Show SJ SELF Ll DENIAL The men who don the uniform of the American solder soldier and sailor are arc offering their all their all their lives if necessary essary to essary-to to their country wherefore those who stay at home should bo ba willing to contribute lIb liberally rally even I if it means self denial t to make the lives of the men at the tho training camps more wholesome more enjoyable enjoyable enjoy enjoy- able ablo more homelike homel ke This is the message message u ss ge which 1 has lias been nt i sent nl J Jr to the Washington headquarters headquarters headquarters' of or the the thena national na IIa committee on war camp community com com- community recreation fund rund by Charles W. W Daw Dawson son of Muskogee Okla governor governor governor gov gov- o of the Eleventh district d International Inter national Association of Rotary Hotary Clubs Mr Daw Dawson son who has studied the the ish situation i on at a anum number 1 Jer 0 of t army can car 11 wn in his hs report to the committee wl wi dog deg is raising 3 for each soldier bm m tl ti sailor to provide the best sort of off of I. I To for Cor them in the coni com t by n around the camps says sas 1111 in p f 10 IQ For the first time in 1 definite and sustained effort is t ch ye ve made to treat the soldier as a hU br oO 30 beng being rather than as a part parl of a I Th chine It is the shame o of every tn lion and lion and ours no less than the older old lder ld- ld er countries that countries that heretofore the common soldier has had bad no amusement amusement amusement amuse amuse- ment open to him except the saloon the gambling house and the cheap cheal dance hall halt He had no welcome atthe at atthe atthe the front door of ot any wholesome home We of the ted States have not yet learned to give give We have havo been congratulating ourselves that the induction ind in induction in- in d of or this nation into the war has caused hardly a ripple in American Ameri Ameri- can finance Not until our casualty list begins to show that our men are I actually fighting this nations nation's battles at the front will we wake up to the fact that there is need of or real sacr sacrifice sacra fice fire on the part of overy citizen I I 1 have been told by Canadian friends of men whom they know who have hate mortgaged their homos homes or sold them outright and given the money to tho the benevolent fund I have been told of many others who set aside each mouth month only enough to cover their barest necessities and give ever every other cent they can make to this fund We of the United States will wilt learn to give just as freely when wo we once appreciate what war really means t-t-t t |