Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1918 — All France at War. [ARTICLE]

All France at War.

“If you want to see a whole nation in arms, go to France,” says a hearty, good-looking United States soldier boy just back from the war front, and now in a hospital. “It’s not just in the cities. It’s in the little country towns, I’ve seen old women at work in the fields, women so feeble that they had to walk with a cane when they weren’t working. I’ve seen an old French mother wheeling fertilizer up to the top of the hill. She had to do the work because her men folks were in the trenches. After every trip up hill she came tottering down, and yon might have thought she couldn’t wheel another load. She did, though. I tell you, the spirit of those French people is the wonder of this war.”