Show FROM CROCKER camp kearney california october 16 1917 editor carwan parowan times at a recent meeting of the Y M U C A in association of this camp the boys boy n were reil requested located in appeal to the folks at home to support the buoy movement ment of the Y M C A in the e attempt to raise a budget of thirty five million dollars for the purpose of furnishing le te creation and amusement to the soldiers of uncle sam at home and abroad in III compliance with this request I 1 ani am writing you hoping that sou cou will take the a matter ma ter up with the people flir of paran par an through ough the columns of your paler setting before teni ane amny good works which the Y M C A are performing for the benefit of their boys boye in the army not only here but abroad so that when the time comes that the appeal of the association for funds reaches them they may be fully in formed and ready to do their bit the work which the association is doing la is a magnificent thing thine een in the short space of time that we have bays been at camp kearney I 1 have been able to grasp some idea of the scope of its activities in this camp there are at present about nine thousand men which will in a very short time be increased to at least thirty thousand there are already four YM Y M C A buildings in operation and several more in the process of completion each one of which will a acco mo in modAle from one cine thousand to fifteen hundred men A library furn furnishes h suitable a hie reading file material for far t the m men and d it is welt well patronized WY writing I 1 ling material and facilities for writing are furnished likewise and by even en with the small amount of men a at t p present the daily consumption of f p spar paper la a six thousand sheets moving ale pictures tares are three time a week k and v various rous rious forms of am arous use ment are f furnished urn on alternate days on sun day religious exercises are held during the day and a musicale in the evening and contrary to the general order of things or to the order of things as they would be in civil life all exer eloes are well attend I 1 it is certainly an impressive at sight 1 lit tosse to see fifteen hundred khaki el clad a d men congregated in one me small building ferver antly singing the old familiar hymns which possibly possible some bome of them have not heard since their boyhood days daya truly it in IB a b beautiful alfi fl splendid thing to realize th that t at a tine lima when the world la in cra crazed Z with blood when rapine on murder re ier ind nd hatred hatred are blighting the nations of the earth 1 h wit with in chair tread and po luling the very atmosphere with their presence that there are still at christian ch natian men splendid virile soldiers of the cross who are willing and eager to sacrifice their time and money for the alleviation alevia alev inelo tion n of sorrow and for the ting of their fellow men in my estimation the work that the Y 9 C A is doing is second in importance only to the red cross A work which la is deserving of the moral and financial support of every loal isal american citizen with best regards to ou on and the people of carowan parowan I 1 am sir yours youra sincerely E W CROCKER cal battern A U S F A camp kearney california |