Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1919 — WE ENLISTED TO FIGHT FOR $30 PER; NOT TO WORK [ARTICLE]

WE ENLISTED TO FIGHT FOR $30 PER; NOT TO WORK

i That the boys are getting sick and tired of rebuilding France at S3O per month when (they enlisted to fight and not to shovel is seen in letters coming from overseas. One soldier says: I “The days are short and the nights are long in this lonely French spot- Every day seems like a year. The tim§ , seems so long because we have to stay. I think nobody gives a damn, either. We were once ordi ered for convoy but the order was countermanded and we were ordered to help rebuild France. Of course, i France needs help but we soldiers are not laborers. The war is over. We didn’t enlist to help clean up France. We enlisted to fight Germans. We have worked hard for months and get a dollar a day for it. Let us come home for a visit. Can’t some kind soul help us?”