The daily Alaskan., 1919-02-06
TO THE BLIND SOLDIERS OF THE ARMIES OF MY
 ALLIES

ALLIES
 Soldiers of the great war who have suffered for the cause of Hu- manity, 1t is l, the King of Eng land, who send to you this book lettered so that you will be able to resd it. l am adding words of comfort to let you know that you are not forgotten either by me, or my people, any more than by your comrades at the front and the heads of state of your own coun- tries.
 All those who entered into this struggle to prevent a monstrous in- iquity and to save the free nations of the world from the menace of an Intolerable servitude, did so pre- pared to consent to all necessary sacrifices rather than permit the German Empire to achieve victory
 You and your comrades of the Allied Armies offered all that you possessed; it was the province or God 70 choose what sacrifice He would exact from each. And Of you, my friends, He asked that sacrifi.e which seems the hardest of all to the young ana vigorous. He has deprived you of the spec tacle of the beauty of the earth and of the faces that are dear to you. The Queen and myself feel the extent of your loss and We shall never Forget it,
 However, if there is an eXhorta- tion that l can address to you in your ofliction it is to urge you nOs to despair. The time has gone by when a blind man was being without resources. Incapable of enjoying life or of providing for himself. Several hundreds or our soldiers who lost their sight in this war have already, thanks to their strength of soul, to their pa tience, and to the assistance of a professional education, learned to resume the occupations in which they were engaged before their misfortune overlook them. They have learned to exploit freely the resources of their other senses that are used so little by those who can see. It is a question of training, but above all question of courage, of that same courage which for bade you to fall back before the enemy on the field of battle. A great calamity has befallen you, but if you refuse to succumb to it, if you are determined with all your strength to triumph over it, the treatment of the blind during the last few years has approached perfection to such point that your future life can be filled as well and as usefully as was your past existence. There Is no one to whom this war has not brought cruel losses and deep sorrow. To 8 great num- Der 1t has brought death. But the day will come when the war will oe ended, and as it is strug- gle against the mad ambitions of one Power and it's Allies and to uphold the simple human rights of all the rest of the world, We can count upon the final defeat of the Germans. When that time shall have arrived the nations of Flu rope will be free and the rights which governed he relations be- tween them will be re- established. If the wishes of the nations of the Allied Powers are realised, the world will be organized for per manent peace. The small nations of Europe will no longer pass from hand to hand as the spells of con quest, but, like the people of my Empire, will live faithfully attached to the governments that they will have chosen of their own free will. As far as is possible the old motives of war will be done away with Efforts will be made to the end that to any Power which counts upon robbiag or conquering it's neighbor will oe opposed by an alliance of forces so powerful and so united that 1t will not dare to break the worlds peace. Please God, our childreE and our grandchildren will be able to say: "HenceforwaId there will be no wars"
 Every sacrifice is painful, and a sacrifice such as yours is among the most terrible that man can bear. But If a sacrifice has been made, it is a consolation to him who has