Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1920 — Page 9

/ I ,\ ■ / This Advertisment is a direct urgent appeal to the good women of Indianapolis to show their spirit of hospitality to women who will be in Indianapolis / during the Grand Army Encampment

/T lot of people have the idea that there f~l are simply going to be some old soldiers in Indianapolis September 19 to 25. Probably you have felt that there were plenty of other people in the city who would give rooms and that there was no reason in the world why you should discommode yourself even to the extent of letting some one sleep on an otherwise unoccupied bed. But how would you like to have your mother come to Indianapolis and have to spend the night on the Court House steps? How would you like to have her wander from hotel to hotel, turned away because the hotels were absolutely filled to capacity, try to get a night's rest in the waiting room at the Union Station? Indianapolis women must realize that unless there is a very radical change in the attitude of the citizens of this city towards providing rooms to the housing committee for the encampment, that hundreds and probably thousands of both men and women will be forced to walk the streets of Indianapolis on the nights of September 19 to 25. If 50,000 rooms are provided it means a room from almost every house in the city.

r T I HIS page is paid for in honor of the old soldiers who fought for us in the * civil war and for their wives and relatives who will be Indianapolis' guests September 19 to 25 , by

Thomas Taggart

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28,1920.

It’s a little thing for you to give up a room. It was a much greater thing for the members of the G. A. R. to go into the civil war. Among the women who will be here will be those who went as nurses into the war. And there will be those brave souls who stayed at home while husbands sholdered arms and left. Those noble people aren’t asking you for anything. They have been led to believe that Indianapolis, which boasts of being the most courteous city in the world, would of course furnish them places to sleep at night if they came here to the G. A.R. encampment. Surely you won’t want these people to walk the streets. Are you doing yojur share? Have you sent in your room? Many rooms volunteered by citizens for use of visitors V during the Shrine Conclave last summer were not used \ because of the thousands of Shriners who stayed on \ their Pullman cars. There will be no Pullmans \> e \ this year for the G. A. R. Encampment. At * \ least twice as many people will be in / v /A Indianapolis for the Encampment \\ than were here for the ° v A .•* \\ shr " e - ■■■■■-'' ■ \ X ..A\ Ttsx out this cou\A •*’ pon now! Fill it in and send V\ * mme diately. Show your In--1 dianapolis spirit by offering the use of your room without any charge.

THIS ADVERTISEMENT WRITTEN BY FRED MILLIS

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