The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-09-27
MONTANA BOY IS
CERTAIN OF OUTCOME
pert q. Hall Writes Very Interesting
Letter From France-Saw
Pershing Decorated.

- 49, Ii AN0AkdICts AIN JuSL
IN receipt of your note mailed on
July "a, which makes considerably
less than a month and that is good
time. l was both surprised and
pleased to hear from you and to learn
that you are again in Great Falls.
nope that whatever you are doing
tnere is pleasant and agreeable and
tnat you are better satisfied than YOU
were before.
have thought of you all many
times since you left Great Falls and
ever since l have been here l have
wanted to write to your mother, but
a no idea where to address her, so
! Will request that you send this let
ter on to her and tell her it is meant
Tor her and Mrs. Parsons, CO.,. I
heard that Roy had married, before
=! left Great Falls, and that Mr.. and
MRS. Parsons had gone over into
North Dakota with him to live.
! am very sorry to learn that your
1athe is not so strong, but hope that
his health will improve. Sure would
IKE to spend an evening with you all
again-such as the one when we had
the clans. Don't you remember when
MI: Parsons had to pry them open
with his pocketknife. l shall never
forget the pleasant times that l en-
}oyed so much with you all in the
Yes, I know you would like to be
over here and, like you, all the girls
who write to me, say they would like
to be men so they could come. I
know how a girl must feel and am
only too glad l am a man and able
to be here, but you must not feel that
you are doing nothing, just because
you are not over here, to win the war.
Know, 1t seems to us all that the
boys up in the front line trenches are
the only ones who are winning the
war, but we must not forget that if
those IN the states, who are making
the munitions and guns with which
they are fighting, those who are rails
ing the food on which they are fight
ing, those who are building the Sims
to make it possible for these neces-
sar.y things to reach them, etc.-one
is just as important as the other, so if
you 40 what you can, in the way of
supporting the Liberty loans, etc..
you are doing your share just as we'll
as anyone else. 1t is difficult for us.
! know to keep these things in mind,
Ior we here are growing impatient
to be with the boys up front and sort
OF feel that we are not doing our
part, and yet we are doing work here
that is necessary to keep the bows
up front going after the Huns,
What do you think of the turn the
war has taken in the last month or
SO? One of the boys just got some
papers from home and they are about
two months old and he was just read
ing IN one of them an article written
n;y a war correspondent, which said
that If the allies could only be sue
cessful in checking the next German
orlve which was very soon to come,
perhaps they would be successful in
holding the Germans so that thew
could not make another drive after
that before cold weather would set in
and that then by spring enough Amer
leans would be here that all would be
sa1e, n how we know what hap
pened to that German drive and that
1t was quickly turned into an allied
drive. OF course. it is likely that the
the earliest, but from now on until
the end it seems to me that Germans
will be losing all the time. for it seems
to me that the offensive has definitely
and permanently been wrested from
them and they will be kept pretty
busy from now on warding off the
blows and drives of the allies. How
ever, the Huns still have plenty of
fight left in them and we should not
relax for a moment and America
should keep going at the feverish pace
she has set until the end. But. next
year when America has shown her
full strength on the battle line and
wins the big, decisive battles that
will decide the whole war and bring
it to a close, we must not take credit
to ourselves alone for winning the
whole war, for France and England
have been bleeding on this western
III for four long years and have
never lost courage, though before we
came, it must have looked pretty dark
to them. Before the war we were
disposed to make light of the French
people and think them light-hearted
and gay and careless, with loose NOR
ais, but when the war came on, it be- !
came necessary for the French nation
to strip itself of outward show and
to show the enemy and the world it's
real self and a long time ago we
learned with pleasure and to our
great surprise that the French peo-
pie were not at all what we Thought
them, but that they possessed to the
highest degree the characteristics
that have ever been admired from the
beginning of civilization and will be
unto the end of time. They are sim
ply wonderful and have been through
out this war and America will
forget the debt she owes France for
making it possible for US now to be
here to help save the world from
slavery, just as France will never for
get what she feels that she owes US.
But in u admiration of France, we
must not forget Britain, for she has
been doing her part and her best from
the beginning, and no nation could
do more than that, and if it had not
been for the British fleet, we must
not forget, it would have been over
long ago with Germany the victor
and preparing for us, you know.
There would have been dark days
ahead for America in a few years had
it not been for the British fleet.
l saw General Pershing decorated
with the medal of the legion of honor
by President Poincare out here in
the square before our building a cou-
pie of weeks age. 1t is the highest
honor the French nation bestows and
it was a pretty and impressive cere-
mony and l am sure that every
American felt honored who saw it.
Please excuse all the mistakes in
this letter. l am not a good type
writer at INV hocf hut <b;s -o.i:~.