Switzerland and tner. into
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no. Mine. Pellier hoped that,
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ure; you got her seeds; you
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to con?orther#<l that of her little hoy. You sent
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HAS WIFE AND BABY
Aar1 Yet This True Story Has a
Happy Ending.
4
Even a Frenchman sometimes loses,
for awhile at least, his “unfailing”
sense of humor.
Take, for instance, the case of a
man from Lille, a soldier, Waeltele by
name and only twenty-three. He hud
done pretty well, for (lie youngster had
already his own printing shop in that
northern French town, which is still in
side the German lines. In the trenches
Waeltele developed tuberculosis, and
he was sent to a hospital at Grenoble.
There lie was considered incurable,
end after the usual three months of
treatment he was granted his 14 cents
a day pension. Said his fatherly army
doctor, “My son, you can perhaps cure
yourself if you will live in the moun
tains, if you will eat plenty of nour
ishing food and, above all, if you don’t
worry.” *
Waeltele should have smiled, but he
didn't. He was thinking cf his baby
and his wife—and his 14 cents. “Don’t
worry!” The humor of it entirely es
caped him.
Then the Red Cross stepped in. He
was found by an American woman
with some American Red Cross money
4V»r inct ciich nnsec: and within a few
hours he no longer had need to worry.
He was sent to the mountains at La
mure, In the French Alps, happy in
the knowledge that his family was be
lt/k cared for by these amazingly kind
A merieans. *
And now the army doctor’s words
are coming true. Waeltele’s lung is
healing fast, and lie is dreaming of
another printing shop and of living
again some day with that little family.
There have been over 400,000 new
cases of tuberculosis in France since
the war started, and to care for these
cases and check the White Plague's
spread is merely one of the big jobs
the American Red Cross has set out to
accomplish.
FATHER AT WAR,
TRAGEDY AT HOME
lust What Home Service Means
, to a Soldier.
The father kisses his wife and kid
dles goodby. shoulders his gun ar.d
marches away to war.
For a time the current of life flows
smoothly for the soldier’s little fami
ly. Then comes the tragedy. Mother
is rakeij ill. The little brood of broth
ers and sisters is helpless. No father
to turn to. A helpless mother!
To whom can the American soldier's
family look at this critical period?
Must a brave man's loyalty to his
country mean desolation and suffering
to those nearest and dearest to him?
No! Emphatically no! The Ameri
can people will not permit the fami
lies of their soldiers and sailors to
sufTer because their breadwinners are
fighting for their country. And so the
Red Cross Department of Civilian Re
lief has created a nation-wide organ
ization for home service for the fami
lies of soldiers and sailors.
Under the banner of “Home Serv
ice” patriotic men and women have
enrolled and are devoting themselves
to tne nooie tasa oi neiping suiujcjo
families to meet and adjust the prob
lems of everyday life and aiding them
I to maintain the standards of health,
education and industry.
Home Service—True Service.
Home service means keeping the sol
dier's children well and in school. It
means tiding the family over financial
troubles, arranging the household
budget, meeting insurance premiums,
adjusting a mortgage, bringing med
ical aid and legal advice to bear at the
right moment. In short “Home Serv
ice” is true service, in that it provides
the warm handclasp of friendship
rather than the humiliation of charity.
It calls for sympathetic understanding
and intelligent consideration of the
most vital needs of the soldier’s family.
The Red Cross is pledged to “Home
Service” wherever needed in the Unit
ed States. In each chapter of the Red
Cross there will be a home service
section, under competent hands, whose
mission will he to protect the welfare
of the soldiers’ and sailors' homes and
to safeguard the normal development
of their families in employment and In
ideals of self help and self reliance.
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WHAT MANNER OF
MAN IS THIS?
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C. Smith Reduced to Desperate
Straits.
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The following letter was handed me
on Thursday, May 9th, 1918, by Wm.
McConnell, one of L. C. Smith’s cam
paign managers:
* May 7, 1918.
“To His Excellency, Governor C. H.
Brough, Little Rock, Ark.
My Dear Sir:
This is to inform you that when I
arrived at Center Point, Howabd Co.
Arkansas, a few days since, some of
by friends informed me that you had
made a statement relative to some of
! my domestic affairs, and in justice to
| you, and myself, as to whether or
not you made certain statements, in
a spirit of fairness, I make known to
you that I have received from them
such information, and if it be true, I
warn you now that I shall hold you
personally responsible for dabbling
into matters that are no public con
cern of anyone, and that I do not my
self discuss with my most intimate
friends and that no man has the
j right, legally or otherwise, to pub
j lish.
j You will therefore take notice that
: I forbfd you, or anyone else from
I making public issues of these domes
tics and private matters.
Should I learn of this being re
peated I shall publish you as a polit
ical coward and my friends will take
charge of you at the proper time and
• . . . -i! i. j. . .. i • l 1 Jtjt
V uu will nave tu awiuej anu o
the consequences. I have a man em
ployed by the season to look after
and take care of these cases for me.
Yours very truly,
LSC-LMS L. C. SMITH.”
After reading the above letter is
there a man or woman in Arkansas
willing to place this man in the high
est position within the gift of the
people ?
j Do you want a man as your chief
| executive who has to “have a man
' employed by the season” to keep any
citizen of the state from mentioning
his past?
Do you want a man as your gov
ernor who fears an investigation of
either his public or his private life?
May 9, 1918.
Mr. L. C. Smith,
Marion Hotel, Little Rock, Ark.
Sir:
In repjy to your letter of 7th inst.,
delivered to me today by Mr. McCon
_
__ _
Te of your campaign agers^
will say that I have never dlSSred in
to your domestic affairs,Tand have
never said anything about you that
does not appear on the Court records !
of your district. These are public J
records, so made by law, and the peo- j
pie have a right to investigate them
and to know the truth about you, and |
it is my intention to make the facts j
known. You may have your “man j
employed by the season” proceed as j
he deem best, and if you are aggriev- j
ed at any of these facts that are a
matter of record being made public,
it is your privilege to hold me “per
sonally responsible.”
My private and public life should
be and is open to^the public for in
vestigation.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) CHAS. H. BROUGH,
Governor.
MOKE WASHINGTON POLITICS.
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President of Farmers’ Union of Ark
ansas Resents An Attempt to
Prostitute the Order for Sel
fish Political Ends.
To the Farmers and Members of the
Farmers’ Union in the State of
Arkansas—Greeting:
It becomes my painful duty, as
President of the Arkansas State Far
mers’ Union, to advise you that the
President of the National Farmers’
Union, C. S. Barrett, is sending let
ters or permitting them to be sent to
the farmers in this state for the sole
purpose of soliciting or influencing
your vote in the interest of Sen
ator Joe T. Robinson for re-election
to the United States senate. This is
contrary to the fundamental law of
our organization. I feel that it
would be an injustice to our organi
zation and the membership to let
such unfairness be done without
my protest. I want you to know
that this is being done without my
sanction or of any of the officials of
the organization.
I have never permitted my name
to be used by any candidate, politi
cian, or political party in this state
or any other, as an indorsement or
otherwise, since I have been your
state president. I think it very un
fair and unbecoming in Mr. Barrett
to disturb the peaceful co-operative
spirit of our organization in things
essential, by meddling in our state
politics, and attempting to draw our
organization into the political mud
dle. Our organization acts only on
NOTICE. ||
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