Show V KI um I WHEN TILE THE American soldier goes abroad he carries a little pact pack about two feet teet long and not more mon than eight Inches in diameter 1 I It contains everything the soldier carrice car car- rice ries Ho lIo is limited to nee all the little luxuries luxuries- tin the candy magazines chewing gum anc ani aniso and so on that a a. fellow spends his nickels nickel and dimes and quarters for ly lye bane have to be left behind Moreover the army cant can't always carry these things things' along ammunition ammunition tion and food and fodder get the first call What's more the the soldier can not take a homey atmosphere along with him for barracks at best are often on ellke and even the they have to be given u ui when the army takes the field or goes goel to France All AU those mellowing influences of home and friends and accustomed facilities for pleasure rest and recreation are more or less to the bald unadorned unadorned unadorned un un- un- un adorned life of or the soldier and the sailor too The Y M. M M C. C A. A saw this and said in effect Every ery American soldier must have ha a place In camp here he can get gel a touch of home Where here he ho can play games tind read and write and relax from his military life and discipline And the tho sailor must have havethe havethe havethe the same saute at the base ports Nothing is I too good for these men and the they Y M. M C C. A. A Is going along to war with the army and navy to do forthe for forthe forthe the soldiers and s sailors what you fathers and mothers and friends and relatives would do for them If you could get to them And Aud that Is what the tho Y M 1 C. C A. A is doing |