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Show SELLS SMILEAGE FOR SOLDIERS if ) -fr K In order that tho expenso of the mtertainments which, at the dircc- Hon of the Secretary of War, arc be-' bp: given tho soldiers of Uncle Sam, jnder tho management of the Military Mili-tary Entertainment Council, may bo akon care of, this council has is-med is-med "Smileage Books". These books ire sold for $1 and $5, according to whether they contain 20 or 100 toupons, and will entitlo soldiers to irce admission to any entertainment fa any National Guard or National Santonmcnt in the United States. Friends of the soldiers may pur-" jhase and send those passes to sol-tiers sol-tiers by name or to tho camps for , listribution. i The Smilcagc Plan. Starting tho week of January 28, ihe books will be on sale all over lie country. "Smilcage Books" will idmit tho men in khaki to some of he beat caiertaiimicntg-inJLhAouifal try. This statement is upheld by tho fact that official announcement has just been made in Washington that the work of entertaining these men I hereto-Core coaduce4--jaJLjthirJ separate auspices, has all been con ,111 solidatcd under one official body, tho Military Entertainment Council, ap-pointed ap-pointed by tho Secretary of ar JIT Th:s council is a part of the Com- g mission on Training Camp A,v,1l ties, of which Raymond B. FpadicT m. , is chairman. Credit for the plan oi consolidation is given Harry P. liar- ' nson, of Chicago, executive chau-man chau-man of tho Smilcage Campaign. ' The consolidation of the varioui fm ' forms of entertainment is, nerbapJ. , the first thing of its kind in tho ;m country. It is tho first timo tho Government has undertaken to put on real stunts for its soldiers, un- dmj der the new arrangement all enter- H, tainmcnt in the camps is to be H, turned over to the Military Enter-tainment Enter-tainment Council, the Chautauqua intents in-tents to bo known as "Liberty Tenti, iBf' and the theaters as "Liberty Thea- jHgfc Everybody is expected to. buy ffldjl JsuJkaM?&Bikac .Book." Jljrf |