Show CHRISTMAS AT A T HOME 11 11 ar U M E disabled ex service men in the various hospitals to be remembered 1 we want everyone to know that not ini one ot of the disabled ex service men in hospitals will spend a lonely yuletide said raid william carl hunt manager 0 of o the pacific division american red cross in a statement concerning the christmas celebration tor for patients in veterans and army and navy hospitals he further stated christmas gifts sent to the boys will be faithfully distributed by red cross cross workers on the staff in each hospital I 1 in the pacific division the celebration tor for the disabled men who are fighting their hardest battle in hospitals will be as aa near like christmas at rome home as it is possible lor for loving care to make it no hospital where there Is a veteran of the world war will be without christmas trees bringing to the patients the fresh rugged air ot of the mountains ot of california washington oregon and arizona in the pine clad northwest they can literally cut their christmas trees in their own back yards but for the hospital in the desert ot tucson ariz trees will be shipped many miles from the higher altitudes in the northern part of the state by red cross workers in williams forest rangers in arizona marked certain trees in the mountains that cou could be cut and government trucks hauled them to the hospital at whipple barracks students ot of the pacific union college at st helena calit calif assumed the responsibility for or selecting and cutting the trees on mt st helena for the naval hospital at mare island and letterman general hospital san francisco besides this christmas trees used in school in san francisco calif will be sent to hospitals in the day bay district both children and adults individually and through organizations are planning to make this christmas celebration the best the american legion its auxiliaries war mothers various barlous patriotic fraternal and church societies and clubs have sent gifts itta from tar far and wide many of the state legion auxiliaries have furnished id gifts tor for every md man f from rom their particular state uncle sams boys stationed tar far away from rom home have not been forgotten ither either nine thousand christmas bags as made and tilled filled by chapter volunteers throughout the united states were shipped from san francisco to somoa hawaii alaska china and guam many weeks ago so that they cou id be distributed and bring a touch of home to these men far away from their heir own fi resides at christmas time for or the bags sent to alaska to reach each their destination they have to be e carried by all means of winter transportation that the county affords alaska railroad horse drawn rawn mail sled dog drawn sled and a man on snow shoes twenty five hundred christmas box es s were sent to guam early in october by y boys and girls of the american junior unior red cross in the pacific states after hearing from dr thomas col lins superintendent of public instruction in the island of 0 guam ot of the utter lack of any toys or trinkets among the children ot of the native population there the sending of small gitt gift boxes to be distributed at christmas to the children ot of other lands and our insular territory has long been tho the practice ot of the american junior red cross following the custom ot of junior red cross the world over to manifest good will toward others particularly at this season |