GREATEST JOY TO THE SOLDIER IS THE RE CEIVING OF MAIL. t Camp Setier, S. C. Here's a gentle hint to the folks back home. A reminder to the friends of Tar Heels who are at Camp Sevier and of Tar Heels who are anywhere with Old Glory. It's simple: Write !', .Write ! Make it lonpr and often. If you do so you will certainly be doing a bit of your bit for there is nothing that cheers a soldier up mure than to receive a letter or even a post card from the friends of yesterday. Like all humans, a sokiHr gets blue once in a while. There is one sure cure. It's a letter. And to the girls. Stop your knitting for just a minute and write that young man you know who has answered the call. He would appreciate it more than a dozen sweaters, .When the mail orderly returns from the camp postoffice, it is the signal for a mighty whoop from the men. And of all the letters those that comesurrounded in dainty colored stationery are in the highest favor. When the orderly starts to passing out the pale blue kind and the baby-pink-kind you would think that the brigade was hiking up the main thourbughfare to Berlin with the Kaiser in tow. But there rre numbers that don't get mail. They appear about as cheerful as the man who originated gloom. So write. It's a very little thing, but the biggest smile producer you ever saw. WHOM ARE WEI FIGHT ING? ' . Sergeant. Empey has his own ideas about the disposition of the German people. He has had ex perience of their!. Or.o of them stuck a baponet through his shoulder and another shot away a part of his face. His view is that the Imperial German Gov ernment and the German people are working along in great har mony. He advances the simple argument that the Germans would not be dropping bombs on women and children and hospit als or shelling life-beats filled with non-combatants if they were opposed to such conduct. He might mve added that the Kaiser and the Sultan would not be swearing eternal loyalty to each other if the V Kaiser did not approve the slaughter of the Armenians. The sooner the people of the United States get over the no tion that the war is to be. ended by an npheval from within the German Empire, the greater progress we will make toward victory. The war will be won by fighting, not by praying There isn't going to be any mir acle. Soldiers, dollars and indus trial organization are the prime necessities, but unanimous de termination to win underlies them all. Sacrifice is still an ac ademic word. ; It is difficult to correlate prosperity and depri vation. It is more difficult to harmonize conditions which in vite extravagance and preach ments of economy. The desire for profit rules still. How can there be a scarcity of anything when production Is passing all records lhere is a striking dif ference between intelligence and comprehension. Great as are the facilities for communication they have not yet carried the news into the minds of the peonle Patiently we watch the snakes curl on our bosoms. But when a bayonet has been thrust through us when half our face has been shot away, we will know. Bankers Journal. Send us your Job Printing. mm i . ' -'J v . F -ii mm Our Country has a work to perform and next Thursday we ought to be thankful that we have the power, courage and " ' unity of purpose to make this world, in President Wilson's undying words "Safe For Democracy" Mothers and Fathers who havs sods in" the armv or navy, or daughters in the RED CROSS Service, should be proud and thankful that they can ?;ivc so much to our great cause. The Nation is proud td have such manhood and womanhood. Then triers' s business: Men can serve by selling good, dependable merchandise and by giving good "VALUES." That's What We Are Doing We Have a Full Line of the New "Trends 1 Overcoats and Suits Something Stylish and Serviceable with the Military Snap and Spirit. It's the Newest Thing for Winter. Prices Range From Ci L to Come in and see i-Mmf, m& wm 1, y what we have. Well be glad to see you and show you. J PLYMOUTH'S SPHOPPING CENTER Th hems of Hart, Schaffner & Marx ctethes i jror Just The Newest Things for Winter At and Ranging 25c to I3 W Received m Several Variations. Millinery Below Cost. e nave mem: in Price From $10.00 41 n

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