Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-07
NAN STICKS UP FOR AMERICAN GIRL
xE SAILOR, NOT HIS GIRL,
DOES THE REAL FORGETTING
|y Man answers From OWn Experience the Three Boys
g, Who Scored American Sseefhearss Fickteness.
An AH.Americun Girl Replies Too

OF the girl at home and thinking of
the future. have advanced to the
rating Of chief quartermaster. i have
been going with one girl for the last
six years, and in that time have been
around the world and in ever so many
foreign countries.
ssCyINCE the war broke out luck has
~ been against me and I have been
unable to obtain enough days leave
to go home to see my girl. l nave
not seen her now for a year and
half. yet do you think because OF my
absence during that time she has Tor
gotten me? No; not by any means
has she failed me. Every week one
or two long letters come from her, yet
there have been times when she has
not heard word from me for SIX
months. Not my fault, but often let
ters never reach their destination be-
cause they are lost.
your girls may write to you, ana
because YOU never get their letters you
think they are forgetting you. They
are not forgetting, but wondering why
you don't write. In all my travels
have met quite a few girls, and since
the war about nine out OF ten VIII
admit that they have a boy In France
or in the navy. and, because they nave
not heard from him for some time
often ask YOU questions about how 10
find out where he is or II you nave
seen the ship he is on.
Boys. | hope YOU don't think that
I am an old critic. for l am not.
Just thought I would try to convince t,e
vou that a girls heart Is much
stronger than mans, and that nine
times out of ten, If she is the right
girl. she will stick true blue until you
return. which will be some day,
hope. b.. u. S''
ITERE is another answer to the
II sailor directed to the Girl with
Memory, whose little message stole
into these columns night or two
ago: =, iii, =,
Memory. It is not the American girls
who forget Just to give you a lit.ie
example of this. I'll tell you anout one
of the boys who went over there be-
fore Uncle Sam went into the war. He
went over to help France. After a
wears service at base hospital near
Paris he married a French woman. on
yes. meanwhile he had written once o'
twice. He had said, Write often l did
He had never made love to me. We
had always been pals and good chunis
| wrote and wrote. and. except for a
postcard or two and q letter, almost Two
years passed After half a dozen un-
answered letters I stopped
He is home now. His wife was killed
in a recent air raid on Paris
He thanked me for writing so often
and said in the course of one of our
long chats; After all. there is no woman
equal to the American woman. She is
superb had to 60 several. thousand
| miles and not see many for several
years before I realized II.
"'If only our boys who are going over
! now would remember that there lis only
one set of wonderful girls and women
In the world. and they are right here
! in the L. s A
| These are his words almost exactly.
| II may be conceit my repeating them
| but I feel proud every time ! think OF
them. Do you blame me? am loo
per cent American and have released q
man to fight for Uncle Sam, while I an
doing his job.
Perhaps our sailors will answer
These letters seem refutation to the
charge that American boys are driven
In desperation to marry on foreign