Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-11-16
PROJECT YOUR BOY"

PROJECT YOUR BOY"
By Porter Emerson Browne in the
"vigilantes.
This is written to every father,
TO every mother, to every sister.
to every brother, to every uncle,
TO every aunt, to everg body who
has a boy that he or she loves.
Your boy is either at the front,
or in the camps, or waiting to be
sent to the camps which mea MS
that some day he will be sent 10
fhe front for Germany is a RAJ
ton as strong as it is cruel. as
powerful as it is merciless and
this war, which we must tight
or become, as Belgium has be-
come, a nation of corpses and
slaves, will take all our men, all
our money, all our fortitude. to
win.
You loved your boy when he
was at home, didn't you ? You
did for him all that love. ard
care, and kindness, and tender
ness, and devotion could do to
keep him straight, and clean,
and happy * You loved
him that he was yours. He loved
you tor the love you gave him.
Now he has gone, or is going.
It is right that he should 60. 1t
is Gods will he should 60. He
goes to defend you whom he
loves against those that would
rape. aud rob and kill E; that
would make this land of ours a
shambles and a shame that
would make the words life.
liberty. and the pursuit Of hap.
piness. a bloody sheer against
the vast background of time.
And now. as lie goes, you
must say to him, God bless
you, and bring you safely back
to us ~ - You kiss y y
Your hand fingers ia his-ling.
ers, quivering-and then with
draws - And he has gone . =
He has left you. For a time
he has gone from your life and
yon from his.
He will be exposed to many
temptations-even as would you
at his age. Many men and many
women will try in many WAYS to
tempt him to do things that he
should not. Life is life !; and to
be human and young, is to be all
that the words human and young
mean *s*
But there is one way in which
you can still be with hiu-by
which the hand Of yours that
aided his baby footsteps-that
helped him i'll his little lessons
Of primer and OF arithmetic
that guided him past childish
dangers-can still reach out to
help him Fs'*
Better than we, the Young
Mems Christian A Association real.
ICES the power of evil associates.
of rotten environment of the sod
den danger that are bound to
pitfall the road of those that are
human. and young.
These men want to give your
boy the thugs that you, who
1--we him, eau no longer give
him. They want to give him
the loving care that You Car no
longer give him. They want to
give him clean places TO live in,
clean books to read, clean games
to amuse, clean music to hear
aud sing, clean drinks to drink,
clean associations with which to
associate. They want to send
him back to you as honest, as
fearless, as gentle, as clean as
when he left you.
To give him these things, this
attention, this love. this care,
will take money. These people
that would do it, do not .wantl
your money for themselves.-t
They want your money only that
it may be sent in caring for your
boy. They can now do whstI
you no longer can. Will you
help them to do this thing ? Crl
will you, now that your boy has
gone far away turn your back
aud leave him to be stained, and !
eoarsened and corrupted ia the
Il snds of those who would ex-l
plot him in sin for profit, and in
corruption for a price 2
Evil women, rotten men, ard
the counterfeit joys that dwell
n the glittering hell holes where
'um detorts the brain and stimu II
ates the body, beset the path of
very young male human being ;