The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-04-29
FERRIES IN REVIEW
OF GREAT WAR
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propriate and so proper and so just
that it ought to invite the approval
and cooperation Of every citizen OF
Grady county and should likewise
beget the love and affection for all
time to come of the fathers and
mothers who gave these boys. It
would seem to me that it might have
a more far-reaching effect than thls
1t would seem to me that it would
touch the heartstrings of the citi-
zens Of every one Of the seventy
counties Of the bright new state
and that they in turn would follow
your lead and join the erection OF
suitable memorials to the sacrifices
made and the achievements com
pleted
Millions For War Achievements.
when we entered the war on
April G. 1917, we had but $4,000
trained men in the regular army and
approximately 100000 men in the
militia, making total of approx
mately 100000 men, Our enemy at
that time had a trained, armed force |
Of more than 1O,O00O00 men. Amer
let converted $1,000 trained men
into an army Of four million men
"America converted o fourth-rate
navy into a first-rate one. America
bridged The Atlantic and put food
supplies and two million men across
the sea admidst difficulties more
dangerous and more narrowing than
the world had ever seen She gave
her blood and her wealth unstinted-
ly and without fear to the cause of
humanity. America is the marvel
of the age. She is the hope and
pride OF the world. She is cur own
America, the land of the brave and
the true.
Soldiers Compensation.
England pays her soldiers from
3S to 60 cents day; France 5 to
5h cents a day; Italy 2 to cents;
Germany 10 to 20 cents; America
$1.OO day with ten per cent in
crease for overseas service. l do
not mention these salaries or draw
the comparison with any thought
that $50 a month will in any sense
pay the soldiers for the service
rendered. There is no way to pay
them in dollars and cents a sum ad-
eQuate. My thought is that the only
way the soldiers can be paid for the
empty sleeves, the limbless trunks,
the sighhess eyes, the parched lungs
is to pay them in the love and re
spect of "a grateful nation that they
fought to save.
q d9 not mention the government
insurance that runs to the widows,
to the homesless children, to the
aged sorrowing and dependent faith
ers and mothers as in any way com
them for the sacrifices
made in dedicating to their country
and their countrys cause the life
Of the soldier thus insured Full
well do we all know there is no way
to compensate, there is no way to
comfort them.
To-day there are sleeping under
the soil and in unmarked graves
under the sea more than seven mil
ion lives that were given in this
war May we not pause an ask:
Is there not better way to settle
between nations? Have
We not already found better way
o settle differences between men
han by the duel and the sword?
Here are these seven million
,rave men who were called to the
rms of their Maker while defending
heir country and their country's '
ause. The answer can be but one
nd it must come back to US with
and precision. It is the
H-satisfying answer given in the
sook OF Books that there is a life q
eyond this one. Every living thing {
hout US breathes the fact of life q
ther than this one The withered G
egetation Of fall but lies dormant i
4 the winter awaiting the coming i
f a season more glorious than the 2