RECREATION HOUR IN A MILITARY CAMP, Y. M. C. A. BUILDING 



One of the most important problems which has grown out of the modern method of 

 trench warfare, with its months of "stale-mate" inactivity, is that of providing diversion for 

 the soldiers. In this work the Army Young Men's Christian Association is maintaining 

 thousands of recreation centers in army camps in the United States and Europe. The work 

 of the Association is about as varied as the men. At the Mexican Border camps there were 

 lectures and educational classes, concerts by such talent as Schumann-Heink, popular enter- 

 tainments, and motion-picture shows which often attracted crowds so great that the Asso- 

 ciation buildings could not hold them. Volley-ball and base-ball also helped to offset the 

 temptations of idle hours. The estimated number of letters written — free stationery fur- 

 nished — reached nearlv six millions. 



Photograph by United States Navy Department 

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