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Show ALL ARE SOLDIERS In one of our Indian wars a newspaper correspondent was ent to the front to write on actual conditions thei-e. As he ap-- ap-- proached the position where the troops were located, he saw some men cutting down trees and loading the wood on wagons. He rode up to make some inquiries and was astonished to find that v dhey were soldiers. He saw other men off to hts left running a xnower and cutting hay! Without asking any question he rode ' ' "over to them and learned that they also were soldiers in uniform. He finally asked a man who was cocking hay where the "real sol-diers" sol-diers" were. The reply was: "We are real soldiers doing work .that is absolutely necessary to win this war. The cavalry horses r". must have hay and the soldiers be kept from freezing the coming v minter or the war is lost." That is very much the condition of the United States today. ' "The whole people, men. women, hoys and girls, are real soldiers. They are engaged at war work which is just as necessary as firing rifles and big guns af the front. A weary woman who is doing all her own work that she might save money to buy war stamps sat down exhausted at the end of a day. She was a soldier the same as the weary man wading in the mud in trenches and enduring endur-ing hardships unjil it seems that human nature could endure no more. The people of the United States are all soldiers and they ' .have enlisted, not for any specified time, but until the war is over. . |
