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Nov. 21, -917.
HABIT A MEANS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS
By T. A. Wigginton, Camp Religious Work Secretary
We are often warned against forming i
bad habits, but the importance of form
ing good habits is not as strongly urged <
as it should be. We do not stop to think i
how true it is that we are creatures of ;
habit. It is safe to say that our lives
are controlled more by habit than by rea
son. You did not reason out the steps
in the making of your toilet this morning.
Had you done so, you would have been
late to mess. You did it in the way in ,
which you had done it thousands of
times before, and therefore, did it expedi
tiously, probably thinking of something
else while you were doing it.
If we had to reason out every act, we
should get little done, and that little
would be hesitatingly and bunglingly
done. Think of what a handicap it would
be if you had to calculate every step you
took in walking. Some of you have had
experience of riding a bicycle, driving a
machine or playing a piano. You never
had any pleasure in any of these things
until you had come to the place where
you did the things which had to be done
automatically, from force of habit. So
long as you had to think out everything
which had to be done, it was the hardest
kind of work, and it was poor work at
that.
The habits which we form harden into
character. Our characters are the result
ant of the grooves cut by repeated
thoughts, emotions and deeds in which
our activities run. Emotions tend to re
peat themselves. Any one who has close
ly observed himself has noticed that cer
tain thoughts repeat themselves under
given conditions. Every thought leaves
its track in our brains—scarcely percep-
MOTHER GIVES UP
HUSBANDS AND SONS
Brave and Patriotic Letter of
Pennsylvania Woman With
Six Children at Home. Colonel
Rickards’ Gallant Reply.
Here is a story that appeared in sev
eral northwestern Pennsylvania papers—
The Venango Herald, Butler Citizen, Erie
Times and others, and because it posses
ses a real appeal it is produced herewith.
Particular attention is called to the let
ter that a mother of eight children, who
has two boys in the old National Guard,
as well as' her husband, wrote to the
commanding officer ‘of the 112th Regi
ment. Here is the story:
Sought No Great Favor.
Camp Hancock. Augusta, Ga., Nov. 2.
Amid routine of the army life, with drills,
grim work on the field, practice hikes,
and details that sometimes' tire men’s
brains, one is apt to forget that there is
a sentimental side.
Betters pour into Headquarters, con
taining all kinds of requests. Some seek
discharges for boys who entered under
age, some for boys whom mothers claim
are not strong enough to stand the bat- •
tie stuff, but here is one, written with
a true understanding of patriotism that
reached Colonel Rickard’s desk the other
morning.
It sought no great favor. It was writ
ten in a poor, but firm hand, evidently
by a woman of little education, but by
a mother who had been schooled in all the
branches of patriotic inspiration and had
been given a diploma many times over.
It was just such a letter that made the
heart beat a little faster for the good old
11. S. A., and for the women back home
God bless ’em,'who are making the sac
rifices.
Letter from Carlisle.
The letter, which was from Carlisle,
Ra., read:
Colonel Rickards:
“Dear Sir:—l have two sons and a hus
band in the army. One son, James W. G.
Edgar is in Company G, 112th Regiment,
28th Division, 56th Brigade, and he would
like to be transferred over in the com
pany with his brother. Won’t you please
transfer him over, as 1 would like them
both to be together as they have always
been together, and I would like them to
stick together. Please do this for me,
and my dear boys; if you do, you will
never be sorry.
“My heart is with my two dear boys and
husband. They volunteered to serve {heir
country and lam proud—of them and it
almost broke my heart to give them up.
But when the call for men came, they
went. My husband would not have had
to go, but he wanted to be with my dear
sons and his sons, so I gave my consent
for him to go. He was past the age when
he could have stayed at home, for I have
five small children and he could have been
excused, as you know, but I am proud
of him and my two boys and hope you will
please put my two sons together in the
field bakery. I hope you will recognize
this letter and write me, and let me know
if you will do this favor for me.
Mother of Eight Children'.
“I am 3!) years old and the mother of
eight children; two I have sent to the
army J:o fight if necessary for Old Glory,
the dear old flag that my dear old father
fought for and the one I will stand for.
