Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-28
LOCAL COMMENT

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II the well diggers have struck a
flow Of 100000 gallons per day in Q
deep test well why not sink a few Of
them and let it go at that? The shall
low wells could keep on working and
we would then have water going over
our wheel from above and below.
Let no one minimize the s2criHces
young men are making who go into this
war. They are giving up careers, OPP
portunities, homes and very often the
girl they had planned to marry. Par
ents, too. are giving up the sons they
have raised and cherished. This wal
is hell and there is no mistake about
it, so let's all sympathize with and re-
spect those who are making these
sacrifices to defend our country from
an enemy who would attack and plum
der and perhaps enslave US if it could.
This means that If it a farmer is left
short Of help when his boys enlist his
neighbors should be generous in their
aid to him. If family in town suf-
fers privation because of the loss OF
support from a young man gone to
war let the neighbors chip in and ex-
tend gratuities systematically without
the sting of charity in it. The boy IN
the army is doing more for us than
we can ever do for his people at home.
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Then there will possibly be the
young wife who volunteers TO support
herself while the young man refuses
to take advantage Of his exemption and
goes to war. 1t is up to US at home to
see that she is offered congenial en-
ployment.. In Canada there Is a ma
tional organization akin to our Red
Cross society which pensions the de-
pendent members of a soldiers family
from funds contributed in free VIII Of
ferings by the patriots at home. In
the absence of any such national or
ganiZation it is up TO the citizens OF
each county to organize and take care
of every soldiers people. 1t is up 70
every individual to busy himself IN
doing something for his next-door
neighbor who has made the big sacr!-
fee for our war.
DR.. Devine is to be applauded by
everyone of us for his willingness 20
accept a most unpleasant responsibility
of passing upon the physical quaiinca-
tons OF men who are to be drafted fCf
war No doctor wanted that load 10
fall on him and some would have
shirked had they received the call The
pay is less than seven cents per ma II
= nv IN la
every man per day at 81 per diem,
but the pay could have been nothing "a
all without changing the SITUATION.
Lifelong friends will appeal TO the eS-
amining board 10 ind something dencl-
ent in their boys if they can and i VIII
fall 10 the doctors lot TO send meu
into the army whom they have cared
for professionally since the young man
was a child and the doctor will nave
to turn away from the tears OF en-
treaty in the mothers eyes. 1t is an
arraignment worse than going 10 war
oneself and it denotes courage for DE
Devine 20 accept it. The same can d.
said of those physicians who are yet
to be drafted to assist
&
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army should keep their eyes upon
what is ahead and forget insofar as
they can what lies behind. There Is
vast opportunity in the army for ad-
vancement, development and accom-
plishment and a great majority OF
those who enlist are going TO come
home again. II is true that single resi-
ments have been decimated at times,
but the army as whole is not losing
the percentage of its men that armies
lost in our civil war. Casualties now
are not nearly so great as they were
at the beginning Of this war. A young
man who has been somewhat aimiess
and perhaps effeminate will come out
of the army self reliant. fearless aad
powerful citizen. Others who have the
stuff in them to succeed will rise in the
ranks, will learn to manage men anu
when they return they will have been
grounded in the fundamentals that
make captains Of industry. Some Will
grow dissolute and return depraved, OF
course. but often some one son out Oh
the best Of families turns out that way
without any war There is as mueh
opportunity in the army in war as IN
peace for every young fellow to make
a man out Of himself and that is the
object that should rivet his attention.
About the only fellows in the past who
have handed their names down in the
pages of history are those who saw
the opportunity to do big things in
war.
1t was hot yesterday and today in
Marshalltown but it was not cir-
to conditions in the tene-
ment districts of Chicago. When those
little folks arrive for an outing in the
country thru the charity OF the soclety
which sends them let our good-heartea
people realize, If they can, the Inferno
Of heat from which the youngsters are
trying to escape and then come forward
with the hospitality which the 7. W.
C. A. is asking somebody to extend.