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A nation-wide cam paign to secure $35, 000,000 during the week of NoTember 11 to 19, 1917. Nashville1 Part This amount will be cheerfully given by the patriot ic people of Nashville to help keep the home tics of our sol dier boys from brcaking-ing. They say, who have come back from over there, that at night the troubled earth between the lines is carpeted with pain They say that Death rides whistling in every wind, and that the veiy mists are charged with awful torment. They say that of all things spent and squandered there young human life is held least dear. It is not the pleasantest prospect for those of us who yet can feel upon our lips the pressure of our mother's good-by kiss. But please God, our love of life is not so prized as love of right. In this renaissance of our country's valor, we who will edge the wedge of her assault make Calm acceptance of its hazards. For us the steel-swept trench, the stiffening cold weariness, hardships, worse. For you for whom we go, you millions safe at home what for you? We shall need care. From you who are cur re source and reliance, who are the heart and hope of that humanity for which we smite and strive, must come these things. Above all these material needs, however, there is a higher one. We, your boy, your brother, he and I, need the com forting and encouraging aid that words of sympathy and love alone can give us in these hours of trial. This, too, you can furnish by adding to the army at the front, by supplementing it, with Christian friends to whom we may go from time to time and hear from them the blessed assurances of Christianity of the beauty and the glory of suffering and death, if need be, for Christian ideals and Christian civilization. We want an escort of such noble and sacrificing men and women, who will read to us and guide and direct us through paths of danger that always beset the soldier paths which lead often to immoralities and forgetfulness of what is good. We want them and their influences for protection as well as guidance, that those of us who return shall be better and nobler men for the experiences weliave encountered and not voluptuaries and debauchees who will be an infliction upon American communities. Give us the benefit of such guidance and interest at the many military camps throughout the country. The National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. of America is making every endeavor to meet this demand. It proposes through the channels at its command to make itself to such an extent a part and parcel of the army at home and abroad. Such men as President Wilson, former Presidents Taft and Roosevelt, members of the Cabinet, Generals of Army, and men and women of the highest standing are behind this great movement for the increase in Army comforts and the betterment of Army morals and conduct. You, too, should be behind them. Get there and push the big drive and to the United States will come a glory as great as victory in arms. (Signed) Citizen Soldier No. 258 th District, National Draft Army. Patriotically Donated II Y THB ft Nashville Railway 4 Light Co. AND THE Tbe National Life and Accident Insurance Go. it it lilt ll I t Kb I 1 It 11 It It It WOm It it It It l I I t I t mm t t it it it it it i rma it it it it i t i t mm i t it it it it it