Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1918 — DROP FAGS TO YANKS [ARTICLE]

DROP FAGS TO YANKS

New York.—Showers of Cigarettes fell from the skies on the American fighters driving the Germans out of the St Mihiel salient. This fact? was announced in a cablegram received by William J. Mulligan, chairman of the Knights of Columbus committee on war activities, at the United War Work'Campaign headquarters. From American' airplanes 20,000 packages of cigarettes were dropped into the hands of infantrymen and artillerymen pressing forward in their victorious squeeze which dislodged the enemy from »the stronghold they had held for mojre than three years. Each package was stamped “Compliments of the Knights of Columbus.” At the same time, cable dispatches announce, Y. M. C. A. workers on foot moved dmong the soldiers, handing out chocolates and cigarettes. The airplane service for distributing cigarettes to the soldiers, while the battle was in progress and the ordi-

nary foot or motor methods of reaching the men in the frdht lines were unavailable, was established by Martin V. Merle of San Francisco, a K. of C. secretary, with the co-operation qt an American airplane unit. After the fight, soldiers related how pleasantly surprised they had been when cigarettes dropped from on high. They declared no service in their behalf ever had pleased them as much as this ultra modern delivery of “smokes.” The Y. M. C. A. workers won new friends at St. Mihiel. One Red Triangle man, with a huge pack on his back, moved forward- with a certain unit, distributing chocolates and cigarettes to each soldier. Salvation Army workers also were busy with their doughnuts and coffee throughout the St. Mihiel drive. - _ • Sliding racks for silverware instead of shelves feature the bottom of a rvW sideboard. : * -