Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1918-01-31
NUMBER Il
EDITORS WILL SELL
sMILEAGE BOOKS

SMILEAGE BOOKS
Under direction of Orville Bill.
iings, who has been appointed by
halph II. Shaffer, district dii ector
tor Washington and Oregon for the
sale of "slnileage books" issued by
the military entertainment commit.
&c, to manage the campaign in Ia.
coma, the work will be carried ON
on broad scale with the purpose in
view of reaching every individual
who wishes to do something for the
pleasure of the men who have given
their all to the country. The cam.
paign, which will be nation wide,
opens January % and will close Feb.
..
received my appointment only
this morning and have not yet had
an opportunity to map out the cam
paign," said Manager Billings Satur-
day afternoon. However, we are
going to carry it out in big way.
| am now arranging to name COM
mittees and expect to have 40 active
committees at work so as to reach
every section of the city. The cam
paign. | think, is going to be sue
cessful in every way, for the smile
age book idea is something that will
appeal to nearly everyone"
The smileage books. so named be-
cause they are destined to bring
smiles to soldiers in whose hands
they will ultimately be placed, con
tain coupons emitting man in uni
form to admission to the Liberty the
aires to be opened at all the canton
rnents.
District Director Ralph Shaffer
as conceived a unique idea of get
Ing the smilcage books distributed
throughout the thickly populated
'arming and other community GEN.
ers in Washington.
Instead of the council carrying
he campaign into these little towns
bout the state and taking all the
redit for whatever measure Of sue.
,ess results. am suggesting to the
war department that the fourth es-
tate be pressed into the service"
explained Mr.. Shaffer Saturday.
"rhis means that each editor In the
state of Washington, no matter how
small the circulation of his paper
or how diminutive the population Of
his town, will be officially desig-
mated by Newton d. Baker, secretary
Of war, as personal director in his
community of the 'smileage bio O X
:ampaign. The fourth estate is full
Of good, hard working, patriotic A.
'nerican editors and they will get
very iota of credit which they de-
erve through their efforts in behalf
IF this campaign.
"They can do more to promote
,he sale of these books than anyone
lse in the state, and at the same time
hey will know that their efforts
viii not 20 unrewarded If they are
siven official recognition by head
Vt the war department"
Bank Sends Voluntary 800
Saturday morning director shaffer
'eceived a letter from H. N. Tinker,
president of the Puget Sound Bank
{ Trust company, offering all aid
possible and enclosing a 500 check
rs voluntary contribution to aid
| in the work.
The following appointments were
made Saturday by the military en-
.ertainment council: Samuel Wilson
assistant general freight agent Of the
Milwaukee Railway company, state
chairman for the state Of Washing.
ton; George B. Woodbridge of Taco
ma, state campaign director; John
| Condor, Tacoma, state publicity le-
ader.
The state military council appoint
| I'd by secretary Of war, Newton d.
| Baker. consists of the following per-
,onnel: w. n. Rust Tacoma; n. y.
.offman, Chehalis; Fred A. Hart,
Raymond; w. J. Patterson. Aber-
| leen; F.. w. purdy. Bellingham;
Judge Thomas Burke, Seattle; Dr.. F..
z. Shaw. Walla Walla; O. A. fletcher.
Yakima; J. NJ. Langsdorf. Vancouver.
and Edward S. Russell. Wenatchee.
| Charles Cochran of the Union Pa
cific at Portland, was Saturday ap
pointed state chairman for Oregon
by district director Ralph Shaffer.