The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-10-03
BOYS TAKE HOLD in
GOOD AMERICAN
way, SOLDIER SAYS
Hardships Ignored, Wounded Man
Tells Mother-Don't Let Them
Hinder Your War Work
By Mrs. Hazel Pedlar Faulkner


From a hospital somewhere in
France a wounded American has writ
ten to his parents:
I'VE are going through hardships,
but the boys are taking hold in the
good old American way"
What a message for those OF us
who have remained at home! What
a challenge to the vast army OF men
and women who are in the home
guard, carrying on in the thousand
and one ways that the exigencies or
war have brought upon us.
I'VE are going through hardships
We can believe that, when We re-
call the dauntless charges which our
boys have been making over there,
and the daily frightening casualty
lists which are resulting from their
fearless devotion to the task that is
set before them.
We know they are going through
| hardships, when we stop to think OF
the hundreds upon hundreds who are
wounded, and who for the time be.
ing at least need care and attention.
FIENDISH ENEMY
ADDS TERRORS
OF course they are going through
hardships, those boys from your
home and mine. Hardships are
| part of war. They are the inevitable
| result of state of war. And when
| war is waged by an enemy so skilled
in all the fiendish deviltries in
which the Germans have INDUCED,
they are the inescapable portion OF
every soldier participating.
But hardships are not the part OK
the war these soldiers Of ours are
thinking most about. They are but
the incidents in the days work.
1.-THE boys are taking hold in the
good old American way" .-.
Could there be a better statement
of their manner of facing what comes
TO them? Could there be more def
mite course of action prescribed for
those of us at home during these
days which test the mettle Of our
, Bouls? e.
The time for our message to the
boys has come again. The Fourth
Liberty Loan is to be our response
to this wounded soldiers challenge.
MAKE YOUR
: ANSWER NOW ~
Are we going to take hold in the
, good old American way?"
; We have not had to go through
/ hardships,-ours have been an easieI
part. We have known little Of sacri
flee or deprivation. Compared with
the offering of our boys, we have
done nothing as yet. And now, here
{ is the challenge sounded to us.
: The good old American way is al
q that is asked Of us. What is thai
: way?
You must frame the answer, moth
: ers and sisters Of the west. Yours
!, is an important part in the repl!
which the nation will make to TIT
boys overseas. There Is not one o
us who would not spare her SON !
!, she could-yes, even spare SOM
other mothers SON the pain AM
hardship he must bear. We are no
!, asked to do that. We could moi
though we would.
But we can make his part easier &
bear, we can go with him throug
, the hardships. by lending completed
of our money.
= There is no longer need to e1plai
, what a Liberty Loan is. There
no more necessity for pointing on
= reasons for participation in It. Thi
Is the day when but to hear its ca
is to insure its heartiest support.
: September 2sth Is the date set 70
our concerted reply through th
: Fourth Liberty Loan. Let MS tax
hold In "the good old American way.
!. What is the very most you can do {
: make that advance smashing SUI
cess like the boys over there ar
making?