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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1919)
TIIE SUXDAT OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 12, 1919. 19 SHIPLDAD OF FLOUR ISSEraiffl Government Sends Transpor on Errand ot Mercy. 8750 TONS VESSEL'StARGO All Possible) Effort Being Made t) General Relief Coramitteeto Aid Starving People. Telegraphic advices received In Port land by J. J. liandsaker. state director for the American committee for relief In the Near East, from David Hlnshaw, lta New York execuefcve. are to tbe effect that the United State! Govern ment transport Bella West w ached uled to leave there yesterday. " laden with flour for the starving thousands of Armenians and other refnpees. The Belle West, which is being sent bv the Government on this errand of mercy. Is a product of the Columbia River Shinbmldlnc Corporstlon. of Portland. The wire from New Tork said she is cvarrylnsr 8750 tons of Hour. She is the third ship the Gov ernment has placed at the disposal of the committee for the purpose, wirea Mr. llinshaw. lie said she is manned by the Navy fur the trip. 1 Fewd Betas; Hasteaed. All possible efforts are being- made by the geaeral relief committee, backed by the Government, and all possible DMd la be In a- maintained to set sup piles of food, clothing and medical equipment, as well as personnel, to the places where hundreds ot mousanas of Armenians. Syrians. Greeks and Per sian refugees are starving or are In the throes of disease. President Wilson has cabled to Cleve land II. Dodge, treasurer of the gen eral committee. In reply to an inquiry, aartng that the money ha asked Con gress for In a special cable a few daya ago has nothing whatever to do with this relief work. He cabled as follows: The appropriation asked of Congress for handling food relief is not Intended to In any way take the place of the sub scriptions being asked for relief and rehabilitation In the Near East. I hope that this subscription will imt In any war be interrupted or reuueeu. let teed Is Immediate and very great." HsHal Eaalaiaeat ta Be Seat. Another dispatch from New Tork headquarters Informs Mr. Handsiktr that the United States Government has turned over to the general committee full equipment for li hospitals and 200 motor trucks In Kran-e, These are to be rushed to the stricken districts. Ore son Is to be asked to contribute IIS 1.0 DO to this rvllef work. Mr. Hand aaker and his associates having decided upon tentative datea of February 17 to as tbe time for the campaign, organ isation Is now being effected through out the. city and Mate and plans are rapidly beinc formulated. anese T. M. C A, to the Japanese army and carried on ita beneficent work for nearly two years with such success as to win from the Japanese Minister of War an official expression of heart felt thanks. This proved to be a pre paratory training for the larger op portunity opened before It by the out break of the great World War. Two years and a half before America had awakened to Its duty the T. M. C. A. had entered the military field. By January 1, 11S. five months after Germany had crossed the Belgian border, the Y. M. C. A. had lta head quarters In practically every prison camp in Europe. It had overcome the prejudices of the prisoners men of dif ferent languages, nationalities and creeds the reluctance of officers to allow any non-military organization within the camps, the Inertia, indif ference and sometimes hostility of the governments themselves, and. In other than prison camps, the bitter hostility of the keepers of drinking places nd worse resorts Just outside the camp limits. When America entered the war the T. M. C. A. work took on a new direc tion and new proportions. In Decem ber. 1S17. eieht months after America's declaration of war. the Y. M. C. A. had more than 1600 "Y" stations within the mar sone and more than 400 so-called "huts" In the home camps. These huts are either tents or wooden structures built after the fashion of the barracks which they adjoin. They have aerved five distinct functions. They have been socia' clubs where the boys could meet for conversation, read boks and maga zines provided for them, write letters, get postage stamps, give their money Ho the attendant secretary as a Kina of local banker to keep for them or forward to their homes, and Incidental ly buy such luxuries as tobacco, chew ing gum and chocolate. They have been recreation halls ' where games could be played, moving pictures ex hibited and other entertainments fur nished, such as could be managed In camp life. Some American vaudeville performers have "g'ven their services to the Y. Ji. C. A. for this purpose. They have been athletic clubs, from which athletic goods mounting up in value to hundreds of thousands of dol lars have been given away. A single consignment sent from Brooklyn In the Fall of 1917 waa reported In the Outlook of September -t. 1917. as In cluding five tons of milk chocolate, ten folding organs. 100 moving-picture ma chines. 100 talking machines, wi'h 5000 records: 500O baseballs, with baseball gloves and baseball bata to match: 20,- 00 Testaments and 10,000 .iymn books. These huts have also been schools, where not only haa tha English langu age been taught to foreigners, but other modem languages have been taught to English-speaking men, and vocational education haa been fur nished by experienced teachers, that he boys might find themselves, when the war was over, fitted to compete with their home comrades. The ln- tructors and superintendents of this educational work have Included not only teachers from private schools and principals of high schools, but several college presidents. Finally, these huts have been centers of religious activity, and have been made available for th religious services not only of all Protestant churches, but of .ho Roman Catholics, the Greeks and the Jews. Most of the workers abroad there have been "000 In the foreign field, how many In the home camps we do not know have been volunteers. But the association has provided for their subsistence and other expenses, for the travel of the men and the transporta tion of the supplies and also for the home expenses of those dependent on the fathers, brothers and husbands abroad. The amounts thus paid have . 