Vi mm mMM9¥i«!WM&&sKw* international FALLS PSESS ss®r RASE TWO p« tiorego coveted possessions orerea necessities. -1 «.' 'ivtiar F. C. ROGERS The work must go on, because WAR TALKS "V ot Million Letters In ths Mails Today 5 there Is no one thing that contributes so much to the spirit and efficiency of the troops. The Y. M. G. By UNCLE DAN Bearing Magic Words "With the Colors" A. is working night and day to help the government win this war. And PRACTICAL FURRIER every penny that is given te ^id the Number Four jf1-. work is a direct assistance to the Ontario Fort Frances, t,* health, happiness and strength of your Military Training Necessary for Safety boy and mine. Keynote of the Splendid Work the Y.M.C.A. Does Among end Defense. Snapshots of Kaleidoscopic Work. THE OLDEST EXCLUSIVE FUR HOUSE In all the big cities In France where Our Men In Uniform Is Keeping Them In "Say, Uncle Dan/' said Blllie, "Jimmie our men pass through in large numbers, IN THE WORLD and I have been looking up about Touch With the Folks at Home. the Y. M. C. A. is operating hostels, where they can get and war in the encyclopedia at school. We b9ds meals at a minimum cost. In London found that in the war between Germany the American Y. M. G. A. n&s erected STAMPED WITH STARS AND STRIPES AND RED TRIANGLE and Franoe in 1870-71, Germany a large building for our soldiers and lost in killed and wounded 2S.000 soldiers clubhouse for American officers. while France lost abont six times Th^re are Y. M. C. A. dugouts right as many, and besides that, she lost behind the front line trexfehes, where Multifarious Ways in Which the Association Appeals to Tour Boy, every battle. We asked Professor Slocum the soldiers can get hot drinks, crack* Tour Neighbor's Boy, or Some Boy You Know and LoveCreates why this was. He said that the ers and other comforts at all hours. German army was highly trained and a Helpful Environment in Cantonment, on Way Overseas, Over 2,000 men who had been rejected ably commanded, while the French in Front Line Trench and Beyond—First to Aid as He Comes on account of physical disability soldiers were poorly trained and that have been able to get into the British Tottering Back—Give Tour Share of the $25,000,000 Required to their war department was honeycombed army by reason of the physical work with jealousy and politics Accomplish This "Last Kvidence That Somebody Cares." of the British Y. M. C. A. that the officers were not much good, A fleet of motor cars leaves the big 3 and that's why France lost the war least is on Its way to you. Each one Y. M. C. A. headquarters in London at was evening on the broad and so many men. What do you think of our 16 cantonments, where the new midnight every night to pick up so! Hempstead Plain, Long Island, about it, Uncle Dan?" national army Is being trained, is dlers who are wandering about the where the Rainbow division was "Well," said Unc'ie Dan, "Professor using mere than a million sheets of streets without any wholesome lodging spending its last night before embarking Slocum is right. By inefficiency France this paper every month. In the draft in which to spend the night. These for France. It had been raining lost that war, together with two of cars are operated by Englishwomen army alone that means filaments hard in the afternoon—a cold, steady 16,000,000 her best provinces—Alsace and Lorraine—and of love every month reaching of position and refinement, who report autumn downpour—aed there was had to ay a billion dollars that they never meet any discourtesy out from the great encampment where nothing to suggest the rainbow in the indemnity money. France today the men are being trained into the at the hands of the soldiers. The importance outward aspect of the camp. Lines learned her leskon by that sad experience, EXPORTER AND IMPORTER OF of this service can ba estimated greatest army thia nation has ever and lines of sodden canvas housed so she put in universal military by the fact that at least 50,000 dreamed and binding tnem to the 27,000 men, gathered from 27 different training, tind as a result, her soldiers soldiers are on leave in London every hearts at home. Multiply that by states. The ground was dotted with now know how to Sght and how to week. Over half of these sleep in Y. thinking of all the other places where pools and quagmires. Under the wet protect themselves. They are losing M. C. A. beds every night Uncle Sam has men with the flag—in canvas it was damp and cold, with a less men in the war than the Germans. navy yards, on the high seas, in arse Entertainment on Vast Scale. penetrating chill. Lit by flickering France also put politics out of her war nals and officers' training camps and candles, the tents were far from cheerful The Y. M. C. A. has erected a big liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim department, so that expert authority, "Over There" in France. In all these shelter for a man's last night in auditorium, seating 3,000, in each of instead of bureaucratic stupidity, now places men are writing home. Those his native lajid. the big draft camps, and huge Highest Cash Prices Paid on Chautauqua directs the army. The result is. unassuming little sheets of notepaper But there were seven big tente tents, seating in the other 2,600 France has one of the best and most Raw Furs where electric li3hts, numbers and glad'den millions of hearts a day. encampments The association ie running efficient armies every assembled, and They transfer mere love, from one friendliness made the night pleasant. a 22 week entertainment circuit I this shows what thorough training and czmps among the and is paying 16 good leadership means in warfare. He will pay the, duty and war tax on all furs from the United oomraniej of entertainers, who are This saved France in this crisis, as States and pay as high a price for them as any traveling to 30 camps performing before well as the liberties of the world." the men. "As war is now conducted, there Is house in the United States. In each of the draft camps