The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-03
SOME PERTINENT OBSERVA-
TONS.
Concerning the Situation of Needed
Supplies for Battery {.

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Greenwood, Miss, Aug. 2, 1917.
Editor Daily Commonwealth:
Dear Sir: / notice in Wednesdays
issue of your paper an appeal in be-
helf of a number of the boys of Bat
terry c, and a liberal subscription from
The Daily Commonwealth. This is
a most commendable move. To one
who may not know as much about mil
itarv matters as he should, it looks
very much like both our State and
National Governments had handled
this matter very badly, and in a man.
ner not calculated to inspire any great
degree of enthusiasm, These boys re-
sponded voluntarily to the call OF their
, country several months ago and have
long since been mustered in both by
the State and Federal Government,
and have been kept in suspense ever
! since as to when they would be called
into training apd service. Many OF
them had just arrived at the age when
necessarily they we're seking employ
ment with a view to becoming self
supporting. Many were OF that large
| class who are released from employ
ment here every spring, with the clos
ing of the cotton season and the begin
ninr of the "dull season." The fact
that they were members of the Bat
terry prevented their going to other
places, and worst of all they have been
Disseminated against right here at
home by those who have had positions
to confer, because they DID belong
to the Battery, and such positions CIV
en- to those who did not, to avoid the
interruption and Inconvenience OF
making a chanbe whenever the Bat
terv was called out. The Battery boys
have felt this latter treatment most
keenly, inasmuch as they were CIV
ing up every comfort and convenience
or the face of Gods earth and going
to the front to risk life itself for their
country and it's honor; but without e%-
~ception they had the good sense to
realize that this has been due to az
, oyersight-to a failure to reallz'
: how serious a matter it has been t.
5 them. They wnok, one and al
> that a grander, truer-hearted or NOR
. liberal people than ours have neve:
+ lived, and that it was not due to an!
intentional slight or to a lack of ap
preciation of the seriousness and o
i. the patriotism of the step they wer'
t taking. The war is still a long wa,
; from US, and it will not come near un
r til we awake some morning to tin
j, that a lot of our boys will never re
turn to US. 1t is impossible unde
these circumstances to imagine tina
/ anyone would offer them an inten
. tional slight of any description, o
}. that they will be permitted to leav
S here without the citizens Of this tow
:, making them feel that their loyalty
their patriotism and heroism, are ar
preciated to the fullest, and givln
f them such a farewell as will comfol
It them, in the long days to come, te
l. the sacrifices they are making fe
IS home and duty.
In tn emeantime, let us not forge
that these boys are beng called to e,
campment without being provide
IS with necessary clothing or equlpmer
or the funds wherewith to PROVE
them. 1t does seem that there
I'd something extremely wrong here, a
w that it is up to the citizens of Gree
is wood, out of their liberality and t
he goodness of their hearts to correct it
or not as a duty-it was not theirs-b
as a tribute to these boys. xxx.