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SOLDIER FIT
The Girl Back Home
Do for Him.
By W.T.Walsh.
ingly pinning Red Cross tags upon flus­ German lin^s and along the famous
tered pedestrians—these services do not Unter den Linden in Berlin.
constitute her full duty.
In pursuance of this plan it would be
The best gift she can make to her a magnificent thing if two million girls
country is to show a genuine and in the United States would each single
thoughtful interest in some soldier lad out an enlisted man and start to corre­
after he is at the army camp and more spond with him. In order that the thing
particularly after he has arrived at the be done right they should unite them­
front. It is up to her as a patriotic duty selves into a national organization.
to see to it that John Robinson does his There would be nothing unwomanly
duty by his country and by himself. about it. The soldier would understand
Before the war is over the nation the patriotic purpose behind the letters,
probably will have enlisted fully two mil­ which would maintain, or even elevate,
lion men. Many of these will have femi­ his ideals, keep him from drink, from
nine acquaintances to whom thev may gambling or worse evils of the soldier's
write fully and freely. Many others will life, and would give him something to
not. Yet every one of these soldiers
should be able to write to one girl back- 4fl ^^ "Every One of the Soldiers
home. Every one of them should receive
thoughtful, sympathetic, bright letters in
return. This does not mean that the girl
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One Girl Back Home—"
necessarily should be the soldier's sweetheart.
It does not mean even that the
two should ever have seen one another.
The matter would be arranged on the
basis of national service. The purpose W
would be to keep the
soldier's mind in the
most wholesome and _^^fl
i heerful \ ein, and hence ^_ fl
to bring, indirectly, his
work as a soldier up to
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a high standard. Yes.
it's the influence of the
girl living in Yonkers.
Keokuk, or Walla Walla
that may send General
Pershing's c o m m a n d
straight through the
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