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Show SADDEST CASUALTY TRAIN MADE 1 LESS GLOOMY BY APPEARANCE OF ORANGES FROM CANTEEN ITho canteen never asks for any particular par-ticular contribution. It is always glad to receive whatsoever anyone wishes to give, and is always so grateful to receive it, no matter how small or how In fact, canteen workers are not asking ask-ing for any thing special at this time. But if you knew that oranges were the things mostly appreciated by the wounded boys who pass through here on their way to Letterman hospital; if you knew that yesterday, when oranges or-anges were distributed to the 45 men, all crippled for life, 15 unable to even leave their beds, and this the Christmas Christ-mas time of the year; that these men did not even wait to remove the skins, from the fruit but hungrily bit through into the satisfying juice and pulp, wouldn't you be happy to bring your dozen, your two dozen, or any number, down to the canteen for the- many others who will be carried on litters to the hospital? The canteen is out of oranges. They are expensive, but. are they too expensive expen-sive to give to the lads who went over and paid' the price of an arm or a leg, or maybe more, that you might be here to enjoy the luxuries of living? "Oranges seem to fill all the requirements re-quirements that these boys crave," said the officer in charge of the casualty cas-ualty train Monday. And according to him anil canteen workers, this was the saddest casualty train to pass through Ogden. The boys had all been seriously wounded, and most of them were yet undergoing terrible suffering from wounds received in battle "over there." They were all given a Christmas- box of goodies and an prange, and the latter lat-ter was attacked first. There are many casualty trains to pass through Ogden In the months to come. Maybe one of your own sons will go through. But all are someone's son. Well, is it asking tooamuch that these boys have the one thing which gives them the most pleasure? Hardly, and it is certain that no wounded boy, who enters tho station at -Ogden, will leave without first receiving anything he wants and wants mostly. |