Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-08-09

make you pay his doctor bills and
damages. Isn't it the same with
your country?
Are not Liberty Bonds the safest
KIND OF an investment? If the old
Kaiser gets his fist on your purse.
the money you've loaned to Uncle
sam will look like a drop in the
bucket to what you ought to have
done Stay-at-homes have got to
work as we'll as glve--to work TIL
the sweat rolls down like it's rolling
on these boys, and keep on working.
And those who have no boys to send
should work the hardest. Thank the
LORD my boy is doing his duty; but
II he's got to pay the price. it had
ought to be for worthwhile folks.
ana country kept worthwhile. We
are not clapping these soldiers. are
we? Clapping don't go well when
men say goodbye to home"
On and on surged the khaki-and
then, the last.
| Good-bye!' child's voice piped
The watching crowd melted away
the sound of heavy shoes on the
pavement was swallowed up by the
distance-but the pathos remained.
Mr. Clarke turned back to the house.
Dropping into chair on the porch,
ne mopped his face, meditatively
whistling. Mrs. Clarke listened ir-
ritably. Il wish you would stop
whistling on one note
4 didn't know l was whistling. l
was thinking of mothers"
1T isn't decent for woman to be
so rebellious," she protested.
Some of the boys who go will be
killed; some will be crippled; some
will suffer shell shock and come
home shattered husks of men," he
| reminded ner.
| 1t couldn't be otherwise in war"
| No, war cant be otherwise" he
said soberly. But if the wounded
were bleeding on our doorsteps; il
our yard was covered with the dead;
If we could see our own flesh and
blood suffering from hunger, or shell
shocked till they were like poor,
frightened children. would we do
more than we are doing? Would we
withhold our service because we have
| given-loaned- money?
Il wonder"-
| "Well?"
Il wonder if Joe Turner has help.
| can give him a month If need be. ;"
How about me?"
Go to your sister Louis. She'd
be tickled to death to have you"
"A man of your age isn't fit for
farm work. You're too soft"
"A man of my age!" he echoed.
IF can follow a golf ball the whole
of hot afternoon, l can make a
hand. Just to keep my self-respect,
| think I'll wire Joe Turner"
DO you think" she interrupt
ed him as he wrote. DO you think
that Junior would have gone had he
lived?'
Nothing could have kept him out
He was our SON."
IF Junior were with Pershing's
men, | would work anywhere to get
food to send him, even in another
| woman's Kitchen" She spoke slow
ly.
'How's this?" he handed her his
| telegram:
Middle-aged man can help If
needed. Wire at once"
Make it 'middle-aged man and
wife," she ordered.
That trip means hard work, Net
tie" he said.
What have l been saving my
strength for all these years, if not to
spend it for my country"
You won't change your mind?"
IF you go, l go. Are you sure, !"
She smiled at him through tears,
that you are willing to give up a
Panama hat and a Palm Beach suit
| for a cheap straw hat and blue over
alls2"
That combination will sweat the
yellow out of me-"
You understand she said, tear
fully Il don't want to go very bad;
but | do want to help where l am
needed. When l think of Junior,
and of those boys this morning, 1t
seems as If ! must go where l am
needed"
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