The Holbrook news., 1918-10-11
BOYS TAKE HOLD N GOOD OLD AMERICAN WAY, SOLDIER SAYS
Hardships Ignored, Wounded Man
 Tells Mother-Bon't Let Them Hinder Your War Work 4
By Mrs. Hazel PedIar FauIIrner

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 From hospital somewhere in France wounded American has writ, ten to his parents:
 we are going through hardships. but the boys are taking hold fn the good old American way What a message for those of us who have remained at homel What a challenge to the vast army of men and women who are in the hona guard, carrying on in the thousand and one ways that the exigencIes of war have brought upon us.
 we 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 lengthening casualty lists which are resulting from their fearless devotion to the task that ls set before them.
 We know they are going through hardships, when we stop to think of the hundreds upon hundreds who arp wounded, and who for the tine be- ing at least need care and attention FIENDISH ENEMY ...x-,.. ADDS TERRORS .''-'F-' '.'
 Of course they are going through hardships, those boys ffom your home and mine. Hardships are a part of war. They are the inevitable result of state of war. And whon war is waged by an enemy SO skilled in all the fiendish deyiltriss in which the Germans have indulgsd. they are the inescapabIe portion of every soldier participating.
 But hardships are hot sAa part of the war these soldiers of ,purs are thinking most about. They Ire but the incidents in the dayiS 1FQtk-
 ''The boys are talring hold in the good old American wtyP
 Could there be 3 Better etatsmsnt of their manner Qfsfaclng Ehft .ctf1,s to them? Could there bg nlfe df. mite course of action .b1k }fibet ftf those of us at home ddtpg he4b days which test the mttfis -of Der souls?
 The time for our message fo the boys has come again The Epufth Liberty Loan is to be our rttpQpDs to this wounded soldiers challqtke. MAKE YOUR as e ANSWER NOW
 Are we going to take hold in the good old American wzyf"
 We have not had to go through hardships have been an eksi1r part. We have known little of beefl- flee Or deprivation Compared ytiib the offering of our boys. Fe hAss done nothing as yet And nov. here Is the challenge sounded to us.
 The good old Ainefican way is all that is asked of us. What is fhat way?
 You must frame the answer. moth CTS and sisters of the west TourB is an important part in the reply which the nation will make to the boys overseas. There Is not one of us who would not spare her son if she couId-yes, even spare some other mothers son the pain and hardship he must bear. We are not asked to do that We could not. though we would.
 But we can make his part easier to bear, we can go with him through the hardships, by lending completely of our money.
 There is no longer need to explain what a Liberty Loan is. There i1 no mere necessity for pointing out reasons for participation in it- ThlE is the day when but to hear it's call is to insure it's heartiest support
 September 2sth is the date set for our concerted reply through the Fourth Liberty Loan Let us take hold in "the good old American way make that advance a smashing sue cess like the boys over there arc making?