Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1918 — OVER THERE AND OVER HERE. [ARTICLE]

OVER THERE AND OVER HERE.

To our boys who have gone to France “over there” means over here in, their home land. All America is thrilled with the newspaper reports of the gallantry of our troops as they drive back the attacks of the Huns, while over there in France our boys are thrilled by the reports which reach them of the unfaltering generosity of Americans in standing behind them by buying liberty bonds and by giving to the various war welfare funds. Our fighters in France, as well as those in the training camps, will be keenly alert as to the outcome of the campaign to raise the war work fund for the Knights of Columbus, the campaign opening in this community on May 5. The success of raising this fund is highly important to our soldiers and sailors for it means that the Knights of Columbus will be able to go on with the work of providing comforts and pleasures for the men in training in the home land and on the firing line in Europe'. Because our public has given to two or three war welfare funds is not sufficient reason for not giving to .the Knights so Columbus fund any more than a soldier could advance the reason that because he has gone “over the top” two or three times it is as much as we should expect of him. Giving and giving again is the chief duty of folks at home in supporting the soldiers. We know what ■we are expecting of our boys at the front and we know what they are expecting of us. We at home must be as unfailing in meeting our duty to them as they will be unfailing in their sacrifices for us. Give to-the Knights ms Columbus war fund!