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Show TOBACCO PLAYS BIG PART WARFARE i Marine Corps Officers Say That Smoking Helps to Save Food. The u.e of toh.icco hy Amrri'Mn troops in the trenches plays no small part in the 1 con sen .it'.on of food, say ni.t nne corps i officials here, who estimate that fm:n I to S" p-"T cent of f'-od Is saved daily in I this manner. Wl.de duthi.ritif s admit the detrimental : lnf!uen. .e of narcnti.s. they a-s'-rt t hat 1 to: o riirvcs the nervu'is iei;slon o , so'. Ihis who are under continual shell 1 fire. I "Farlv in t war." declared a marine i officer, "-the French dis over- d tlwt moi. w ho smoke ea t cns'.df ra !; less f'X)d, nnd on:y recently trie Fr:tlsh food controller con-troller issued t:i( s'.iitx.'ii;, 'Tlie Brlti.-h 1 ;r-x)ps in the trenches n.ust have tooatco or much more food. The nvd of toa. co ia shown in a letter from a S-ilt L.ike hov J. L. RoV-ert.. son of M r. nnd Mrs. Ircmff F- Koberis. V-.-t Fifth North filreot to his sister, T.rs. tir-n Kei.dsll. '2 North Second V'et street. Xr. Koherts, who fts a conduit con-duit or in i lie employ of the Utah Uignt at Traction onipany hvfore enlist in? in Oftorer. is w:t;i t;.e head-Tiar'crs iom-p.in- of on !ti fin try re;imrnt stationed on th line of ommunh atirn in France. He wrircs: 'I Ua heen smoking a pipe nearly 1 three weks. o im;ip:lne inr 'oinc down the street wit i a pipe in my mouth. I Wli.n you sen 1 me a r:i- hnx you can send me some pood p;r tohac o. as It Is I verv hard to pet over here. Tue French ! tuia co sren;s to he very stronc. I "1 am ahont f!fiy miles from my own , cnmiany. and like it much belter. There i Is a much larcer town here a nd more sto:es. rrstaurams and a lew more amusements. But the amusements in : Kranre are not up to much. There are , seeral bnrivr simps l.ere which amoun'. ; to more than all th ret." 'on: ri hut ions should le sent to the i Scl-iicrs" Tobacco Fund, Tribune, Salt I Uike. |