The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-05-09
R-bEARERs To
Gain 4 FIGHTING
CHANCE 1T WORK
NOT ALL MEDAL WINNERS, BUT
THOUSANDS BEAR MARKS
or HEROES.
RESPONSIBILITY IS CLEAR
Victory Loan VIII Help to Assure
Comfortable Future For
Our Boys.

FOR weeks now we have been read
ng day after day of the men who
nave bsan awarded Distinguished
Service Crosses and Medals, Con-
Eressional Medals and other decora-
lions. Some Of our lads have won the
proud medals OF the English, many
have won the French Croix de Guerre
The medal winners, all the way
rom the hunblest private up to Gen.
Pershing. will total several thousand
men.
Every man Of them will have done
something that Ia worth while In the
syes OF their comrades. in the eyes Of
the peoples, In the eyes OF the Allied
Governments The man who knows
will tell You that q medal or cross
Is not given for little things.
But there will be a larger number
Of men come back, hundreds and
thousands of them are back now, who
came out of the struggle bearing the
marks Of the oonfiot--an arm gone,
leg gone. blind, shrapnel SCARED,
bayonet marked.
Many of these men will wear no
ribbon. bat war has touched them
nevertheless with the most character
Istic OF battles decorations. More
than $4,000 OF these men will be found
In the American armies and their
names will be carried on its muster
rolls, It's hospital records
The sear-6earer.
These are the Scar Bearers. the
wounded men. Not a man of them
but faced death In all the scores of
forms of the most devilish war in his
tory. Every man of them has been
exposed to death in all of the forms
that the nendish ingenuity OF the
Germans could devise.
They took the ordinary and the ex-
traordinary chances of war, az they
came. It was their misfortune to be
struck down. some Of them without
having their chance at the foe. others
after they had left their mark upon
nen Of the Kaiser.
There are thousands of these men
who will not be permanently disabled.
In few weeks after receiving their
wounds they were back in the ranks.
Many OF the men listed as wounded
went back into the combat units, were
wounded again and again, and again
went back. Many Of these have
been mustered out and are back In
civilian life, holding down their jobs
and asking no odds Of any man.
But there are other thousands who
we're not 80 fortunate. There are
thousands who would have been re-
Sarded, after other wars, as hopeless
sripples, permanently disabled, mere
pensioners on the bounty Of the Amer
loan people But things have changed
since the other wars fought by Amer.
lca. Tho wounded man, the disabled
man, 10 to have. his chance this time.
A Reason for Last Loan.
This Ia one OF the things to be kept
In mind during the campaign for the
Victory Liberty Loan. Much OF this
loan, we cannot tell how much. must
30 towards the expense Of making
such payment az we can TO those who
did their best to pay the price Of
world freedom from the Prussian
menace.
While some Of the money may DO
used for military needs, some for the
ordinary and extraordinary expenssse
OF the Government, q considerable
sum from this last loan will be used
In putting the wounded man and the
disabled man In a position to make
bis own living, TO again play the part
Of an American citizen.