Committee on Public Information 



A HOSTESS HOUSE FOR BOYS IN TRAINING AT ONE OF OUR SOLDIER CITIES 



Among the most effective social undertakings of the Young Women's Christian Associa- 

 tion has been an arrangement whereby homes in the cities adjacent to the cantonments are 

 thrown open to the men in uniform. Here they may enjoy that social intercourse of which 

 they were suddenly deprived when they responded to the nation's call to arms. 



Photograph from Burnell Poole 



THE CHAMPION RACING CREW OP THE ATLANTIC FLEET 



At the Great Lakes Xaval Training Station, near Chicago, the navy is training 25,000 

 youths, most of them between the ages of 18 and 22. During the past winter they received 

 instruction in two great drill halls, one of which is capable of accommodating 7.000 inckies. 



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