Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1919 — MAJOR GENERAL PRAISES SERVICE OFFERED BY “Y” [ARTICLE]

MAJOR GENERAL PRAISES SERVICE OFFERED BY “Y”

Spread upon the records of the Third division, A. E. F., and just brought to the attention of the national war work council of the Y. M. C. A., is a general order issued by command of Major General Dickman, which “Y” officials have hailed as an emphatic answer to charges that Red Triangle workers had avoided the danger zones in France and had wrung exorbitant prices from the soldiers for the comforts which the association had sent overseas. General Dickman directed that a copy of the order be sent to every one of the thirty-four men and six women who went with the division through the fighting of ChateauThierry and along the Marne, to St. Mihiel, and later into action north of Verdun and along the Meuse. The Y. M. C. A. has made public General Dickman’s order along with a communication from Col. J. C. Rhea of another division which was in the St. Mihiel fighting. Colonel Rhea gave figures showing the large amount of supplies which were distributed in his division by “Y” secretaries without charge.