Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-04-06
PRIVATE PEAT is
HEARD By MANY
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men that were there know, and | viii
ell you that your church doors will
have TO he mighty wide open when
.he boys come back. If you expect
them TO come in
Ball on Sunday.
why. one Sunday afternoon. think
of il, Sunday afternoon, | watched
baseball game with Methodist
preacher playing second base and a
Catholic priest catching. That is the
religion that the boys have They 20
10 all churches, alike Those men
know mankind. That is their doc.
lt,iie.
"Now, am going TO tell you about
! ,Our German friend. | have g1oi
German friend who has been in this
country for 10 years. He likes ne
Iana like him. but watch him all
he time. Let me tell you the great,
80: Gnt.1 you American people have Is
20 keep your tongues tight and watch
your German friends. They are eth
ar good Germans or bad. and would
not want the joy TO sort them out.
Just & word about the Red Cross
II any one tells you that those socks
you Rcd Cross people are knitting ar.
sold to the boys yon tell them thai
that is a lie. All of those articles q
into the quartermaster's department
Of the army and are issued by the gor
eriuutnt where they are needed
!, Don't Forget Smile.
i. Above all don't forget the letters
Those count more than anything yol
can do. Send your boy away with
+, smile that will do him lot of good
i saw French woman land Frencl
o women are the backbone OF FranceI
o send her fourth son away. after he
8 husband and three other sons ha
$ been killed. and she did it with
@ smile. The spirit Ia what counts.
Stacker is not the boy or man tina
has failed TO join the army, but is tn
I man. woman or child who fails to d
something TO help win this war whe
l. they can. Il is the little things thf
are going to count in the winning {
this war
did you know that some of III
tubes that held the poison gas that III
If Germans turned on us had the dat
ID 1907 stamped on it. Think of it. 1870
10 and on some OF the bombs was STAN
h. ed 1911, and you ask who started tn
Is war? What did We fight for when "
of 20 there? will tell you.
ID Hit With Gas.
"As We marched up TO the trcnch
We saw girls with babes in one ar
OK ind the other arm gone. We saw o
IS men and women starving by the roa
OK ide. and no fault OF theirs. As ,
nc ,ot in the first trench we saw son,
ne hing green coming from distant
~ We watched. It seemed about :
H. Ieet high. In a short time it seem
to be all around u.s. 1t passed and
III 'urned and yon turned and saw va
To- partner lying on his back kicking,
lie eyes gone and foaming at the mou
ie making his last kick.
OF Three OF our officers had been G.
vi lifted. We got the order to go 'oye
$50 OF us. We had a mile to 60 a
It seemed as il we would never &
Va here We got there. 200 of us. Y
4! were thinking Of what we had Sc
: Oh our way, and we went for those
~ home that were dear to US, SO th
- would not have to suffer what we h
-, seen. We arrived and expected
=, light. but the Germans threw do,
h, heir guns. got on their knees a
he :rled; Mercy, mercy. Kamerad.
a, you think We grabbed him by the ha
NJ md said God bless you, Kamera,
NJ DR. did we say with a thrust, TO h.
q, With Kamerad,"