Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-29
ID CLIP AND KNIT FOR SAILOR BOYS,
 LATEST SLOGAN
Reading Matter in Scrap book Form Being Provided
 for Destroyers' Men. -5

Washington, July 2S-"Clip as well as knit for the sailor and marine!" is now the slogan of the Comforts com mittee of the Navy League of the United States.
 The league is going to keep the sailor and marine, sent over the seas to battle for civilization, in touch with his town home town," or at least as far as possible in touch with events in the United States of America, by sending him regularly clippings of ev- cry sort and description from maga- zines 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, United States,
 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
 comfort outfits knit by patriotic wom-
 en of the country, through the Con- forts committee of the Navy league, with clippings from newspapers and
 magazines, arranged in booklet form,
 which would be of interest to the men
 on board ship.
 To reduce postage costs, and be- cause space in shipment is at a pre-
 mium, 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 divide single maga-
 zine, which may contain several
 stories. among all the men on board
 a destroyer, so that which one man l is reading a story several of his ship mates may be doing the same thing from the same book. In this way a
 man can easily thrust such booklet into his pocket. when suddenly called to quarters, or it can be passed around the ship in a short time, while more bulky magazine would have to be
 thrown aside. As these torpedo boats
 and destroyers are so numerous there is naturally a scarcity of magazines for distribution when one considers that each small boat may contain from eighty to one hundred men in its
 crew.
 A glimpse into the shop of the Con- forts committee headquarters of the
 Navy league finds several girls hard
 at work, clipping articles on current topics, religious, scientific and sport ling subjects, as we'll as pictures from
 comic sheets which they paste to al i sheet of heavy paper and place into an envelope in file arranged accord ling to these subjects. Others are busy separating the bindings from maga- zines and stitching the stories together for the folders. Attractive pictures cut from covers and illustrations of stories to add to the appearance of the !cover are cut out and pasted on these folders. These little booklets are then placed carefully in envelopes which are sent to the various destroyers, tor pedo boats and cruisers of the United States to be distributed amongst their respective crews.
 AS a naval officer, Captain Harlow thoroughly understands the need for this form of entertainment for the men.
 "It is surprising," says Captain liar low, "how the people of the country are taking hold of this work and the great amount of enthusiasm manifest ca. It IS so encouraging, in fact, that the Navy league hopes that enough material may be perpared to furnish not only the torpedo boats and destroy- CTS of the navy, but also the battle ships with their crews, of l, 1,0004 men,"
 Clubs for this kind of work are be- ing formed throughout the country to work in cooperation with the head quarters of the Comforts committee in Washington. the work being sent there when completed for distribution bv the Navy league to the postmaster at
 New York city who is advised by the navy department as to what ships can be reached and their whereabouts PREFER RROUGH'S MAN.