THE Y. M. C. A. ABROAD.

The Y. M. C. A. needs help at once; this was the message brought to us by Dr. Mott. $35,000,000 is what is needed by the end of the week and the University must do its share. To those who heard the lecture last night we need say nothing; every man in that audience realizes his responsibility in this universal campaign to make life more bearable to the soldiers, sailors and prisoners of war. If the men who listened to Dr. Mott's inspiring appeal are still unmoved, nothing we can say will have any effect upon them. To those who had the ill fortune to be absent, we must insist upon the importance of immediate action. The Y. M. C. A. is the one home influence, the one place of rest, the one amusement resort that the Army and Navy have. It is the soldier's oasis in the midst of the horrors of battle. The French and the Italians want the American Y. M. C. A. to take up its work behind their lines and it has promised to comply. The Russians need our assistance in the form of both huts and cantonments. Their Army is in many places demoralized: the poison of German propaganda is having its dire effect of which the antidote is work such as Dr. Mott discribed. The Russian soldier has many hours of leisure, he must be kept busy or he falls prey to clever German speakers who fill his punitive mind with theories of Teuton love and internationalism. The Y. M. C. A. is our only method of reaching such men; its wonderful effect has already been demonstrated by the results obtained among the Russian armies in Turkestan.

To make good our promises to our Allies means money. $40,000 is what we want from Harvard.