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Show THEY WILL WRITE TO FRANCE. A soldier in France wrote a letter to The Stlandard which appeared In Thursday's issue. lie is one of the regulars reg-ulars sent over to tho battle zone and was formerly a resident of Ogden. He complained that the regulars were being be-ing overlooked by the people at homo and ho wondered why. He was writing on Christmas day, when all the boys around him not of the regulars were opening packages, and he expressed a feeling of loneliness.. That evening, when The Standard went out to the homes of Ogden, every ev-ery mother must have read the boy's letter for The Standard has had repeated re-peated 'phone calls, inquiring into the antecedents of the young soldior, and, at a young ladies' meeting a resolution was made to write at least once a month to "Somewhere In Franco." "My wife read that letter," said a good .patriotic Ogdenite, "and :he could not rest until she had made arrangements ar-rangements to send a parcel to the boy." This is Americanism tho kind of patriotism that rings true. |