Show million letters in the Ms mails today T bearing magic words with tiie the colors keynote of the splendid work the Y YMCA PA C A does among our men in uniform la Is keeping them in touch with the folks at home STAMPED WITH STARS AND STRIPES AND RED Multi multifarious fario us ways waya in which the association appeals to your boy your neighbor i a boy or some boy you yon know and love creates create e a helpful environment in cantonment on way overseas aa in fr front 0 nt line trench and beyond first to aid as he comes tottering back bach give your share of 0 the required to accomplish this last evidence that somebody cues carea T was evening on the broad blood at hampstead plain long island where the natal rainbow w dl we wai spending pending lii its bat d night s lit before embark the tor for prance fran re I 1 it had bd been bar redoing raining hard in the artor clarno noon a cold teady steady nituna downpour lown pour UKI d there was nothing to aus suggest the tha rainbow who I 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home one ona of the th soldiers lold lera sell laid to me as ai I 1 stood in D the tent us used chiefly by in mea from low iame a came all the way h hero and from D ma melnea and we we were a lonely then we WB found tole Y M C A on the th job and 11 if be neen I ft home and more than a tome home to us u it II ge save ua what bet we A wa when we needed dd 1 it I most moat W we it 11 neter or forget it IL the boys boy best friend la Is the Y M 0 A fine clean cut upstanding fell fellow he how w cloa less ill I 1 benches he war were pok pack ed ad wa with t aa moil man bending beading over ever the long lone t table bl a absorbed baor ed I 1 in 0 their writing what an appeal t to a the th y athi thota those great are groups u ps of alf oldie nickel malie fine fin clout clo clean cut ut upstanding fellows some lome of thorn thom mere boys one ona thinks train immediate a t my y ot at the sacrifice they thay have made cred for far the rest of us ua and how pre cloua they are to some one oce back home somewhere in tar far off farm or or a city ty air estreet at there are parents or brothers othera br or nivea who would give all they case 8 a tor for one glimpse of those thoe sau barned faces BB as you and I 1 gee ee them on their last night before going IT crom and ad tt it we waa with a ali b ot 1 the b abart t that I 1 watched them b beat ath t oc aar their letter paper in one atter after bother another of those solon bis big tents lenta theo were the tha tents tanta of the YM Y M C A oo 00 that last night might in america the ori alon t we wag serving borvan the ao in a thi the heat beat of all 11 wy ieli 9 theas them an opportunity P port unity to write h home a on nights they had enjoyed box ing bout movies concerts dramatic dra matica and core of healthy entertainments KB well a BB religious meeting but on this last night horn home has were strong eat it and perhaps that 1 IR the tha keynote 0 of f the th splendid work the Y M C A la is doing among our or in men I 1 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As ver drei dreamed mind anil and bin binding ing them to tin the hearts at horns home multiply y that by thinking ot of all the otha P act where undo uncle sam has hai in men an with the tha nag bab ln in navy yards on the high sees ea in arse araa nal and off locra training camps and there in france I 1 in n all those places joe men man are writing willing home those unassuming U a mes little heats ot of note P per gladden millions of hearts heart a day they transfer more love ions from one 4 r lordy GOD of TH iff taye IN I 1 N VAI N a I 1 as 1 fo 1 A jm 11 o games game dood heading and correspondence facilities in Y M C A building part pan of the wor war 1 to another than at sta ustice to can express statistics art are pretty put poor anyway when it cornea to tc reckoning in terms of love find and humar home lets put it this we dav that the Y M f C A Is the biggest a press company the world has eve seen men and the parcels it la Is handlan are ara the lo 10 loves and d devotions 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certa its movies bib 6 classes dramatic dra matlo antei at taitu rents and very every kind of 0 whole h a same boina amusement to keep heap him interest ad I 1 are I 1 to ou 91 sad d to know knew th that t tram it arl friend end go with him 1 cratl help m t to shield him from fram a acornl car ot at difficult and ad dangerous danger oua temptations and ad follow him right up to the front line has trench and bend it itt th the baat at contact the he life ITT soldier has haa with this life he be love eo nell all is a cup of at tan at ghen an him by the I 1 M 0 A ties fi 09 just before batore he be CO goei over er the top tap to a hand to hand sting at ele with the enemy am and e 11 he am edmu tottering back bach from no man han a land bounded but strong enough brough and plucky enough to keep on hla his feet feat ell even before him hil wound era ara d the Y 11 C A Is ID halting citing for alm with tee tea and nd sweet chocolate chartists the U ut ireat t c coin forts forta ot of the man in the trenches tren chei do you an wonder order that the rod red T rg e is caba the beat loved trademark la in the world one mol diri in prance has h called callea it the ta just evidence that may bay bed body y cause cares II if ever very I 1 think thick ng atti slue re could 