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James Kerney. Trenton Times. Victor F. Lawson, The Chicago Dally News. Charles E. Marsh, Waco Morning News. Frank P. MacLennan, Topeka State Jour nal. A. L. Miller, Battle Creek Enquirer-News. D. D. Moore, Nhw Orleans Times-Picayune. Fleming Newbold, Washington Evening Star. Gough J. Palmer. Houston Post. Bowdre Phlnlzy, Augusta Herald. Don C. Seitz, New York World. Rudolph C. SiegHng. Charleston News and Courier. H. D. Slater, El Paso Herald W. P Sullivan. Charlotte Observer. James M. Thomson. New Orleans Item Published under the auspices of the Na tional War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. of the United States with the co-operation of the papers above named. Distributed free to the soldiers In the National oantonments. INTO THE OPEN! The most hopeful sign in the situa tifin on the Western front, where the issue of the war will be decided, is the triumph cf initiative. And to General Byng, or to a master mind behind his own, belongs the credit. Not in the number of prisoners taken; not in the extent of territory regained;—but in the return to the principles of the surprise attack and in its resultant stimulus to the morale of the Allied forces is the victory most significant. The victory does not open a high way to the Rhine. It does more, for it epens a highway to a new hope that may lead far beyond t'-e river. It proclaims in terms that are unde niable that the Hindenburg line is not impassable. The wreck and ruin of large portions of that line are elo quent proof of that. It may almost be said that the victory marks the be ginning of a new, and perhaps the final, stage of the war. _At the Marne and at Verdun the French had a steadying cry, “They shall not pass.” The lines held. At the Marne civilization was saved. At Verdun the forces of France were threatened again and with them per haps civilization itself. It was enough at the Marne and at Verdun to see that the lines held. But it is not enough now. The lines must go forward. « The forces of righteousness are mo bilized now. America has thrown her weight into the war—America with her traditions of dash and daring, America with a fresh army and a readiness to plunge ahead. The trenches must be emptied. The fighting must be forced. Out in the open where man clashes with man, what chance has a craven enemy whose symbol is a submarine, a skulk ing coward, a thief in the night, an assassin who stabs in the back. • Into the open, then! Let that be our rallying cry. Let it stir every camp and canton ment. Let it call into service again if it will the cavalry as “moppers up.” Let the job be thorough. Into the open, Americans! Into the open! AN UN-NAMED HERO His name has not been told yet. It is not his name but his example that counts. For his story is one of the first of those narratives of bravery that will thrill the hearts of the Amer ican people and convince them that the quality which is Americanism has by no means been lost. Not many stories of valor have been told. It is not because cur men have not been valorous, but because it takes a high quality of bravery in deed to win especial mention in these days when the demands upon the ca bles are so heavy and varied. Here is the story of the un-named tiero, told in the plain, matter-of-fact style of the correspondent who must not be prodigal with his words be cause each one demands its toll. “The lieutenant had led a night pa trol. He and his men had already been on duty thirteen hours in the trenches. They crawled out over No Man’s Land and lay flat on the ground, listening and awaiting Ger man patrols. One man, utterly ex hausted, fell asleep in a shell hole close to the German entanglements. TRENCH AND CAMP "When the Anjerican patrol re turned to its own lines just before dawn the man’s absence was not im mediately discovered. Then the lieu tenant, sweeping every inch of the ground with his glasses, located his missing man tucked away in a crater. It was about the same minute that the Germans discovered him, too. “T|ie soldier crouched down in his haven while the Bcches loosed their machine guns and began hurling grenades at him. His lieutenant, dis regarding concealment, stood up over the trench and violently tried to wig wag him on how tq creep back to the American lities. “Then the lieutenant slipped over the too and crawled down a ravine. The Germans discovered him almost at cnce. They transferred all their fire to his creeping figure. "Back in the American trenches the troeps watched breathlessly, firing a barrage to protect the slow-moving creeper. In some miraculous way the lieutenant reached his man and the two turned back, scuttling along close to the ground, with bullets whistling over their heads and cutting the high weeds sll about them." After reading this story can any one believe it when he is told that the glory has gone from war? Glory is not in pomp; it is not in the beating cf many drums. Rather it is in pur pose? and in the nameless nr.?jic of the beating of human hearts. FRENCH WAR CROSSES FOR 15 AMERICANS Fifteen American officers and men who participated in the battle with the Germans on the night of Nov. 2-3 have been awarded French War Crosses. Among those awarded War Crosses were Privates Merle D. Hay and Thomas F. Enright and