White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-16
True Stuff in Average American
Appears When He Goes
Into Action.
CLEAN HEART AND MOTIVES
Yankee Drops All Foolishness and
H~orseplay Before He Goes Into
BattIe-Couraoe and Deter
mination in Every Face.

With the American Army in France.
THE true stuff that is in the aver
ace American soldier comes To the
surface just before he goes into bat
tie.
The hour comes when he suddenly
ouIts all foolishness and horseplay
with his fellows and settles down TO a
LOT of sober thinking.
Far from being the rough, careless
fellow that his life back of the lines
might often indicate, he stands out as
a young man with clean heart and mo
lives, fully alive to the dangers he Is
going into, but possessing n high pa
rriotism and courage and a determine
ton TO see the thing through regard
less Of the cost to himself.
Americas interests viii always be
safe in the hands of such young men.
No F~aIterino Displayed.
They have felt, before the command
TO go forward was given. that their
m would likely figure in the casu-
atty lists within a very few days.
But there was no faltering. Never
IN my life have | seen such nobility of
c%ountenance. On every face there APP
peared the light of an iron resolve.
writes C. G. Lyon in the Chicago Post.
A soldier can be judged by the songs
be sings.
The Y. NJ. c. A. has done a most
valuable work. through Its musicians
and entertainers. In breaking the ter
rible tension that must necessarily
hang over the army just before a big
engagement.
Every evening Y. NJ G. A. song lead
ers went from battalion TO battalion,
assembling the boys and having them
join IN songs.
/ went out several evenings with a
young fellow named Nee. who In civil
ne Is a professional sons director.
Nearly every soldier had been pro
vided with m Of the y. NJ. G. As
soldiers song sheets" containing
some GO soldier, songs. In the list
we're "Cuddle Up n Little Closer" ~
Wish ! Had n Girl" ooh. You Beauti-
full Don" "Oh. My Darling Clemen-
tine" Polly Wolly-Doodle" and 9th
ers OF similar m%ushlness.
But not once did | hear a soldier
call for one Of these songs. They were
popular stuff I'm the eare-free, rollick-
ing days back In the rest camps, but
the boys had no heart for them as they
waited. within earshot of the big guns
70 go into action.
When Director Nee would say
"what1l we sing, fellows? Name 1t"
calls would go up on all sides Tor
Keep the Home Fires Burning" ISL
yer Threads Among She Gold.'
There's n Long, Long Trail.' my
Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" Little
Gray Home In the West" and MY Old
Kentucky Home"
Fighting for Home.
Boys whose thoughts &c back. thou
xands of miles across the ocean 10
their mothers and their s~weethearfs'
can generally be depended upon In a
pinch" n colonel said to me one even
ing, as he stood on the outskirts OF the
crowd listening to the singing.
"These boys think they have To
show n rough exterior 10 one another
In the army, but at rock bottom.
they're pure gold" he added,
Letter.writing increased three-fold
among the boys after they reached the
threshold OF the big battle. The boys
have no illusions as TO what they're
getting into. They're determined that
Il shall be said Of them. II they die.