It is hard to part with our dear men, but
we can be proud of them. I want them to
do their duty to their, officers and to then
country and to be brave, good men, which
I, their mother, know that they will do
if called to do so. So I hope and pray
you will do what I ask of you, dear sir.
“May God bless you and take care of
you and my husband and boys, and ah
the rest of our brave men, is the prayer
of a mother. May God’s mercy watch
over you all and bring you all home safe.
An unknown friend, a heart-broken
mother and wife.
“My husband is cook in Company D, Bth
Infantry, Camp Hancock.”
Colonel Rickard’s Reply.
The letter made a great impression on
Colonel Rickards, and in reply, he said:
“I have your letter and assure you that
it will be my pleasure to do all possible
to bring about the transfer of your son
to the field bakery, as you request. I
would be glad to have had your son,
James, transfered from the bakery to the !
112th Infantry, for I know what kind of i
“stuff” boys with a mother such as they
have, are made of. I
TRENCH AND CA M F
tible at first, but deepened with repeti
tion. In this way, one may foster un
clean thoughts until it is almost impos
sible for him to live a clean life. “As
a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Thought expresses itself in deeds; deeds,
through repetition, become habits; habits
harden into character; and character de
termnies destiny.
These things being true, we should give
careful attention to the forming of habits,
so that our habits shall aid us in- main
taining- worthy characters. We are form
ing habits, whether consciously or not,
and a habit heedlessly formed may be
come just as strong as one formed with
full purpose. There are things which we
are doing heedlessly which are becoming
fixed habits with us, and therefore form
ing our characters. We should, instead,
give earnest attention to the forming of
right habits, so that right living would
be as easy for us as anything else which
we do from force of habit. Dr. William
James, who has perhaps seen as deeply
into such things as any other man. pre
scribes the following rules for the form
ing of right habits:
“1. Launch yourself with a strong in
itiative. Accumulate all the circum
stances which may re-enforce right mo
tives. Put yourself into conditions to en
courage the new way. Take a public
pledge if conditions allow.
“2. Never suffer an exception to occur
until the habit is firmly fixed.
“3. Act promptly on every resolution
or every emotion in the direction of the
desired habit.
“4. Keep the faculty of effort alive by
a little gratuitous exercise.”
"I commend you most heartily for your
unselfish and loyal devotion to your coun
ry and its cause. A nation of such moth
ers would have little to fear, and I am
proud to know that I have one of your
tons in the 112th.
Mr. G was not transferred with
other men of the Bth to the 112th. but I
am ready to have the whole family come
over to my command at any time.”
And this little story probably has its
equal in patriotic fervor a hundred times
daily; though not expressed so eloquently
or so simply as this mother of eight chil
dren has said it, even with her own limit
ed education and poor penmanship.
It just goes to show that many a fire
side has lost part of its old-time glow;
that back in the snug little home from
which many a soldier boy has come is a
mother, a father or some relative praying
that he will make good in the great game
they are learning to play at Camp Han
cock. It’s only a tame game now, they
say, but the months will go around fast
—and then, just as this one mother has
hoped, the boys of the old 112th will have
a chance to show the stuff that men are
made of.
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WHAT IS CHIROPRACTIC ?
( Ki-ro-prak-tik )
It Is Not Medicine; Not Surgery;
Not Osteopathy.
It is a scientific method of adjusting the
cause of disease without drugs or instruments,
based on a correct knowledge of anatomy, and
especially the nervous system. The Chiro
practic idea is that the cause of disease is in
the person afflicted, and the adjustment in
correcting the wrong that is producing it.
The function of every organ in the body is con
trolled by mental impulses from the brain,
which it transmits through the nerves. Any
impingement of these nerves interfering with
the transmission of mental impulses results in
an abnormal function called disease. This in
terference is produced by subluxated verte- .
brae pressing upon nerves as they pass out
from the spinal cord. The trained Adjuster is
able to locate the point of obstruction or in
terference, and by means of adjusting the sub
luxated vertebrae corrects the cause, and nor
mal conditions, or health, is the result.
Investigation costs nothing, and means
health and happiness.
LEONARD KNOWLES, D. C.
CHIROPRACTOR
Palmer School Graduate
320 LEONARD BLDG. HOURS—I:3O—S:3O.
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