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Show TDBAGGO FROM HOME TRENCHES Comes as Welcome Solace to Nerves on Edge From Crash of Battle. It bad been raining: shells all day. Toward the close of the afternoon the men in the trenches were fiddy from the everlasting- din of battle in their ears. They had fought dauntlessly and with unrela.xing- resolution, determined neither to give nor take quarter until the Huns should be vanquished.. ( They fought thus day in and day out. They were men of redoubtable courage United States soldiers. They were contending for the most advanced ad-vanced principles of civilization, principles prin-ciples upon the adoption of which the nations of the earth must rely for happiness, hap-piness, success and progress. They despised the presumption of an autocratic military regime whose ambition ambi-tion was to force the peoples of the earth under its oppressive yoke. Nothing would satisfy these intrepid fighters hut a complete surrender of this ambition and an unmistakable and unqualified assurance that the policy of Teuton aggression would forever be relinquished. re-linquished. These men knew what they were fighting for, were not the irresponsible automatons of a usurping kaiser, and they therefore fought individually as though the cause for which they were struggling was their cause, tha cause of j each one of them. The sacrifice of these men was heroic if ever a sacrifice was heroic They had given up homes, friends, families, wives, sweethearts, occupation, ambition, all that was dear to them, to go thousands of miles across the sea to check the advance of the ravagers. They had completely renounced personal per-sonal interests and were ready to die and offer their lives as the last sacrifice of which they were capable. Many of them endured sufferings worse than death. Deprived of limbs, sight or hearing, they lived a life of pain and resignation. AnH Hipsa Viprnps havp rinns rll rhic I for YOU. They are giving their life blood for YOU now. They are the instrument by means of 1 which your sincerest wishes are being ' realized. -. They are fighting for YOUR happiness, prosperity and progress. They are the advance guards blazing the trail for the glorious civilisation that is to come after and of which YOU will be the beneficiary. Uet this fact sink indelibly into your consciousness. j And these men are asking you for a little something. Something which you can give them without half trying. , Something which will cause you no noticeable deprivation. And that something is TOBACCO. They want it. They need it. They are asking- for It. Ts it our part to deny them? Liet's not be derelicts from duty. Address your contributions to the To-tvicco To-tvicco Fund, Tribune, Salt Lake Citv, Utah. |