the Y. no place for an untrained man. A M. C. A. fca3 ten''secretaries ensagsi body of 10,000 well trained soldiers in educational work. The association properly handled could defeat live BE SURE AND SEE ME BEFORE YOU SELL OR BUY its eecing to it tbat every man who times their number of ra\v recruits and cannot spe.k English is ..aught to dp do every time with comparatively it F\ C. ROGERS ro. In many of tne cimps the association small loss to themselves. Proper training has a sing'ns director, who is alone will reduce the death and teaching the men to sing the popular casualty rate one-third of what it otherwise and martial aira that do so much to would be, and here an right is keep up their spirits unanswerable argument for universal Of 64 Y. M. C. A. men at Camp military training. Dix only three are being paid full salaries. "Our government has no moral right The Press Office In all the camps the majority to force her men into war s'ervice cf the Y. M. C. A. men have left lucrative without properly training them for it. rocitions to do this work simply To do so is simply murder, hence the because its appeal is irresictible to frantic effort that is now being made Store any red blooded man. Harry Lauder, to give her soldiers some training before the famous Scotch singer and comedian, they are sent to the front. we rrw on his farewell concert tour are to win this war, it will take trained in the United States, is giving all his men to do it, and it will take trained spare time to the service of the asso» men to win any other war that may elation and is singing to the soldiers come upon us in the future. If we at all the camps he can reach. must fight, let us fight to win and not GEORGE P. WATSON, Proprietor In one of the draft camps the Y. M. to lose." C. A. is supervising athletics on \20 "That's the stuff," said Billie. playing fields, providing full athletic Continuing, Uncle Dan said: "Our equipment. The winners of the interregimental government has expended about $300,000,000 games will play the champions to put up cantonments and of the other camps. training stations in order to train the This is the best place to trade for wouu fteaaing and Correspondence Facilities in Y. M. C. A. One of the greatest services rendered men called by the selective draft. Building. by the association is the making SCHOOL, OFFICE AND HOME When these men are trained the training In each of these a soldier was strumming part of the world to another than statistics stations should be immediately STATIONERY SUPPLIES on a piano others were reading can express. Statistics are filled with younger men, say those in books and magazines hundreds were pretty poor anyway when It comes to their nineteenth year, to receive six writing le ters heme. Behind the months of intensive military training reckoning In terms of lore and human raised counter at one end three or four tenderness. Let's put It this way: along the lines of the Chamberlain young men were busy passing out bill, This will be of immeasurable That the Y. M. C. A. is the fclggesf ex notepaper and envelopes, selling press company the world has ever benefit to them individually. It will Pens stamps and weighing parcels, which do thgin inore good than any other two F£sn, and the parcels it Is handling years of their whole life it will make the men Were sending home. One of are the loves and devotions of human Pencils the soldiers said to me as I stood in beings. them strong, manly, self-reliant, quick the tent used chiefly by men from to see and quick to act it will equip Tablets World's Best Loved Trademark. them for a successful life. In short, Iowa: 'We came all tbe way here This war jiss made us think hard Rubbers from res Moines, and we were mighty It will rebuild American manhood and and Cast Your boy or your neighbor's will also give the government a body lonely. Then we fmurl tnls Y. M. C. Mucilage boy or some boy you know any of trained men to draw from In ca.se A. on the job, and it's been a home iOve has been called to do his shar« Letter Files it is necessary to defend our flag and and more than a to us. It gave in ths big job of policing the world for country. We must settle this question us what we wanted when we needed Carbon Paper democracy and human liberty. Is it of universal military training Immediately, it most. We'll never forget it. The any comiort to you to know that wher otherwise these training camps Library Paste boys' best friend ie the Y. M. C. A." ever his duty may call him your boy may be demolished. The adoption of Flrje, Clear.-Cut, Upstanding Fellows. Fancy Stationery will aave a friend that will serve him universal military training will be notice TIOTV c'.os* those benches were pack* In body, mind and soul? Are you to the world that from then on Typewriter Ribbons ed with men, bending over the long we will be prepared to defend ourselves glad to know that this friend wi.l place babies absorbed in their writing! promptly and efficiently, and books and magazines at his disposal What an appeal to the sympathies organize classy to teach him -what this will do more to keep us out of war in the future than anything else tthose great groups of soldiers make! ever he wants to -learn, give him a we could do." 3Pln», clean-cut, upstanding fellows, •pocket testament and invite him tc 1 "Do you think, brother, said Mrs. join religious meetings of the fait, ••some of them mere boys, one thinks WRITING PAPER CHEAP that he was brought up In? Did you Graham, "that there will ever be another ftamediateiy of tho sacrifice they have realize that the association provider war?" We have a large amount of the best made for the rest of us and how previous athletic equipment for his favorite "I have no doubt about it," said grade bond paper in white and various they are to some one back home. games, teaches him games if he knom Uncle Dan. "So long as men are colors, in tablet form but without Somewhere, In far off farm or village A Red Triangle Dugout in the none and holds concerts, lectures, selfish, so