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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1918)
i I TUH ONtAI&d ABOVft. ONTAJUO. OBJMWM. I T ' ' f" U " 'I" " ' ' ' ' 'I djPssgJsnViVaaaajfl " u ,. T tut L dr ' rvr!! IjlKI Morale Is Winning the War! AN American is capturing a Hun not because he jA- is any heavier or stronger or older or bigger, but " just because he has the fighting spirit which his enemy is losing. That's morale. "Where are those Germans? Let's get at 'em!" yelled an American before Chateau-Thierry. He was go ing under fire for the first time. He was wild to get there! "We are constantly on the alert and are afraid the Americans are going to attack," wrote a German to his wife. He was captured before he could mail the letter. "The men are so embittered," wrote another Hun, "that they have no interest in anything, and they only want the war to end, no mutter how. We are only slaves of the Government." Now he is a prisoner, too. men without it. Napoleon called morale three times as important as other factors in war. The strain comes with the first swift change from civil to military life, when these organization's give your man a place to meet his family, books to read and study, the hospitality of American homes, when vhole cities are re adjusted to tbe new conditions created by having a can tonment nearby. It comes later, too, when a man h; : I con off in some lonely camp for weeks, when the war itself seems miles away, when letters are irregular and home seems some where in another world, when a man has lived out in a gun-pit or a dug-out, has slept in filthy straw, when the bodies of his friends lie just bcoud him, out in No Man's Land. Every despatch from Franca American fighting spirit- stories of individual valor. Morale makes Americans glad to fight for freedom. The lack of it makes Germans hate to fight for Prussia. Our soldier knows he is a free-born fighter. He is no slave of any Government. He is part of a nation waging war. He wants to fight. He needn't be driven into battle. He yells: "Let's go!" That's morale! Let's let them keep it! Let's keep them keen and fit and confi dent! General Pershing finds that 900 men who have a hut to spend their evenings in are more effective than 1000 brings new proof of That's when the men Why you should give twice as much as you ever gave before ! The need is for sum 7CTI greater then any gift ever asked for since the world began. Tbe Government hat fixed tbi sum ( $170,S00,000. By giving to these seven organizations ail at one, the cost and effort of six additional campaigns is saved. I'aless Americans do give twiee as much as aver before, our soldiers and sailors may not enjoy during J919 their: 3,600 Recreation Buildings 2,500 libraries supplying 5,000,000 books 1.0U0 Miles of Movie Film 85 Hostess Houses 100 1 ending Stag Stars 15,000 Big-brother "Secretaries" 2,000 Athletic Directors Millions of dollars of doom comforts Whan you give double, you make aura that every fighter has the cheer and comforts of these seven organisations every slap of the way from bom to the front and back again. You provide him with a church, a theatre, a cheerful home, a store, a school, s club and an athletic field and a knowledge that the folks back boss are with him, heart and soul 1 You have loaned your money to supply their physical needs. Now give to maintain the Morale thai is winning the war! and women of your organiza tions overseas can show our fighters that they aren't for gotten, that home is follow ing them up to the guns. Sports, entertainment, edu cation, religion, warmth, and cheer and friendship these ure the forces that are work ing to keep morale up to a victory pitch. On you, this week, depends this question of morale. These are the seven recog nized activities through which the Government enables you to stand behind your fight ers. Their value depends on just how much you, as an individual, will give to help them hasten victory. Give as vou never gave before I Give for morale 1 UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN jZ-l vsSaX j9. ysskN. f. stca, v.w.c. s. v . , ", rf V ArnS 3a rAiV avi taKV nv MNsvv "" -V Vn 11 Wv4rjwXtihu-Wl0UtilMMMm&-- I " carnosje was I Jfm -v-fifJtTjmV all snV cA fSTvfl snMW Anwjwi W JlwJtCjUllanWMl HlJl councn.-a.rf. L 1,1 i JiMjf IHHIlMjI BLanTIsi smif.Tr yyB osnsnlBnVynssnassM PVl sWdB snLasnamVaaW V Tsiei 4Bjm M VbT Oregon Packing Co. , ,. Independent Mark fp. Turner's Music Store jg Onario Pharmacy