The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-11-10
OBSERVATIONS OF
REAL SOLDERING
(By VIM. T.. MOOre)


stop to think what your boy is going
10 do with his spare time while he
is In the army training camp or
Somewhere in France? 1t is your
duty to think of it. He is your boy
and has a right to believe that his
folks back home" are thinking of his
welfare while he is offering his life
in defense of his home and the homes
of the mothers and fathers of the civil
lized world.
Have you ever been hundreds--even
thousands-of miles away from home
and the people you have known all
your life; out among strangers who,
however friendly they may be. are not
and cannot be the same to you as
your own home folks? Have you
ever been in strange land where you
couldn't even talk with the people
because you couldn't speak their Ian
guage? Can you realize the intense
loneliness, the unutterable longing for
some word or news of the loved ones
at home?
Can you feel the leaden sinking of
the heart. the crushing dependency
your boy endures - bravely, because
that is the American way, but never
theless with pang of disappointment
when the mail from home arrives and
he sees the other boys getting letters,
newspapers, and cards from their
loved ones; and as the mail orderly
calls out the names one by one he
listens eagerly for his own-but list
ems in vain-not a letter. not card,
not even a newspaper! Can you real
ize the bitterness and the hurt that is
in his heart then?
Can you see him anxiously awaiting
a chance to look at the home paper or
one of his more fortunate comrades,
TO see IL by chance any news OF his
folks or of his friensd appears In It?
He wonders If they are well, what
they are doing, what is going on in
the old town.
"Oh, WELL" he may think. "if no one
at home thinks enough of me to even
send me a newspaper, / know where
/ can find people who do like me
who will be glad to see me"-and they
are glad to see-his money. And you
have sent him to seek these people
who provide ffiendliness for price q
You want your boy to write to you
frequently and tell you all about his
experiences and his daily life, but
perhaps you sometimes forget that he
may not write to you as he would,
because of the censor. Is 1t fair, Tor
that reason or any other. to neglect
writing to him? or course 1t takes
time. and you have lots of things ID
DO. and he knows that you do care
for him, and sometimes il is hard to
find any news to tell him; but you
can write him few lines anyway so
that he will know you are well, and
you can send him the home paper
which will tell him all about his
friends and how things are going In
the old home town. That will take
the edge of his loneliness and show
him he isn't forgotten at home.
The Silver State Is trying to help
you in this, because your ooy Is one
OF our boys-a Humboldt county boy.
When you get letter from him. tell
the newspaper about Ii and let part
of it be printed Other mothers and
fathers whose boys have neglected
writing to them will be interested In
1t, because their boys are probably
having the same experiences as yours
In addition to this. the old Silver
State is going to start printing a
week from today, strong novel oi
the West In the early days-"The Lone
Star Ranger" by Zane Grey-a story
that will thrill and stir the fighting
blood of any American boy, especially
a Western boy. 1t is the masterpiece
of the master living writer OF the
west-a man who knows the life nc
tells about. II will require aoou'
three months to publish this story ID