The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-16
=. - THE MARCHERS = =
(EDIToRIAL)

TO ALL AMERICANS: ,,.a.o, 4son
sand strong"
HOW that patriotic song borne the lips of song in
spred the hearts and nerved the arms OF many thousands
And when the Great War ten times that quota
of this nations best manhood three thousand raes across
the how instantly the rang out We're coming TWO
Two million strong! The best and bravest those fitted
do the nations hardest work the flower of YOUTH the
brans the Drawn, the manly beauty No other troops IN
Europe pronounced finer physical specimens and none
surpassed them in intelligence enthusiasm and morale Ihe
went to finish the biggest piece OF military work ever at
tempted by mankind.
of perfect manhood See them march past Ten thousand
will take hour in passing; multiply the time and
Two hundred thousand weak That is different story
The sight far from inspiring SO depresses that
at the thought you turn and try to think OF something
Two hundred thousand scky Let us not think about
syndred ds Rd what are
for whom they have given their health doing about them
few of them march today Thin and emaeiated they
staggerthose who blithey sped away in 1917 to their
The r s p Those of
with tuberculosis They bear the marks of poison of
front ranks those nearing the of their hard journey
the boys without hope of Back of them
many thousands Of those who have fighting chance for life
--clinging to the faint hope that still is theirs
Then follow $4,000 wdeyed, sad pitiful paraders the
sheshocked and mentally affected Much can be done for
them Nothing responds more promptly to the right methods
and treatment and nothing requires such expert handling
this form of acon They need great Institutions splen
did hospitals and the best mental experts You that
they have them
Behind them limp the thousands of those who go
crutches Poor shattered bodies peced out and pastered
up and bound to give their reprieve from pain
until they finally bid the adeu These thousands of young
already old in suffering you glance at them
codly that you them on parade? They are not
merely the wards of the nation. They the ghosts that
will rise to confront your souls at the end ignore them
And at the end of the procession the long line
of ambulances! The brave young fellows who marched
away with elastic step and high spirit will march again
Many of them would far rather sleep under the white
but they must suffering to the end Surely
they lack ncthng? Do you believe that? Visit them, find
their needs and supply them comforts That procession
will end until for each sufferer the Largo sounds
softly
If you can watch such a processon--a procession of
your ownand not moved by it, then you neither
women, but "socks and stones and than
senseless things you let the vision of such sad
parade you the citizens you showed yourselves in
1917 when gave both hearts and your dearly be-
loved to the great You not nsensbe; you
just houghtess diverted by many little things ignorant Of the
facts and Heaven forbid your ignorances.
The procession has passed. and there are two things
that you do, should do MUST do Go individually and
minister to those in hospitals and institutions Or stand
behind the work of the Red Cross which is the official
mnisterng to the exservce in home and in hospital
ngng him comfort and relief aiding him to his right
~ compensation 1t is today the champion, the comforter
any the best friend of that sad procession
Two hundred thousand weak.
\Nwo hundred thousand sick.
1wo hundred thousand reproachful sufferers
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