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Show "LETTERS-FRQM-HOME" WEEK War Department Commission Wants Soldiers' Kin to Help Maintain Morale of Army. t New York. The weel; of December 15 has been designated by the war department commission on trainin;: ennui activities as a time for special letters to tie written by mothers, fathers, sisters, wives and sweethearts of the men now overseas. The week-has week-has been called "Let tors- Froin-1 loine" week, and the purpose Is to apply the "home touch" t.o n broad gauged military mili-tary program for maintaining the morale of the men who find themselves them-selves Idle arter weeks of strenuous fighting. The war department hopes, through thosv letcrs to keep the men contented, "straight," and ambitious to live up to the high Ideals of American Amer-ican manhood. A model letter such us the government govern-ment wants tin1 mothers nnd fullers especially lo write bus been prepared by I lie war department. This. v. i'h letters from Secretary of War Raker mill Hayniond 11. Kosillck, ehiilnnmi of the commission, Indorsing the plan. has b i mailed to newspapers throughout the country. The letter particularly asks that the men overseas over-seas direct their attention to wholesome whole-some recreation mid activities. Instead of to the unwholesome luliiienees that might result from the enforced period of Idleness wherever large bodies of troops are awaiting orders to return home. |