Show PERKINS 5 TELLS OF DPI I rr Y 00 IN EUROPE I Reasons for the Unfavorable Criticism Are Explained DIFFICULT TO GET GOOD G OD MEN Complaints of of Prices Charged in Canteens Can Can- tee teens s Generally General Not Justified Justified- Immense Extent t of Dr the Organizations Organization's Organizations Organization's Organ Organ- Numerous Activities Abroad During War New York May 1 7 George George W. W Perkins Perkins Perkins Per Per- kins of New York chairman of the finance committee of the war war work council of the Y M M. C. C A. A has Just returned from Europe where he spent over four months in making a thorough thorough thorough thor thor- ough Investigation of f the work done by the Y M. M C. C A. A Ills report was made public today and In large partIs part partis is an answer to the unfavorable criticisms criticIsms criticisms of the organization organisation n so often heard beard of ot late First exp f the difficulty ty of Securing securIng securing se se- curing efficient workers an and the care exercised In the selection of the persons who w were were re sent abroad Mr 11 i fer Perkins ln sass says say Much h has s. s been beets said gald ald about the Inefficiency Inefficiency In In- efficiency of some of these workers and doubt a n number of them were Inefficient In In any form of organization organization or or- In civilian life whether It be public schools chain stores or corporations corporations corporations cor cor- if 00 90 per cent of those o originally employed make good the result is is' regarded e as highly Cory fory to y If 10 per pel cent of the p people ople operating In In France for the 1 Y M. M C. C A A. A were In inefficient it would mean that hat there were 1122 men and women who were more more mor or less of a afa fa failure lur I do not be believe leve that anythIng anything anything any any- thing like this number of people were unsuccessful but if under the cl close sa scrutiny which the soldiers give these welfare workers even 5 per cent of them were failures it would have put puta a n large amount of criticism In circulatIon circulation circulation tion and the work of the 95 per c cent nt w who o were successful would be forgotten forgotten forgotten forgot forgot- ten in the publicity given to the 5 per cent who were unsuccessful That time the workers as a whole were brave and und unselfish Is shown by the fact that 14 Y M M. C. C A. A secretaries were killed and others were wounded Why Canteen Prices Va Varied led The report relates the troubles and expenses m met t by the Y Y M M. C. C A A. a after ter It t undertook the mari management gement of f the army canteens at the request of of General General General Gen Gen- Gen Gen- eral Pershing and the confused conditions conditions conditions condi condi- that made It Impossible to arrive at an average cost price of the goods sold to the soldiers It continues The Y Y M. M C 0 A. A never s solicited money for the purpose T of f giving away its canteen supplies s. s Y M. M. M C. C A. A had given away canteen supplies s In France on on the scale of Its sales It would would have ha spent In this this this' activity alone at least as as much money as Its entire expenditures in France for all Its ac nc- The constant policy of the Y M. M C. C A. A was to sell canteen supplies supplies sup sup- plies at as nearly cos cost as possible and to bend every effort when fighting was in progress to furnish the men at the front with supplies free of lf charge where It was at all possible to g get t the goods foods to them I Some ome have criticized the Y M M. CA CA C. C A A A. fur for not giving away more articles such as cigarettes chocolate etc Its policy has been not to give away generally generally generally gen gen- but only In special and needy cases From June 1018 1918 to April 1919 IDID the Y M. M C. C A. A handled in France I alone upward of pf packages packages pack pack- ages aes of cigarettes 3 bars of chocolate cans of smoking tobacco cigars cans eans of Jam 2 packages of chewing gum and packages of candy These are only a few v of the items handled but the size of tl tte I se figures should convince anyone that it would be financially Impossible for tho the Y M. M C. C A A. to give its supplies away awny generally Furthermore the army does not favor any such policy It thinks that It Is far better rev fur the men mento men mento to spend d their money on such articles as as' as these than I Jio to spend it In other oth-er wa ways s. s For the most part the men ho hold d time the same view fIts f Its Varied Activities In considerable detail Mr Perkins relates the varied and extraordinarily extensive activities of the Y JM C. C A. A abroad Including De tIe manufacture of much of Its Us supplies the establishment of ninny many h hundreds of huts with athletics ath ath- j f moving pictures s and ne various various other Ither forms of entertainment t the management of sight seeing tours f for r soldiers on leave the immense work of the educational and re religious departments departments de de- and the distribution of readIng read- read readIng reading Ing matter In conclusion Mr Perkins says The Th Y M M. C. C A A. undoubtedly made mistakes but what It tried to do was was to respond t to every call that the he army made mad on It lt It never hesitated to tackle any Job it was asked to undertake under under- undertake take tale It did not sidestep any task it was asked to perform It took the position position position po po- that It was in Europe to do all aH It could as be best beet t It could that when It was called on on to fo- render sen service Ice of ot any kind ls duty i was to respond In Inthe Inthe inthe the same kind of spirit that the soldiers soldiers sol sol sol- diers did and anel not hold back Jack Because nelv adverse circumstances circumstancE's might make It Impossible ihl to meet with maximum sue sue- CR cess Surel Surely every ery contributor of mon money will approve the Y M. M 1 C's C a. X Af s A. A course Ou in Mils respect |