with fervent humility kissed the hand in his own.  “Please forget it all, mother,” he whispered.  “It’s never going to be that way again.  I found out over there—­I knew what it was not to have anyone to tell things to—­and now, why you’ve got to listen to me all the rest of your life, mother.”

Angelo Patri, the new York schoolmaster who has been so successful in instilling ideals into the child mind has addressed himself to the children of today, they who will be the parents of tomorrow.  His words are: 

“Man has labored through the ages that you might be born free.  Man has fought that you might live in peace.  He has studied that you might have learning.  He has left you the heritage of the ages that you might carry on.

“Ahead are the children of the next generation.  It’s on, on, you must be going.  You, too, are torch-bearers of liberty.  You, too, must take your place in the search for freedom, the quest for the Holy Grail.  ’Twas for this you, the children of America were born, were educated.  Fulfill your destiny.”

Morale and propaganda received more attention in the late war than they ever did in any previous conflict.  Before the end of the struggle the subject of morale was taken up and set apart as one of the highly specialized branches of the service.  The specialists were designated as morale officers.  They had many problems to meet and much smoothing over to do.  In the army, an Americanism very soon attached to them and they became known as “fixers.”

With respect to the Negro, the section of the War Department presided over by Emmett J. Scott was organized and conducted largely for purposes of morale and propaganda.  Much of the work was connected with good American propaganda to counteract dangerous German propaganda.

It is now a known fact that the foe tried to lure the Negro from his allegiance by lies and false promises even after he had gone into the trenches.  This has been attested to publicly by Dr. Robert R. Moton, the head of Tuskegee Institute, who went abroad at the invitation of President Wilson and Secretary Baker to ascertain the spirit of the Negro soldiers there.

Dr. Moton was told of the German propaganda and the brazen attempts made on members of the 92nd Division near Metz.  He gave the following as a sample: 

     “To the colored soldiers of the United States Army.

     “Hello, boys, what are you doing over there?  Fighting the Germans? 
     Why?  Have they ever done you any harm?

“Do you enjoy the same rights as the white people do in America, the land of freedom and democracy, or are you not rather treated over there as second class citizens?  And how about the law?  Are lynchings and the most horrible crimes connected therewith a lawful proceeding in a democratic country?

“Now, all this is entirely different in Germany, where they do like colored people;