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Carolina in the Hall of States Hundreds of South Carolina- sol diers, wounded or ill, lying In the big army hospitals of New York have received their first special welcome and their llrst hint of home from letters' and calls from volunteer women workers at the South Caro lina desk at the Hall of States, 28 [West 25 th Street, New York. Backod only by such contributions as eho has been able to obtain, Miss Elvira 13. Wright is there trying to do as well by South Carolina men as other states are doing. Many states We large appropriations. Kansas is spending $35,000, Massachusetts 450,000 and other state's * smaller amounts. The South Carolina wo men say they have received no finan cial aid from th? statet tetters, sent out under a plao devised by the "War Camp Commun ity Service, aro as a rule the first words from home folks to reach the injured boys after they arrive on the transports. The women invite those lads who can to visit them at the Hail of states, and In the cases of the severely wounded, they call ion the men Jn the wards, carrying cheer, homo papers that are. avidly pelzed, and flowers or fruit, All tho hospital activity for tho Various etates centers at the Hall of States, which the tWar Camp Com munity Service has established close to th? Victory Arch. Hero "Bud dies" meet, at th? war's end, and home folks welcome the boys back* Some of them need more practical aid, somo tiro "blue," somo need a Job back home, somo wunt to trace lost families. To ull of these the South Carolina women give help. Sometimes they take. a "blue" lad to dinnor and to the theatre. (For those who need Jobs the War Camp Community Service maintains a nation-wide employment bureau. Its manager canvasses South Caro lina and other states for positions. Miss Wright, who is from Charles ton, is principally assisted by Mrs. Harley B. XJndsay and Mrs. Pride Jones, who, being a North Carolin ian, cares for North Carolina men Miss Wright feels that her work, which affords tho sole first touch with woundod soldlors, should be better supported by the home state than it has been. She asks the peo ple of the state to sond her small contributions even to the amount of one dollar, to pay tho heavy clerical work, which she has had to meet out of her own pocket. Her services are volunteer. The War Camp Com-* munity Service furnishes the build ing, telephone service, free 'bus rides, theatre tickets, light luncheons and the hospital lists. Miss Wright's address Is care of Hall of States, 27. West 25th Street, Now York city. The Greatest Name in Goody- Land The largest selling gum In the world nat orally lias to have a package worthy of Its contents. So look for . WRIGLEY5 to the sealed package ttof keeps all of Its tfoodoess In* That's wfty The Flavor Lasts! W'l!"MAKEGOOD" ; .. '? ? ? ?/ ' ^ ? . ? ? ? ? .1 . pi il That Animates the Return- . ing Soldiers. ? .. ? ? .0 , dm who Glorlouely FInUhed the j Greatest War in .History Have Novy But One Idea: Their Country's Good. i l ? Ainerlc an soldier In Mr lUHllottteil wrnte to the establish lent of Justice, freedom M1111 demot ?ur'y In the world. Analytical wise u\- I'm ve heeu busy ever wlijeo Amer into the wur. furnishing C.vjty ?i; I explanation* of the American flu > ? nj: man's Impelling motive. ^ In spite of the complex argument* o. he anulvtlcal psychologists who can Mi.h.rsiand anything hut the simple ii:? ? fitv of an honest man, the Anier eiui v.ldler <IUI tight In war for the itah^dunent of those principles, am m* f>ery Intention of working In peace for the preservation o,f that for which he fought. I talked of the purposes of the Amu can Legion With Colonel Hoosevelt. In his conversation, as he explained them ?.? me. the word "crystallisation oc curred again and again. ??We want." he said, "to crystalU*' the spirit that made It possible for us to get Into this war and to fight It as we did." I>o you realise, you who read this, what (hat spirit is that this organisa tion wants to crystallise and preserve? I'll give Jyou an example of It that A shattered church In the Marne sa . llent during the latter part of ? Wh* tilled with freshly-wounded on . st ret fliers. The shells were whin ng over :ind bursting about Ut A slim, big-eyed, very boyish boy Vas brought in :iil shot to pieces. He was a very ordiria rv American boy. certainly not hum e than eighteen. A medical ma jor was passing. "lley, doc," the young fellow called weakly. , ? "What Is It, son?" the major asked, bending above him. "Tell me, doc," the boy begged hua Icilv. "Am I? am I? bad hit?" The major looked at the descriptive . !i,> with