Show IN JUNCTION CANTEEN brings heaven hutfle a little nearer to 16 i an american sam sammie mie w ht 7 A mother other who Is a red cross wo work rk er in tier homo home town gave to tier her chapter tile following letter she bho had bad roi rh celled from lier her son in franco france it if you could have leavo seen me yester day when I 1 left trenches which Us th rains havo turned into open sewers 1 ean even you would never have known mo me I 1 was mud from head to foot so BO covi ered erad with crawling things filings that the tha poorest tramp in the world would have run from me and ana I 1 fairly ached for rest 11 you see sec my iny first furlough had bogun unit and I 1 caught a train for paris we nye were packed into a freight car travel to la so BO congested wo we spent most moat of our time stopping at last when lien night crime came wo we were dumped out at a railway junction with the information that tile train for parla carls would be along tile the next day canteen like new york hotel 11 1 I tell you I 1 was discouraged then suddenly across the tracks front from our station I 1 saw daw an american lied crosa canteen and all my troubles were at an end lots of people must havo have the samo barno I 1 edca a ca of these canteens canteen that I 1 used to have just little shacks attacks where you were handed out a cup of sloppy cot fee wo we anro all wrong these red lied cross places bent beat a now new york hotel tor for variety of service oven even if they dont have tile the gilt furniture and U tip takers lakers hero here Is what happened to mo me first I 1 had a bath a real one with plenty of soap and water while I 1 was getting clean my clothes every stitch were cleaned and sterilized then I 1 had a meal ineal of real american coo cooking king actually sitting down at a table to eat cat it after that I 1 went into tho the canteen barber shot shop and had a shave and haircut then being a gentleman of leisure I 1 strolled into the canteen movie theater und and saw scale borne good american bilins flo however weyer I 1 soon turned in for tile aliu night into a 0 clean dry bed that felt like heaven or home and now this morning after a one breakfast I 1 am sitting in tho the canteen writing this letter to you yon and waiting comfortably for my train you just cant possibly imagine what these red cross women are arc doing tor for us soldiers sold lera find and tor for ujo ajo french and english too each canteen takes care of thousands thousand 3 avery every day they make us feel like human beings on co again and give us UR the tha nerve nerva to go on with title this gamo game of licking tho the kaiser and when wo we win you can caa glee give it good sharo share of 0 tho the victory to tho american red brosa t st r ti II 11 I 1 J ta |