14 sea with him ahti or her own eyes or methin of the ati actual work bpi bedink done ons tor for our md by the ahn there would aid 11 be BO question ot of the Y M 0 A be batang I 1 to appeal to the public to for looney only rattier rather than let jet this soa irant lal writ work falter 11 for an n instant rich men would 14 beell their motorcar motor cari poor man would f at rated do or van n tattled th the work must mirt go 0 o on an be b c caun t they hr I 1 it a no on a thin 5 that con m tributes tribute la much to the spirit and mt t lle I 1 is ay of tb lb t pal th the Y JJ 0 A it wo working 1 night and dy day to hot help the government overn ment win this war vote and every r P penny my that I 1 li at alven to aid th work Is ii ft a direct to t alie I 1 health hap chappine happl pine ner mil and strength of yo your air boy anil ad mm amp of 1 work la in alt all the big title in france wh ahw or our m men a pa pan through 1 in lare abes num to the to y M C A I 1 li PU P U h costels hostels fabere bar the thoy can get eel bed bad end and meala 1 at minimum cost L 1 in bcd lcd london the american Y U M U C A eroded ft large building tor ter our old ler and ft clubhouse lor for american officers officer T there or are Y M C A go at right edgo ed br behind ha d the ITO aront line trenched tren U chea h whore where the soldier ca can gt get to hot dat drinks n 1 0 crack it ers en and other at nl all 1 h hours our over 2 men who had bad been reject ed on account of physical y eat disability have been reason ab a to got get P lot into the british a army rm y by reason of the h e physical work of the british Y M C A A fleet of motor cars cara leaves leave the big K y M C A headquarters in london at t midnight every night might to pick up 01 ol at alera woo or are me wandering d or a I 1 about b t the dibuo dIb XO b 1 SIT any w wholesome b s 1 lodging I 1 in which to spend the night these oars can are operated by English englishwoman englishwomen women lot of position and ana refinement ft ho he report that they never or in meet t a any discourtesy t oia at the hands handi of th the J or tita the im of this service can he be etl sit mated led by the tact fact that at 1 I I 1 leaah 1 BO 50 soldier Bold lera are on ca leave in london every week over half of the these bleep beep in ay Y bf M C A beds bad every night might entertainment on vast scat the Y 51 C A has haa erected a b bg auditorium rating beating B in each of the big draft tempo and huge chants qua tents setting seating I 1 in the tha close encampment th thi larun ting a 22 week neek entertainment circuit among the campi camp and ad 1 li paying 10 16 companies of entertainers who are traveling to 80 0 camps performing be for fore n the th meu teen in each I 1 of the tha draft campi camp the th Y M C A he baa to tea cre laries engaged H in do call I 1 work th the association Is seeing to it that very every man an who cannot speak engllish 1 ought aught to do BO a in many of me campa the elation 10 has ft a singing dirse director tor who he 1 la teaching the men to ling 19 the popular and martial aln air that do so 10 gluchow finch to keep up the their T spirit or of 64 Y M C A men a at camp dix alz only three or are being paid full sat eal rise 1 in 11 ll 11 the camps the majority of the Y M C A man 1 h have left wera lucra iva position to do work imply because it its appeal 1 irresistible to any my red blooded man harry lauder the famous search ahnger logo and ame coma dia dlan now on hla him farewell ta rewell con concert bit tout r I 1 in the united state te se gill giving 11 II 11 hab to pare time to the of I 1 the a seen ABO elation a and ts Is singing to the old I 1 lure lora at all the campa do he rit can reach in one of the draft camps camp the Y M C A I 1 is all supervising perl athletics on playing fields laid brolli pr providing olli full full aoun athletic equipment the tha winners winner ot of the later inter regimental games will play the the cham plena of the tha other camps p a cam one of the grant greatest 8 services read render ed ad by the association Is the making a 1 s I AA A red triangle dugout in the tv frencho he out ot of money orders order by which the me men out mcacy can send their put pay im homa to their halt to am 11 1 in some memo of the big camps campa the Y M C A 1 Is providing banking backing fault has for the men go as w well ell do your bit with a tom tanner th athla mouth month N november nab t the Y M C A rou must at raise 00 11 to I 1 carry on it ita work among our or told lars and their th clr allie alalea until next july of this 35 0 about bou t will be spent on the work ork with our own troops or about bout 10 11 tor far very every man in uncle a barn s not uniform to r it if everybody who had haa received adel from soldiers and sell sail or ors were war to contribute 10 the task would be easy caay are r your you boy a beat health h and happ him boa and d clean soul worth tiff 10 to ion lout your town mayor your year pastor your school superintendent will know vh who 1 Is the treasurer of the campaign more corn in it tee in your county or town other wise send a check or moll money order to a cleveland H dodge IT treasurer or I 1 24 east ead twenty eighth treat street now new york city only giving by millions of givers at will it its P ibl the tha contin mance of this vast ark wark for ar A r soldiers old lera bad and for those of our I 1 |