Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — HAPPY THOUGHT [ARTICLE]

HAPPY THOUGHT

One year ago tomorrow will be the first anniversary of the big blow which came along and swept us from the home environs and into the" sea of militarism. And then the weeks which followed! Whew! it* makes us shudder still to think of those first weeks which followed our enforced plunge. Those rebuff, those curt replies, those cuts which chilled us to the bone, those tasks assigned to us which made us hang our head in humiliation. Gee! Clarence, it was awful, and how we all cordially hated the Kaiser foT taking us from our soft bed of happiness and sending us into grim, warfare, even though we were thousands of mrles frem active strife. What a nightmare it was! Then came a bright day in January and they told us that the war was over as far as we were concerned and that we might go home. Oh, what a happy moment that was! And now we’re awfully glad that it all happened in 1918 instead of 1919.