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WITH THE PACIFIC FLEET, Aug.
25 (by mail).—Nearly every ship in
the Pacific fleet has its own newsboy,
who, by train, follows it from port to
port and serves the officers and men
with the latest papers and, often,
also, with the latest papers from the
several large “home towns” usually
represented among the crew.
The newsboys who serve the Paci
fic fleet are mostly New Yorkers.
They remained with the units of the
fleet until they left Hampton Roads
for the west coast. They reached
San Diego by train in time to greet
the ailor when the fleet arrived
there. Since then they have been
following the ships up the coast and
plan to continue indefinitely “on the
job.”
These “newsies” become the gen
uine friends of the sailors. They
become familiar with affairs aboard
ship. They serve the sailors in many
ways. They take them supplies.
f They post letters. They deliver mes
sages. In many other ways the act
as the sailors’ agent ashore.
Tn return, the sailors patronize the
“newsies” liberally and the boys who
have the naval trade in papers prob
ably make much more than any city
newsboy.
By right of seniority, “Peggy”
Brown is considered the “chief” of
the newsies of the fleet. He finds
his patrons among the men on the
dreadnaught Mississippi, which he
has followed about ever since it was
launched.
* Before that, he served in the navy
and in an accident lost a leg. Be
cause of a wooden one he uses, he is
called “Peggy.” Recently there was
a rumor that he had been killed in
Los Angeles. Gloom enveloped the
Mississippi like a fog. AY hen he reap
peared the Mississippi’s crew felt
happier than if a day’s liberty had
been granted.
Others of thev newsboy force are
F. Muglar, who serves the flagship
New Mexico; L. Sullivan, the ATer
mont, Nebraska and Georgia; Joe
Messin, the Texas and Seattle; I.
Sherman, the AYyoming, and E.
Brown, “Peggy’s” brother, the Ar
kansas.
HOW SOLDIERS’ MAIL
OFTEN GOES ASTRAY
/ VLADIVOSTOK, July 15 (Corres
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pondence of Associated Press)—Hun
dreds of letters intended for Ameri
can soldiers in Siberia have gone
astray because of incorrect addresses,
according to S. A. Cisler, United
States postal agent in Siberia, who
was sent here with the American ex
peditionary forces to look after the
I mail for the doughboy. Many letters
intended for Siberia were sent to
Archangel when American troops
were there, and many letters intend
ed for Archangel were sent to Vladi
vostok.
The correct address for letters to
Siberia is: Name, unit, A. E. F., Si
beria, via San Francisco. Writing
the unit to which the soldier belongs
in the address saves at least twenty
four hours’ delivery of mail upon
j reaching the A. E. F., base in Siberia.
I Mail addressed to units is delivered
from the ship at Vladivostok without
being redistributed at the main Unit
ed State post office here.
All the big trans-Pacific liners are
used for carrying mail to Japan and
thence to Siberia, and some
ships make the trip direct from Vla
divostok each week for Japan, con
necting with the mail liners for Amer
ica. “The soldiers in Siberia are a
long way from home and every letter
t from America makes the stay here
that much easier,” says the United
States postal agent, who urges that
more letters be written.
Three American potoffices have
been established in Siberia at Amer
ican troop centers. One is at Shko
tova, 30 miles northwest of Vladi
vostok. These postoffices are for
use of the A. E. F., the American Red
Cross, the Y. M. C. A., and the Rus
Railway Service Corp. American
civilians in Siberia obtain their mail
through the Russian postoffice.
AND A GOOD NAME, TOO
LONDON, Aug. 21.—Wilson Peace
is the name which has been given a
child just baptized at Finchley, Eng
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We Should Show Intelligent Thrift, the
Symbol of Peacetime Patriotism
V By THE WIFE OF THE COMMANDANT, U. S. M. C.
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When the United States entered the war it was
considered an expression of patriotism to wear a tiny
American flag. The finest expression of patriotism
one could display now would be the wearing of a tiny
Thrift flag, if such an emblem were obtainable, to indi
cate an understanding of, loyalty to and service for our
country in peace time.
Instead of a war with other countries the United
States now has before it the tremendous struggle with
the tendency to drift back to its prewar habits of care
^less spending and general waste. Perhaps no country
in the world had indulged before the war in such reckless expenditure as
the United States. Perhaps no country in the world had been endowed
with such lavish resources. The steady demand from our associates in
the war and the heavy demands on transportation made saving necessary
to husband those resources to meet, the needs of the world. If we are to
continue a leading nation in the future as in the past we have no choice
as to whether we shall save or not.
Lord Bosebery, the great English statesman, has assured us that
“Thrift is the surest and strongest foundation of an empire—so sure, so
strong, so necessary that no nation can long exist that disregards it.”
More recently President Wilson has said: “Economy and everything :
which ministers to economy supplies the foundations of national life. We |
have not studied cost or economy as we should, either as organizers of
industry, as statesmen or as individuals,”
The amazing recovery of France from the Franco-Prussian war is j
attributed to the personal habits of economy of the French people. They
never allow the least commodity to be misused which can be converted ;
into money, and the money in turn into the much-coveted industrial or
public service securities floated by the great banking corporations of
France. It is estimated that with a population of a little over forty mil
lion people, there are twenty-three million savings accounts in France. In
reality they save first and spend afterward.
The enormous individual saving which can be effected simply by pay
ing careful attention not to allow any waste to creep in was demonstrated
amply during the war. But our success then must not be allowed through
negligence to change into failure now. For it is through individual thrift
that individual stability and prosperity are assured; through individual
prosperity that the prosperity of the community is assured ; and through
community prosperity that the prosperity of the country is assured.
The peacetime service our country calls for does not mean hoarding.
It seeks to awaken in each individual a realization of the tremendous bene
fits resulting from intelligent, steady saving; from using his best judg
ment in the outlay of his money; and from some investment, with its pro
duction of money by money. Thrift and War Savings stamps are the ideal
channel through which streams of money—often the many tiny bits of
heedless expenditure—may flow into bodies having real power of achieve
ment, ®
In other words War Savings stamps create in an easy and fascinating
way funds for opportunities which otherwise could not be seized. Their
purchase gradually establishes habits of profitable economy ‘which spell
personal and national prosperity.
Though we do not v'ear a thrift banner every man, woman and child ;
can display in each everyday act of their everyday lives intelligent thrift—
the symbol of peacetime patriotism.
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