Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-13

EDWIN bAkMEk
) cssysisiA 1916. - Ne ChiesSs
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CHAPTER xxiIl.
A Nation In Arms.
I'm was taken farther on. He
came upon encamrments now,
n great groups Of tsnts-the tent
makers must have been busy dur
ing the last months. He camean sight OF
regiments of men, almost all in uni
form-the uniform makers must have
been busy. There were men every
where-men cleaning camp, men dig
cling trenches, men drilling with riAes,
men working at transport trains, men
with field guns and .caralrymea riding
by In troops. Now he came to little
section Of regimental encsmpmsnts,
where he saw, besides the regimsntal
colors and the company guidons,
square fags Of crimson here. blue
there, orange and black beyond, with
yellow and blue next
These colors brought him strangely
q new thrill and Jingle. He knew
what they were before he asked his
escort.
That? Oh, that was the Harvard
regiment. made up Of Harvard boys
from the west, who enlisted together.
The Massachusetts, men, Of course. are
about Boston. The Yale regiments
next, and Princeton and Michigan.
All the state universities have
their regiments or battanons. I'm Q
Wisconsin man myself. You
are from Illinois? Well, there are your
fellows. then. They've just been OF
on hike"
Jim gazed down the road where q
long, winding column OF infantry was
returning from route march, marching
at ease and headed by band. which
was playing while the soldiers sang
tune which stirred Ashby at that mo-
ment more than any other tune IN the
world could have.
Jim heard the words and knew now
they were being altered just little:
We're loyal to you. Illinois!
We're here to make stand
'Gainst the foe Of our land.
And we'li show you have sand, 1lisnois!'
An hour after reporting he was en-.
rolled in the SMtieth Illinois regiment
Having seen active service, he was
made second lieutenant with platoon
o. fifty friends aud classmates under
his command
30 the new American regiments
drilled and marched and dug trenches
and trained and drilled again behind
their positions across the upper Hud-
son while the regents regiments
moved, almost unopposed. into New
England. Here and there citizens
tried to improvise resistance; but
where they did. they saw their towns
shelled. their homes burned. then they
faced firing squads. At the same time
others Of the enemy's columns con-
tinued through New jersey and into
while the regents ships
the coast from, Maine TO
Florida and even about the Gulf. The
newly conscripted millions from tho
central states were drilling In camps
in Ohio, in Indiana and In Illinois to
be ready to reinforce the army Of up
per New York.
rpo~os opd ri,opa ana Nn- AAvAcn
maintained 10000 men as border
guard along the Mexican frontier; the
rest Of their recruits went farther
west-instead Of east-to the camps
along the Pacific coast, where the men
of California. Oregon, Washington.
Idaho Nevada and Utah were await
ing the coming Of the orientals.
For the Philippines already were
lost; the Hawaiians now were an
oriental naval base. There was no
American feet for the oriental deet
to clear away before the transports
could land troops on the California
coast
There was no new or strange cause
Of war between the United States and
the east; the orient simply had chosen
the hour when the United States was
helpless to further its plans and pur-
poses.
The chief Of staR-he had known
for some days both of the approach
Of the orientals and the preparation
for the regents advance up the Hud-
coz - ~
treat from the positions in New York,
but before the retreat was under way
Stone was obliged to change his order
or throw the country into complete
chaos.
The nation-the nation with its cap
ital and its chief cities Of the Atlantic
seaboard already in ruins and with AL
the coast In the possession of the In
vader, with millions Of its people
homeless. hopeless paupers the nation,
threatened now with disaster on the
other coast, would not endure moro
without fighting.
Defeat was certain, Stone knew. The
army IN northern New York was not
yet ready; the machine shops and
steel works and foundries Of the Mis-
sissippi valley were working day and
night to supply cannon, machine guns,
rifles, shells, cartridges. uniforms. the
thousand and one munitions demanded
by the monster army. but the guns and
shells were only beginning to reach the
front Defeat was certain. but II defeat
might be turned into retreat without
complete disaster It would be better
now than throwing the country into