The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-07-27
TRIBUTE TO MOTHER

waukee Journal.
TRIBUTE TO MOTHER
Few more beautiful tributes to the ma
tions motherhood have been uttered
than that spoken by Sergeant Charles
L. Mattson of the 300 Sanitary Train,
the Omaha Ambulance companyduring
the Mothers day services at Camp
Taylor, Ky.
Sergeant Mattson is the son of Dr.
and Mrs. Alfred S. Mattson, 5ll7 Cal
iforna street, Omaha. He went to
Camp Taylor with the Omaha ambul-
ance company, and on transfer OF First
Sergeant Hart jerks to the aviation
service, succeeded 10 that soldiers
position. AS speaker for the company
at the exercises, here is what he said:
"The word, mother should be to the
son or husband the same as the word
attention is to the soldier. Attention
straightens the body, puts the mind
and every nerve on edge ready to exc
cute any and all commands at once,
Mother calls to attention every fibre of
his inner nature, called conscience;
puts him on the defense ready to up
hold and protect the best that is in
himself
Mother stands for the very best
things that are in his life No matter
what creed orreligion man may have
or even if he refuses to acknowledge
any, he has nevertheless certain form
code Of ethics which he consciously or
sub. consciously carries out. II Is a
sense of right and wrong imbued in
him by his mother in the hundreds of
ways only mother has.
"On joining the army and throwing
off all the cares and obligations Of civil
ian life the one human factor that will
influence and control him is the thought
OF mother and home.
The soldier boy means everything
to bis mother. He is her boy; part
of her own life, and body. All his life
she has sacrificed herself for him and
when she gives him to her country,
she gives a part Of herself. He enters
into new life, complete change,
full of excitement, plenty to keep busy
body and mind. She stays at home,
possibly all all alone. She misses him,
but hides it within herself, doing all to
cheer him on.
"Some OF us do not wear our hearts
on our sleeves, but down underneath
we feel . quickening, we hardly know
how to term it, thought Of mother
and home, and in the final test that will
bring out all that is in us We are in
this war to protect mother and home.
Our country is combination of homes.
Do away with the home life and all
that surrounds it, the foundations Of the
nation itself will be undermined and it
will not last. The home centers around
mother. 1t is mother, boys, whom we
are fighting for. She risked her life
to bring us into the world, and her life
has been one Of selfsacrhce to give us
all. We cannot afford to take the
chance in our training work to leopard
lie her safety by running amuck or de.
pletng ourselves physically for few
moments Of satisfaction and graf
ifcation, II your own mother is not
living, some other mother has no son
to protect her, and It's up TO you.
When you fight for mother, you fight
for home, and when you Eight for your
home, you fight for your country and
the ideals of democracy that has made
possible the home you wish for your
mother.
"Here's to the sweetest and dearest
Of all Gods creation, the personfca-
ton OF all that is choice and best in
life, the only sure and last resort Of the
nation In dire distress, the ideal you,
the country's protectors, will fight for
and give your lives for-mother
Sergeant Mattson's commanding
officer was 50 touched by the soldiers
speech that he summoned him anc
complimented him with great feeling
He then stated that II he could ever
grant the boy a favor, he hoped he
might be given the opportunity
"You can, sir" replied Sergea +
Mattson. "Give me a furlough to visi
my mother" lie got the furlough. :
Exchange.
: The next time you find yourself
taking a violent dislike to any person
just start to look for the good thing
in that person. Everyone has at leas
one good trait which often redeem
the bad ones-a smile, glance, a ges
a ture, feature, walk or voice. When
ever you think Of that person eoneer