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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Government has built Liberty Theatres in nearly all of the camps, and here performances are given nightly. The very best, at 10 and 25 cents. Playwrights have sacrificed their royalties; stars, a good part of their salaries; and producers their profits in order to give to our men in uniform the best good cheer. But, with all this, Smileage is a tremendous undertaking, and the Government feels that because it has to use every one of its dollars toward the direct prosecution of the war the public will take up Smileage as its own contribution, a gift to every soldier...
...planned for the 16 military cantonments in the United States must be self-supporting. They must be of the same calibre as the bright, snappy shows the men are accustomed to seeing. The admission charges must be small. So Smileage Books were devised, the coupons of which are good at any paid entertainment in the camps under the management of the Commission on Training Camp Activities. Thus the friends of the soldier may send him theatre tickets which may be used in the Liberty Theatre and Liberty Entertainments at his camp.--SMILEAGE NEWS...
Your plan of selling Smileage Books seems to be an admirable way of financing this worthy enterprise because it gives to the individual citizen an easy opportunity of furnishing the means for numerous good times to his soldier friends...
...frequent announcements of deaths at our aviation camps. Every day, it seems, we have read of some fatal accident. To many it has appeared that there must be something wrong; that the instruction is not sufficient, or that the planes are not properly built. There is, however, no good reason to believe that cadet aviators have been needlessly sacrificed. Until the last month the number of accidents has not been striking. The present increases can be explained naturally...
...Where are they good...