"IN A CUP OF COFFEE.”

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 21, 15 March 1918, Page 4

"IN A CUP OF COFFEE.”

WHERE MORALE WAS POUND.

“I have known morale to be found in a cup of hot coffee,” a Staff Officer once said.

“Is victory always on tho side of the biggest battalion?,he was asked. ; “Not always” was tho reply, ‘ ‘ There’s something else, something you cannot chart, or weight or express in any military figures, Nepoleon know what it was, and he called it 'morale.' “You can describe morale in a score of ways. It may come from faith in a future life, or the thought that tho soldier is protecting loved ones at home, I have seen morale created by a. man’s taking a big risk, I have seen it sustained by the writing of a letter home, just before going into action. Yes, morale comes in many different ways, but if you want an easy and short definition of it, take the four letters Y.M.C.A. and all the world knows what they have done for the troops going in and coming out of the trenches, and in tbe trenches too. That is what I mean when I say that I have known morale to be found in a cup of hot coffee,” _ Every cup of coffee, then, that is handed out to weary soldiers from these front lino Y.M. Huts, contains the rare essence of morale. It is the business of every non-combatant at home to see that there is no lack of hot coffee. One and you must make tho boys a substantial gift on Red Triangle Day. It will give you morale, too, to feel that you are helping them to win the war. Seating accommodation for about 4,300 soldiers is provided in the huge Red Triangle hut at Blackboy Hill camp, a few miles out of Perth, W.A. This Y.M.C.A. hut is said to be the largest building used for social purposes in any military camp in tho Empire. It is 270 feet long by 00 feet wide, and in one year, during the war, it seated altogether half a million of men.