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Show INCREASING MORALE AND EFFICIENCY Daniel C. Pollg, a prominent work er In civic movements has been-for a year In with the soldiers In Franco, and has this to say of tho Y. M. C. A. work- In tho ajrmy. "Tho program of tho military leaders has boon cffeectlvly supplemented supple-mented by tho Y. M. C. A. tho Red Cross ahd tho Salvation Army. Tho y. l , r-w " '' .. tfWt h Y. M. C. A. Is responsible for a ministry min-istry that Is Impossible to overvalue, "With Its huts In training camps and dugouts at tho front, with Its cantces and hotels for officers and privates, with Its music and lectures Its classes In French, Its Blblo classes, clas-ses, athletic leadership, ,lts rost stations high among tho quiet mountains, Its religious services and Its personal Interviews, It Is meeting meet-ing squarely the challengo of this stupendous moral occasion. "A captain of a company of colored color-ed stevenores told mo that the Y. M. C. A. had Increased tho moral of Ills men 100 percent." The work of the Y. M. -C. A. In Concctlon with tho big war Industries Indust-ries In our country Is also beginning tto bo appreciated. Clean living Increases In-creases the morale and efficiency of a logging or mining camp. |