Show s I LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE MARE Khaki Clad Boy With a Lump in Throat Welcomes Home Cooking Imagine your boy on a troop train bound bound for some United States seaport where a transport lies ready to take him and his regiment over there He lIe never felt healthier In his Ufe in Ute In body In mind If he finds moments when his his' thoughts begin to race ace back toward you wondering what you are doing can you blame biame him If occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally ully something lumps lumps' in to his throat t l about as comfortable as a billiard halt hall And then the train grinds to a stand stand- still Some one yells Big lg eats r oh bo boy l i as sen several ral lied Cross uniforms flash out In the crowd on the till station platform For here Is a Red Cross emergency canteen Here he can get gel coffee coffee good good hot hot coffee sand Vl sandwiches coffee sandwiches h candy tobacco fruit postal cards and almost anything that he may have for for- gotten Does It help his spirits Does It Does It cheer him to get these snacks smacks l. l of good home tasting food served by women like those In his own family Probably the most valuable part of the lied Cross canteen service work York Is th the effect of th the smile and cheer heer trop trop- from the women who are In charge Soldiers Soldier write frequently such messages as 88 the following following Indicating their appreciation tion of this branch of r Red Cross work Tork The Red Cross of or Chicago met us is with coffee sandwiches and post cards cards cards' I hope th the Mon Montana ana w women women men are all do- do Ing lag the same Chicago su sure sure e Is a III hi big city and plenty of pep Jon Join the he Cross and help the boys who h have volunteered volunteered vol vol- vol their lives ilves I I There are now more of these Red ned Cross canteens or refresh refreshment ment meat units units' located at the Important r railroad centers In the United States States' I Every commander of ofa a troop train ha has hns hasa I a list of these canteens antens so that he tie can car call call upon the Red lied Cross for this service sere ice at these s stations ns en route |