Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-08 | Page 13 | Of Course You Must Have Your White Carnation for Mother

OF COURSE YOU MUST HAVE YOUR YOURI WHITE CARNATION FOR MOTHER Ily I IJ I. T The e price of white carnations may maybe maybe maybe be beup up on Mather's Mathers day but we can afford to pay for one apiece Motherhood Itself Is expensive That is isone Isone Isone one reas reason n why it Is so precious Three years ago General Pershing who as you may happen to remember was wes n France and did not come backI back I until It was over over there Issued I this proclamation To all Commanding O n Officers f rs I I 1 wish s every r officer and soldier Inthe in inthe inthe the American expeditionary forces fores would write a a. letter home on Mother others other's s day This is a little thing thIns for each one oneto oneto oneto to do but these but these letters will carry back our courage and our affection to th the patriotic women whose love and prayers prayers pray pray- ers era inspire us and cheer us on to vIctory vie vIc tory Reams and reams of letter pap r were used up on that day and wh wh can doubt that every soldier was a better man for tor the hour h hp spent ia In writing home to mother In the Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago Chi cago eago Harry Monroe himself a man who had been a a. drunkard and a pugIlist pugilist list Ut kept a a. great frescoe on the wall where every man who entered had n n chance but to read it if he could read at all all- How Bow iong long since you wrote to mother He said that question did as much good as any verse of scripture on the walls and that he J never eve found J any man beyond hope who still sUll loved the h hman memory of his mother Of or all P people who a are Sh shaping thIs tha w worlds world's td 1 tomorrow r Its s statesmen r rs teachers preachers editors and all the rest no no group roup is BO so potent as the mothers of the race Henry Drummond In his lectures on The Ascent of Man an pointed out the moral significance of the supremacy of the tho Mammals in the w world of living things and said Gods Gods God a crowning achievement as us judged by the tho ascent nt of life Is the evolution of motherhood I White carnations may come como high but we must have them And Arid please remember the oung mothers who were schoolgirls a few years ago and who have o entered Into the tho wonderful experience of maternity that has hus transformed them into worn worn- women en White carnations for them also