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Show CHILDREN RUN TO SOLDIER PALS AT ARMY ESS CALL l French Tots Share Yankee Sol-I Sol-I diers Rations Women's j War Parts Great I By Mrs. Hazel Pedlar Faulkner "The llttlo children In this nulghbor-hooTl nulghbor-hooTl lmvo loarncd to distinguish tho , mess cull, "Immedlntely It In Bounded, tlioy ' troii) out (torn ovory concolvablo corner, cor-ner, tnltlng their places around tho men, watching with cngor.'hungry oyes every lillo that Is dished out, A fellow enn't cat his prunes vory comfortably with such nn audience, and tho mon hero lmvo dlvldod ovory meal with tlicflo llttlo fellows, who nra tha children chil-dren of men saving France." A "homo-town" .prlvato, ono of tho KiiKliH'ors who tins been building tall-armies tall-armies In France, sont that inessago home. Ho Is ono of tho mon who has bcon dividing his dally ration of sotfp nnj beans, of meat ond prunos, with tho children who aro tho soul of Franco. WOMEN GIVE WHEAT, SONS AND MONEY American women, ovcrywhero, and Western women second to nono, havo-bonio havo-bonio their part In tho fight. Thoy havo saved tholr meat and tholr wheat, they havo given tholr husbands and sons. Tholr money Is going now. In tho first, second and third Liberty loins thoy havo Invostod their dollars. Opportunity to servo has como again. Tho Government Is Booking funds. It Is Hiklnt for tho third of Its threo-fold need mon, munitions and monoy. Tho hand thnt rocked tho cradlo Is holding tho purso strings In thoso momentous mo-mentous days. For tholr boys Western mother' will not withhold tho nocdod gold. America has startod on tho road to norlln. Tho way Is a long ono, and traveling Is difficult. Dut tho Journey Jour-ney must bo mnde, and tho pilgrims must bo equipped. It Is no longor a question of "shall wo buy bonds" with Amorlcan mothers. That was answerod whon tho boys went ovor there. It Is no longor a question of "can we buy bonds." Tho oxnirlence of the first thrco loans has answered thnt. The question for Western womon, In company with women all ovor tho land, to answer Is "what Is tho limit to which I can, by sacrlflco and saving, by 'going without and working for, what Is tho llmjt which I con reach f CAN'T STOP SHORT OF BERLIN GOAL It would' bo a sorry ending of a Jour-noy Jour-noy to havo Amorlca stop short of Her- j lln. It Is luconcolvnblo that our sol-dlors sol-dlors should stop short of thnt goal, 1 Cnn you, womon of tho Wool, pauso In tho grout task which has boon set tor youT Can you halt for an Instant In tho fnco of tho country's need? Will all of thoso plannod purchases weigh In tho scalo with tho call which comes ringing acioss from thoso plnlns whoro tho boys uro fighting? It Is to koop your boy on tho march toward tho final goal that tho Oovornmont asks you to lend It your utmost. "I rogrot that I havo but ono llfo to glvo for my country," said Nathan Halo, as ho ascended tho enemy's gallows. Ours is tho tnsk to savo lives for our country, to savo by lending our nil at Its loquest. Tho Fourth Uborty Loan gives Amorlcan mothers and sisters sis-ters a now opportunity to mnko Impossible Impos-sible a regret that thoy had but ono chnnco to give. Tho Fourth Liberty Loan Is ours. What Is our utmost? Tho country awaits our answer. |