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Show "LETTERS-FROM-HOME" WEEK War Department Commission Wants Soldiers' Kin to Help Maintain Morale of Army. New York. The week of December 15 has been designated by the war department commission on training camp activities as a time for special letters to be written by mothers, fathers, sisters, wives and sweethearts of the men now overseas. The week has been called "Letters-From-Home" week, and the purpose is to apply the "home touch" to a broad-gauged 'military 'mili-tary program for maintaining the morale of the men who find themselves them-selves idle after weeks of strenuous fighting. The war department hopes, through these leters to keep the men contented, "straight," and ambitious to live up to the high ideals of American Amer-ican manhood. A model letter such as the government govern-ment wants the mothers and fathers especially to write has been prepared by the war department. This, wifix letters from Secretary of War Baker and Raymond B. Fosdick, chairman of the commission, indorsing the plan, has been mailed to newspapers throughout the country. The letter particularly asks 'that the men overseas over-seas direct their attention to wholesome whole-some recreation and activities, instead of to the unwholesome influences that might result from the enforced period of idleness wherever large bodies of troops are awaiting orders to return home. |