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Show WORD FROM t ANOTHER I OVER THERE if. I1" Dally aro tho good peoplo of our community receiving letters rromt ;' thelrboys who are "over thero", ex- 7 pressing thelf good will toward the work and the country they repre- sent. Hcre Ib a letter f rrom one . . of the boys who somewhero In France still thinks ot home. '"- ' . Somewhere In France, August 12, 1918 ,- - Dear Parents: It has been about ten days since writing you last, due to the fact I have been moving around so much. i I still carry around In my pocket letters received from home, dated July 4th, which I reread occasionally. occasional-ly. I look any day now for another letter from home. Mother, I am living In a nice 'dug out under ground. So you can imagine Just where I might be at the present time: Sometimes dur ing tho night while taking a nice little nap, Fritz sends over my head a big shell or two. You can hear his shell sing a nice little song bo- for they hit the ground and explode. J. am well and enjoying myself very much. One thing I would like very much Is Borne home newspapers or magazines. . I Our boys are doing wonderful I good good work lately. Thq people H at home ought to be very proud of H them. I' I will quote you a few lines which . Oy I think lilustrato' different"' nation- , allties: .England the efficient navy; France, tho efficient household; Germany, Ger-many, tho faro" efficient army; Scot- land, tho efflclont thrift; Italy, the 4 efficient art; 'Australia- and Now j& Zealand, the efficient government; A Japan, the efficient hygiene, and Am- v erica nerve; ho will try anything and all things; his destlng lays in . his. daring; our nation's) flag Is the S stars and stripes; because we aim at i the stars and smllo at the stripes. k ' Efficiency Is 'the science of doing te, one's most and best, In the shor'tes - Wet j m)rrnw time and. the easiest .way, to the l j$t satisfactory ot all concerned. V These few facts which I havp w quoted lsr.what'-ls making tho'Atoef- 3J,. -. lean' a real good soldier. 1 $ ,- and will wilto you again tomorrow. Veil . mother, JUoltor ring off, w l Lot8 r lovo - . II. P, ALLEN, 307(355 CqTA.,' 123rdM, O. Bu. fif American E. F., A. P. O. 750. |