Show HATS OFF TO THIS MOTHER S Dr HERMANN Sf f the Vigilantes Regimental Sergt Maj William B. B Jenkins Three Hundred and Fourth field artillery Is dead at Camp Upton but his soul Is marching on It Is a question Indeed whether hether in death he ho homay may not do more to defeat the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans than he could ever have done In III life For his death has brought from his mother an utterance of stirring patriotism that I is is sure to rouse to greater effort the defenders of ot America abroad and at home Sergeant Major Jenkins came carno from Holladay Tenn and it Is from there that hat his mother Mrs M. M E. E Jenkins writes as follows YS to Maj Ma J. J D. D Whitman Whitman Whit Whit- man S SAllow Allow me as ns one who has lived untIl until un- un tIl I am now an old woman to e express press to you my thanks and for jour many courtesies to m as OS of Sergt Maj William B. B I had hoped my boy would pet get et his hia chance In France b bu bt t It was no not to be so I am as ns submissive to his denn as asIt asif asif if It he had llad died in the trenches In En- En rope Please accept my ray thanks for nIl all your kindness and to any of ot his hI comrades comrades- that were with him In hI his sickness With a sad heart I dictate these lines Unes but w with th a n quickening pulse and an accelerated being I look forward forward forward for for- ward to the day when victory shall come to the e brave boys who are giving their lives for our beloved land J I 1 Ishall shall ever love a n soldier boy May Mar Gods God's bl blessing b be on you |