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i; ft Did one of these 200 letters come to you? A DUSTY courier slid off his motor-cycle at the big double hut in a French town and tramped up to the canteen. "Got a note for the secretary from my commanding officer he said. He handed a piece of paper across the counter to a cmilin middle-aged maa This is the note the Secretary read: IVe landed here three days ago miles from anywhera Can you send us some supplies, especially' writing paper? This is the first chance the boys have had to write home and we have no paper to give them l-r1'. 4 The older man looked up and grinned. " Got you away off in the woods, have they ? J Til say they have 1" "Can you carry anything?" -All you'll give mel" From the shelves the secretary took big packages of paper and envelopes. "Too much?" He asked. "It will be gone ten minutes after I get back!" said the boy. "Tonight the secretary went on, "Til drive out a truck with more supplies and a man to stay with you, And tell the boys that if their letters are finished, I'll bring them back with me tonight, and get them into the mails." An hour later that motor-cyclist whizzed into camp, loaded down with writing paper, and in ten minutes letters were being written to 200 American homes. The United War Work organizations know what letters mean to American soldiers. They know that fighters want to get letters and want to write letters. So in every hut and on every ship your boys find writing paper, envelopes, ink, pens and pencils, and tables where they can get off by themselves and tell the folks back home how things are going. Millions of sheets are given away free every week to American boys overseas. That is why the letters you get from your boy are written on the stationery of one of these organizations. It is one of the plans to bridge the Atlantic. Help keep the letters coming I Your dollars will supply a whole Company for several days. Di deep today; help to bind together France and here. .a, Why you should give twice as much as you ever gave before 1 Th nd to to Mm of TO gnat than any a tm M ft world bafan. Th Qorammwit hu fixad thia warn at 1170400,000, By (iTlnf to th Nno orfanlaaoon til M one, the com aa4 eSoftof els ad. dlrJonal campaign la aarad, Unln Amaticana do giru twfca aa awe. 1 WW bafo, am aolmara and aaflara a sot njoy daring 1B1B Ifcatel tSM Ubrarloa aappljrfc ,000,000 teak , tS HoM Hoaaaa 15,000 Bi--bfothf WwW lUiaaw of dollar of boa 1,600 Racraadoe atofldlna 1,000 Mil of Moto Hl 100 Ladin- Itaf ttaia 1,000 Athlon Director Whan ma alradoabU. too mac aura that n? flctrtet bat lb comfort of thaa ann organltauons Yry step of to war from bom from and back anin. You movida him with a church, a thaatM, a cbMifol a Mora, a school, a dub and aa athlatU Bld-aoda kaowladg tbaltk falks horn ait with him, baift and ml ( Yoo bT loan ad roar money to aupfrffbalr pbyaloal Oaada. Mow glr to maiotaia th Moral tbal it winning MM wall to th The f.tter the fighter the faster the finish. Invest in mora! a through th United War Work Campaign. 'I 1 J Th United War Work Otmnaign mean cheerful letters from over there. Giregie to th limit. Who art the beys that will put the pill in Kaiaer Bill? You know v.o they are. Give ' i more power to t'.f uws by pumrg the United War Work Cam paign over tha top. Keep th pep In the boya who ara pappering tha Kaiaar. Giva to tha United Was Wort Cwripaign. r "Unci Sam, here'a a hnn dred and aeventy million, Keep th boy on their too another year." . That's th message youH be ending to your Unci Sammy When you put th United Wat Work Cam. paign over the top. UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN nlfa5rol IrVj " ' i 'teX..:?-- KJ A This Space Patriotically Contributed by ROANOKE RAPIDS POWER COMPANY A dollar wS care for, a. oldier for a week. Kow many icldiertfwill you make happy next ?cr? They are waitins f i your arnwer to the United War Work Campaign. . His Mother Needed Money and She Got It! AN American soldier hurries along the street of a shell-torn village, keeping close to the shelter of the crumbling walls, and runs up the steps of a battered chateau. He climbs to a room where sandbags are piled high to tha ceiling. Behind a rough counter stands a man of middle age -a man with an emblem on his arm and a smile on bis face. In a hurry this morning, buddie?" he asks. "You bet I am," pants the soldier. "We're going into the trenches at noon." "Can I help you?" The boy thrusts one hand Into Ws pocket and with the other points to a sign on the walL It reads: 'Send Your Money Horn Asx ths Secretary How. "Can I send this to my mother? he asks, and draws out a roll of French bills. "She needs it 1 "Of course you can," says the secretary. Ha counts the money carefully -twice-and then does a little figuring. "That makes $84.60 in American money." And will you see that my mother gets it?" "We will," i the answer. T11 give you this receipt and Til send your money to the nearest headquarters. They will forward it to Paris, and Paris will tell New York to mail your mother a check for your $84.60." ; , ! ' ,"' ' .', "How much will it cost me to have you do that?" ' The answer is it won't cost him one cent , His mother will get the whole $84.60. Every ..week the War Work organizations are transmitting more than half a million dollars from the boys over there to the home folks over here. if aESSSSSSaSSSSSBmon AajtWdA Why you should give twice as much as you ever gave before 1. Th need la for a ram 70$ greater than any gift ever asked for alnce the world began. Th Government ha fixed this sum at $170,500,000. By giving to th seven organizations all at once, tha coet and effort of tlx ad dltional campaigns) is aaved. , ' Unlet Americana do give twice aa much as ever before, our soldiers and tailor may not enjoy during 1919 their i 1 1 1,600 Racraation Ball4ioa . VAO Llhrtri.t tupplyini S,000,000 book 1.000 MUat or Mori Wa ' 5 Hotwtt Houta 100 Laadiac Sttf " 15,000 BlJ-broth.r "aKtatariat" , ' 1000 AlhUtJc Oirador ,H . IIUUoo dg41r oC hom. comfort t,an too gi dooM. you makt vara that tv.ry A(htr haa th char and comfort of tbM aran ornniaBUoii mr aitp of th way from horn to th front and back again. V oo provid him with a church, a tbaatra, a tUMrfuV baana, nor, a school, a club, and aa athletic Bald and a knowladf that th folk back bom ara with him, haait and aoul I . . You ha loaned your nony to wipply thir pbyakal nda how fiv to mainuln th Morala taat it wiaoia th war I ., .From the time your fighter starts for a cantonment until he reaches a front-line dug-out the seven organizations are ministering to him in big ways and little ways, to take the worries off his shoulders and to carry cheer and comfort to him. One aim -one need-now, altogether! UNITED WAR WORK. CAMPAIGN This Space Patriotically Contributed by, ROANOKE RAPIDS REAL ESTATE CO. I. wi tiH ; ; , ;r; , m ThU Space Patriotically ConWtuted by ROANOKE AVENUE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY I V,a: ;:. 'C
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