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Show KEEP HIM REASONABLY BUSY Preacher Serving in Y. M. C. A. "HuP in Training Camp Finds His Duties Many and Varied. If there Is a notion that Y. M. C. A. 'work in the camps consists in selling stamps and handing out pocket testaments, testa-ments, let it be dissipated at oace. One preacher, serving in a hut in a New Jersey camp, reports that he has done almost everything under the 6im except preach. He has built fires, swept floors, looked after hundreds of packages of laundry, umpires basketball games, organized or-ganized a glee club, stage-managed i circus, sold ice cream at the canteeo, and driven a flivver ten miles ani back three times a week to provide 6aid cream. He has written letters home for boys who could not write, and he has taught those same boyj their first lessons in the English language. lan-guage. He has been a repository for hundreds of heart secrets, and he has served as trustee for the care of as many as thirty Liberty bonds at s ti"aie. Perhaps oddest of his many tasks was one that came his way on a wild and stormy night in April, when the master of arms at the military station entered the "Y" hut after taps, carry ing a red box under his arm. "Say," said the master of arms, "we've got a lot of T. N. T. mines stored at the station. Here's the detonators, det-onators, in this box. There's considerable consid-erable lightning around, and it isst 6ufe to leave these things close to the mines. Would you just as soon take care of the box over night?" The Red Triangle man slept that night (or tried to sleep) with enoujb high explosive under his cot to bio him half way to heaven. |