Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1917 — The Boon of a Short Memory. [ARTICLE]

The Boon of a Short Memory.

- A Canadian corporal writesjhat the condition of the “roads” often appears a perfect pandemonium until one gets used to it. One of th? strains that counts in this war. is on coming out of the trenches to go to a rest billet. Up in the line a man is keyed up to stand a bombardment, and there is a fierce joy in getting to close quarters with a bayonet. But when the relief is over, and the regiment is on- its way for four or five miles to rest billets, the stimulus is lacking, the pack §eem« doubly heavy, and the road is very hard to feet softened by three or four days of wearing gumboots in the mud of the trenches. In 24 hours, with a bath, a shaw, and dean kit, there will be different inen; for memory is mercifully short in this war, and the comforts or discomforts of the moment' are the things that count. *