which the wounded boy was tagged and hesitated. He knew the vuiing fellow had less than half an hour of life left In him. "Well, I'll tell you, son, he said Slowly. "You're In a pretty bad way. but we're going to do all we can or The boy ? who was a very ordinary voung fellow, as I have said? saw the truth under the ,thln camouflage of He knew he was d^fld. He caught his breath quickly, closed his eyes, nnd, reaching up, caught hold of the major's hand and held It tight for a little time. Then he sighed, opened his eyes, an 1 folded his arms contentedly on his breast. He looked up. at the major, and there was the calm light of a glad resignation on his face. "Well, anyhow," he whispered tri umphantly, "I gm?*s I .made good, didn't IT "You sure did, son," the major as sured him. The bov smiled attain and- died, happy In the knowledge thnt he had made good In his personal obligation to establish the principles of Justice, freedom and dentocracy. That's the spirit that the American Legion wants to crystallise, to perpet uate, to preserve and translate lntq terms of constructive civilian effort that will Insure the continuation In force of the principles that the sol dier fought to save. ? William Slavens McNutt In Collier's Weekly. r : .? The Italian Farmer. The Italian farmer Is evidently noth ing If Dot willing to experiment. No fewer than three classes of collective farms are In successful operation In the country. In one class a co-opera tive society of farmers acts as landlord for the Individual members, each of whom tills his own farm Independently of the others. Under the second plan the- ^o-operatlve society holds the lnnd. de.cldes from year to year how It Is to be divided and cultivated, and appoints each member to his part In the program of cultivation, ^he third plan U more complicated: the co operative society rents a large farm which is worked by a permanent staff of members receiving a salary for their services, and by other members who divide their time between work on the co opers tire farm and on privately owned farms. All three forms of co operation are highly successful accord ing to reeent aecouuts. They have this point In common, the elimination of middlemen between farmer and con sumer. Ivory "Mines." Lieutenant Seheutze, -wl*> was c member of a United States naval ex pod It Ion sent Into the arctic In searcl of the exploration ship Jeannette. re ports the discovery of ivory "mines' In ? group of Islands lying north?*n?e of the I.vna river, situated In north enst SllK?rln. Vast numbers of mnm moths, it appears, have been dlscov vred bii!ed In a sea of ice, and P In held that, for a short period eaei year, probably a few - weeks, thes< mHnnnoths could be "mined" wit! great profit, owing to the immensltj of the tusks, four times the size o ? tho** of the elephant of this age, an< I hecaone .f the great value of Ivory a ' pre^nC An Ivory "mining" expedl j No?. doubtless furnish all tfc? . tr.at the most advecturoui \ ee*ld desire. ' mi?Tos\mm BONDS AND STAMPS Kre Ready to Protect Securities of Small Investors Free or For Nominal Charge. In buying Liberty Honda, Victory Honda, Thrift ami \Var Savings Stamps the people of the United State* have done more than perform a patriotic duty ? they have Invested In the soundest securities in the world, gold obligations of the Unit* t*i States of America. Hut the safeguarding of these se curities has become a problem for many folk. Only a few persons, rel atively, huve eithor a safe in the house or office, or a safe-deposit box In the vkults of the bunk. Far v o many patriotic citizens are keeping boyds and stamps about the house, in the bureau drawer, under the mat tress, or on the shelf. And even if the treasure is thus hidcien from thieves, there is th* #v?r present dan ger of fire, and the loss of the money inverted. There may be no further call for the people at large to subscribe to huge bond issues, but the govern ment needs the daily and weekly sums which come in from the sale of Thrift and War Savings Stamps for tuxes must be kept down. The danger of loss has deterred some peo p.V from getting us mnny h tempt* as they might otherwise buy. Hence the problem will be a future question as well as a present one. Steps have been taken, however, to meet this situation. First, every bond or stamp certifi cate may be registered with the Treasury Department. Registration means that the owner's name and the number of . his security have been "registered" by the government, and that nobody but himself can pos sibly get the money which the bond or stamp certificate calls for. Cer tificates may he registered through the rieferest postoffice ; bonds through the nearest bank. And the second method for safe guarding has been provided by tho banks themselves. Every bank ? na?