Things About Camp Cody And Deming The “Folks Back Home” Want To Know – Part 4 of 4

Comfort and Pleasure of Soldiers.

The war department, through the camp chaplains and the great American institutions of the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Knights of Columbus, Red Cross, War Camp Community service and the churches operating through camp pastors and representatives, are doing all that can be done for the morale and comfort of the soldiers and those who come to live near them. The class of men and women who administer these affairs are among the best to be found under the Stars and
Stripes.

Voluntary athletics form a very interesting part of camp life and no father or mother would want a son under better influences along this line than Camp Cody affords. The Y.W.C.A. has placed a travelers aid at the union station to assist strangers, particularly women and young girls, in securing accommodations when they reach Deming. She meets all trains. Soldiers, who are unable to meet their relatives on arrival, may secure her services free of
charge by notifying the Y.W.C.A. when the visitors will arrive. The war camp community service maintains for all enlisted men the finest community club house of any camp in the United States, and the finely furnished Deming club is the free home of all officers. The Y.W.C.A. hostess house and girls’ club house are situated midway between the business district and highest type of service. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 4, 1918

Iowa Troops At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, September 1917