Corporal James D. Gresham, "who died brave ly in hand-to-hand fighting with the enemy, who had penetrated the first line.” The War Crosses were presented by an American Major General. The recipients were informed that while they may keep the decorations in their possession, they cannot wear them until Congress gives its authori zation. Congress is expected to take th<s action at the present session. The other soldiers in addition to Hay,"Enright and Gresham who were cited for bravery and daring were: Lieut. WTJlam H. McLaughlin, Lieut. R. O. Paterjon, Lieut. E. F. Erickson, Sergt. John Arrowwood, Corporals David M. Knowles and Homer Givens and Privates Charles Massa, William B. Thomas, George Hurd, Boyce Wade, Robert Winkler and John J. Jarvis. NEW SCORING SYSTEM Two regimental football teams ware playing a gruelling game at one of the cantonments. The play was hard and fast in the fourth quarter, both teams being eager to score. Time was taken out for several in jured men. When the whistle blew for time out for an injured player, a soldier rooter on the side lines, with a pad and pencil in his hands, began to cheer lustily. "That ties the score,” he shouted. “I knew my regiment would pull it self together and even the score.” “Where do you get that noise?” inquire another soldier standing nearby. “There hasn’t been any scoring. It’s nothing to nothing and looks like it will end that way.” “Nothing to nothing, nothing,” re plied the gleeffil soldier. “I have been keeping the score and it is twelve to twelve.” “How do you get that way?” asked the other soldier. “Simple “figuring,” was the reply. "My regiment has knocked out twelve men and only twelve of our men have been knocked out.” FIVE YEARS MORE? That Great Britain expects the war to last at least five years more was the statement of Captain Richard Haigh, of the British Army, in an address in New’ York recently. Great Britain is making plans accordingly, he said. SPEED AND STAMINA NEEDED Writing from "somewhere in France,” a U. S. A. officer who has seen service “Over There,” says: "Everything possible should be done to develop agility and endur ance in the American soldiers now in the training camps at home.” THEY WANT TO READ IT The folks back home want to read every line they can get about your life and activities In camp. When you have finished reading this paper mail it home. V- T —— ’ CANTONMENT TYPES THE OFFICER WHO WINS HIS MEN HE cries “Come in. please,” in a voice that sounds as good as money from home when you knock on the orderly room door. Os course, he’s busy. What officer isn’t in these days of colossal tasks, with the uncut wildernesses of details to be chopped through and morasses of preliminary organization to be bridged over? But he doesn’t admit that he’s busy when you come in, nor does he fidget and twist uneasily as if your presence were intrusion. For he is The Officer Who Wins Men. He doesn’t believe in the principle of driving men —from behind. He lives his life on the conviction that men are better men if they are pulled— from in front. He believes in the compelling power of Love, to use a broad, often misused word. He wins his men because of that; because he likes them. They are men, and he loves humanity and hu man nature—for weaknesses and frailities as well as for nobilities. It is easy for him to take an interest in bls men, because he likes them. You are interested in anything you like, and like anything in which you are Interested. How the $50,000,000 Will Be Spent In the campaign for special funds to carry on war work, recent drive of the Young Men’s Christian Association takes a unique position. Over-subscribed by more than fifteen millions of dollars, the response of the country is a tribute to a generous people’s confidence in the agency of distribution. Early in the drive it was stated that the gifts would not, and could not be construed as contributions to the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion, but rather to the soldiers direct. And the promise has been given that the money will all serve the purpose intended. But how will this huge sum of 550,000,000 be spent? A tentative budget was presented in the outline of the plans for the campaign. It called for the follow ing expenditures: 1. To promote the physical, moral and social welfare of the enlisted men of the American Army and Navy on this side of- the Atlantic, $11,000,000. 2. To render similar service for the American enlisted men overseas, $12,000,000. 3. For extending such work among the armies of the Allies, $7,000,000. 4. For similar work among pris oners of war, at leas> $1,000,000. 