The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-05-23
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The following l wish you to let
some of the street walkers of that
town and surrounding country see:
A Word To The Men That Are at
Home.
Gentlemen: Being personally
acquainted with some Of you people
I wish to tell YOU what | and others
think of you.
You know that we are in this war
and have got to win, so come on
across and do your part.
To win this war we have rot TO
have several things, mainly MEN,
MONEY and FOOD. Now gentle
men, you can do a lot moro over
here with the A. L. f., than YOU can
in America, IL at least | think so.
1t costs almost as much to feed YOU
in America as it does in France, and
the same food that feeds YOU in Am
erica will feed you on the man-kill-
ing front in France. And there YOU
CON do cOp,nfhipr fo, $3.50 .l
and also show that you are an Am
crican.
To be frank with you l don't be-
llcVc you are going to come over
here. AS l have talked to some Of
you all while / was in America, and
this is a common remark among you.
And it starts with an OF" if l was
not SO small, or large, or had a
crooked toe, or some other trouble
that does not amount to anything,
l would enlist. Others have just mis-
sed the draft by a few months or a
few years.
Once more l will be frank with
you.in the first place, it is not the
smallness nor the largcness, flat foot
or crooked toe, it is the YELLOW
STREAK that you have down your
back. Yes, l have said YELLOW,
and L mean it-YOU have enough
in you to paint a barn.
AS FOR the fellow who is too old,
you have the same chance that l or
any other man had, you could have
enlisted and you can still enlist. So
come on across and do your part in
the battle line. Some Of you have
talked val ever since the war start
cd cover here'-and still you walk
the streetss and talk, talk, talk, but
that is all you can DO.
Listen! Now is the time for you
to come to the colors and show the
people what you are made out of.
Don't stay at home and say that
Tom, Bill, or some other fellow will
do your part-that talk OF those ar
guments, don't clear you.
l guess you stay at home and go
for the mail to sec what the Yanks
are doing vcr here, but how in the
devil you do it l can't see. If it
were me / would burn the papers.
l couldn't look at them, because I
believe l could feel the yellow
.strealas, when / saw their actions on
the front and me at homc-doing
nothing
Now listen, some of you are as
able to do soldiers duty as any mar
in the United States Army, and ouly
a few years over the draft age-but
not over the age of some of the
men in the army, as there are men
in the army that are older than you
are, who have volunteered to serve
their country during the greatest
war that history records.
MEN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING
TO DO ABOUT IT. Come on and do
your part or wear good thick clothes
so that the YELLOW will not show
through them
YOU ARE YELLOW-that is
your DISEASE and the way to cure
it is to go to q recruiting office and
and sign your name
Hoping to see some Of you il
France soon, I am yours, "Till it's
over, over here"
Corpl. julius Weldon Jones.
9th Eng. Train, 9th U. S. Engin--