Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 27, Hammond, Lake County, 6 July 1918 — Page 8

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THE TIMES July 6, 1918.

Letters from Soldiers

Writtento the, Home Folks From This Side and the Other Side of the Water.

From Walter Hopkins. Camp Hospital .No. S(, A. YZ. F., England. May "A. My Dfar Mert: Your letter reached me yesterday and to say I was delighted to hear from you would be putting it very mild. I want to congratulate as well as thank you for jejr promptness in writing:. I must eay that every camp I have been in your letters have always reached me first. Your letter was the f.rst to reach me direct since I have been ever here, which 13 r.ow oer two months. Had half a dozen forwarded from Long- Island, hut nons direct until jours reached mo yesterday. Before I go any further I want to mention this letter is for all ;he Pennsy Pals. When you have finished reading: it I wish you would forward it to Mr. Jarman and the hoys as I am most too busy to write to every one individually. I have decided to do a letter of some length and hope everybody will be satisfied. Have not hea -d from the young ladies yet. but hope to in the near future. As I have always told you. letters are most acceptable, and r.ow it is our only connecting link with the dear old I". S. A. and ourselves. Mail from a psycological standpoint la most acceptable to the receiver and vise versa to the writer. I do not think, especially when you have so little material in which to build up a structure, of literary architecture. The adaptability of writing things that you do not know in a way to make people understand that you know perfectly well what you are trying to convey is a very admirable achievement, and I should not be surprised that in the near future I may become a past master in the art. Letter writing is most difficult to comprehend and Individual style is almost a lost art. but Uncle Sam with the aid of his censors is about to revive it. The idea Is to write an entertaining and interesting letter by using all the uninteresting things that you know about. Having attained this you have reached the zenith in modern censored letter

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writing. You must paidon a.l digressions from the accepted m.'d i f a correspondent and jou will not dissappolnt yourself if. at the c-ac'.,.i.kn of your reading. ;oti dis-oer that perhaps after all you have not karned anything from my letter. The subject of my next paragraph will be of the metreologic.il conditions of this island. This we will discuss hut briefly and ha;ng dismissed this subje. ; will pass on in the same paragraph to the climatic conditions of England. Of the last we can only say when ou think it is going to i n in the sun begins to shine, and as soon ai jou think tho sun is going to shim it begins to rain: when it should le cold it is hot. and when it should be hot tt Is cold, so you might say that things are slightly reversed here. Why. everybody here goes to the left when they should go to the right, and so west when they should go eajst. The world Is all upside down, and I give it to ou as contldential information that there Is a war being fought and we are going to win it. You have no doubt read somewhere, because it is in the book of books and you can find It yourself If you have not already made yourself familiar with these passages. "The time will come when the seasons will mingle in such a way ns Impossible to tell winter from summer, and the day and night shall be as one. and the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and a little child shall lead them, etc." (1 could quote on indefinitely, but I want to leave a little of it for you to read when you find it yourself.) "Weil. If you were in Kngland you would perhaps think most seriously along this line and also wonder if the millinum was indeed about to be brought about. At no distant day there will happen to the Central Powers a destruction, the like of which the world has never known, and that which happened to Sodom and Gomorrah will in comparison be as nothing. You remember as the story goes. Croesus consulted the Oracle at Delphi and when he was about to go in for world conquest and the astute goddess answered "If you go into this war you will destroy a great nation" and Croesus being human thought at ence he was sure to conquer and as a result he fooled the Oracle, but to his own discomfort, for the nation he destroyed was his own. History repeats itself. In the countless examples of would-be world rules we find that they all fail, and chiefly heo-uise of their egotistical fancies. Carsor crossd the Rubicon, Xerxes attempted the H.-I-I'sspont. Alexander the ;ret got drunk on the eve of battle that would perhaps have conquered the world and did. Hannibal trusted to an absent people and Xapoleon made his retreat from Russia, so inevitably the Kaiser will get his. His resting place shall be in the 7th Hell of his frienls the Mohammedons, and here's hoping he will find it prepared propr!y for his reception. This being true we are willing to make whatever sacrifice it is necessary for world democracy. Then, and not until then do I wish to return to the land of plenty and there live out my appointed days knowing that the hrifpg to be passed cn to the children of the land where Freedom had Its beginning, is indeed a worthy one. Mert. whil this letter is perimporially addressed to you I trust that you will not mind passing it around to all my friends or acquaintances who you think would he interested by it. You perceive that if you attempt it with determination you can write a rather lengthy article which, while it may not be interesting, still at the same time, it uses a lot of good sentences and positively gives no information whatsoever in regard to military necessity. Of course there are many things that I might write about but I won't, just confining myself to that which I know should be of mutual interest to everybody in the world who at the present time is engaged in making the world safe for democracy the

