The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-01-23
Letters From and About Soldiers

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Various methods were used by the
Germans TO scatter their propaganda
among the American soldiers, accord
ing to a letter Just received by Mrs.
J. H. Dukes from her foster son, Cor
poral Jack H. Anderson, veteran of
the Mexican Border campaign with the
old Troop A. Oregon Cavalry, who has
recovered from wounds received in
/ France with a regiment of field artil
/ lery. Corporal Anderson sends Mrs.
( Dukes a sample of the German propa
gandist. He picked it up on the battle
F field after a Hun airplane had flown
over the lines. The clumsy and fool
ish effort TO corrupt the doughboys,
+ entitled How TO End the War,
+ follows:
"Do your part to pat end to the
war Put an end to your part of 1t.
Stop fighting That's the simplest
way. You can do it, you soldiers.
/ lust stop fighting. and the war will
end of its own accord. You are not
+ fighting for anything anyway. What
/ does it matter to you who owns Metz
or Strassburg. You never saw those
towns nor knew the people IN them. so
what do YOU care about them? But
there is little town back in the little
old United States you would like to
see and if you keep fighting here in
the hope of getting a look at those old
German fortresses you may never see
home again.
1.-The only way to stop the war is to
stop fighting. That's easy. Just quit
and slip across No Mans lana and join
the bunch that's taking it easy there
waiting to be exchanged and taken
home. There is no disgrace in that.
That bunch of American prisoners will
be welcomed just as warmly as you
who stick it out in these Internal
trenches. Get wise and get over the
top.
There is is nothing in the glory of
keeping up the war. But think of the
increased taxes you will have to pay.
The longer the war lasts the larger
those taxes at home will be. Get wise
and get over.
"All the fine words about glory are
tommy rot. You haven't got any busi-
ness fighting in France. You would
better be fighting the money trust at
home instead of fighting your fellow
soldiers in grey over here where it
doesn't really matter two sticks to you
how the war goes.
Your country needs you, your fam
lily needs you and you need your life
for something better than being
gassed, shot at, deafened by cannon
shots and rendered unfit physically by
the miserable life you must live here.
1.-The tales they tell you of the
cruetes of German prison camps are
fairy tales. Of course you may not
! like being prisoner of war but any
thing is better than this internal place
with no hope Of escape except by
being wounded after which you will
only be sent back for another hole in
your body.
Wake up and stop the war! You
can if you want to Your government
does not mean to stop the war for
years to come and the years are going
to be long and dreary. YOU BETTER
COME OVER WHILE THE GOING
is GOOD.
According to letter rece ed by
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. H. Lynn from
Radio Sergeant William Bailey, of
Headquarters Co., the 69th Artillery,
composed chiefly of Oregon and Wash.
ington men, the regiment is stationed
at Lussac, France. Sergeant Bailey
SAYS that he does not know Just when
they will sail
The letter was written Just before
Christmas, and Sergeant Bailey, for
merly a fellow member of the post
office force with Mr.. Lynn, writes:
IL can see the rush, although many
thousand miles away, and would GER
tainly like to be back at the office for
the Christmas rush. We had three
truck loads of mail yesterday and ex
pect more tomorrow. had mine last
night, and it was certainly fine to get
some sweets from home. Thev are
scarce over here, but we get Beau
coups wine, fine as substitute as
well as to keep away the blues. You
have no doubt heard how poor the
water is here. | cannot afford to spoi
my health.
Sergeant Bailey reports that a part
of the 18th Engineers is stationed neal
Lussa,. A member of the regiment
had Just met Earl Saulding. He writes
that other members of the regiment
Sergeant Floyd French, Sergeant Sex
ton and Corporal Bentley are well.
Sergeant Bailey wrote that the mer
would never forget the latter S mother
Mrs. L. NJ Bentley, for all the gooC
things she had done for the artillery
men.
Lloyd Simpson, of The Dalles, who