Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-25

[ MdIy d Solulcl ildo ChPlcoocu hihi self thus and twice as many have thought as much. But never again.
 The Ever-Ready Tin Cup
 When the big train loaded with sol diers and sailors pull into the depots now it's different sight. There are scores of persons on hand to greet them and cheer them and show ap- preciation.
 The little woman who couldn't find time has managed to do so. She can get down to the depot in record time and she never complains of feeling tired
 Those soldiers are "her boys" and she is going to give them a mothers s greeting.
 A hundred heads appear in the win dows of the coaches and hundred tin cups with hot coffee are offered and accepted. Ask any canteen worker the joy of handing that cup of coffee to real American boy.
 And pie! One slice, sometimes two slces; a big red apple and some cake and then-the smokes. Why even in Kansas where the law made it a crime to smoke a cigarette, the very women who brought about the enact ment of the law, give smokes to the soldiers
 "We have the prettiest city in Am- erlca," said one worker. "When you come back from the trenches you want to come here to live. Here's a picture post card of one of the big sights of our town Write a word to your mother, your brother or your maybe your sweetheart. We'll mail them tor you"
 And the post cards are distributed and a hundred busy Americans give thanks that they live in a great, good country, filled with real people strangers only because the country is too large for all to be neighbors.
 Work in Southwest
 And hundred homes receive a hundred messages from the little town that yesterday was nowhere. but which today is on the tongues of brave men who will sing it's praise even in the capital of Ger many.
 George w. Simmons of St. Louis, manager of the Southwestern Divis- ion of the American Red Cross, which comprise the five states, is determin- ed that no other Red Cross Division in America will have larger CT bet ter canteen service than in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. He has appointed Charles P. Pettus, a civic worker of St. Louis as director of this service. Pettus will devote his entire time to making it the greatest in America.
 There are now about 500 canteens in operations in the five states. The women workers promise to respond to calls at all hours and not to leave their city unless they notify the can teen captain. This captain appoints | lieutenants and other aides and these officers are responsible for the sue cess or failure of the service.
 When trains stop ill the sparsely settled sections of Texas in the man- ! her of the service is just the samc as if the train had stopped in the l more populous region of Missouri. On the rolling plains of Kansas, the sol diers from the Pacific coast find a {, welcome, while in Arkansas and 1 Oklahoma they kre not denied u !, greeting.
 Mrs. Harold Boxter, national field l secretary for the bureau of canteen fervice, who has headquarters in Washington, D. C.. recently made q trip through the southwestern divi- sion.
 i Its q revelation. The good that is being done cannot be measured, J was her comment when questioned Here in her own words is her story , of the canteen service in the South 1 western division:
 "The women of the greet South west are morvelous. They know what to do and they do it in that Southwestern manner which has ad- vertised this section of the country in d way that no other action could
 Aviation CanteeM in Texas. ''1t doesn't matter what part oi the Southwestern division you con- slider. The work of the women is jus, as great in Texas as it is in Kansas Eacn canteen is trying to outdo the