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Show SMOKES and the SOLDIER Is it true that a soldier is always hungry? yes up to a point. But the Quartermaster Quarter-master Department has found that some soldiers, particularly new recruits, re-cruits, actually don't eat enough. The Army mess table is exactly like a football team's training table. The food served there is carefully planned to aid in the physical development devel-opment of the soldier. And the Army has discovered certain little ways to increase Johnny Doughboy's appetite. The Army has found it can add to a soldier's enjoyment of his food and therefore increase his consumption of all those carefully prepared vitamins, minerals, and proteins if he is allowed al-lowed to smoke during meals. Measured Meas-ured tests run by the Quartermaster's Department show that food consumption consump-tion actually increased by 5 when soldiers were permitted to smoke cigarettes cig-arettes at the mess table. "Smokes," of course, play a prominent prom-inent part in many phases of the life of a soldier. Whenever you see a news photo of soldiers at ease, you're apt to see them enjoying a cigarette. Particularly among American troops overseas, cigarettes real American cigarettes are highly prized and almost al-most never present in sufficient Quantities. What kind of cigarettes do Uncle Sam's fighting men prefer? Well, records show mat the favorite cigarette cigar-ette is CameL, That is true not only with men in the Army, but with Sailors, Sail-ors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen as well. Sales records from the service serv-ice men's own stores Post Exchange, Ex-change, Sales Commissaries, Ship's Service Stores, Ship's Stores, and Canteens show that Camels are first with men in all branches of the service. serv-ice. Further proof that Uncle Sam's fighting men like their smokes is given in the service man's preference m gifts from home it's a carton of his favorite brand of cigarettes. Tobacco To-bacco dealers, recognizing that Camels Cam-els are the favorite among service men, are equipped to help you in properly wrapping, addressing, and stamping your gift of Camels to the man in the service. Adv. cvanVt buy Aspirin that can do more for you than St. Joseph Aspirin. Why pay more? World's largest seller at 10c Demand St. Joseph Aspirin. f'mft?m USANCE coi ' I, j FARMERS INSURANT pRQp SNAPPY FACTS f ABOUT J) RUBBER i At a Navy yard, 3000 workers work-ers travel daily 60 to 85 miles round trip by automobilea automo-bilea good reason why war workers must have tires. Tire users now restricted because of the rubber shortage will have de luxe road traveling conditions open to them In post-war days If State and Federal highway plans materialize. Already twelve States have approved building express highways of tomorrow when peace comes. Seven others are considering consider-ing such plans. A truck tire that is overloaded overload-ed 50 per cent will only deliver de-liver 44.5 per cent of its mileage expectancy. 4i |