The Carlisle independent., 1918-10-31

mosynary influences that heal the dreadful wounds of war, that place iD the reach of the soldier the means that will keep his body in health, his war-racked mind surrounded with pleasant reminders of home, with all it's comforts and peace. Is there one who would not see hospitals, those heavens in the midst of the hell of war, where his awful wounds may be healed, or his spirit cross the Great Divide surrounded by the angels of mercy, the gentle nurses, that speak as he goes out in voices that remind him of mother and sister, filling his soul with that great peace that passes under standing. Would you deny your boy the skillful hand of the sur geon, or the gentle touch of the nurse, as he lies out thele in that hell of roaring guns. suffer ing tortures of pain and loneli. messy Will you withhold from him the bandages and medicines that heal him, or the books and many other things that will make his lonely life bearable, or will you deny him the means that if he escapes disabling wound or separating death. will bring him back to home and native land, unsullied by moral ieprosy, and restore him to you as be left you, with the hope and purity of life and heaven, filling him and the power and influence of blame less life animating him? Would you keep from him the harmless recreations and innocent sports that dispel the long lone hours of camp and trench fife, or refuse to give him the care and food that will keep his body healthful and his mind cheerful, thus as surlng him that your love of him makes you deny yourself of the luXurleS, even of the necessities that he knows you once enjoyed with him? What will those young heroes of ours out there in the maelstrOm of hell. think as they shiver in the cold of winter, in the vermin infested trenches or sit in lonely camp waiting for the call to battle, unequipped, and poorly supplied with those things that fill him with the cour. age that conguers and the chari ty that forgets crimes (though awfuD of a fallen foe. What will he think of you, dying in misery by your neglect, or living to face you one day. when he returns, when he knows that you, because of some trivial excuse, withheld from him the things that he so much needed? You cannot plead excuse of purchased bond or stamp. for these are worth to you more than you paid, and principal and interest will some day be yours, yours ar honored loan, to the greatest government on earth. You may not plead plverty. for your two little mites given with the spirit of love any sacrifice will save you from shame some day. when an honor. ed returning hero will say with pride, this is my father, and He the leader of witnesses on high. will say. She has given more than they all".
 The call has come to you, not to loan nor to buy, but to GIVE, give tlll you can feel, that it is more blessed to give than to re- ceive Give till you can enjoy the sweet incense of self sacri. flee; give till your courageous example will lead others to give. both of their plenty and thelr poverty. Give till you know ev- cry boy. yours and mine, will be supplied with the best protection for his body in bandages, clothes and medicine. with every enter tainment of Y. NJ. C. A. and K. nf fN