Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
sMMEAeE BOOKS TO
 BE SOLD IN NORWICH.
Thomas H. BeckIey Placed in Charge
 of Sales in This City.

Thomas H. Beolzley has been placed in charge of the sale of smileage books in this city. He was notified of his appointment on Friday and has al- ready taken steps to place the smileage books on sale in local stores this (Sat-- urday) morning. The list of stores at which the smileage books will be found on sale follows:
 The Porteous- Mitchell company, Reid. & Hughes (Boston store). Lee x Osgood Mara & Eggleston, Ring & Slsk, Broadway pharmacy, George Madden's cigar store, Ricker's drug store, Rathbone's drug store. Agencies will also be established at the Wau- regan hotel office and the Y M. c. A. office
 The military entertainment council is a special commission appointed by the secretary of war as a branch of the war department commission on training camp activities. Its work is to provide programs of entertainment for the off hours of the men in the uniform of the United States now in National guard camps and National army cantonments on l this side of the Atlantic. For the present the work does not reach to the smaller army camps or to any of the navy camps
 | For the entertainment under it's di- rection the council will use tie new 1 Liberty theatres built by the govern naent, and-where the weather permits the tents which have been provided l by the Chautauqua Managers associa- 1 tioq
 | An army recruited by draft includes 1 the best young men of the nation. The off hours of these young men are the loneliest hours of their camp life. If those hours are to be pleasantly and ! healthfully filled there must be pro vided not only places to write and l to which the men are accustomed at home and opportunities for them to develop and exhibit their own skill Accordingly the council will present at the camp theatres
 1 Broadway companies in the best i theatrical successes of the season. 1 The best musical and vaudeville
 programs obtainable
 1 Lectures of the highest excellence !
 Amateur performances by the men | themselves.
 Operating expense has been reduced
 to bedrock. As a result, the money
 cost of these performances viii range from 10 cents to 9 cents a seat. -ES to attend many performances even al
 these prices. Thousands ct slelzi art
 sending home practically al thei~ pay On the other hand practically ever5 soldier has those at home who strong. ly desire to contribute to his ca1ip If,
 something of wholesome and cheerfu
 entertainment.
 Therefore this council has originated
 a type of book of tickets that member,
 of the soldiers family and his friend
 may send to him at the front The,
 are to be called smileage books ant will be made up of coupons somewha
 like the mileage books of the rail
 roads.
 In books of one size, 20 coupons vii be sold for $1. Tn books of anothe
 size, 100 win be sold for $5. Thes
 coupons will be good for payment fo
 seats at any performance in any cam theatre. Probably, as the movemen
 grows; they will be made good also fo ] certain other and similar uses.
 As gifts, these srni1eage books wi have rather a distinctive characte, Each time the soldier tears coupon , from his book he win renew his sens of attention. from the sender. Ever book will constitute a current of in ' terest between the man at the fror
 and the folks back home. Often, ( a course, one soldier will receive man l books, and then he will do the thin i which is characteristic of the Ameri f can soldier throughout our history s I.he will share his abundance with hi l matAS.
 The result will be to change a dan n ger period in the life of the soldie e into a period Of healthful relaxatio s and refresnment.