Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1917-11-29
alaaY lluDERs War MES.
SAGE FROM the TRENCHES.

xs Have The Fate d the World IN Our
haais-..0as From The Frant Line
Trenches.
Harry Lauder, famous Scotch sin.
ger. has srecently reached America
fresh from the front line trenches
In France, where he gave the best
OF his art to the soldiers. His only
son, Jack Lauder, was killed In &C
tlon Ia France says the Charlotte
Obseryer.)
New York, Nov. 17.-"There is
no woman, no child in America
today who can be spared in the
great and terrible work of help.
ing win the war. Ii | could bring
home to every one in this land
the duty OF doing his part, while
the lads now in France and the
hundreds OF thousands soon to
join them are doing their part, it
would be the best service could
render the world.
"rhey asked me last night for
"The Wee Hoose Amaug the Hea.
ther." sang it for them but |
saug it for them-but l told them
the song is hymn now, eversince
sang it for Is, 900 Scottish sol.
diers formed about me in a horse
shoe at Arras, That 5000 had
just been through the hell on
earth that the Hun has made in
fair France-they were $4,000
lads longing for the wee home a
mong the bills OF Auld Scotland.
"Many q lad from America
must 60 through that hell-that
the Hun may be banished from
the world forever-and many a
lad will long for his wee home o.
yer here before this levellsh wal
is done. Then, can any one who
stays at home do less than give
OF his all to see that these boys
shall come safely home again?
II would give every dollar
have and ever expect to possess
in this world tO have my own
boy back again! And many is the
lie that can be saved, if every
one who must stay at home will
help. You have given dollars to
your government III two liberty
loans. You may be asked o
mOre-mu>t be asked for more il
victory is to come. But the soon
er The whole resources of the ma
tiOn are put into the one bust.
ness of making the world a plac,
where brute force and the pigl
oil might can never enter again
the less will you be called upon
to sacrifice in the long run.
EVERY family can save a sol
dier's life, perhaps, by saving an
insignificant amount of food dni
ly. Every ounce of energy thai
Gun be concentrated III Europe al
this time shortens the struggle
Ityou want to bring your lad.
home again soon, help them tc
win the victory!
"We, over there, have learned
what sacrifice means. We have
been close to the terrible danger
We have seen Belgium and France
suffer, and we have known what
it would mean if theenemy brok,
through. You, over here, car
scarcely real;zA the terriblenes
of that danger. To you, it must
seem that the struggle is far a
way. And yet America is like {
city in the VALLEY, at the head o
which, far away, IS the dam hol
cling back a food Of dangerous
waters. The food is far away
hut if the dam breaks, the fate o
the city is sealed.
This IS your struggle-t h
world struggle to make peac'
possible. The future OF civiliza
tion itself is at stake; if the fre'
people OF the world cannot crusl
out the brutal savagery t h a
plunges the world into war, the1
the world is not worth living in
Have the hundreds of thousand
ob brave lads who have sacrifice,