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Show 7 HIGH PRAISE FOR FIRST YANKS vi TO ENTER TI FIGHT IN FRANCE, m IS GIVEN BY Y. M. C. A. VISITOR ill Y. C. A. secretary Charles Titus, J. 1 jj0' has seen a .year's service in I"" I France spent some hours In Ogden last , f :,renlng and called upon his friend of i a- I former years, Dr. E P. Mills. Mr. Lit TJtus Is ono of the divisional sccre-y sccre-y I ,'f tarje5 of that organization in France f ' i nd has been engaged during the last I, tw-0 weeks in Liberty loan campaign 1 trork and was to have spent some ' c $ tinio in the Welfare Work campaign ( I vrhlch Is due to come before the pub-1 pub-1 lie notico in about a month from now. ' Jtff ' owJnff. however, to tho widespread - i ; epidemic of Spanish influenza, this ' ' V work has to bo abandoned and Mr. 4 Titus left tho city at midnight for his II home in Sacramento. - Mr. Titus expects to receive his call r f to return to his divisional headquar- ' tcr3 fn France in a short time and, V peaking of the work of the "Y," re-. re-. f iterated what Is now a well known fact, that it is an absolutely Indispen-T'h Indispen-T'h fible form of service for the soldier I'lCY ' nod the sailor, evidencing a care on f '. the behalf of the people at home for the boy at the front which Is beyond the power of any one man compre-f compre-f II hensively to state. Not in sensational $ : and startling and outstanding forms of ( service alone, but In tho multitudinous details of common service, the "Y" at home and abroad Is a constant rc-'Jr rc-'Jr minder to the fighting man of thew things that mako llfo worth living and the ideals for which all arc fighting. Mr. Titus had many words of praise for the first American troops who distinguished dis-tinguished themselves at Chateau Thierry and who set the pace 'for all American troops going Into action after af-ter thorn, and among whom he mentioned men-tioned with pride was 'a boy of his Speaking of victory, Mr. Titus said that no Allied soldier doubts as to who will win the ultimate victory, but they are not vainglorlously boastful about an early finish. What Is written deep into the thought of the men is that the victory, to be worth while, must be utter and final. At the close of the interview with the Standard representative, Mr. Titus gave expression to the fact that the "Y," In addiion to other and better known forms of service, is doing a simply incalculable piece of work in Us educational classes and attempting attempt-ing to scatter the mists of misunderstanding misunder-standing that have for years gathered about the relationship of the American Ameri-can and British people. "Fighting together, to-gether, living and playing together, knowing what they are fighting for, I expect the Allied armies not only to win a victory over Germany 'but to ensure the peace of free peoples in the i'orld," said Mr. Titus. |