THE NEWARK JOURNAL;
Published Weekly
BY THE
JOURNAL PRINTING CO.
Entered at the postoffice at Newark. Ark
ansas, as second class mail
MOTHER’S INFLUENCE ON
GREAT WORLD WAR
There are a number of moth
ers in Independence county
who have sons in the army, and
to these mothers The Journal
commends the followingextract
from an article by Private II.
R. Peat, which was published
in a recent number of the Red
Cross Magazine.
“In the trenches the boys
compare their mothers. It is a
wonderful thing, that spirit of
motherlove which surrounds i
blesses us and leads us to high
er things. We gather together
m the trenches ana we rant oi
mother—mother—mother.
“The lad whose mother cried
and fainted when he left,
quietly drops out. He never
shows his letters from home
because it is possible she writes
him laments and moanings.
But those of us who have a
home courage of which we talk
—how we boast! Mother is a
mighty factor in the winning
of this war.”
The Journal has heard it said
that at least one mother in this
community has been heard to
say that she would rather see
one of her boys hauled to the
cemetery than to see him join
the army.
—— - ..Happily, this woman, al
though a ffiQFner, has no sons
in the arm/y^ but if she had,
sujgpose she would write to her
Iboy? Would they be brave
and courageous letters—letters
that would cheer the boy and
help him be a better and a
' more manly soldier?
And could her son say,
“Thank God for my dear old
noble, courageous mother ”
No. The mother who would
rather see her boy hauled to
the cemetery than see him don
letters do you
the uniform of his country and i
standi up like a man and fight i
for the right at a time like this,
when the destiny of nations is
hanging in the balance, is not
the mother whom any REAL
MAN would like to honor as
his mother, and she is not the
kind of mother w'hose inspira
tions leads her boy on to great
er achievements, either upon
the field of battle or in the
everyday affairs of life.
God pity the boy in any!
w»*k: of. Ufgwho has a mother
like that?
On a recent viSTJsjto Camp
Pike at Little Rock, the t4’tor
of The Journal was told that
pitiful letters from home cause
a great deal more trouble
among the soldiers in the vari
ous camps than anyone real
izes. Officers at Camp Pike
say that one soldier there has
gone hopelessly insane brood
ing over the pitiful letters writ-'
ten him from home, and it is
said that in some instances sui
cides among the soldiers have
been caused by such letters.
Crying is not going to bring
the boys home but it can and
does weaken the nerve of the
strongest.
The right kind of a letter
from home will go a long way
toward winning the present
great conflict which is-to de
cide the destiny of nations.
's letters will prob
a greater influence
of any one else.
God for the brave,
iurageous right think
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than th
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noble,
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Easter, the season when we
incline our hearts to the God
of spring, is with us once more.
Typical of renewed life, of re
stored vitality, it seems as •
though some of its force and
significance had gone. It finds
us this time with all that mak
es life dear, jeopardized, and
life’s beauties marred and tar
nished ruthlessness. It finds
us in a death grapple with the
forces of evil to retain the
ideals so long typified by its
over joyous return.
Taken from the myths and
j mysticisms of pagans, and
feral tea onio a cunsuaii siem,
it has stood for centuries as a
symbol of a risen Lord, a Lord
who has triumphed over death
and brought confusion to his
enemies. It has been to human
kind a source of inspiration.
assuring them that though the
forces of darkness may triumph
for a season, there comes a
time when the deadness of
winter shall have passed, when
the good, the lovely, the pure,
and the alive of earth shall
lise up and put to rout all en
emies and claim the sovereign
ty that Mother Nature has con
ferred upon them.
And never did human .con
ditions more loudly call for an
Easter of the heart, the soul
and the mind than in this year
of our Lord 1918 Never was
the human race more in need
of the regenerating influences
of a divine springtime than
now. With many of earth’s
teeming millions wandering in
spiritual darkness, freezng in
the artic regions of selfishness
and greed, prowling in the
uhder-world of deceit and av
arice. there is much need of an
awakening.
*r seasons will i see slich an
awakening. Can wre hope to
see during the year lying out
before us old passions and pre
judices die and new and purer
growths take their place? May
we hope to see earth’s millions
calmed and soothed and di
vested of the fever of avarice
and hate that seems to domin
ate them, and brought under
the milder sway of a-new and
better life, a life drawn from a
purer fount?
If we would thus' hope, we
must not lose sight of the fact
that before every Easter there
must be a winter—a death.
Ressurrection does sot signify
the bringing to life of the old,
but the substituting for it a new
life. “Except a grain of wheat
falleth to the earth and die it
abideth alone,’’ is as true today
as when it was uttered gy the
great Apostle of the Truth.
Let us, then, who would look
for an Easter of all creations,
look to our own hearts and
lives and see if we have con
signed to death all the vile and
ignoble passions so wont to
foregather in that very com
plex habitation. Let us be sure
that our outlook upon life is
such that we may welcome
the pure growth that a spiritu
al spring shall be unfolded be
fore our vision. May the grain
of wheat typical of the old man
with all his passions truly “fall
into the earth and die,” then
in its place shall arise such a
flower of love and beauty as
shall dazzle our vision asd en
rapture our souls.
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