Soldier Silhouettes on Our Front

village just before the Germans entered it, gathering together a cro

not know, but those who knew this manly American lad best, say unanimously: "That was just li

one would rather have it said of me, "The last seen of Dale he was gathering together a crowd of little children"; I would rather have died in such a service than to have lived to b

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whole, and the other has been fighting cigarettes. Never bigger fists or more determined fists pounded down the walls that were building themselves up around American youth in the cigarette industry.

be dead the next. He had been with them for months, and they had come to love him in spite of his fighting their favorite pastime. They knew him for his uncompromising antagonis

smokes, for the nervous strain was greater than anything they had suffered in their lives. The shelling was awful. The noise never ceased. Machine-gun fire and b

lads. Forever shall he hold their affections in the hollow of his hands. He proved to those boys that his sense of service was greater than his prejudices. He kept three cigarettes going for two days and two nights on the canteen besid

ther said: "Good old --! I knew he had the guts!" Another said: "I'll say he's a man!" Another came in one evening and said: "I'm going to quit cigarettes from n

trenches? Is it any wonder that they asked him for a little prayer service one night be

was asked how they liked their secret

cretary was very religious, responded in his own language: "

r boys, are getting all over France from big, heroic, unprejudiced, fatherly, brotherly men, who are willing to die fo

ook off the end of the old chateau in which he was serving the men. His dugout was in the cellar. But he did not leave. Another day another shell took off the other end of the chateau, but he did not leave. He had no other place to go, and the boys couldn't leave, so why should he go just because he could leave if he wished? That was the way he looked at it. One man whom I interviewed in Paris, a Baptist clergyman, crawled four hundred yards at the Chateau-Thierry battle with a young lieutenant, dragging a

a physical director, who carried a wounded German, who had two legs

tes of Service are n

Zone of the Rear." Now they call the second division "The Services of Supplies." A

e flying out over those waters to guard the transports in?

ere are twenty-eight men back o

c as the service of those in the front lines. The boys in "The Services of Supplies" are eager to get up fro

what service i

gun hammering of thousands of riveters building ships. I know how vital that

dome was flooded with light. As I looked at it I said to myself: "To-day from this city emanates the light of th

nd, Virginia, I thought: "Surely not the shipbuilding but the ideals tha

nd coming from work. As one tide of humanity flowed out of the mills across the bridges, another flowed in, and I said: "Surely not the shipbuilde

omen meeting each day to make Red Cross bandages, and knowing the scarcity of such in France, and knowing how

eir stirring posters everywhere arousing the nation to action, and knew what an important part the artists a

army of laborers which I saw in Pittsburgh, more important than the artists and the Red Cross workers, and that supreme and important part of the great "Services of Supplies" is the father and mother, the wife, the child, the home, the church, the great mass of the common thinking, feeling, suffering, praying, hoping people of America. If these fail, all fails. If these lose faith and courage and hope, all lose faith and courage and

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