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1 & !T- o a n u n if ' r , v f at. t - tv .: i st fj a-) 1 'I l,.lll..1.JU.l,U ill.M,, ' TheyVe been fighting for their igjiltt-w-"" BjU&tSfiSBBBBBBSESsS homes since 1914! sasici wji!r?' & i TV- Why you should give twice as much as you ever gave before! THE need it for a sum 70 greater than any gift ever asked for since the war 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 tailors may not enjoy during 1919 their 3600 Recreation Buildings 1000 Miles of Movie Film 100 Leading Stage Stars 2000 Athletic Directors 2500 Librariessupplying 5,000,000 books 85 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 com forts of these seven organizations every tap of the way from home to the front and back again. You provide him with a church, a theatre, a cheerful home, a tore, a school, a club and an athletic field and a knowledge that the folks back home are with him, heart and soul! You have loaned your money to supply their physical needs. Now give to maintain the Morale that to winning the warl I THOSE gallant men who wear horizon blue, those bronzed poilus who are entering upon their fifth winter of this war they are the men who know the sheer luxury of a cup of hot soup, a piece of bread, a stove to sit by, and a word of enter. Think of a nation where every able-bodied man of let! than fifty has been under arms for four lone years and more. Think lJFanaun"which TKas suffer Then you will know what the huts are meaning to the French, and what the huts are meaning to our fighters over there. It was requested by the Government of Franca, officially, that American maintenance of morale be extended to the armies of the French. Cheerfully it was undertaken, in simple justice for our splendid debt of gratitude. And so you see these huts today, hundreds of them; where French and Americans stand side by side, holding out a hand of friendship to the war-worn, grizzled men whose fighting spirit is an inspiration to our Yanks. Foyer du Soldftt they call the hut hearth of the soldier the nearest approach' home up on the roads to battle. "The support and comfort of your Foyers" says General Mangin, "has been and will continue to be a tremendous phys ical comfort and moral support, and has given the soldiers that feeling of home which has been so much lacking." "Your Foyers" says Clemenceau, "constantly established in increasing numbers, as great at the front as in the rear, has rendered to our soldiers most highly appreciated service. Thanks j to your efforts, our children have found in your midst a center j of distraction and comfort" j United in this war for freedom, our fighters stand beeide j the soldiers of France. United in this campaign for morale j these seven organizations come to you as one. France's fig ht I is our fight Unity of command is winning on the battlefields abroad. Unity is hastening victory through morale. Give for w ' w - 1 morale, give for unity, give for victory 1 ?i' ?3.' . . . J. , v, K, r - UNHID WAR WORK CAMPAIGN i i : A . H )': This Ad Contributed for the benefit of The Boys Over There by Marry I. Traax Hardware Carter Tracy Hardware Phelps Bras,, fiarafa F. C. Tracy, Dry tkmt Iract i- f , .-, e " V 3 .' 4 , j? V 3 SP O v V.J M a ' fll i i o K-i i. I 'i vk jk K ' 1. (p a ; o f L. 33