The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-04-15
COMFORT FOR U.S,MEK
WOMEN START ORGANIZATION
TO GIVE AID TO ALLIES.
Single Dollar viii Pay For French
Comfort Pocket Which in Practical
Use viii Be Evidence Of American
Cooperation.

New York, April 15.-The first or
ganization formed to give actual aid
both to the armed forces of the United
states and OF the entente allies has
been started by women. And it is
planned that wherever an American
soldier may be sent to do actual fight
ing, he will carry with him evidence
of the thoughtfulness, sympathy and
support Of the women of the country
Similarly every soldier of the entente
armies fighting on the western front
French, Belgian, British and Italian
is to be remembered in a practical way
that shall bring home to the men in
the trenches the cooperation Of
America.
Trench Comfort Packets for
United States and the Allies" is the
name of the organization, the presi-
dent of which is Mrs. Mary Hatch
Willard, who also organized and is
the head Of the National Surgical
Dressing committee that has already
sent more than 12000000 surgical
dressings to the war fronts in Europe.
The new committee, without any ap-
peal for financial assistance, has al
ready made up ana sent to Europe
| some 10000 trench comfort packets
which have been distributed among
| the men returning to the firing lines.
Now it is proposed that the under
taking, started in small way in New
York shall be made national in scope
and shall insure that every soldier
Of our army and Of the allies sent
into the trenches shall be provided
with one of the packets
And what is trench comfort pack.
ct? Ask any OF the 10000 men Of the
British, French, Belgian and Italian
armies who have received one Hun
dreds Of these men have written TO
the friends in America who have sup
piled the packets to say that they are
most priced, tine most useful and the
most practical form Of aid to the
man at the front
Contents Of Packet.
Simple things go into these com
fort packets, inexpensive articles
that are priceless in value when need
ed. bit of string a candle, needle
and thread, a pencil, few sheets OF
writing paper, pair of socks, ban
danna handkerchief, safety razor
jack knife, mayhap a sweater. These
trifles, of which every home in Ameri
ca has a store, reach the men in the
trenches and Oft times come as q
veritable God send. They are laugh
ed. They are laughed over, criet
over and prayers Of JOY and thank
fulness are said over them.
Imagine one Of your own sons il
a dug out, in rain soaked trench
hundreds, thousands of miles from
home. He has, perhaps, been foI
hours on duty. II is night. Darkness
impenetrable screens even the mex
man in the trench from his view !
is cold. too. What treasure in sucl
case is bit OF candle. II performs
a double office for with 1t he can SCI
TO read the letter from home he hal
carefully safeguarded. He can alst
warm his fingers. chilled to the bone
And so even the bit of string tha
goes into the packet is OF the utmos
usefulness. It will serve to tie a shoe
the lace of which has broken TO menC
a pair OF worn out suspenders Pos
sibly II may even save life by bind
ing a severed artery. And what com
fort 1t is to have pencil and paper IL
the long and dreary vigil Mayhap tn,
pencil and paper in the comfort packe
, viii be used to form the last message
+ the soldier may ever send to his loveC
T.. ones. Without 1t there might be n,
. letter and no word Of the men burieC
beneath tons Of steel hurled by Ger
man cannon.
F, And the socks, the gloves, the sweat