Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — War Service of Y. M. C. A. Requires Vast Expenditure [ARTICLE]

War Service of Y. M. C. A. Requires Vast Expenditure

The service which the Y. M. C. A. is planning to give the selective national army in its cantonments is going to require 1,100 secretaries and $3,000,000 of which nearly $2,000,000 has already been paid in or pledged. It is to be; noted that an army of 1,000,000 men, which the 200 buildings the Y. M. C. A. proposes to erect will accommodate, will require an equipment of 200 pianos and piano players, 268,000 feet of films a day, 3,000,000 sheets of writing paper dally, 10,000 pens a day and a barrel of ink, 95 automobiles and trucks, 200 mov-ing-picture machines, 200 graphophones and 10,000 records, 40,000 pounds of ice per day, a Bible to every man, magazines by the hundred tons.