Show I 1 I 1 PRACTICAL KINDNESS one hundred thousand Thoa kand grateful Gr tal soldiers soldier these war times have tried men 3 souls in many unexpected ways but like a shaft ot of sunshine and good cheer out cut of the cloud ot of privation and endurance has been the work that the american tobacco co has done among the U S soldiers and sailors ever since the war began for when they discovered that the camps and hospitals were not supplied with tobacco they decided to provide them free of cost with enough tor for every man and have already given outright to our Sul soldiers diria and sailors over one hundred thousand pounds of battle ax plug and dukes mixture smoking tobacco and have bought and distributed fifty I 1 thousand briar wood pipes at a total dicost cost of between fifty and sixty thousand dollars this work has been done quietly and thoroughly by establishing headquarters in each camp so that every camp and every hospital of the united states army has been supplied aed with enough tobacco tor every man and the sailors on thirty united states ships in cuban I 1 waters have shared with the soldiers this most welcome of all rations perhaps it will be only fair to remember when we hear bear the remark again that corD corporations orations have no souls that there is one american corporation i 15 po ration whose soul has apen tri triad d and has not ba been en found wanting in practical I 1 kindness |