5. To provide for inevitable expan sion, $4,000,000. When the complete reports had been received and it was known that the fund had been so largely over subscribed, John R. Mott, General Secretary of the Young Men’s Chris tian Association, made this state ment: Y. M. C. A. Work to Be Extended “The fact that the fund will be ad ministered by a finance committee of which George W. Perkins is chair man, and composed of other men with both experience in financial matters and knowledge of Y. M. C. A. work, insures the most economical application of the money contributed. We are preparing a definite plan for the extension of the association work in camps both here and abroad. This will be announced soon.” Confronted by a fund that opens new possibilities, the directors of the Y. M. C. A. work are going about their planning in a deliberate, pains taking fashion. This much can be said, even at this early date, that the work as already under way in all camps and canton ments will be subject to a new inten sification. Those at the head of the Young Men’s Christian Association realize that not only are the govern mental agencies looking to them to uphold the morale of the armies, which, in a fine analysis, is more im portant than ordnance; but the whole body of the American people has come to look upon them as stewards of the welfare of the men who com prise the Army and the Navy. Comforts such as have been pro vided for no armed forces in the his tory of the world will be provided for the men of America. Every possible effort will be made to care for them in mind and body. Already the advance guard of the Young Men’s Christian Association is in France. Already it has heartened ihe American soldiery there. Already Dec. 12, 1917. So when you knock at the orderly room door and hear the cheery "come in, please,” you feel a swelling around the heart, and realize that you are going into the presence of a man who knows you and will help you. There is no display of authority and position by this Officer Who Wins Men, but the quiet power of his per sonality brooks no insubordination. He has learned the name of every man. He'knows the man’s worries, his home problems, his ambitions, fears and hopes. Not that he has pried into private concerns; his ‘’win someness” has drawn them frsm his men. He gives friendly advice, min isters comfort and cheers —from his piled-up desk in the orderly room. He has won every man in the com pany, not as a matter of means to the end that he may be promoted, but because he can do no other way. His nature is the nature that wins men. He never drives them. And when the supreme test is given his men—to follow him know not to what fate —they will 1 o drawn by the love which he has given them. This Officer Who Wins His Men will win the Final Victory! Its scientific methods have won the admiration of the leaders of foreign forces. Already there is a demand to project this work into the armies of the Allies. Italy, France and Russia ‘have been calling for a duplication of the work of the American Y. M. C. A. The Napoleonic maxim that the mo rale of the troops is everything has become generally accepted and it is seen that American methods insure , the maintaining of the desired mo rale. With the huge fund that is avail able it will be possible to extend the work in such a ihanner that no sol dier will feel that he is forgotten. The American soldier abroad will be so far from home that it will be impossible for him to rejoin his fam ily while on furloughs. For the Eng lish soldier and the French this is not impossible. A railroad journey of an hour or two and a quick trip across the channel and the Englishman is at home. For the Frenchman only the railroad journey is necessary. For the American soldier there would be the large cities of France and tempta tions. It is not the intention of the American commanders that their men shall be exposed unduly to those temptations that are commonly asso ciated with the military. Therefore the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion has undertaken the work of pro viding healthful, wholesome re-crea tions for the men on furloughs. To this end leases have been acquired on some of the finest situated and best known resort hotels of France. With ample funds, the Y. M. C. A. will now be able to care for furloughed sol diers at these recreation bases in such a manner that they will find their sojourns at the resorts more than merely restful. Opportunities will be given for expeditions to the neighbor ing country. Then men who thus fall under the friendly influence of the Y. M. C. A. will come back travel broadened. Family Is Strength of Atate All of the present endeavors of the association, so thoroughly character istic of every American camp and can tonment, will be carried on in France and wherever the American forces may be. When the men are not fight ing in the trenches their time will be well occupied. Educational work that will bring into service some of the best teachers available; athletics that Till minister to the well-being of the body; influence that will strengthen the spiritual man—all of these are in the Y. M. C. A. programme. And ' through the entire ministry of the Young Men’s Christian Association to the American and his Allies there will be an effort to keep uppermost in the minds of all the men who are reached the idea that the family is the strength of the state. “Keep the Home Fires Burning” has come to be a household word. It will not be the fault of the Association if the men under arms sever the home ties. To carry on this tremendous work it will be necessary to enlist in the service of the Young Men’s Chris tian Association hundreds of self sacrificing men who, prompted by a sense of duty, will be ready to make the same sacrifices that the soldiers cheerfully make, who will be readv to go to the borders of No Man’s Land and, if necessary in the cause of this real Christian ministry, to go over tho top and on to the great adventure. |