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Show JOHN MADISON'S FAMILY w When John Madison sailed for , France there were no Indications that his family would suffer In a pecuniary ' way while he served his country John's father was earning good wages. John's younger brother, Henry, a driver, was Helping out the family budget Then John's father was stricken with pneumonia. His earning power sto-ped. sto-ped. Henry met with an accident If John had stayed home tie enuM curried his mother and little sisters through the crisis. Bui John wus wh i'ershlng overseas. Must Ills family suffer destitution? The Madison family's dilemma was reported to the Red Cross and promptly prompt-ly placed In the hands of Home Service. Serv-ice. Af a resuit the best n.ed!. al attention at-tention whs secured for John's father and brother. Immediate funds were placed In ihe mother's hands to provide pro-vide for the household us before the faailly Income stopped. In tb brief space of a few hours Home Service hud driven poverty from the absent soldier's home, The whole aim and object of Home Service is to protect the welfare of the soldier's family while he Is away and to maintain aa far us possible the same standards of home life that prevailed pre-vailed while he was at home. More than this, when the standard of II. I Is low It Is the duty and the opportunity opportu-nity of Home Service to raise the standurd. Think of what It means to John Madison and his legloaa of comrades In khaki and In blue to realia that la their absence their loved ones will be safeguarded as carefully and as constantly con-stantly as they thci.iselves would have done. Think what It means to the morale of these hrnve lads to know that whatever may happen In the perils per-ils of warfare the fiinire of their families fami-lies will not be J.lopunlizi'(I . . |