Life — May 8, 1919 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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An Achievement in COMFORT @The rest and recreation afforded at Hotel CLEVELAND Ohio are not merely matters of scientific arrangement and equipping. @ High enjoyment of the expansive accom- modations and impressively complete appointments is overshadowed by a sense of even greater satisfaction. @ Under the imposing simplicity of structure and decora- tion, come new adventures in comfort. @, Al- most immediately the traveler realizes that he has entered into a larger sphere of the life of this historic city and of this far-spread- ing nation. Cleveland's largest hotel, facing on Pu Sauare, at the intersection of the city's main thoroughfa' The hotel t the downtown ats ns of principa ilroad and ing location of projected One thousand rogns and beths. je exposut Single rooms canbe pecial Sample Accom- . Circulating lee Water The Servidor savce waiting foranattendant. 0 and e on pour ante, He removes and retarua the work Think It Over HE boys are on their way back. In the last wo years you have done your part in supporting them. hought bonds, subscribed to the Red Cross, Y. and all the relief funds. You have eaten wat made a war-garden, You even tried to knit for th Of course you will give them a rousing re: hanners, banquets. But as they slip back into private life are you going to remember? They will not be quite nor- mal for a time. Sitting tight under a hail of shells j a nerve tonic, nor is “going over the top” a These boys have been on a tour through hell, If you give them a job, are you going to be pati they are not as cager in the pursuit of the d exempted, are you going to deem them lazy anc Their attitude is going to try you at times. mate of values and theirs will differ widely. Thos which seem essential to you may scem largely b them. In the days that are to come, when the f back, when the uniforms are off, when the glamour has faded and the excitement has died away, are you ¢ he patriot enough to remember that the eccentric the weaknesses, the abnormalities of these boys were con- tracted in defending your homes? You are sane and practical, eminently so. name, why should not you be? What have you endure? But don’t let that sanity and practical wis yours blind you to the fact that the man of Chateau- Thierry and the St. Mihiel salient has done more for hu- manity than you ever have or ever will, He may be a bum on a park bench in those days, but when danger threatened you and yours, he threw his young life, his hopes, his dreams, his ambition into the deadly breach and hurled the Hun-Beast back, preserving you, so that not even the smell of fire passed upon your garments Use your sanity and your practical wisdom in the prob- lem of reconstruction, and never forget that the proper atti tude of the man who stayed home, toward the r went over, no matter what their respective social posit is one of sympathy, kindliness and gratitude. Jas, FL Pr i | u js poder to friction fr comicbooks.com