latter phraso is getting about as popular as "Get me Steve'".) With tho subject as broad and comprehensive it Is i-r.fa to proceed without fear of consequences. It Is evening now and the sun is slowly sinking in the west and as ths ras of the eening light fluctuate over the waving blades of grass on the English hillside .t appears like a myriad of diamonds and its truly beautiful to behold (Spring always affects me this way. but to go on) the fantastic beauty of the Knglish rural district Is truly wonderful and I would not attempt with my inadequate Knglish to describe it to you with any degree of elaborateness it deserves because of tho fact paper is too scarce and I have other things to take up in the brief (?) article. Tardon the digression at this point. It Is but natural in this connection that I should discuss with you the fact which is most Intimately connected with sexology and its relationships after the conclusion of the war. Already in this country and other warring rations of Europe women are rapidly taking the positions formerly open only to men and it Is safe to say that having secured a footing in all phases of business and public life they will continue to hold them. So here I wish to say in regards to conditions in America that the lime Is soon coining when the bulk

of business and public life will fall to j the lot ftf women because for the next j

several generations man's srhere will be militaristic if we are to accomplish the ideals we are fighting for and maintain them in the ages to come. l.abor and capital must come into its share, and so we tackle, it without hesitation or fear and we will attempt to adjust matters in the briefest and most concise manner. At the end of the war a most settling effect will result. The laboring man will come into his own and capital will have to lay down her golden crown and walk hand in hand with her equal, and in many respects superior, labor. Wage scales will adjust themselves by evolution rather than by revolution, and so will lasting good be accomplished. Democracy will have achieved her triumph and the world will be saved for Itself and the war will not have been fought in vain. I now pass to lighter phases of thought and attempt to tell you something of the pleasures and frivilous Bide of the English life in wartime. It was my pleasure in company with several of the other boys to go to one of the famus summer rescrts on the southern coast a short time ago, and I can assure you we had such a time that made you forget there was a war. A good hotel, excellent meals, pretty girls, thousands of visitors parading the long concrete walks, hundreds out on the piers which run out for hundreds of ards into the ocean. Thousands in bathing, even 1f the water was 42 degrees and cloth was short where they make bathing suit;. I would attempt to describe one of there suits that the ladies wear over here, hut I'm a little afraid you would not understand, so I'll either bring one when I return or I will make you one in five minutes. It's a simrle matter if you know how. I am a close observer and I am prtty certain that I know how to make one. Well, Mert. I had an awful time deciding whether I would suffer you another page of this "high" literature, but on second thought I have decided not to. Please tell Bill Eeklund and Miss or Mistr H. W. Martin that I was delighted to hear from them, and this extra long letter is for them also. As soon as I hear from the female Fennsy T'als I will endeavor to answer individually each letter I receive, but in case I do not it is either I have been transferred to another pla-e and writing facilities are not so convenient or I did not receive the letter. This is war times. Mert. and chances are many of our letters have been lost in crossing. Remember me to Tommy Carlisle, Nelson. Wienecke. MeHenry. Swettzer and Jack Connelly, also each and every one. I often think of old Colchour and would sure have been delighted to run down and see you. all before I left, but was not presented with the opportunity. Am in the hesr of health and surroundings at the present moment, but

we are a good deal like the Nomads. Mert here one minute and some place else the next. Hoping everybody answers this letter with your own original promptness, so with best wishes to

GEX. FUXSTOX'S WIDOW SHOWS WHAT SUE D LIKE TO DO TO THE KAISER

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by the banks if the government's war financing plans for the present summer are to be fulfilled in Indiana. While the responsibility for the underwriting of each bank's quota rests primarily with that bank, many bankers are planning to relieve the financial strain that may cifhne with the heavy purchase of these government war securities, by forming such organizations within their own banks, as will result in the distribution of large blocks of the bank's quota of th certificates to the bank's customers, who normally misht

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Mrs. Funston showing what she'd like to do to the kaiser. Mrs. Funston, widow of the late Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, can't ehoot the kaiser herself, so she's doing the next best thing: and is teaching our soldiers how to ihoot. In her spare moments she manages a shooting gallery for enlisted men. Mrs. Funston is living, in her beloved west now, tut she expects to leav for France soon. She is in charge of a Red Cross iivision.

All such investments are being planned with a view to the transfer of these certificates into Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds. In some counties in the state bankers are planning to thus distribute practically all of the Short Term Certificates, thus leaving the banks free for farm financing and other needful business financing. The Short Term Certificates bear 4'i per cent interest and mature in 120 days.

