Show BOYS TAKE HOLD It IH GOOD OLD AMERICAN WAY SOLDIER SAYS Hardships Ignored Wounded Man Tells Mother Mother Mother-Don't Don't Dont Let Them Hinder Your War Work By Mrs Hazel Pedlar Faulkner From a hospital somewhere in France a wounded American has wrItten writ writ- ten en to his parents We are going through hardships but the boys are taking hold in the good old American way What a message for those of us who have remained at home What a challenge to the vast army of men and women who are in the homo home guard carrying on 01 in the thousand and one ways that the exigencies of war have havo brought upon us We are going through hardships Wo We can believe that when we recall recall re re- re- re call caU tho the dauntless charges which our boys bors have been een making over there and tho the daily dally lengthening casualty lists which are resulting from their fearless devotion to the task that is set act y before them We 0 c Know they are going through hardships lIps when we stop to think of oft ofte t te o upon hundreds who who are wounded and who for the time beIn be my ing In at least need care earn and attention FIENDISH ENEMY ADDS TERRORS Of Ot course they are going through hardships those boys from your our home and mine Hardships are a apart apart apart part of war They are the inevitable result of a state of war And when war is waged by an enemy so skilled i in all aU the fiendish deviltries in which the Germans have Indulged they are ate the inescapable portion o ot of every soldier participating But hardships are not the part o othe of at atthe the war these soldiers of ours are thinking most about They are bu buthe but the Incidents in the days day's work The boys bos are taking hold in the good old American way Could there be a better statement of their manner of facing what comes to them Could there be a more definite def det course of action prescribed fo for those of us at home during these days which test the mettle of ou our souls The time for our message to th the boys has come again The Fourth Liberty Loan is to be our response to this wounded soldiers soldier's challenge MAKE YOUR ANSWER NOW Are we going to take hold in th the good old American way We have not had to go through hardships ours hardships ours have been an easier easie part We have known little of sacr flee or deprivation Compared wit with the offering of our boys wo have hav done nothing as yet et And now herla here her la is the challenge sounded to us The good old American way is al an all that is asked of us What is that tha way You must frame the answer mothers moth ers and sisters of the west YourIs Your Yours Is an important part in the reply which the nation will wUl make to th the thebo's boys bos overseas There Is not one o ous ofus ot of otus us who would not spare her son If she could yes could yes even spare some som other mothers mother's son the pain anc and hardship he must bear We are no not asked to do that We could no not though we would But we can make his part easier t to bear we can go with him through the hardships by lending completely of f our money There is no longer need to explain what a Liberty Loan is There i ino Is no more necessity for pointing ou out reasons for participation in it This Is the day when but to hear its calis call cal callIs callis is to insure its heartiest support September is the date set fo for our concerted reply through th the Fourth Liberty Loan Let us take tak hold in the good old American way What Is the very most you ou can do t to tomako tomako mako that advance a smashing success suc sue cess like the boys over there ar are making |