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ecretary Baker Urges Letters With “ Home-touch” For the Boys. V/AH ENTNOTOH,f: Hy dear Hr# Bosdicki 1The 9700 of th# world are upon rrar soldiers overseas today not more for what they have done than for what they art now sal lad upon to do* Before then lit the tasks of helping to rehabilitate the devested lands of Frenoe and Belgium and Of making tart that the viotory In whloh thoy bare so gloriously aha rod shall he a pe man ant one*This moans that wo may not ezpeot soon to hare than all with no hero and to greet thorn faoe to face. The postponement of their homeotralng will bo orte nppennost as well In their mind* as in ours. Thoy will y®t meet and must overoone many difficulties without either the incentive or the excitement lent In the past by the activities of war* They need our help and en-oourBgorrent now perhaps more than at any other time si no# thoy left ho tag in order that thoy may be inspired and strengthened to maintain that fineness of character* manner and conduct whloh has earned for them suoh universal respect,Z believe that among all the influences whloh nay be focused upon this objeot, the strongest and most far-reaching la that whloh emanates from home letters* and I therefore urge the mothers, fathers, wives and sisters of our soldiers overseas to express them selves earnestly in their letters as their share in seeing that the high standards whloh Aoarioa represent* both here and abroad shall he oonatantly uphold.Cordially yours,i**..9Hewton B. Baiter Seorotary of War#Hr#’ Raymond B, Bosdiofc,
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Upper Des Moines Republican
Algona, Iowa, US
Wed, Jan 01, 1919
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