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Show The Letters You Write ; 'r- When .you write to Sorjie One in France," write him the kind' of letter you thihlQie'd liketo get; the kind you'd like to get if you werVin a trench or dugout or hospital or village billet, out there! If you'Were in France there are several kinds of letters you wouldn't want to get You wouldn't want to learn how hard a time your people are having or think- they arc-having; either because they are so unhappy at your absence or because the grpcer's bills are so big. And you wouldn't be particularly ifedified at learning that some people are so unpatriotfc.they lynched an unarmed, ap-parentiyhaiwlesS; ap-parentiyhaiwlesS; "enemy alien" out Illinois way, and the law couldn't punish the murderers, even when their ringleader confessed. .The army is the place for men' Who want jto kill enemy aliens tand the army has no need of this cowardly kind of Home competition.. We fancy the kind of letters our young men in France like to get includes a lot of home news, the family and rourid-the-corner news. That's a whole lot better than news about the flag -Wayings and parades" of people who aren't soldiers., -Above all,. don't write that the submarine submar-ine has been beaten or that you expect the war is going to be over this .'summer.'. -They know better than that over there. -- - f,. Sitting down to. think, ajjjout what our men would like to have from home is oriegood'way of looking ourselves over and- making our -maids up as to whether or not we stay-at-homes are makinggood in our part "of the war. We fancy our-men yould;be glad to hear about the progress pro-gress in shipbuilding, .and, how the Liberty motor business busi-ness is going to get better, than it was; but we don't believe be-lieve there's anything very inspiring about this affair of our not sending General Leonard Wood to France, our soldiers might imagine it meant that the administration is a Democratic and not a national administration; a war administration. And that would be a demoralizing idea. Write him a letter that comes as near to being the kind letter he'd like to get as you can write. , 4Mai |
