The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-09-20
BOYS TAKE HOLD IN
GOOD OLDAMER|CAN
Way, SOLDIER SAYS
Hardships Ignored, Wounded Man
Tells Mother-Don't Let Them
Hinder Your War Work
BY Mrs. Hazel Pedlar Faulkner


From hospital somewhere in
France 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 message for those of us
who have remained at home What
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 eugencies OF
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 lengthening 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. Eardships are q
part of war. They are the Inevitable
result Of a state of war. And when
war is waged by an enemy &C skilled
in all the fiendish deviltries in
which the Germans have indulged,
they are the inescapable portion Of
every soldier participating.
But hardships are not the part Of
the war these soldiers of ours are
thinking most about. They are but
the incidents In the days work.
"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 a more def
mite course Of action prescribed for
those Of us at home during these
days which test the msttle Of our
souls?
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
hnrdships.-ours have been an easier
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 all
that Is asked OF us. What is that
way?
You must frame the answer, moth
ers and sisters of the west. Yours
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 IL
she could-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 Liberty Loan is. There 10
no more necessity for pointing out
reasons for participation in it, This
Is the day when but to hear its call
is to insure its 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"
What is the very most you can do to
make that advance a smashing sue
.ess like the boys over there are
making!