Show SMALL TOWN what strikes one more than anything else Is the fact that most of the postoffice post ottice office addresses given in the dally daily casualty lists of the brave young men who went down doan in the thickest of the fight are trim the small towns had you thought of that as you read the names ot of the missing wounded and the dead AS s you yoli glanced over your paper and read the list of dead and injured A american boys sent out by GC pershing had you noticed that a vast majority of them are from the e small towns little towns stuck a way oft off in some corner of 0 this aig lie country towns that you never heard heird of before like you hear of new c chicago or boston watch these lists and you it 11 ael that the small towns of the country are sending their heroes into the face of prussian fire just the same as our metropolitan cities are send ing them the little town with a population of less than a thousand souls and where everyone is ac quainter quain ted with everyone else and eels feels a personal loss when even one boy leaves for the front is fighting this war against autocracy just as val bantly just as sincerely just as no bly as the largest city in the land the mightiest nation on the face of th the e earth is sending its heroes across the water to win the noblest cause for which men have yet fought the salvation of the world hinges upon the success of these heroes and through them must come a peace that will not alone be everlasting but a sweeter peace than this troubled old world has ever known the blood of these heroes Is being poured out that your home may be made sate safe from organized brutality and hun nish barbarism it is significant and it should do your heart good to see how many of these brave boys have come from the small towns the little villages snuggled away in every nook and corner of the nation I 1 I 1 S |