Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-03
hut" HAS COME
TO MEAN MUCH
1t May Be Only a Dugout or
or Corner in Abandoned
Cellar.
SECRETARIES RISK THEIR AL.
War Camp Community Service Is
New Soldiers Best
Friend.
SECRETARIES RISK THEIR ALL,
ny REINETTE L0yEwELL.

;, shut your eyes and think of the SOL s.
think OF him. not as the six-fo son
NOV sssed FEood-byG but as that new
pressed TO your heart hour after 4
he was born. Z
II may be your sisters child or your
1t may he the man. barely twenty
one you married less than six months
ago.
It may be only the grocery boy who
came ca to the kitchen door and forgot
TO apr, prdhf = your YOU yeast the day you
carry in, your mind, shut your eyes
and think OF him now.
Think of him when lie has come safe
~ through he'll of name and fight
Perhaps he has seen his own buddy"
torn TO death by shell--his iieuten- 6
ant shot by a sniper. He has received +
his baptism of fire; he knows what this *
Don't you think he needs some place
TO so after that some place where he
can see with his own eyes that there
and. miracle of miracles, women. wo-
men from the United States Of Amer
lea. who bake him cookies, and put
coiored paper shades over the light
bulbs: 80
Don't you think when for weeks he
with rats and Vermn. when he has
slept in his clothes-that he needs a +
place TO go where it is clean ana warm
DO you wonder that 1t warns his
h Tea, ,h ana puts tght into his spirit to
war have made it possible to get a
piano and canned peaches and moving
pictures to him through the mud and
ruin and cheerlesSnesS of those ADAM d
doncd French towns!
liut--thc mean little word has taken
on glory Of IS own since 1917!
1t may he that IL is only n duEout s,
or or the corner of cellar-it may boz
that the salvation Army has opened It.
NJ. c: A-the big thing is that it it has
an eighteen karat welcome for every
lonesome Ion, hungry boy whose feet are
hold OF something to read worse than
aaniy MosT , siMs sr ins W ,Tl!
The great organizations which are
devoting their efforts to relieve some
OF war have ethen BUTT gTtm or ranfss
$500 separate buildings for the sake /
Of our soldiers, sailors and marines.
where soldiers come direct from their
family life. There are boys who never
slept away from home night in
There are huts at the Atlantic ports
where they set sail and huts the
foreign ports where they leave the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS which have been rest
places for me1p who had no place to
go when they wanted to go some
Wherever there is hut there arc
secretaries, men In utilitarian khaki
who. this past summer, have carried
the wounded back to dressing stations
Grated for bravery. They cross with
the troops, and go wherever they are
sent. The boy you miss most knows
them. knows that they get things to
him which he wants-motion pictures,
SHOWS OF various sorts. the chance
stars like Sothern and Elsie Janis; that
they give the men 4 chance to study
against the day when they can come
home and go to work. lie knows the
secretaries have no soft jobs. want no
soft Jobs and are out to win the war
Just the same as he is, and are risk
ing their lives TO do IT, aEs
Have you any idea what these hutsS
and all that GO with them cost--what
II means in dollars and cents to build
them and keep them heated-to put
tons or letter paper into them and cake
chocolate enough to ill up a hollow
young man with II sweet tooth?
In that strange period of rcadiuSt
mcnt when "a fellow is turning into ~
soldier he has the best sort of Il friend
Il, IN the War Camp Communi,y Service.
leave. and he has never in his life
been in the big city. Hc has very little
time. and less money--for that $40
lodging and entertainment are mighty
extensive in New York. But at tho
booth. When he strolls up ana asks
few questions he nnds that he can
get bed with II bath for % cents.
that there are folks in New York. yes
stree, in New York. WHO viii invite
him TO dinner, real home dinner,
with Just the family.all the family but
the window. He finds clubs who well
come him to dance and sing where
there The, are girls to whom he can talk.
WANT TECHNICAL BOOKS,
Is the boy you miss most a bookworn
when he's home: continually reading,
rn.i lttNfr
bound to have warm place in your
heart for tho American Library Assu-
citation. which has undertaken the Job
of getting hooks and magazines 10 the
men in service. no matter where they
are. Many Il soldier or sailor Will
scorn story" and demand some sor.
formulas These books are. more eS-4
pensive than the dollar-and-h novel
and for them is steady. insistent de-
mand.
II you went to see the hoy you miss
most when he was at Camp Devens or
Camp sherman. or maybe he wears the
full name of Cob and you travelled
to Great Lakes. you remember how
glad you were to find the Y. w G. ~
hostess house. where there was a. place
to visit with him. The V w. c. a. is
doing a lot in this war besides provid- 6
ing siXty-one hostess houses for the
in the service. 1t is making things
easier for the plucky corps or girls
who have gone to France telephone
operators; 1t knows that nurses over :
seas get lonesome and homesick. and
has established huts at base hospitais,te
where. in the hours between off duty
they can get n cup of tea in cretonne-
hung room, and there is a big, COM.
Portable chair to sink into.
During the week which begins Nos.
vember nth. you are going 70 haze az
chance to give money TO these sevenS,
organizations, to whom the War De-sl
partment has given the responsIhi,itr
of keeping our boys so comforta BILE and Il
happy that their morale Will exceed
that OF any other army in action. There
could be no huts or secretaries or uioN-s
Ing pictures for the men, IL IL were not
FOR these organizations. There is no
way TO send the gifts you long to send, q
tooth paste or book to read or
cooky. The only way he can be made, U
to feel TINT he IA not entirely shut ofl1