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The Y.M.C.A in England
It would take more than words and letters to sum up all the good work and what the Y.M.C.A. means to the troops, specially the oversea troops, thousands of miles away from home and friends. It is a wonderful organisation and is represented in almost every camp throughout the British Isles, and according to the size and areas of such camps, so is the number of Y.M.C.A. huts. In a great number of the places, these huts (so commonly called "huts" over here) are the gifts wholely and solely to the Y.M.C.A. National Council, and erected and furnished throughout, by some of the wealthy residents of the Country. There is always a piano and music, the best of billiard tables and other table games, reading tables and in fact everything to help to draw men there to spend their leisure hours there, and with free paper and all to write home. These huts are given out to people to take charge of, mostly elderly people, unfit for active service through some infirmity or other. These people live on the premises and run in connection with the place a little shop, open at certain hours, for the sale of all the