Medford mail tribune., November 13, 1918, Page 6, Image 6

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MEDFOTCD MATT, TRTBTJNTC. MEDFOTtD, OREOOX, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER in, 1918
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Morale Is Winning the War!
AN American is capturing a Hun not because he
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 I --'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 matter how. We are only slaves
of the Government." Now he is a prisoner, too.
Every despatch from France brings new proof of
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
v free-born fighter. He is no
j slave of any Government.
He is part of a nation waging
war. He wants to fight. lie
needn't be driven into battle.
He yells: "Let's go!"
That's morale ! Let's let
them keep it I 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
Why you should give twice as much as
you ever gave before !
The need is for a sum 70 greater than any gift ever asked for
since the world began. The Government has fixed this sum at
$170,500,000.
By giving to these seven organizations all at once, the cost and
effort of six additional campaigns is saved.
Unless Americans do give twice as much as ever before, our
soldiers and sailors may not enjoy during J919 their:
3,600 Recreation Buildings 2,500 Libraries supplying 5,000,000 books
1,000 Miles of Movie Film 85 Hostess Houses
100 Leading Stage Stars 15,000 Big-brother "Secretaries"
2,000 Athletic Directors Millions of dollars of home comforts
When you give double, you make sure that every fighter has the
cheer and comforts of these seven organizations every step of the way
from home to the front and buck again. You provide him with a
church, a theatre, n cheerful home, a store, a school, a club and an
athletic field and a knowledge that the folks back home are with him,
heart and soul 1
You have loaned your money to supply their physical needs.
Now give to maintain the Morale that is winning thewarl
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 organizations give your man a
place to meet his family, books to read and study, the.
hospitality of American homes, when whole cities are re
adjusted to the new conditions created by having a can
tonment nearby. .
It comes later, too, when a man has been 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 . beyond him, out in No-'
Man's Land.
.That's when the men 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,
are 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 helpj
them hasten victory. Give as
you never gave before! Give
for morale ! ,
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