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Show I' Soldiers! Read This! YOU'LL AGREE WITH EVERY WORD OF IT A Wonderful Chance for Our Returned Re-turned Heroes to Guide 5,000,000 1 Eager Young Minds I By Dr. William A. McKccver: ItttANTED A million returned wW heroes, consciously and wlll- ingly, to accept appointments np teachers and models for live million mil-lion young boys. Notice Is hereby nerved upon you that all tho boys of . the wtld arc and above have ' chosen you as their leaders of sentiment senti-ment and practice. "Whatever you 'do they will imitate. Whatever manners and habits yqu arc practicing practic-ing they will now take up. The public school Is adjourned, the other :eacher is gone and you are to take . :he place. ( A few days ago I saw 5,000 ol you v" .marching proudly upon the streets "of the big city and at your heels for many squares back surged a mob of yelping boys. Your bronzed lorm and your suppressed emotion aeld me almost spell bound but you xere not a whit more enticing than ihe admiring pack at your heels :hese howling young chaps who are pledged in their hearts to get from your own lips the story of your trl-' trl-' umphant journey and to become in every way as much like you as they can. To become like you think of that. 1 stood there in the surging throng admiring you and wondering' wonder-ing' If you were aware of your responsibility to the cheering roungcr boys when three previously previous-ly returned soldiers ahead of me icomcd to catch tho signillcancc )f the question here In point and me of them exclaimed, "Say. look it those kids. It is up to us to bo f- careful what we do for they are hot on our trail." "Tou bet," exclaimed a second. "I have heard a lot of the men say they arc going pto cut out swearing andthclr other lough talk when they get back." "Ves, that's right," responded the third man of tho group. "I havo , already cut out cigarettes for the j sake of the ten-year-old kid broth- er at my house. Didn't take up the fags till I went Into the army and I am quitting them now to carry out. a pledge to my mother and as an example to the boys."' And now, since tho day of this i happy discovery on my part that at ' least some of the returned soldiers i arc keenly aware of ihclr rcsponsl- i bllity to the admiring younger boys, 1 have taken the trouble to' ' Inquire among many of the dls- charged heroes as to their Ideas about this maltcr, and I find them nearly all ready and willing to accept, ac-cept, at least in some degree, tho challenge from Young America to stand up and be measured and analyzed ana-lyzed as a model of conduct and character for the alert young troop- 1 crs of tho scout age. 5 So a now phase of the great war Is here. Our soldier sons and broth-. broth-. crs are back to tell the story and acl the new part In tho mighty ! drama, the magic central figure in a scene of hero worship, with Ave million eager young minds as the Inspired onlookers. I for one am depending upon these players to perform their individual parts . nobly. I |