Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-21 | Page 9 | Aid Smoke Fund; It's a Real Duty

1 SMOKE IT'S UBL DOTY Reflection Will Suffice to Show the Need of Tobacco To-bacco in Trenches. Have you ever had to go without a smoke for a day when you really wanted one? Recollect how you felt under the circumstances. cir-cumstances. You could hardly characterize your sensations sen-sations as buoyant or hiph-spirited. On the other hand, didn't you actually feel depressed and in the sulks? Revert in imagination to that dav when you were deprived of the exhilaration of a smoke. Live ajain the experiences of those borcsume and unpleasant hours. And in that connection think of the Emmies who are living in the midst of live moil and broil of battle and vho sometimes are obliged to so without smokes for perhaps weeks at a time. Don't you down deep in your heart feel sorry for them? Of course you do. The very minute you put yourself in the boots of the American soldiers across the sea, it is not neeessiry to convince you of a good reason for sending them tobacco. You see the need yourself, which Is more effective than tons of persuasion. If you are slow to see the necessity of providing the Sammies with smokoa, perhaps per-haps the following impassioned extract from Arthur Guy Ihiipey's book. "Over the Top." may (juicken your perspicacity. 13. -re it is: Lo the men in the trenches need smokes? I o they want t hir mothers? I o they w ;i n t their wives and s w r- e t -hearts? , Do they want the fields and lowers at home ? Do th.-y w.Tnt SMi tKr:.-? Gnrl, do thf-y want t.hi-rn? Tr.v need tlv:n: Thr-y cry for their.: Tiiev must have them : Amcrknns, if you could onlv sf-e with your own ryes, reniz" the rrymK ik d tor smokes in (-"ranee, vrnj wo-'ld s'.irve in ordr that the boys roul.l have them. Do your bit win the gra!tu:e and thn nks of i he hnvs v.'ho a-e int' ' your f ; s-h T our f 11-h t '.."ivle's Yarn's fight th- civilized world's fight. I.et your Megan be; "Smokes for Sammk-p;" , Auri turn t-ie words into netion. DO IT X'AV, Address all eon ribut ions direct lo the Tobacco Fund, Tribune, Salt Lake Otv Ltah. i