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Show OUR DOUGHBOY IX FRANCE. Yes, he grumbles sometime and who shall blame him? He has often had to march in the mud and sleep on the ground and eat "bully beef" out of a tin can. You never tried all that, did you? And he swears, sure enough; isn't that the privilege of a soldier? Don't you remember Shakespeare's soldier, "Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard," and how two hundred years ago the British army "swore terribly in Flanders?" But the doughboy's swearing is what the French call a "manner of speaking." He uses the words as an emphasis, without much sense of their original meaning. Yes, he is quick tempered too, and we will thank God for it. Remember how the inspiration of righteous anger joined with spiritual trust in his cause sent him over the top like a flame of Are at Cantigny, at Sois-sons, Sois-sons, at Verdun, to work vengeance on the cruel of this world and to pro- . tec't the weak. For the rest, our doughboy is a clean fellow. He does not drink the army regulations see to that and protect him also from other forms of vice. He is generous and kind to a fault, and possesses a keen sense of humor, with very little use for hypocrisy hy-pocrisy in any form and a strong belief be-lief in all inanly virtues. Whether marching through France or Belgium Bel-gium or Germany, fighting in the snows of Russia or escorting loads of flour into Vienna, he has an abiding faith in the good old United States ' and a love for home and mother. We can all take pride in this modest mod-est young soldier and trust him to carry on the best traditions of our . country. |