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It is doubtful whether any Christian work of such complexity, magnitude, extent and difficulty haa ever before been known in the world's history. Such a work cannot be carried on by such a variety of volunteera with out some mistakes and also some un just and unfathered accusations. It has been charged: First That the T. M. C. A. has given little thought to its selection of men for overseas service. In fact, the quali fications of all men sent by the Y. M. C. A. for overseas service have been in quired Into both by the association and y the Government before any appoint' ment has been made. Second That men of draft age have escaped the draft by entering the work of the Y. M. C. A. In fact, with a fow exceptions at the beginning of the war, the Y, M. C. A. has been confined to the selection of men who, because of age or physical conditions, were not thought by the War Department to be fitted for military service. Third That the Y. M. C. A. has failed to keep In touch with the wounded and ill. In fact, to avoid duplication of effort overseas, the association agreed with the American Bed Cross that the Ked Cross should care for the wounded and the ill and the Y M. C. A. for the well. Fourth That the T. M. C. A. work ers have not gone to the front lines. but have avoided the posts of danger. It Is true that necessarily much of the work of the Y. M. C. A. has been done in enlistment camps at home or In. rest camps or prison camps at the rear. But wherever there was work which they could do at the front without Inter fering with the military expedition, there they have been found. In the Argoi.ne fight there were TOO Y. M. C. A. secretaries. iO of whom were women (anteeu workers, attached to the different fighting units with which they remained in the danger zone and frequently under shell-fire during the entire offensive. Since the Y. M. C. A. went overseas to serve the American expeditionary forces, niine of Its work ers have been killed by shell fire, 23 seriously gassed or wounded. 31 have died In the service, chiefly as a result of exposure and overwork, ane? ten have been cited for bravery or decorated. Fifth The most Important charge against the association Is that it has been making money by its canteen sales to the soldiers. Into this charge Raymond B. I'osdlrk has made an in vestigation and says: "At General Per shing's request I went into this mat ter thoroughly, and the report Is abso lutely without foundation. To this statement we add the following official report which we have received from the T. M. C. A. headquarters: The unfavorable Impression that the as sociation cbnrses unreasonably hlkh prices Is due to two thlncs. First, tbe actual and vuavoiditble hls'i cost of thlnss the ns soclatlon sells In France. tfeconrl. roods sent from this country for our work abroad have been subject to a rharse of from SI to S3 Per cubic foot for ocean transport alone. Jlmerlran tonus whlt-h we huve pur chased abroad have been subject to this eharse. Plus tbe French Import uuty. The soldier has compared oar selling price of goods subject to these charges with tbe quartermaster's selling price of goods pur chased by the United States Government in test quantities, often before the United States entered the war. which were trans ported to" Kram-e on Government trane oorte sna against which, so far as we know. the Government makes no charge for ovur bead Interest or freight. It was presum ably because General rershlnc thought It unwise to oontlnne to operate the post ex change on the previous Government basts that tbe enterprise was turned over to the Toung Mens Christian Association. It Is true that some gift tobacco sent to tha quartermaster for free distribu tion among the soldiers was not prop erly marked and was mistakenly sold by the quartermaster to the i. 41. C. A.. and In turn by the Y. M. C. A, to sol diers at tha cost price paid by the as sociation to the Quartermaster. Later, when the soldiers came to open these parcels, they found In them evidence that they had been intended for free distribution and In every case where these were returned to the Y. M. C. A. it furnished free an equivalent amount of tobacco from Its own supplies. Dr. John R. Mott, the distinguished head of the International work of the Y. M. C has frankly met the crltl- Largest exclusive Truck manufacturers in the world. Fourteen years at the business. The units which make up the Atterbury Trucks are seasoned VETERANS. 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Odell on behalf of tho Outlook, oa e In his vibits to the home camps, once in his visits to the overseas camps, both fully re ported In our columns. There doubtless have been In the Y M. C. A. Individual Instances of stu pidity, inefficiency, lack of fidelity and nosslbly ot corrupt practice. But a great, working, human organization is to be judged, not by sporadic instances of Individual Incompetency, but by its entire character and total accomplish ments. And we do not hesitate to say that It will be difficult to find any piece of work, commercial or philan thropic, of so large and difficult a nature, which has been conducted mora honestly, wisely and efficiently than the war work of the T. M. C. A. TACOMA MILLS CLOSING Adjustment of Market Conditions Awaited by Operators. TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 11. (Special.) Tacoma mill operators are closing their plants until market conditions ad just themselves. 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