Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-22
BOYS IN FRANCE
 WRITE TO DAD"
 FOR XMAS LETTER
Stars and Stripes Starts Cam paign in Conjunction With Y, Bearing Large Fruits in Bisbee

Did you get a letter the other dal
 from your boy in France, MT. Bisbe,
 Resident? If you did the chances arr
 largely in favor of its having beer
 dated November A and that it dwell
 largely upon two points-the allied
 victory in the great war and tht
 writer's filial affection of you
 If you got such a letter, you have
 reason to thank Stars and Stripes,
 the soldiers paper at the front iu
 France, for it, for in the issue of De.
 cember Is. this paper said in part:
 November 24 has been nominated
 by "The Stars and Stripes" as Dads
 Christmas Victory Letter day for the whole A B. F., the day upon which ev- cry American soldier in France sits down for a few minutes ard concern trates the weak threads of good inten- tiOns into the composition of a letter to the best buddy he has in trousers.
 Ut will be do it now day for the writing of a letter to Dad, Pa, Paw, Papa, Pa-pah, Pop, the Guy or what ever other household designation he sails and fails under.
 Everybody writes to the old man and (this is the best part of, it) gets a Christmas letter from him in return. That is the whole scheme. Your news paper is arranging the second part of it with the aid of the cables and the American News services"
 As a result of this plan a number of interesting letters were received here during the week, but none more so than the following, from which ex- tracts are quoted, from It Joseph Jacobson, to his tather, I. Jacobson, of this city:
 Possibly Fathers Letter day was inaugurated for the many boys who have been somewhat lax in writing to him, and I presume you will put me among that class. However, I always try to write you at least once a week and home, at least twice a week.
 Since you have read a little about Bordeaux, you probably know that i, has been considered quite an i'm POA NothN SANg- DCAOlC ALC war Sup- pose it had a population of about quarter of a million. Now it has in- creased. It is, l guess, a metropolitan foreign city, but very much lacks American business principles. It is, of course, natural for French people to take things quietly and calmly and rather than to be hurried and scurried like we are, they take things very slowly. Therefore they have not ad- vanced nearly so rapidly as a city of equal size in America, but I ex- pect rapid change to American ideas in the near future.
 'As 1 mentioned in one of my let ters We had the good fortune to come down through France. We landed at Brest, one of the most northerly ports and came by rail to Bordeaux. We came through the old historic city of Nantes, Saintes la Dochelle and as you will see from a French map, these are cities we read about many years ago. Of course this part of the coun- try has not suffered the devastation that northern France has, but the peo- pie have given until it hurts
 No doubt you have sometimes won- dered how over two million men were fed, clothed and transported. It is indeed a difficult task but with the cooperation of every man it is ac- complished to the minutest detail. At this camp alone the area covered is much larger than Camp Codp and hun dreds of warehouses are kept continu- ally filled with every imaginable arti- cle. Thousands of feet of trackage has been built and runs to nearly ev- cry one. At just a short distance at the American docks, huge moving cranes empty the cargOes from the big ships and fill the cars which are imemdiately sent here. For a long time a whole train was not permitted to remain in the camp more than 24 hours and in order to keep the food and supplies moving, details would be called out any time they arrived, day or night, and unload them. The out going trains were loaded in the same way and the constant stream of SUD- plies would go from the hold of the ship to the front line trenches.
 When you understand that nearly every man whoNis in the army over here has gained from five to 25 pounds, you can readily see that Uncle Sam has not spared a single thing for their comfort. Beef which is sent here is sometimes frozen solid and will take three or four days to thaw out. Every conceivable modern ad- Vancement is used to carry out this enormous task. The ingenuity of the greatest men has been equalled by the miracles in accomplishment here.
 Even with the great shortage of many materials. substitutes were quickly found and used to the same the originals would have accomplished. l believe I can say one thing-that in the future America will be able to operate more of the k.rusraac aufo oh t- ha