The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-01-07

their Jobs every minute until that hap
ny moment came when they could
drop In the mud or crawl into a hay
stack and sleep. But a genius has dis
covered that petrol eliminates vermin
Petrol is now issued 10 the men all
along the trenches.
Ammunition Before Food.
Sometimes the men starve. When
one Is engaged In killing ones fellow
man, the first essentla A. to have the
tools for killing. Therefore the am
munttion wagons nre given the right
Of way over the bread and beef trans
port, Blg steam orrles and London
buses and automobiles from which N,
lim0usinee have been removed with M
axe, thump over the frightful road
which an army leaves The enemy get,
the range and drops shell IN and oI
the artillery transport Most Of then
get through but n often happens
that their success makes the arriya
OF the commissariat wagons an lmpOs
sibuity SO the soldiers 20 without
I
than 200 feet on each side II oftel
h0ppens-lt is commonplace -- tina
from 100 10 300 shells drop on such
plot In Il single hour, during II partic
lllarly heated artillery duel. Flacl
shell on bursting sows from 1000 I,
5000 pieces OF red hot iron about. tn,
stIetcher bearers the catch .em
allve-0hs - cannot get to the trenches
and carry off the wounded ut sucl
times The men IN the trenches-th,
unhurt men In the trenches -- have l.,
crouch In their bloody pits and lister
to the walls of the injured. A stretch
er-man told that story in single sen
tence.
How Many Go InsaneS
Mostly said ne, those thni are
trt worst-shot through the body
maybe they jam grass and bits Of
cloth In their mouths. That way thoS,
that amt 'urt don't hear EN-"
Some day the statistics NJ this wal
VIII be made known to the world
Then we will know Foy many mel
hrve gone insane IN the trenches
They were simply unable to bear Ia,
suffering, aud the nerve strain. an,
the starvation That many men
many hundreds perhaps many thou
sands have broken mentally bC
cause of the trenches IL privately ad
mitted by those In touch. Most %
them will regain their poise In time
4 treatment Of silence and rest Is pre-
Scrlbed for them for the most part
The back districts " the warning na
Tons are spotted with little countr,
house hospitals, where these shattere,
ones are regaining tone.
Fear Toothache, hut Not Death.
Fully One-third Of the Germans In
yalided from the trenches are suffer
Ing from rheumatism and kinder Ills
according TO n fairly reliable report
The moment a man complains IN IN
TCutOn army he is sent back for RI
cooperation, II he can he spared II
rounds Into shnpe Tor another can
paign more rapidly II his case IL tak
on enr,y Probably similar propOr
ton Of invallds IN the other armIc
suffer from the same trouble. Tooth
ache leads 10 neuralgia when the owl
or " the bad teeth sits with his fec
In n muddy trench in freezing .wentl
er day after day, so that nippar
have been served ont to the emhattle
lines A swollen jaw nOwaday
means that the nearest operator h
may he the machlue gun man or m
lieutenant or stretcher bearer pull
the offending tooth promptly
You'd laugh" said n chauffeur VIII
has shown n certain aptitude for fiel
dentistry, "to 'earGem owl when
touch the had teeth. BIG stifflp
that'll stand Mp all dye long and Civ
tho Germans wot-for mykes the wor,
fuss"