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Show TOBACCO PUIS PUNCH 1110 liffl LIFE Men Knee Deep in Mud Find Smoking Real Solace These Cold Nights. ""Then skies are blue and soft breezes blow and birds fill the air with their sweet madrigals, it 's springtime. When the ground is blanketed with snow and trpes are bare and the frost covers the window panes, its winter. When you :re at home surrounded with all the accustomed comforts, having hav-ing access to friends, books, entertainments, entertain-ments, social pastime, its joy. Rut when you are knee deep in the mud of the trenches in a foreign laud with no companionship except that afforded af-forded bv some poilu, poor grub to eat. plenl'v of hard work to do, serving as th; biills eve for Hun bullets, its h--l! At least, that is what Sherman said it was. And that is what the Sammies in a large number of instances find it to be. That is when they don't have smokes. With pleni.v of tobacco in their, possesion, pos-sesion, of course, matters are different. A different aspect is on the face of things. Tobacco puts the punch into life for the Sammv. And he wants all lie can possibly get of it. We've got to see that he gets it. It is all up to us. The sooner wo get busy, the better. A contribution today will be efficacious effica-cious in easing the Sammies' circumstances. circum-stances. COMB THROUGH! Address vour donations direct to the Tobacco Fund, Tribune, Salt Lake City. |