Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1918 — WRITE CHEERFUL LETTERS. [ARTICLE]

WRITE CHEERFUL LETTERS.

Mothers, write more cheerful letters to your sons in uniform! They need messages of encouragement, not doleful forebodings, nor constant reminders of the awfulness of the “great disaster to humanity.” This is the pleading message sent out —not by government officials, but by the boys themselves —-boys that are “over there!” “Don’t help the kaiser by hanging weights on the spirits of your boys who are fighting,” writes Joseph Teter, of the .... Regimeht, United States 1 Marine Corps, now in France. “The boys are all ready to go through with the thing, taking things as they come, but it is the folks back home who seem to be quitters. All of us are getting letters of this sort from our mothers—and I tell you, its mighty disheartening.” Take a tip from this,lad’s earnest plea, Mothers, don’t wail!