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Show 'SMILEMMN APPROVED 8! SHAY Evangelist Places Money in Pan and Advises His Hearers to Do Same. DEMAND IS GROWING Director F. C. Schramm Gets Many Calls for Additions Addi-tions to Supplies. Billy Sunday has placed his stamp of approval on the Smileage campaign. The idea of giving men in the training camps the best kind of theatrical performances per-formances at theaters within cantonments canton-ments has received his sincere endorsement. endorse-ment. Billy has placed his money in the pan, just as he has advised his audiences au-diences to do, and he says he will help the Smileage book as representing one of the biggest ideas ever conceived for eradicating armv camp evils. "Why," said 'Billy, "you run across the same thing in business, nowadays. Look at the books on the psychology of organization and selling. Look at the big business places putting up parks and rest rooms and having ball teams; it gives the men something besides their work to bind them together. "Did von ever go to a clam bake! Now, then, didn't you sort of ease off for the hard pull 'at the work, when you came back'J Sure you did. It s the same way with the soldiers. Providing Good Amusement. "I never condemn the theater as an institution, though there are. a lot of things about a theater I don't approve of. But here's a case ot giving the soldier some decent amusement, just like he used to get in his home town, or letting tho devil get busy 'on him when there isn 't anything else, on his mind. The devil would sure collect on a- lot of bovs, simply because he got to 'em while' thev weren't looking. Give 'em the amusements good, clean, snappy things live stuff. They want it and they sure do need it. "And Smileage coupons will put it over iu great shape. Good luck to Smileage. 'You'll have to print more books. The old folks back in the towns are going to jump at this chance. "The Y. M. O. A. can't do this. They have their hands full with the religious and welfare work, let alone the rest of this. It's all needed, too.'' Sunday passed a good compliment to the administration when he learned that the, Y. M. 0. A. and K. of C, and the American library association were all under the war department commission on training activities. "Now, that's pretty good work," he said. "So that was Wilson 's idea'! Good for him." Demand Is Heavy. According to reports received by F. C. Schramm, director of the Smileage campaign in the intermountain country, the public is responding generously to the appeal to aid in lending cheer to the life of the soldier in the military camps and cantonments. Utah is doing her part most nobly. The people of Cedar City, Miuersville and Provo have already bought all the Smileage books sent those places by the Salt Lake headquarters, and the demand for more is continuous. Mr. Schramm responded yesterday by forwarding additional supplies sup-plies to Utah points, as well as to many places in Montana and Idaho, on instructions in-structions received here by wire from the national headquarters ii Washington. Washing-ton. Mr. Schramm yesterday received a telegram from 0. C. "Richards, chairman of the Weber Smileage committee, stating stat-ing that W. R Bossner, chairman of the city committe, was completely sold out and could use at least 500 more books. All of the stations in Salt Lake where Smileage books are on sale yesterday reported heavy sales. From the getieral interest that is being be-ing taken in the campaign it is evident that none of Utah's boys in the training train-ing camps aud cantonments will lack for entertainment during the balance of the wiDter months as guests of Utah friends who will provide them with cards of admission in the form of Smileage. |