New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-06
Send Newspapers!
Nothing Else Is Quite So WELDON.
to Our Soldiers Abroad
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Interested in reading your editoyi.,
on correspondence with soldiers, I want !.
suggcstif one has nothing else TO send
that newspapers be sent them.
They may be sent al the domestic rat.
one cent for each four ounces. The Dali,
issue Of TIE Tribune can be sen. for tia.
The name, company and regiment Of "a.
solder-with the initials a. y. F. (for ln.,.
lean Expedtionary Forces) below-on a.
wrapper will reach him wherever he is abro,s
When our men first reached France a ear.
respondent Of The Tribune related th.,,
hunger for home news. He said that an.
newspaper would be passed about, sold s,s
resold until it was worn out
Not knowing any individual soldier Owe,
there at first, sent packages Of Newspaper.
70 Generals Pershing and Siben and CT.
onel Doyen Of the marines. The sender /,
obliged by the postal laws 20 pu, bis nam.
and address on the left OF the soldiers A.
dress on the wrapper.
was not looking for acknowledgment,
but they came all the same. The aid.-S.'
camp wrote for the general ard the eolo.,,
wrote for himself, thanking me for n,
"thoughtfulness," etc.
Later saw in 1.-THE PHILADELPHIA puhE.
Ledger" a list OF the men from that city /,
the Marine Corps, giving names and con.
psnies. Then I sent the daily papers re,ek.
ing my home 70 the marines themselves ana
was rewarded by letters saying "Your vsl.
come papers have arrived" "You are a real
live American" etc, etc. One officer wro,.
me that his regiment was divided and a,
duty in different small towns Of three a,
four hundred inhabitants, and the only news.
papers they saw were Paris paper OF on.
sheet in French and occasionally the PsrI,
edition of THE New York Herald" which hs1
little home news.
One can see, too, that when on duty IN
separate places the soldiers cannot get 10 The
Y. VI. {. A. stations for the magazines ana
papers, and even though their news be stsIs
newspapers can be used for such "a number
Of things" For chest protectors under one,
coat or vest-for comfortables between onss
blankets, twisted into faggots and wet and
then dried they are as good as kindling wood
reduced to a pulp and stuffed into the craeL,
they keep the cold out Of the barracks, and
hear some of our American girls are twist.
ing newspapers into candles, boiling them IN
paraffine and sending them over for treaeh
candles. They will burn for an hour or two
Two cents an ounce is the letter rate for
the American Expeditionary Forces. For
that amount one can send in a sealed en-.
velope eight picture postal cards and 4
CHEEKY letter, and the boys enjoy those hon.
postal pictures.
One can get from the headquarters Of the
local Y. VI. c. A. names and addresses Of n.
divdual men, and it is well TO ask especially
for those without near relatives, and IL they
are still in the United States, begin the cor
respondence here and follow it up wherever
they go.
1t is said the mountaneers Of Kentucky
and the Carolinas are soldiers whose families
are poor, and 20 whom gifts and letters are
especially welcome
Those who cannot afford the big things
can do these small ones. II. VI. NOBLE.
Jenkintown, Penn, Nov. 80. 1917.