Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-12
FAITH Goes WITH LOVE,
SAYS BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Informs Young Correspondent That
lie Should Not Doubt Girl
OF Choice.
is HIS SUPERIOR oFFICEI
No Reason Why Sweetheart Should
Not Like to Have Friendly Word
With FOlks-Confidcnce Necessary
In All Friendships.
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

Before the war. my sweetheart and
riagc. But We loved each either dearly.
pleasantly say How do you do?. 6ui,
she would never stand and fool and
talk to any fellows nor to any girls.
Now ! do not speak TO a certain
a her and asked me not to. have
siadly done this and do not say
more than hello to any other girl.
Now. my sweetheart fools with
some boys and If J seem angry she
tells me not 10 mind, for they are
my sister and brother in law. she ran
away from me 10 talk to another young
man.
There is also young man two
years younger than she. whom she has
been out riding with and when | said
something to her about i. she said
Then she said ! shouldn't be angry for
he is SO young.
doesn't mean anything by these things.
FOR she loves me and tells me So
oYe her Sea and b to eI bs2e her wou Id
some way to stop this Is there?
Quention of Confidence.
Buddy. ! have TO turn right around
me 10 It. When You We're over there
back in the days when VIC wrote the
in capta si5frS ~ and
YOU ever have IA superior officer-be
it sergeant or lieutenant or captain
whom you didn't trust?
Suppose you had an officer like that
one whose word you didn't take. whose
actions you questioned and whose de-
csions you didn't like-how well do
you think you'd have served with him
in command? How cheerfuily would
you have undertaken special and
dangerous detail with .lim?
Would you ever have thought OF pre-
buddy when you didn't take his word.
didn't trust him out OF your sight?
crux Of the matter-evcr have fallen
into such narrow way Of Interpreting
friendship thct you'd have refused to
let your buddy speak friendly. word
to some other young doughboy w.lo
happened TO be stationed back OF the
lines or out in the trench with you.
"of course. wouldn't" you say.
All right buddy. know you would
not. II doesn't strike me a bit bette.
than It does you even TO suggest the
ining.
Should Not Doubt n Pal.
II wouldn't be fair to doubt pal
!, up. And when he offered a dccen,
explanation OF what made YOU doubt
lin that would be the end OF the mat
ter. wouldn't 1t?
as square with the girl you love? And
why under the sun should any one
ever get TO tho point of eXclusivencss
and dog NTH Observation-Disclosures where
ne expects = pal or sweetheart to stol
knowing there arc other folks on earth
besides himself?
AS you went UP and down the she'll
torn highways and by-ways OF France
didn't you ind that a pleasant word
with passing Tommy or smile from
Frenchic or a bit OF banter with one
OF your own comrades frightened the
day lot? Don't you like passing the
time OF day with folks you meet here
at home?
OF course, YOU do, IL you're human
why Not BE Friendiyt
Well then. lad. why shouldn't your
sweetheart like TO have friendly
word with folks? Why shouldn't she
be jolly and amiable and do the thin s
for which all of us are always striv-
ing II we know II or not-that is, make
people like her?
II isn't fair for you to fues about
her being friendly with people she
passes. And moreover II won't do any
good. You love her for her sweetness
and friendliness and nice warm hum
anness. And the rest OF the world
likes her for that. But her heart is
yours. Now. my boy. don't estranEe
out and put resentment OF tyranny in
It's place. That won't get you any
thing.
Where there is no faith and no con-
fdencc there couldn't be any military
discipline, could there? There wouldn' I
be friendship worth having. would
there?
And so you actually think there can
he love without trust or tolerance?