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Show SERVICE THAT WINS THE SOLDIER HEART " 3M " Fred Lockley. Y- W. C. A., Tells of I the Gratitude of the Boys at the Front. w ' "One of the discoveries turn are making oer here," Fred I.ocklcy, of thi Y. M. C. A. and of Portluud, Oregon, Ore-gon, writes from London, "Is that more pleasure inn be hud out of giving giv-ing than getting. Many a man who has spent money freely In the old days V to buy pleasure Is finding that he gets more pleasure over here by the spending spend-ing of one's self In the service of others. "A few months QfO I went out with fellow Y. M. C. A. secretary to hunt up ont-of the-way detachments of troops. A stable guard here, a machine ma-chine gun company there, a platoon somewhere else. We carried our goods In an automobile. We had plenty of writing paper and envelopes for free distribution, and chocolate, cookies, chewing tobacco and smoking tobacco, cigarettes, rasor blades, tooth paste and things of that kind for ale. American war service workers were busy everywhere. We found Snl-vatlon Snl-vatlon Army lassies making doughnuts for the boys and K. of 0. secretaries giving help. Hooks furnished by the American Library Association were to be seen on all sides. "Tfenrlng firing at a distance, we drove down the road and found a core or so of men, at machine gun practice. The officer guvu the men balf an hour recess to buy goods. "At another place we came In sight of a lieutenant drilling a platoon. I Bald to the lieutenant: 'How soon before be-fore you dismiss the company? We have Y'. M .'. A. goods for sale.' "He said: 'Right now. Sergeant, dismiss tin' compnny I' "And ten seconds Inter the company was In line waiting to buy gooda from our traveling 'Y.' (iraleful Is no name for It. The men can't do enough to how their gratitude." |