United States Senator Howard Sutherland, of West Virginia, tells a story about a mountain youth who visited a recruiting office in the Senator’s State for the purpose of enlisting in the regular army. The examining physician found the young man as sound as a dollar, but that he had flat feet.
“I’m sorry,” said the physician, “but I’ll have to turn you down. You’ve got flat feet.”
The mountaineer looked sorrowful. “No way for me to git in it, then?” he inquired.
“I guess not. With those flat feet of yours you wouldn’t be able to march even five miles.”
The youth from the mountains studied a moment. Finally he said: “I’ll tell you why I hate this so darned bad. You see, I walked nigh on to one hundred and fifty miles over the mountains to git here, and gosh, how I hate to walk back!”
ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIER!
Two men went to the Y. M. C. A. director in one of the camps and said that they were in the habit of kneeling down and saying their prayers at home. What ought they to do here?
“Try it out,” was the advice.
They did; the second night two others in the barracks joined them; the third night a few more; gradually the number increased until considerably more than half the men resumed the habit of childhood and knelt by their cots in prayer before turning in.