The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-13
CHRISTMAS PLANS
 AT CAMP MCCLELLAN
By PATRIOTIC PATRICIA

Anniston, December 12.-(Special) All of the clubs of Alabama are work ing with renewed energy to make this month of the Yuletide season one If joy for the boys in cantonments.
 Very few will be able to partake with their family circles the pleasures of Christmastide for that ironclad law. 1 military necessity, will demand that the boys keep up their routine of training. Uncle Sam cannot afford to let sentiment, even in holiday times, interfere with military duty.
 No women in the state receive a greater number of calls, but to every one the women of Anniston respond l with helpful earnestness Besides doubling their work for Camp McClel- l Ian of late, contributions poured into | the box sent by the Red Cross to the l soldiers in France, and to the Red l Cross nurses abroad This week, lin- der the leadership of Mrs. Stephen l Sweaters and comfort kits, besides in- numerable small gifts for the Alabama boys at Camp Wheeler, was collected
 A remembrance fund, started by the i local council of defense, for Christmas i gifts to Camp Wheeler is meeting with l a generous response.
 | No boys in the south will receive
 more attention at Christmas time than
 our men in uniform at Camp Mcclellan | Big Birmingham- is planning big l things for the child of her adoption The hospital relief committees of both Calhoun and Jefferson counties
 are busy perfecting. plans for the l cheer of the boys who must spend
 their holidays in dreary hospital walls
 The chairman of each ward will see
 that every boy is remembered. This
 is particularly necessary, for the Yule- l tide season will bring many pang oi | homesickness to the boys in the hos 1 pital, who are like one soldier whose objection to being sick was because
 he had time ito think and think" Il
 has been suggested that perhaps the 1 Birmingham girls, who have asked fol l suggestions about gifts for Carp Me- ] Clellan would like to make convales- cent blankets The soldiers find these blankets most acceptable. They are made of 6-inch knitted squares some l in bright colors, some in dark. It takes i 96 squares for a blanket, 8 squares
 wide and F square long. The girls clubs could have awful jolly times 1 knitting convalescent blankets When you send Christmas boxes to the hos pita1, be sure to put in some inexpen- l sive cotton socks. The nurses speak of this need often.
 The soldiers were delighted with tho delicious box of homemade edibles sent by the girls of the Birmingham seminary Wednesday. Mrs. Richards
 and Mrs. Vann, representing the Musi,
 Study club from Birmingham charmed
 boys both sick and well with thei,
 splendid musical selections on Wednes.
 day afternoon and evening.
 By the way, Annistonians were glat
 to hear that Mrs. Mccoy was choser
 to lead Birmingham's council of de
 fense. Mrs. Mccoy spent great dea
 of her time in Anniston when her sis.
 ter, Mrs. Frank Brandon, libed in tht city This fact will give her a persona
 interest in Annistons vast war work.
 A new organization, the girls hos
 pital relief committee, with Miss An
 nie Lanier Noble chairman, is do ing it's bit for the ward of their adop.