long as nations are ambitious covers, that we are selling out «or city street, there are parents or movies, Bible classes, dramatic enter renches. to acquire territory, so long as at 5 cents each—a third of a pound fbrether3 or wives who would give all tainments and every kind of wholesome population presses and demands more of good paper in each one. Also a out of money orders by which the men room, so long as there remains a *they possess for one glimpse of those amusement to keep him interested? can send their pay home to their families. large number of scratch pads at 5 Are you glad to know that this scramble for world trade—so long wars •sunburned faces as you and I see In some of the big camps the for 5 cents and 2 for 5 cents. -V will be. When the time comes that friend will go with him overseas, help them on their last night before going Y. M. C. A. is providing banking facilities we reach the high plane for which we to shield him from a score of difficult across. And it was with a throb of for the men as well. hope and dream, when all will recognize and dangerous temptations and follow the heart that I watched them, bent the fatherhood of God and the him right up to the front line trench Do Your Bit ^With a Tenner. over their letter paper, in one after brotherhood of man, then, and then and beyond it? The last contact the This month (November) the Y. M. another of those seven felg tents. only, will wars cease. When that day soldier has with this life he loves so C. A. must raise $35,000,000 to carry Subscribe for THE PRESS -The Popular Home Weekly These were the tents of the Y. M. C. comes doors will need no locks, banks Well Is a cup of tea given, him by the on its work among our soldiers and A. On that last night in America the will need no vaults to protect their Y. M. C. A. free just before he goes their allies until next July. Of this association was serving the soldiers treasures, but that day is a long way "over the top" to a hand to hand struggle $35,000,000 about $24,000,000 will be ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR in the best of all ways—giving them off. with the enemy. And as he comet spent on the work with our own troops an opportunity to write home. On "The only safe and sane plan is to tottering back from No Man's Land, or about $10 for every man in Uncle previous nights they had enjoyed boxing be able to defend ourselves at all wounded, but strong enough and Sam's uniform. If everybody who has bouts, movies, concerts, dramatics times. Therefore, every citizen should received tetters from soldiers and sailors plucky enough to keep on his feet, and a score of healthy entertainments Immense Russian Empire. Majestic Hotel insist that senators and congressmen were to contribute $10 the task even before his wounds are dressed as well as religious meetings. But on The Russian empire stretches over shall provide for universal military would be easy. Are your boy's health ths Y. M. C. A. Is waiting for nlm with this last night home ties were strongest a vast territory in eastern Europe and and happiness and clean soul worth training, so that never again shall the tea and sweet chocolate, the great com* And perhaps that is the keynote $10 to you? country be caught so completely unready northern Asia, with an area exceeding Cor. Seventh Stmt and Hwintpin Awntw forts of the man in the trenches. Do of the splendid work the Y. M. C. A. 6,500,000 square miles, one-sixth of the MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 's Your town mayor, your pastor, your as this war found us. Fortunately, rou wonder that the Red Triangle is A is doing among our men In uniformkeeping school superintendent will know who in this case, our enemy has land surface of the earth and nearly THE ONLY MODERN called "the best loved trademark in thefi In touch with home. is the treasurer of the campaign .committee been held back, so w'e have had a few three times the area of the United POPULAR PRICED HOTEL''/ the world?" One soldier in France has in your county or town. Otherwige months in which to prepare. This advantage States. The total length of the frontier Magio Words, "With the Colora? Within one block of ten theatre* and principal^ called it "the last evidence that anybody send *a check or money order to probably will never come line by land is 2,800 miles in Europe department it ores. In these times there are some letters cares." 65 ROOMS 69 ROOMS with Cleveland H. Dodge, treasurer, 124 again. It is however our salvation and 10,000 miles in Asia, and by, vm that mean more to than any If every thinking cltlsen could see At Bath East Twenty-eighth street. New York sea 11,000 miles in Europe rand be­ today. we have ever read before. They are with his or her own eyes something 75c $1.00 $1.25—$1.50 city. tween 19,000 and 20,000 in Asia. Within "Because she was ready, Switzerland written on sheets of paper stamped of the actual work beipg done for our Only sacrificial giving by millions of these vast boundaries. there is a is an island of peace in a sea of Ho* Cold Running Water, Local and with the Stars and Stripes and the men by the association there would be Sir01** Diat*nc* Pbonaa in Enry Room, givers will make possible the continuance population of oyer 170,000,000, about war. Safety first is good, but safety i® red triangle of the Y. M. G. A., and no question of the Y. M. C. A. having ot this vast work for Americsa 75 per cent of which, according to the RAY BOYD always is better. In strength there is Manaied by they bear the magic words, "With the to appeal to the public for money. pee*: eoldlers and tor those of our Encyclopaedia Britannica, are Formarly Chief Clerk Vendome Hotel safety. You never saw a tin can There are many more than Rather than let this essential H$rk Colors." Mite. Our Rat— ay Ahray AS ADVERTISED tied to tLe tall Ojt a bulldog.: There a million such letters In the mails now falter tor an Instant rich men \"h\* lea reason," lilie you read this. Perhaps one at sell their motorcars* poor raw