Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-10 | Page 10 | Women of America Praised by Soldier

QIEKGEANT WAREEN D. LOOSE lO of Provo, with the American forces in Franco, who comments upon the part of women in the world war. 1 La; .a i , iluli.iJ WHEN OF AMERICA PRAISED BY SOLDIER Sergeant Warrfn D. Loose Writes Striking Letter From Battlefront. Special to The Tribune, j PROVO, Nov. 8. Sergeant Warren D. j Loose, son of Colonel C. E. Loose' of this LCity, who is with the American forces in j France, has written a letter to his sister, ; Mrs. Preston G. Peterson, in which he pays high tribute to the women of America, Amer-ica, and says that the boys overseas will I appreciate this country far more than j ever when they get back home. Sergeant Loose was graduated from the - Culver Military academy in Indiana at the age of 17 years. He attained the rank of captain at the academy during his senior year. The following year he accepted a position at Culver as military instructor. He served in this capacity, also, during the following summer school. The winter of 1916 he attended the University Uni-versity of California. From the time war was declared on the Hun his one desire was to get "over there." He took the shortest route possible possi-ble during the summer of 1918, after his return from Culver. He enlisted as a private pri-vate with F battery, 145th field artillery, and two weeks later sailed for France j with the battery. He says the happiest ' moment of his life was when he received permission to sail for France with the Utah boys. Since his enlistment he has risen to the rank of sergeant. Sergeant Loose, writing under date of October 11 to his sister, Mrs. Preston G-Peterson, G-Peterson, and after some reference to I delays in the transmission of mail and urging his siter to write as often as she can, "if it is only a note, as the common, every-day happenings at home read like an interesting story," says: "Often I sit and reread the letters from home, and the wonderful sentiments expressed ex-pressed in them make me ashamed of myself. . If all of us over here have as much courage as the women of America God bless them! this war won't last much longer. God, how we must fight not to disgrace our mothers and sisters at home, who do and suffer so much for us and the nation! "You are feeling the pinch of war now, and yet you do not flinch. The pig iron of national sentiment is being transformed trans-formed into true and tried steel, and the women of America deserve no small part of the credit. "A few years ago our national feeling was an insentient, hybrid thing, of a people peo-ple luxury-loving, selfish in the sense of self-sacrifice, seeking, as many people said of us, pleasure and the almighty dollar, and reeking in the stench of the pursuit. "We over here, thank God, will appreciate appre-ciate our wonderful country and its myriad opportunities when we return. Utah is the gem of it all, Sis. All of us want nothing better than to live there. God bless and keep you, sister."