Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
4. G.. A. AT CAMP HANCOCK

Mans Land, with the shells bursting
around them.
- write to them!" he urges. eff you
have relative or friend at the front,
write to him, and do it often. Letters
from strangers don't count, of course, but
the otherS-no one can say how much
they matter. Why do you suppose that
the Young Mems Christian Association
spends thousands of dollars every month
for paper and ink? 1t isn't so much be
cause we are thinking of the home-toik;
they must look out for themselves IN
time of war We want those letters
written so that the mothers and the
sisters and the wives and the sweet
hearts back home may answer them as
soon as possible. It's the answers VIC
are interested in, because we Know no"
those letters in thes famliiar ht+1" =
ing are going to help win the patlie,
What kind of letters should the n Hlie
fo,Ir write TO the soldier at the front:
literary quality isn't the thing mos t}sa
needfu1 in them of course Fea,i" .tno,r ed
heSt Of them all are the ones p acNe 81
sen of ,ittia honely details-accouiils %
+bn new neighbors across the st5 81 CIV
~ +bn words the baby has learned " %" ~
and of how Jimmy is growing 80 ..oore 1ilre
his clothes, and getting 10 ip I"o inst grows
his daddy each day,-and il ne Ju g;i1 he
NE -, 70 he half so good man. II WIN ~
oII ,ioht THESE are the letters INA. sa,.o ei he
of+onest re-read by the soldier peloae TOT ~
goes over the top. JUST conn conn bannenings
hot
So1, hnroe and of the love ana UuSC ''i'''
are in keeping for him there, 44,s ought
~ Tar+ain other types OF letteLS 0 uS
never to be sent to the men a. snlf,sh or
one 10 that written by the sei II'9.i++ a.,
S,n7,yht1ess women whose closely WIlt a'7s
naoes are blurred with her teal - 49,,
taken I'M with her own SorTo" III 10 h aI
her soldier so far from h S Of once
Since everything is going wrong WIZ" Hhn;et
PIN one of the Young Mems G mrs
tian Association secretaries III ~
tells of promising prom lnavo S0 with every ap-
nearance of having been drinking hSaE tt
"You see" the young soldier toiu tns
yonng Mems Christian Association il sti
t.T GOT a letter from my mother ana She
80 co worried about my going wrong
over here. and so sure that hao IN IN
herited alcoholic tendencies from my
father, that | got desperately blue any d. :,
went on spree to 1Gfg9e 4 Paat 9'V writes
in the current issue of the American
Magazine to the mothers in America
"Send your boy off with smile,
will make you comrade 10 nun IN , dlru r.
'' 'Well, well, if mother could DUCK up
land meet her trouble with SMILE }
guess [ can too. -, a
write often-don't send him sorry let
ters. Don't moan and tell all the blacl.
things you think about. Make nm Zee
that you are in the fight with nm; that
you are proud and happy about nm nm, j., II
he thinks you understand, he will be
proud and happy himself.
ooh, those letters that come to the
trenches! You don't know, you cant
know what they mean to US. No mat
ter what we are doing everything stops
when the sergeant comes around with
the mail Maybe he hands you parcel
That's fne-but it can wait It's a let
ter you want! Words that you car
iy19op pima hear mother saving
For-believe me, it's mother. that counts
first with the boys in the trenches"