The Coconino sun., 1919-03-28
WILL TREAT ARIZONA
 BOYS RIGHT WHEN
 THEY REACH NEW YORK

What will be done for the returning Arizona boys when they disembark at l New York City from France and how the appropriation made by Arizona will be spent for their benefit is de- scribed in letter from John Hays Hammond, president of the Rocky Mountain club of New York to Gov ernor Campbell.
 Special emphasis is laid on the fact that all communications designed to meet the boys when they land should be sent in care of the Rock Mountain Club, New York. The letter is as follows:
 Kaiorme Road, Washington, D. C.
 March 10, 1919. Hon. Thomas E. Campbell,
 Governor, Phoenix, Arizona.
 My Dear Governor:
 Permit me, as president of the Rocky Mountain club, to thank you and through you to express to the leg islature and people of Arizona, our deep appreciation of the trust you have placed in the club. The action of the legislature in officially desig- hating our club to represent your state in extending fitting and time ly welcome home to your fighters, and their unanimous action in accompany ing designation with funds, is I assure you source of qualification to the governors and members of the Rocky Mountain club. We will endeavor to the best of our ability to carry out the trust placed in us.
 We ask your helpful suggestions in order that the welcome home to your boys when they first touch foot upon American soil far from home and friends, may be as you and the folks at home wish it.
 Please send to our secretary, Her bert Wall, 65 West 44th street, New York, your official welcome home message to your boys. This will be printed in pamphlet form, accompa- nying other messages from other governors who have officially desig- mated the Rocky Mountain club and will be printed- in the New York press and wirelessed to all incoming troop ships. This in itself will make the boys glad and they will know the folks at home are thinking of them.
 Please tell the folks at home to send their messages to their returning he roes care the Rocky Mountain club, 65 West 44th street, New York City. Letters, telegrams and other forms of welcome home greetings will be plac- ed in your boys hands immediately upon their arrival on American soil. No Arizona soldier, returning from the battlefields of Europe with the fruits of the greatest victory ever won upon the field of battle in the cause of humanity, must be allowed to set foot upon his native soil without message from home. We must give them evidence that their services and sacrifices are and always will be ap- preciated.
 The boys in the camps in the vicin- ity of New York will be asked to make the Rocky Mountain club their head quarters during their enforced stay in the east. What Arizona boy has not looked forward to somebody visiting New York? This is the chance of his lifetime and who would deprive an Arizona soldier just back from the trenches in France of an opportunity to enjoy few hours in our great city. Your boys did not fight for money. They fought for love of country and humanity, and if upon their return from France and the trenches they have not the funds to satisfy their youthful ambition, it is our duty as representing the great state of Ari- zona to so equip them in order that when they go back home they will not be forced to say that they. were only able to walk the paved streets of New York and look at the bright lights, and unable to enjoy some of the pleas ures they have dreamed of, because they were broke.
 Arizona boys who may be in the hospitals, broken in body and without the means of enjoying few days dur ing their period of convalescence, will be entertained and given every atten- tion possible. We must keep their spirits whole and let them know, as we know Arizona mothers and fath- CTS would wish us do, that their suf- ferings and sacrifices have not been in vain. Members of the Rocky Noun 1 tain club and their families formerly of Arizona and those interested in Arizona, anf there are many in our club, will see to it that your boys lack for nothing.
 Boys from the camps and in the hospitals will be entertained at the atres by the club, and arrangements are now being made whereby the charge to your appropriation will be infinitesimal. Through the press of New York we are getting the names and home addresses of former resi- dents of Arizona, with their former address, also the names and addresses of the many native New Workers in- terested in Arizona.
 Through the cooperation of the port of authorization officials and the Red Cross the Rocky Mountain club will be able within the shortest pos sible time to have the name and home addresses of your boys in the camps and hospitals, following their arrival.
 A telephone call to the former na- tive of Arizona, man and woman, and to the native New Yorker interested in Arizona, and anxious to show your boys that their services are appreci- ated will mean that the hand of the former resident of Phoenix, or any