Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — DON’T GLOOM THE BOYS [ARTICLE]

DON’T GLOOM THE BOYS

If you have any regard for the boy! in France, don’t write gloomy letters. Keep the clouds out of your correspondence, and let it breathe naught but sunshine and cheer. If doubts assail you, keep them to yourself, and give the soldier boy letters breathing optimism and confidence. If family cares and worries beset you, remember that bis care is infinitely greater than your own. Your burden is a personal one, while on his brave shoulders rests the cares of a nation. Bright, confident letters from home, breathing of love and confidence in our cause and in the heroes who are upholding it, will do more to win this war than any other agency. And gloomy forebodings and wailings will as surely rdtard if not defeat us. Your boy should hear none but good news from home unless it be absolutely necessary. ' Not that his love and demotion is any less than of old, rather greater. This lje is proving by bis presence on the battle front. But his one supreme thought now is to strike with the utmost of his power for the safety and sanctity of his home, and his heart should know no other care. Keep the glooms at hojiie, if they must exist, and send the sunshine to the boys.