Show Echelon Soldier By fly RUTH TAYLOR T. The Tho other evening I heard three young soldiers who had been wounded talk of their experiences One youngster who looked like one of ot the high school boys boya In 10 n your town or mine told us that his Job was was w E that of ot rear echelon soldier soldier- that his unit brought up the supplies to tho the men In the front line It was in inthe Inthe intile the tile performance p rt mi rice of df this ails sometimes called cushy duty that ho he was hit the hit the only man in his group to survive And I thought that that is what wo we weare are today today rear rear echelon soldiers We do donot donot donot not go up to the front lines to fight fight fight- but we vie w nevertheless have a Job lob to do each and every one of us It is s our job jobIn jobin jobin In our war And much of what our fighting fight fight- fighting fightIng ing men all over the world accomplish a will wUl depend upon how we wo do our part They have the greater task but we have an equal responsibility Our job as rear echelon soldiers is best expressed by a cartoon which is going the rounds and which has a very pertin pertin- pertinent I ent caption caption If If you cant can't stand beside him stand behind him This does docs not mean just turning out the goods and the food to supply the armed forces forces though though that task must come first In our lives It docs does not just mean buying bonds bonds for for after all aU that thatIs Is just Juat as good for us as ai it is for the war effort Being a good rear echelon soldier means a great deal more than producing weapons or purchasing bonds It means facing the fight with the enemy as our men are doing and not fighting among ourselves It means meaDS sacrificing I our per per- personal per per-I personal I privileges as they are sacrificing theirs It means accepting restrictions as they a the tho curtailment of their personal lives It means disciplining our emotions and putting aside our pre pre- prejudices prejUdices prejudices as they have done It means Join join- Joining joinIng joining ing hands with all our fellow Americans without regard to class creed or color color- as they have done done to to work for the tho color I com com- common common common mon good of or all In 10 that spirit of ot unity which Is 18 as much the safeguard of or our nation ad os It Is 15 of our armed forces I And It means mean something still more It means that wo must keep the supply supply of ot tho the things of the spirit moving up to the front lines Wo We must keep alight aUght I those things for which they arc are fighting Home Religion no matter by what creed It calls itself Community life lite The I National Credo of or freedom and equal- equal equality equality j ity of or opportunity for all The Ideals for tor j I which they arc aro fighting must be kept alive aUve for them to come come back to It Is little enough for us to do when we consider what they our sons our broth broth- brothers ers era our fellow citizens are doing for us In their fight to keep the tM aggressor I from our shores and in 10 their conquest of tyranny to bring peace again on earth We may not fight tight on the battle fields but but we can all be rear echelon echels n soldiers |