the station fieres rieres the detonators ona tors in this box there s considerable lightning around and it safe to leave these things close to the mines would you just as soon tale care of the box over night the red triangle man slept that night or tried to sleep with enough high explosive under his cot to blow him half way to heaven |
