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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1918.
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"Gee!
but
it's nice to see a
girl like
i
von
IT was In a hut at one of the training schools
frT France."! He was, a non-commissioned
officer. He had been in France for eight
months, and now was back from the front as
an instructor. He hadn't seen a girl of his own
kind, a girl like his sisters, for weeks.
And there she stood behind the canteen
counter in this big, roomy, comfortable hut
He bought a bar of chocolate. Then he drifted
over to the group around the piano. . presently
he went back to the canteen for a package of
cigarettes. He strolled to the reading table and
leafed over a magazine. Again he returned this
time for a cake of soap and some tooth-pasta
For a moment the
rush at the canteen was
over. He loitered at the
counter and looked at
the girl. She smiled. So
did he. Then he blurted
out what he had been
trying to say for 20
minutes:
"Gee! but it's nice to
see a girl like you!"
There are girls like
that all over France
in camps, in towns, in
the big cities even at
the front itselt They are
serving the canteens,
Why you should give- twice as much
as you ever gave before f
The need Is for a sum 70 greater than any gift ever asked for since the
world began. The Government has fixed this sum at $170,500,000.
By giving to these seven organizations all at once, the cost and effort of
six additional campaigns is saved.
Unless Americans do give twice as much as ever before, our soldiers
and sailors may not enjoy during 1919 their
3600 Recreation Buildings 2500 Libraries supplying 5.000,000 books
65 Hostess Houses
15.000 Big-brother "secretaries"
Millions of dollars of home comforts
When you give double, you make sure that every fighter has the
cheer and comforts of these seven organizations every step of the way
from home to the front and back again. You provide him with a church,
a theatre, a cheerful home, a store, a school, a club and an athletic field
and a knowledge that the folks back home are with him, heart and soul I
You have loaned your money to supply .their physical needs.
Mow give to maintain the Morale that is winning the wart
1000 Miles of Movie Film
100 Leading Stage Stars
2000 Athletic Directors
running restaurants, handing out hot chocolate
or cotiee, pies and doughnuts.
They are giving the huts a look of home
putting bright curtains at the windows, posters
on the walls, making flower-gardens at the
doors. They are mending for the soldiers.
But, most of all, they are just being there!
They talk about the things that sound like
home. Perhaps they know the very towns
and streets and girls. that these boys know.
They bind together home and France! They'
are the girls beside the men behind the guns!
Without the organizations whose uniforms
they wear, these girls could accomplish nothing.
However eager to nelp,
they could not even
travel as individuals.
But with the backing
of these established, rec
ognized and regulated
bodies, they can work
wonders.
When you think of
war as a brutalizing
force, think of Ameri
can womanhood work
ing with the soldiers in
this war then give, to
support the organiza
tions which make this
possible.
UNITED WAR
WORK
CAMPAIGN
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