The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-04
NAVY LEAGUE

we'll as Knit for the Sailor and Mar
inc" is now the slogan of the Com
forts Committee Of the Navy League
of the United States.
The League is going to keep the
Sailor and Marine, sent owe the
seas to battle for civilization, in
touch with Gown home town." or at
least as far as possible in touch with
events in the U. S. A., by sending
him regularly clippings of every
sort and description from magazines
and newspapers. Everything from
Mutt and Jeff to Sun editorials will
be included in the Jackies' literary
menu.
This work was initiated by and is
now under the direct supervision Of
Captain C. H. Harlow, U. S. N, who
has his Office with the Comforts
Committee headquarters Of the Navy
League Of the United States, in this
city. His idea is to supplement the
comfore outfits knit by patriotic wo-
men Of the country, through the
Comforts Committee of the Navy
League, with clippings from news
papers and magazines, arranged in
booklet form, which would be of in
terest to the men on board ship.
To reduce postage costs, and be-
cause space in shipment is at a pre-
MUM, it has been recommended that
the stories be cut out separately
from the book, stitched together
with heavy thread, and, if possible,
bound with brown paper to further
protect it. The idea of this is to di-
vide a single magazine, which may
contain several stories, among all
men on board a destroyer, so that
while one man is reading a story
several Of his ship mates may be do
ing the same thing from the same
thing from the same book. In this
way a man can easily thrust such a
booklet into his pocket, when sud
denly called to quarters, or it can be
passed around the ship in a short
time, while a more bulky magazine
would have to be thrown aside. As
these torpedo boats and destroyers
are 81 numerous there is naturally
a scarcity of magazines for distribu-
ton when one considers that each
small boat many contain from eighty
to one hundred men in its crew.
A glimpse into the shop Of the
Comforts Committee headquarters
of the Navy League finds several
girls hard at work, clipping articles
. on current topics, religious, scienti.
fic and sporting subjects, as well as
, pictures from comic sheets which
they paste to . sheet of heavy paper
and place into an envelope in a file
arranged according to these sub.
jects. Others are busy separating the
bindings. from magazines and stitch.
ing the stories for the folders. At.
tractive pictures cut from magazine
covers and illustrations of stories
to add to the appearance of the GOV.
er are cut out and. pasted on these
folders. These little booklets are
then placed carefully in envelopes
. which are sent to the various de.
stroyers, torpedo boats and cruisers
of the United States to be distribu.
ted amongst their respective crews.
+ AS a navaloffcer, Captin Harlow
thoroughly understands the need fol
this form of entertainment for the
men. ut is surprisingly" says Capt
Harlow, chow the people of the
country r taking hold Of this
work and the great amount of en-.
thusiasm manifested. It is so en-.
couraging, in fact, that the Navy
League hopes that enough material
may be prepared to furnish not only
the torpedo boats and destroyers Of
the Navy, but also. the battleshipa
with their crews Of 1000 men"
Clubs FOR this kind Of work are
being forned 'throughout the coup,
tfiy 70 work in cooperation with u
lhesdquarests Of IL 1oii1ofts Cen.
mitess IN Wsshiagson. tAs peGhnAs.
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