(original in the Helen McGee Collection at the Hot Springs Public Library)
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Special attention is called to the notice on Page 2 of the meeting of all Depot veterans, scheduled for next Wednesday, March 6th, in Room 3 of the Community Building at 7:30 P.M. The purpose of the meeting is to effect the permanent organization of the Ex-Servicemen's Club, with the election of officers, adoption of bylaws, and the like. All veterans are urged to attend and, judging from the first meeting, there will be a good turnout.
The first article in this this issue needs no comment. Every year we are called on to take part in the Red Cross Drive, and it is hard to imagine a more worthy cause or one more worthy of support. The Red Cross plays no favorites; it takes no account of race, color, or creed. It's sole mission is to relieve human misery wherever found, especially that suffering which comes from sudden disaster. There is no red tape; no waiting for appropriations. When the need comes, it is met; and the reason that it can be met promptly is because of your dollar and mine. Each year the Red Cross calls on us to build up a reserve for them. so that they may be able to give help at once when needed. The Depot's quota of $1,000 is not excessive, and there is every reason to believe that BHOD will go "over the top" in this drive, as they have in every other one that has been offered.
This issue of the Igloo Magazine has an unusual number of notices of birthday parties and celebrations of one kind and another. It is true that Washington, Lincoln and certain parties who shall be nameless all have their birthdays in February. The casual reader; picking up this issue, might think that all we do here is play. But to those who know the Depot and its surroundings, these celebrations take on a peculiar significance. This paper has always maintained that we here at Igloo are in fact one family. Our very situation makes us so. We are isolated and cut off from ordinary outside contacts. And being one family, we act accordingly. We rejoice at weddings, congratulate one another on our birthdays and mourn with those who have suffered loss. And both rejoicing and the mourning are deep and sincere. There is one old bach who knows from experience what it means to walk into a room and find it filled with girls and women friends, expecially as he is concious of having frequently indulged in the pastime of "razzing the women." That of course is his only comeback for a lifetime of neglect on their part. But these little attentions which we show one another, so far from hampering the work, only make it go more quickly and smoothly, as we realize that they are symbols of the tie that binds us all together -- our work and our life here at BHOD. May both long continue!
Faith Ryan and Mabel Anderson spent an enjoyable week end painting their apartments.
Edith Hagen is sick at her home in Hot Springs.
Martin Steinlicht spent Tuesday afternoon in Chadron, Nebraska.
Cecil Dowd is back at work again after a siege with the flu.
Christine Librcajt was made happy over the week end by a visit with her daughter and son-in-law, as well as little granddaughter, from Burke, S. Dak.
Faith Husaboe has taken up her duties
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