Arizona republican., 1918-11-18
BOOST THE Y" THE
 RED CROSS AND THE OTHERS SAYS SOLDIER
SomeWhare in Erance


 Dear Friend Jim: Received two letters from you the other day and be- lieVe me- they were welcome. Mister, there is nothing like letters from home to help the doughboy. Before I go any further l want to tell you that this is Hun paper 1 am writing on. Now, we have plenty of good American paper, but like to use up Hun paper. It is nice and ''roomy'
 Well, Jim, old man Sherman was 1 right, but 1 think that before this reaches you l will be on my way over there to the greatest nation on earth. Bulgaria has fallen, and that is the i beginning of the finish. Germany is whipped but may fight a long time ! yet. But 1 believe she realizes the longer she fights the harder her ex istence will be after the war. There is only one peace terms, and l believe all the world knows them. Some old timer once said: Give a German j, foot of rope and he will hang himself" : and that is just what he has done. And i they did a good job of it.
 1 And, Jim, this will be a much better world after this war. It's going to 1 be a mans world, where men will rule and the weakling who tries to disturb ! 1t will find it an uncomfortable place i to be. Already I can see the change ! in men, Once man has been in shell 1 fire he finds out that man made things will not protect him. It is our Almighty God that carries fellow through. So, ! old man. look out for the army that comes back. The only man that will be respected will be the real man. Wealth, position, or anything else will count for naught.
 So you are all registered and sub ject to be called. l hardly think you will ever come across, but little army training won't hurt. l got a let ter from Bell the other day and he seemed to be of the same opinion. I'll bet there will be lots of 'crabbing" when you fellows get in camps, but listen to me, Mister, q training camp is a picnic. Don't forget that a train ing camp is pickings compared with fighting. They will teach you to dig ' trenches, and you'll think it is hell; then they'll teach you 'on your belly, on your back" and double time you. You will think it nonsense. But just wait until you are out in the open some day and big six and eight-inch ! shells are bursting about ten feet in the air all around you. Then, Jim they won't have to beg you to dig ill. You will be tickled to dig. Just any old kind of hole. Yes, you'll dig. old man, and you won't dig "by the num- bers," either Dirt will simply fly, and when you raise up and take peep around you will think a whole regi- ment of 'houn' dogs" are each digging for different rabbit. And then again Jim, after you have your hole dug and laid in it all day, maybe in the mud and rain, and listened to those nasty one- pound cannon shells burst around you, and then slip out to get a bite to eat, and you hear "big boy" whin- ing in your direction, you won't have to be told to flop on your belly or or your back. You'll do it just naturally
 in double time too.
 Boy. 1 slipped up on a hill the other
 night after some chow" also three
 nice doughnuts. when a machine gur
 from a neighborins hill opened up
 Well, he was shooting pretty close