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LETTER TO LONELY BOYS WAS HELPFUL

By FRED S. FER'.rSOX ' United Press Staff Correspondent) WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN TICARDY. June 15. (By Mail) Mr. Charles A. Porter. Windsor Locks, Conn . Pear Mr. Porter: This i. to let you

know that the letter you mailed ahmg

early in April, addressed in such a unique way has hen delivered. Remember, you addressed the envelope: "American Expeditionary Force In France. "To the Soldier who has no letter in tins mail" It was a fine letter, written as only an old soldier such as vou are. could write. You mentioned that you were a veteran of 1-fiS. and knew what letters mean to a soldier. And y-u told

the hoys to get mall, but that letter of yours addressed to the "Soldier who has no letter." fairly lipped through.

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Put Sunshine in your homes at night?' Yes, Edison's bottled sunshine. Electric light is by far the cleanest and the best, and in case your home is not equipped come to us and let us convince you of the small cost and its superiority over all the other old fashioned lighting methods.

Better Than a Hot Stove How much better these hot days to be able to iron a waist or the family washing without sweltering over a kitchen fire. How fine to be able to do the ironing out on the cool, shady porch. You can do it with our electric irons. Come and see for vour-

sclf how they take the kg

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too. how you were knitting socks. ni ot Miurt lerm .treasury .. ernncaies or how vou were thir.klng of the boys ' indebtedness, in anticipation of the

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were in Connecticut.

peaceful things j I'ourth Liberty Loai show that bankers

in many counties are planning to dispose

Well, here is how your letter was! of large blocks of the Treasury Cer

tificates to individual investors who are customers of the banks. Each bank In the state has been alli'ed a certain amount of Treasury Certificates and these are to be purchased

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delivered. It came from Paris by courier to a little place in Picardy. just behind the lines, that can't be named. When the letter came out of the bag. the first place it saw was a motorcycle courier office, fitted up in an old barn. All the mail was gone through, and of course one of the boys failed to get

a letter. Tour letter was then handed j to htm. He enjoyed it. Then he put the letter back Into the envelope ami j pinned the envelope shut. After that, he wrote on the front. 'Tlease forward." The couriers work in relays

Ifrom one plare to another, s-o the next j (courier leaving for the front took the I

i letter w im nun. i ujhadnt any mall opened your letter, land it was read again. Then they I pinned the envelope up. and gave it t

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place, so that from Windsor Locks. our letter went right into the front line. It's pretty hard sometimes for

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everybody, and hoping to hear frcm you ail very shortly. I remain with best to Mr. Jarman. yourself and Tommy. Sincerely. WALTER HOFKIXS. Medical Department. Camp Hoffd'al X"0- 34 A. E. F.. England, p. S. Please tell the girls not to take seriously anything I mipht harpon to write as I P. n kr-pinK "stid ly" company v. ith r n F.rRliJ-r 't-s; at Southampton. Engr. But then my habits do .lot remain s'ndy. Kind'" overl-rlt Ml mistalc-s I kno-.v positively must exist, but as I have been writing this at a 2-i0 clip I know I slipped several times, but I have no time to correct them. Thani you.

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South Carolina, to Mr. K. H. icuro, Hammond. Camp Jackson, July 1, 191S. Mr. McHie: Dear Sir I am finally here and passed the examination O. K. I am now in the loCth Depot Brigade. 13th Company. 3-inch Light Artillery Battery. There were a bunch of drunks aboard the train

that left Chicago Thursday night and j got "tanked up" and one guy got both' his legs cut off fifteen miles this side of j

Louisville, so we could not get off at Louisville. The Red Cross met the train at Nashville and gave us candy, gum, cigarettes, matches, post cards, stamps, and even collected the cards to mail for us. At Augusta, they served us ice cream and ice cold soft drinks. There is pome fine scenery along the route mountains 100 to 200 feet high on one side and valleys Just ns deep on the other, with gaily painted homes decorating the mountain sides, and the quaint old-fashioned log cabins, mostly occupied by negroes, make a picturesque trip that cannot be appreciated unless seen. There are close onto 35.000 Chicago boys here now and a jolly hunch, too. Along the line, especially the smaller stations, the people wanted to know If there was anybody left in Chicago at all. There w;is not an orchard near where we stopped that had an apple or peach left on it, and I think they will remember the Chicago boys alright around here. It was encouraging to hear the peoplo cheering as we passed, also the happy faces of the colored people as "iem white peoples" cams through. Please tell Woggles to fix up my union card, as I am now a full fledged U. 8. soldier bound for Berlin. Address: Vernon Redmond, 156th Depot Brigade, 13th Co., Camp Jackson, South Carolina.

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