Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — CURE FOR BLUES NEAR THE GAMPS [ARTICLE]

CURE FOR BLUES NEAR THE GAMPS

Community Service Takes Place of Mother, Friends and Home for Soldiers. Ten yonng officers of the Student Army Training Corps of the University of Detroit recently applied for a furnished house and a housekeeper who would not be a servant, but, as' One young officer expressed it, “the! sort of woman to whom Hie boys can call out ‘Hello, mother!’ when they come in the front door.” Homesickness is the mffiady for which sVar Camp Community Service supplies innumerable cures. “We’ve got your number.” says the W. C. C. S. to the homesick boy from . camp with leisure to spend in any one of the three hundred towns scattered over the country. While he’s wondering what on earth he’ll do with himself when he gets there, not knowing a soul in town and with a limited percentage of his “thirty per” in his pocket, along comes a friendly printed card from the local branch of his own lodge announcing a reception that night especially for soldier members. By the same mail the Methodist church sends an announcement of all its meetings, addressed to him, with This Means You printed at the bottom. How did they know he was a Methodist? He had forgotten about the little “Personal Card” he made out at the adjutant's request during his first day in Camp when it was only one of the endless details in the round of dentists and doctors and general confusion. The W. C. C. S. had not only his number, but his name and address, his home town, the name of the school he'd gone to and a good bit about the things he was fondest of doing —-each fact written into a little blank on the card especially fur it.