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These diary emtries are commended to the soldiers of the Nas uh-.wmdahyrnmmf;. nhbd“fi:vfinnn:-ymc“h”, cghuiy::;:fi.‘“ e -mmwflfimuwmwu purging precess of war into a red-blooded patriot.) ’ Wi v e v 3 : August 1, 1917, There seems to be ne doubt about it now. The draft will be put in operation. lam of draft age. lam :mm. I probably will : . Ido not want to ge: seems to be so much in life that to to ‘:..b “.L'nl 80 war me. patriotic than the average man of age? Am I less of an American? I The night before last I heard - teil of his experiences. Hs .Al,le-‘nmle-llu-:a stench, toe., It has stayed with me ever simce. Teo think of the awfal nights of loneliness out there! To think of liviag in a vermin-infested 1 look at my bhame and the that I hawe bought. And } thiak of 3“""‘"?“&?&""“"‘ coli-v-i-“! : the of mu‘;‘yhhfi". r u‘ h#h.i‘nfi swiul privation, and an swiul separa ‘tion frem evorything and ewveryoue thet is preciesns. : What i{s the world coming to? We talked of the coming of peacs; wa placed a great deal of stack In the Hague Conventions. We theught we were getting somewhere. And where are we? As s matter of fact, we are no further advanced than in the days of the Huns. : “Last night I camé homé, feeling miserable and blus. My little sister Bdith came running out as I ed : > ) NI & Y.E il e ‘..E o ) y ) . ‘”",}pc bl ! 9 3\ # A ‘J g1 B 4 : at Iy’ \\ \ on when she i grown uwp? home. She scemed se happy. =0 blithe—so blisafully ignerant of it all. Do you suppese it will still be geing on when she is grown up? That thought makes you womnder whether life is worth itving at all. I some times wonder whether it might not be bettar for her if she did not Hve ta grow up if the war still lasts. What would there be for anyone? It would be & cass of using every rescurce, every emergy for war. And what is war, sayway, but waste? A world organized ealy for waste would be a serry place for anyene. But the law i inezorable. I have {to suhmit. Last aight in my bime “M“w I hawve e o Fears. mmh—--.—- twenty-seven. I have no responsibil &nnflm I have scarcely wh any unhappiness, except, course, when mother died. Ido mot To for-off Frsnce od Fianletlly re-consecration, not recreation; . ::ncflfiqn of all that we have § a reign of peace; reconsecgticl ol we L. _ and are to insure TRES : as a prelude to UM They join in a common Observasmcs . :bazunai:::l.mam . onilly - B s -a pel i fiquumuum,b Jdead. § Meldtth’lukekvfng have hesn splemdid. But I think 0f ,uun:manmxdmwml < have to go. | ¥Father talks enthusiastically of the v-'.‘r-hu-nh'm. fway, I don’t guite like to, for It & %—.-ama S Ha loglis sometimes as if my ¥ ~ ot :otw’:thdn!:g i "‘mfimnh‘mfl. { ' om"S to be disrespectfuil to him suys: Bt 1 kave noticed that thera I 8 . s great dsal of enthusiasm from thesd hat cannot go. - i A . ¥hiy moraing I went over to the yemgtion Board and asked if they ' i¥ tall me the grounds of exemiy jaud turned on his heel. He becam 'very busy with a young man Wwhe wanied to know whether the fact thai e was of draft age would keep k from enlisting and I know that e man he was talking to was told of @8 i ranson. for my visit. “1 kmow it ol tiie way be looked at me. { Later iu the day I visited my pasier, He is a kindly old man who served in ' '::;‘f sf@‘ " N Y b héa e . }4 . - P ' AR I £ = S T | I’“3‘.‘ | e, to get you : -.y-’n going ges !fi inte his study he put his arms around my shoudder and said, “Ted, you'rg _Phnmrm.m T wish wefe your age.”’ thtealtlg I bad gome to him for sympethy and But there was no way I coulll introduce the subject of escaping the { Semebew the whole place seems t 8 can't understand it. When the . yl—tb;ntle-tneuna _“?-Mwwbbfl.- There is something more revereatinl. fin their attitude thas 1 ever moticed Am T less an American tham the average? There isn’t a boy left in :'mmc:anm == jthe regiments are aiready out. |__ X bad ne time for that sort of thing. { Drills two nights a2 week and an | siomat review. xmm_q t bt the drills did net appeal to m all; apd somehow | had a g ths f“fimmtie y&;,d; ' li.ntbthow.. As it in, I can content myself, = [ way, that I bave a chance to arrangs ‘ affairs. At least I can do that,