Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

IF YOU have a boy IN france you are
j doing everything you know of to make
! ,oss bomesick. But If you haven't
how in France-if you have just friend
a. casual acquaintance-are you doing
-,.,,ne about II? DO you search the
..nsrs for mention of his name, and use
.,oonifyirg glass on all the pictures of
-, American men to see If you can say:
.e.s that man on the right? know him"
-, much more proud you would be If
-, could say: "see that man smoking a
.,..rette? I sent him that" And you have
cbance to say just that very thing now,
,or the Emergency Aid has made it pos.
sibe.
Tho Emergency Aid has been appointed
.ho official organization Cor the whole
e,ote for the distribution of tobacco and
Thor Injuries among the men who are
oyer IN France for us. Perhaps 1t would
~ better to say tobacco and luXuries"
Or IN an American a smoke is real ne.
ooss,tv. Hasn't your husband or your
.rother or your father come home lots
a, times at night, and been grouchy and
,nonosyllabic until he got his pipe, and
,hen hasn't he puffed for a few minutes
n silence. and suddenly turned around
dderent man, all full of smiles? OF
course, he has Now imagine a soldier
M imagine a plain American boy in uni
form. tired, a bit grouchy, and, way down
Asep. most awfully homesick. He's been
working hard all day. and what he wants
is n comfortable chair and long smoke.
He NAV be able to make himself com
Portable. although It's doubtful, but for
love or money or any other thing he can't
get a smoke, An American without
smoke!.
ITS I'D to you to overcome this state
of affairs. The Emergency Aid will place
the tobacco; but it can't provide all the
money Five cents will help, twenty-five
will buy one package of cigarettes, and
all YOU do is send the money to the to-
bacco committee of the Emergency Aid at
1928 Walnut street. with the name of the
soldier whom you know, and the tobacco
will reach him personally. How they do
Il don't know, but they do. And they
want money to do it, and surely the peo-
pie of Philadelphia will come to the rescue
and provide that money.
AFTER all, it isn't so much what you
Agive, as the spirit in which you give
It, don't you think?
You know the independence Square
Auxiliary, No. 276, of the American Red
Cross will open its new headquarters on
the main floor of the Washington Build
ing, at COS Chestnut street, today and
stopped in there yesterday just to see
how they are getting along, for you know
every one of us is deadly interested in
Red Cross work; indeed in any kind Of
work for the soldiers.
The rooms certainly look inviting with
their long tables covered in white and
their beautiful spotless shelves and cup
boards. And, you know, they have quite
some remarkable things to show in their
windows. There is a genuine Lusitania
medal which was struck off in Germany
at the time Of the sinking of the ship,
It's very interesting to see it, for do you
remember the uproar raised by the Ger
mans when Owen Wister stated that the
drowning of those women and children
had been celebrated with general rejoic.
ing in Germany
The Huns denied this with great gustO,
but the medals were struck off not only
at the time, but two days earlier than the
actual happening, for the Lusitania was
two days late, and so the date on the
medal, May 8, does not correspond with
the disaster, May 7. The Germans were
30 sure that this heinous thing would be
done, they had the medals made and
dated on the day they planned to do it.
All this, however, is dverginG from
What l said in the beginning, about the
way Of giving being the thing after all.
MRS GEORGE HORACE LORIMER,
NAwho is the mother" of the Independ-
ence Square Auxiliary, you know, showed