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Show Mothers, Don't Wail. Muthers, write more cheerful letters to your sons lu uniform! They need n:-snges of encouragement, not doleful dole-ful forebodings, nor constant remind-"ts remind-"ts of the awful ness of the "great dis-E;ter dis-E;ter to humanity." This is the pleading message sent out not by government officials but by 'he boys themselves boys that are over there ! "Don't help the kaiser by hanging weights on the spirits of your boys who f.re fighting," writes Joseph Teter of ''e regiment, United States Ma rine corps, now in France. "The boys are all ready to go through with this '1'ing. taking things as they come, but It is the folks back home who seem to he quitters. All of us are getting l-t;ers of this sort from our mothers and I tell vou, it's mighty dishearten-ir,;." dishearten-ir,;." Take a tip from the lad's earnest ; r'ta. mothers ; don't wail ! |