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Show If our soldiers n France were asked ask-ed what they most desired, nine hun- MP II I Ml f ! Ill IHI IIIWII IIIIHIIII.IIHI dred and ninety-nine out of a thousand thous-and would shout, "Passage in a transport trans-port or airship to the United States, with a ticket from the port to entry home!" That is the dominant note-in the soldiers' letters from abroad. ' And you cannot be surprised. They went over to fight while the fighting was good, and now that, the war is at an end, the American soldier for home and mother. And if the same question were put to the people at home, the response would be, "Most of anything, I want my soldier hoy home again." Don't think that the government has verlooked these conditions. It is combing the highways and byways of the sea for transports to hurry the men home. It is sending them on American ships, Holland ships, Ital-ion Ital-ion ships, whatever it can secure. Remember that it took over a year o get the army into France, and that the British transports which carried much of it over are no longer available. avail-able. Patience, mothers and fathers and kinsfolk here in Mount Pleasant. It will not be long at the longest before Uncle Sam returns your good Tom or your nice Dick or your fine Harry, bigger and browner than when he left, and as overjoyed to reach home as you are to see him. |