. Portrait . ave got to look him in the face when hecomes home. In the great week before Christmas you will be calledto the Red Cross colors, every man and woman, youngor old. There will be no exemptions, just one greatvoice from all together. Let the answering message that^ All is well, ring from every corner of a loyal land. The American soldier has staked his life against everydiabolical form of death. He is just a boy and he ishuman and he is ours, and he wants the hail from home. Let us be prompt, everybody, everywhere, to sound us stand by till the tattered old flag comes home. As
. Portrait . ave got to look him in the face when hecomes home. In the great week before Christmas you will be calledto the Red Cross colors, every man and woman, youngor old. There will be no exemptions, just one greatvoice from all together. Let the answering message that^ All is well, ring from every corner of a loyal land. The American soldier has staked his life against everydiabolical form of death. He is just a boy and he ishuman and he is ours, and he wants the hail from home. Let us be prompt, everybody, everywhere, to sound us stand by till the tattered old flag comes home. Asyou love the boy and the country, make it unanimous.—Red Cross Magazine. PORTRAIT Official Photographs Showing Activities ofUnited States Forces in France THE following reproductions are from photographstaken during the great offensive which was startedby the Americans and which resulted in their driv-ing the enemy out of the St. Mihiel salient, and whichculminated recently in Germanys agreeing to the armi-. fi^o#M^V^/7 Copyright by Committee on Public Information Americans in support beside a road in the captured St. Mihiel salient stice terms imposed by the Allied governments. Be-hind the men is seen a German narrow gauge railwayfor hauling supplies. This railroad was subsequentlyconverted to the uses of the American Forces and greatlyhelped to keep them adequately supplied with the nec-essaries for successfully continuing their it would be the heiorht of national conceit to PORTRAIT presume to say that the x\mericans were the principalcause of Germanys downfall, still we feel assured thatthis country will not be considered vain boasters insaying that the United States was a mighty factor inthe final determination of Germanys quitting, for with-out the help of the United States in supplying the Alliedgovernments with food and munitions the end probablywould have been so far distant that no one would havebeen able to see it.
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