Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1920 — Page 13

If Your Mother Came to Indianapolis, Would You Want Her to Walk the Streets This Advertisment is a direct urgent appeal to the women of Indianapolis to show their spirit of hospitality to the women who will be in Indianapolis during the Grand Army Encampment

DO you realize that at least half of the visitors to Indianapolis during the G. A. R. Encampment, September -19 to 25, will be women? These womefi will be of an average age of at least seventy—the wives and asters o£ the veterans of the Civil War. T .. , Indianapolis women must realize that unless there is a radical change in the attitude of the citizens of Indianapolis towards providing rooms to the housing committee for this encampment, that hundreds and probably thousands of women will be forced to ..1 , , a* tj * , go around the streets of Indianapolis on the nights of September 19 to 25. If you were seventy years old would you like to spend a cold fall night on the State douse steps? . How would you like to have your mother come to Indianapolis and spend the night sitting in the waiting room at the Union Station? '

This page is patriotically paid for by Kingan & Company , Indianapolis Abattoir Company and Republic Creosoting Cos. in order to get you and other citizens of Indianapolis to co their duty ; / -\

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1920.

Will it cost you anything to allow one of these noble women to sleep in the room in your house that would otherwise be unoccupied? Do you realize that the G. A. R. Encampment is only three weeks away? Do you realize that it will take hundreds of people more than a week to tabulate and card the locations and directions for getting to fifty thousand rooms in this city, and for that reason that your room should be sent in today? The Executive Committee in charge of arrangements for the encampment feels sure that once the women of Indianapolis realize the obligation that is before them that there won’t be any question at all about the rooms. Do you realize your obligation?

Mail this today! Don t put it 00! ' ' 7 ear it out NOW! C 0 -s°' /\ \\ * Tear out this couyV *’ pon now! Fill it in and send \\ immediately. Show your Indianapolis spirit by offering the use of your roojn without any charge. / * THIS ADVERTISEMENT WRITTEN BY FRED MILLIS