The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-05-02
SCAR BEARERS To
GAIN 4 FIGHTING
CHANGE At WORK
4. A II
THOUSANDS BEAR MARKS
OF HEROES.
RESPONSIBILITY is CLEAR
Victory Loan Will Help to Assure
Comfortable Future For
Our Boys.

For weeks now we have been read
ing day after day of the lei who
have been awarded Distinguished
Service Crosses and Medals. Con-
g~ressional Medals and other decora-
tons. 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
from the humblest private up to Gen.
Pershing, Will total several thousand
men.
Every man of them will have o.
something that is worth while in the
eyes OF their comrades, in the eyes Of
the peoples, in the yes of the Allied
Governments. The man who knows
will tell you that a medal OF a 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 conflict-an arm gone,
a leg gone, blind, shrapnel SCARED,
bayonet marked.
Many of these men will wear nc
ribbon, but war has touched them
nevertheless with the most character.
istic Of battles decorations. More
than $4,000 of these men wnl be found
in the American armies Il their
names viii be carried on it's muster
rolls, its hospital records.
The Scar-Bearer.
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 var in his
tory. Every man of them has beer
exposed to death in all of the forms
that the fiendish ingenuity of the
Germans could devise.
They took the ordinary and the e.
traordinary chances of war, as they
came. 1t was their misfortune to b.
struck down, some of them withou
having their chance at the foe, other.
after they had left their mark upol
men of the Kaiser.
There are thousands Of these me,
who will not be permanently disabled
In a few weeks after receiving thei
wounds they were back in the ranks
! Many of the men listed as wounde'
went back into the combat units. wer
| wounded again and again, and agail
went back. Many of these 'hav
] been mustered cut and are back i
Z civilian life, holding down their job
: and asking no odds Of any man.
I But there are other thousands VIII
/! were not so fortunate. There ar
) thousands who woald have beer r.
garded, after other wars, as hopeless
I %cripples, permanently disabled, mer
pensioners On the bounty of the Anne
lean people. But things have change
since the other wars fought by Anne
lea. The wounded man, the disable
: man, is to have his chance his tim,
: A Eeaszn for last Loan.
: This is one of the things to be KEEL
IN mind during the campaign for tt
Victory Liberty Loan. Much of tn
loan, we cannot tell how much, mu
go towards the expense of makiI
{ such payment as we can to those wi
!: did their best to pas the price
& world freedom from the Prussi;
: menace.
While some Of the money may
& used for military needs, some for Il
z ordinary and extraordinary expense
& OF the Government, a considerat
- sum from this last loan will be us
j in putting the wounded man and t
: disabled maj in q position to MA
d his own living, to again play the pa
e OF an American citizen.