Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1918 — ITS 50—50 IN WAR. [ARTICLE]

ITS 50—50 IN WAR.

Fred Hamilton, who has been in the trenches with the Canadian troops for more than a year, writes home that the boys here should be willing to enter the war as they always have a 50-50 chance. He says that the story goes in the trenches that they always have two chancesThe young man who is of draft age has two chances. He may be drafted and he may not be drafted. If drafted he has two chances. He my go to France and he may not go to France. And if he goes to France he has two chances, He may go to the trenches and he may not go to the trenches. And if he goes the trenches he has two chances. He may get shot and he may not get shot. And if he gets shot he still has two chances. He may come through and he may not. If he does not come through he still has two chances. It is 50-50 at the last as it was at the first.