The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-05-30

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and when in this connection I recalled
the day ! had babe goodbye to : fl
| ther seventy years old whom | might
never see again, and when | -ecall
the many har1Ships endured sbF my
wife who had left her home AID was
living in a little boarding house near
the camp where l was stationed in o
der that she might be near me until
| should be ordered yer cas-. when
/ recalled the business taht l had dis
! posed of, the law practice THAT had
| abandoned in order that | might do
that which | conceived to be my duty
and when | thought of the long, hot
Gays in last August when / had "hik-
ed" along the turnpike of Adams
| County. Pennsylvania, where | was
camped, with sixty pcu ID pack trap
ped on my back, with an Enfield rifle
rubbing blisters Or my shouider and
a pair of hobnailcd snoes rubbing
| hlisters on both my feet, Of the days
| when / had done nv turn as TX. p
as a buck private" in the Tank
| Corps-I say when l have thought of
! these things, OF the days spent
| when / stuck out my chest, held up
my head and proudly imagined ]
was "some soldier" I confess that it
made me a little mad to see myself
rtritten up as y "near soldier" |
| think ever a candidate is permitted
to lose his temper occasionally.
81 have often thought if Job. who
I believe was the most patient man
OF whom we have any record, had
lived today instead of away back
yonder when he did live, and if in
stead of being ''pestered with boils
and neighbors" he had been q candi-
date for Office in the state of Missis-
sippi and had "The Issue" nagging at
him every week. the Lord would have
forgiven him for losing his patience.
HOWEVER, I did rot stay mad long, |
never do. My answer to this vas
that | was just as near a soldier as l
knew how to be and l was a lot nea
er a soldier than were those who
making fun of me.
"Then this same little paper urder-
took to mar the glory of the wonder
full achievement of America by SOW
ing the seeds Of strife and discord by
an effort to arouse a feeling of jeal-
ouSy between those who We're fortu-
nate enough TO 90 overseas and those
who We're retained IN camp on this
side, by seeking to prejudice the boys
who had enlisted at the beginning of
the war against those who had been
called under the Selective Service,
a-d by seeking to arouse animosity
between those who wore the khaki
ant served their ~courtrv and those
r-ho with equal fidelity and loyalty
served their country in civilian cos
Such an effort should he N
demned by every right thinking man.
There was no such distinction
amongst those who served; there is
no difference between the boys who
were permitted TO go TO the front
and those who saw service in the va
camps. nor is there n sort of
distinction between those who orig
Inally volunteered and those who
selected.
Our government adopted a wise
and a democratic method Of select
ing its army, a method by virtue of
which it reached with one hand in
o the palace of the rich man and
took there from a pampered son of
and with the other it reach
I'd into the humble cottage of the
Door man and took here from the
child of poverty and adversely, and
them both upon the same "a
-ade Ground. equipped each with the
.2nc uriform- armed each with the
:ame rife, and tau~ht each 20 horor
md 70 raepecr those qualities th9t de-
2cte LOYALTY and courage End TAUGHT
both 10 have a contempt for those
qualities which denote cowardice or
a lack of LOYALTY, and the boy who.
Inder the provisions of this law.
.aimiy walked into the Office OF the
-eg.stra, anu signed his name and
n the language of ISAIAH Of old, said
o Ms country Here am send me,
and who thcn pursued the even tenor
IS way ca.mIy awaiting the call, and
Who when the call came responded,
and at Chateau Thierry. Cantigny,
lrcclne Forest and Belleau Woods,
r an Of he numerous battles fought
~ o., heroes, proved himself in the
of the world a worthy descend
Of the heroes Of 81 to '65. is en-
TO the same honor and achleY-
I'd 1ne same glory as did any 'other
,oloier in tthe world, and there should
De no difference and 10 distinction.
while wonderful indeed is Il
,lory of the achievement C the boys
Who saw service at the front, a g!orI
IF which the poets OF the future Will
sing. which will be embiazoned upon
he pages Of history yet to be writ
ZEN and taught to generators yet
lnborn; a glory upon which for me
undertake to shed luster would be
for the artist to undertake to
paint the lily fairer, nevertheless the
credit for the winning of the
var is not entirely due to those who
wore the khaki. There is another
,ype of soldier in America, one who
wore no uniform, one whose deeds