The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-11-06
Face Made Over
After Being Torn
By Bullet

stocky young man with bright eyes
and quick movements and gestures.
He gesticulates = good deal, and
walks about when he talks. There is
Jagged red scar on his cheek, but
it is not very noticeable; one thinks
of it far less as Disagreement than
as evidence of some wonderful surg
cry 1t is not long since Gunner
E.mpey's cheek was crushed to pulp,
and it was thought that his face
could never look like a mans face
|again-unti! a young American sur
geon, a Harvard unit man, promised
to see what he could do" Now
Gunner Empey simply has a slight
scar on one cheek He talks with a
great deal of vigor, of enthusiasm, a
contagious zest Of soldering. And
his word of encouragement is not
confined to the reminder Of respites
in the actual fighting. or, indeed, to
the lighting side Of war at all.
There is some abominable Ger
man propaganda" he said, stridirg
down his room in the hotel, ito the
effect that when the American so!
dier gets to France, he is thrown
into evil associations Nothing" he
declared with the utmost emphasis.
could be further from the truth .
Ir no place is there drawn stricter
line for good conduct than in France.
Soldiers in French villages are now
allowed to roam about at will. The
questionable civilian population
what is more, is segregated in
strictly patrolled quarters. And any
man, no matter what his rank, who
ia found in the vicinity Of these dis.
tricts without a written permit de
failing him to some specific duty
there is arrested and severely deal
with.
I'D like to tell every mother IL
Anne rica," he added, that, no mat
ter what her boy is when he goe
into the war, he'll be a manlier ma,
Wnen he comes out of it. He will b
more self-reliant, more urageous
a great quality OF justice and fai
play will have been instilled int
him. And the army is a great level
er; the highbrow, the roughnecs
the wise and the otherwise are a
on the same plane. fighting for tn
same cause, and all fighting for yo,
The coal heavens son and the mi
lionaire's son, marching side by sid
sharing the same life, are in jul
= the same danger together; a Germa
bullet is no respecter of social pos
tion.
Then" he went on, with a chant
!, OF tone, and with admiration in h
IL voice that showed how he felt b
ts fore he had got to the end of
es sentence, There is the Y M. C.
" You people in America ought to ,
II Everything you can to help the Y.
C. A. 1t is the real home Of Il
% American soldier in France. 1t car
give him his loved ones, but it Civ
!, him the comforts and interests al
ID pleasures Of home. TT brings hor
-. to him there in the mud Of Z
II trenches. And those Y. M. c..
" men aren't drawing any wonderf
salaries, either; they are voluntee
and they are in the midst of t
US mud and the firing, as the so!dit
ne are, to make the soldier comfortat
II and help him maintain the religi
ne and the manliness he had when
iu' went into the war. The Y NJ. c.
NJ doesn't make any distinction in a
" way-Protestant. Catholic, Je
'io atheist, every one is welcome.
I" SHOW the soldier who NAL
'S' disparaging remark about the
NJ c. A. or It's work, he said, a
iIv I'll show you a ldier who il L dct
on ment to the army, who is c"nsta
III. ly in trouble, and who has lost
I'M respect Of officers and mates.
ich up to you people here at home
nd help the Y NJ c. A.