The Detroit times., 1917-11-16
Cash STILL
NEEDED FOR
WAR GIF rs
Red Cross Makes APP
peal for Presents
For Sammies

n ali the grown nns in pe'rol'
would take a Leaf from the note
books 81 ne school children The
/ Christmas Fund committee ~ TIE
| American Red Gross would De
happy This special committee has
an ofce on rte ground foor ~ ere
Recreation building AZ SafioT-st
and Iafavrfte- blvd whore it ls re
ceiv!ug gifts FOR the Sammies.
Every giet which the donor e1pecR
20 bE delivered hy Christmas day
20 soldiers 10 Europe must De In
tho hands ~ the committee before
The oflce closes. Saturday The
committee. however g. also sending
gifts "a the boys in The American
training camps, and these may %
sent In almost until santa Claus
bells are heard ringing thru the
frosty afr
The committee asks thst thanks
be rendered the school children o.
the city FOR the splendid Kits they
have sent 20 the com mites. Mrs.
James T shaw. who IS attending "a
the publicity end ~ the campaign.
says the children have done nooly.
and have SEM Ia the most osaunrul
boxes OF Klfts FOR me Samuies
They are so generous that = IS
often necessary f0r the committee
70 divide an individual box into
three parts and send he contents
10 three Sammles instead ~ one.
But inasmuch az The adults have
not kept mace wlrh the Riddles he
committee IL SIN away short % iis
aim and IL needs money badly 80
TIA. Kris Kringle viii reach me
trenches before Christmas morning
The money mus ho received soon
The committee has already sent
1000 packages away. exclusive q
gifts intended For the Harper hos
pi,al and The Detroit College ~
Medicine base hospital units To
these units a. large cases 81 Eifts
have already gone
Beginning Friday afternoon kits
for the sammies Christmas stock
inEs will be placed on sale In the
Hobbies OF the Hotels Stauer, Pout-
chartrain and fuller and probably
10 the n A. c. The kits. one or
which VII be given 70 every Michi-
gan soldier In the trenches so long
as they last. contain g worth OK
useful articles az well as a few
slight Injuries. such a. chewing
rum. chocolate bars. salted nuts.
and matted milk The committee
has an inside price on these articles
and can purchase a kit for s.
The committee has received The
following letter signed By 80 on
rerE and men connected sikh the
regular army recruiting station.
thanking the committee for gifts i
has made 10 them
We. the undersl vred -er ~ the
regular arrry recruiting station. wish
10 return our sincere and grateful
thanks % The la1ies - me petrot
chapter. American Red Cross society.
FOR their generous Eiff q sweater
e. each man.
We regulars feel that we had been
left out ln the cold 70 certain sN-
tent as We send from 81 % 50 nen
daily 20 the front. but there IL never
any parade never any band and with
one solitary exception. without a SIN
gie hand~iasp. when trey lire %
IN front ~ the Office to~ia is~~th . ar
We had almost com nenced 20 think
that Detroit intended % shower al
its favors on the men who ala not
70 until they had 20. while We are
volunteers and most % us have heen
In the army for years and nearly one
haif are or were natives - Detroit
We nov feel as trio this condition
Rad passed away and that we have
been recognized ~ your society AZ
American soldiers These sweaters
viii be exceedingly comfortable 90
Us as our duties keep Is on the
street for many hours daily reEarf-
less 81 weather, and rvery time these
sweater keep US warm and com
Portable W viii inwarsly thank he
good ladies' o. your society Tor y0ur
kindness