< tional bank or savings bank ? and ev ery trust company has, of course, ample and secure vaults. For the man who does not feel that he can afford to rent a safe deposit box to keep ' Liberty Bonds and War SavingB Stamps in, many of the banks and | trust companies have announced their willingness to keep these seourities for him in their own vaults. SUCCESSFUL DOLLARS ARE THOSE WORKING Invested In War 8avlngs Stamps They Never Fall to Yield You Hand some Profit. It is the dollar that goes to work that is the successful dollar. The idle dollar is a failure. The success ful dollar brings back another dollar with it. It makes itself a dollar and something: ? two dollars and some thing ? a whole family of dollars. But the bareless dollar goes off somewhere and is never seen again. A Texas man the other day lost a life-time's savings ? $ 78b. His dol lars had gone off in the pocketa of two fake stock promoters. He had not taught his dollars to keep good company. Hundreds of years ago a man to whom a handful of money had been trusted buried it all in a napkin. He got no increase ? he did not even keep what he had. . 0 The dollar that succeeds is ener getic ? and careful. War Savings Stamps do more than save your dol lars. They put them to work at compound interest. And they never fail. Your government guarantees every one of them. A man once bought Manhattan Isl and for $24. He had the $24. Buy War Savings Stamps and be ready. Provide a gilver lining for the com ing oloud. War Savngs Stamps will %>lt. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS MADE HOME POSSIBLE Man Who Suddenly Found HlmseJ# Without Roof Over Head Was Able 1 to Buy Property# This true story tell* how Wnr Sav ings Stumps huilt h sure protection "'nshington war worker Karly in the war savings campaign he bqgat) a small systematic invest ment in Thrift Stumps, which ulti mately grow until he had an invest ment of $100. He says he acquired his stamps without depriving him self or family. The investment "just grew" out of incidental savings. Presently this incidental money became scarce. The war worker and his family felt the burden of the war time high cost of livlnor, ami the anx iety and eapense of extraordinary ill ness of the two children. Then an other blow fell. He awoke one morn ing to find that he had* no place to live. His residence had been sold and he and his family were asked to va cate. He could find no houses for rent within his means, and was con fronted with the necessity of leaving the city or buying a homo for his family. He could not buy without making a substantial initial pay ment, and ready funds were seem ingly beyond reach. Then he thought of his War Sav ings Stamp*. He remembered they were redeemable on ten days' notice, with accrued interest. With thq pro ceeds of these stamps and such small sums as he could gather he made first payment on a new home in the suburbs. Recently he refused to sell it for $1,200 more than the purchase price. This man is a War Savings Stamp enthusiast?and he is on the straight road to financial independence. Start your mind going along saving lines and then watch it . ttavel. Buy W. 3. S. regularly. Pull together to produce more, to eliminate ww?to. to save and to in vest in W. 8. S. Keep yo\ir money at work for you. Re-invest your Liberty Bond Interest in W. 8. S. REMEMBER THE ANT Save and have! Remember the story of the ant and the grasshopper? The ant worked and saved. The end of each day found him with a little more added to what he hopper danced and sang and fiddled his time away. Winter came; the ant had plenty. The grasshopper had nothing; he had not saved. He went to the ant and asked for help, Said the ant: ''While I worned, you fooled your time away. You can dance now for all I care.'* Are you an ant-person or a grasshopper - person ? Some - time are you going to have to ask for help and will someone tell you to dance ;~or will you be independent? If you save now, you'll have .later on. Let the end of every' week, find more Thrift Stamps on your card. At the end of ev ery month be able to snow more'" War Savings Stamps past^i on your certificate. Lend ? ydvr money to the government at 4 per cent interest, compounded .quarterly, and see it grow. Take stock of yourself! What are you- worth? Will next New Year's Day find you worth more or less? Which Will you be; an ant or a gntjMhop per? ? KUVmI By MifiMdii*. < tyeftttftrfit'lcj, July 10. 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