El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-07

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L 4 I know a scissors grinder
Who pushed his little grindstone on
wheels around the streets Of Paris
blowing a trumpet to find odd jobs
He had been modified at the begin
ming Of the war, spent a year in the
trenches. and then lost an eve
through the work Of a German sniper
when doing sentinel duty I'm the first
line. Several months later he was
again able 10 get out his little grind
stone and begin again to push IL
through the streets Two months ago
ne was called TO the coIors again and
sent back TO the front
France has 10 have every man she
IN Ee- 10 put into her first line
inches
five lIonshs in Hospital.
H.lyiera TO Paris and / fell into talk
I'D tr- --aln with Chasseur Alpin,
.- -s pushed back on his
big scar over his
#r car your beret back
I'd him j should
r.. want TO hide tha-
* back bee re-
e e n-i.~ .la-
a.3ut that wUund. he
over my ris4r e. e.
aye that is injured I
..u. from ms lef- e. e
and ! am just be
sight back now
al piece Was taken
nv. one ~ his ribs 10 patch up the
hole - - fore cad and that he was
r. ne hospital
8ac5t 20 the Front.
he said Had "a two
weeks c-.-a.rz. sent leave"
YOU going now"
-1 me front" he answered.
..- l0- Up 10 LOulins. where we
stopped over night The patrOune IF
The little hotel was genial soul She
talked 90 us all during dinner
My husband is al the front" she
said. and I have the whole charge Of
the place on NY hands Ny brotherin-
law did help me, but they have taken
him now. His right leg is four cent?
metres shorter than the other. but
they need men and they took him, just
the same"
One boy I knew in the 1918 class
which was recently called TO the col
Ors. has 10 wear a plaster Of paris cor
set. but they took him. I knew an
other man who had been refused six
times on account OF a floating kidney,
They took him this spring.
Disabled Veterans Man Guns
Another of my friends was wounded
in the Champagne offensive In sep
TENDER. 1915. He had five pieces Of (
shrapueI in his back. He was Oper- T
ated on five times, and they got out .
three OF the pieces but two OF them .
remain. lying alongside HIS backbone T.
over the kidneys He cannot carry the I
pack and so is not fit for the infantry. {
but he has been sent back 10 the front /
in the automobile section OF the anti /
aircraft service
I took a soldier out OF the hospital /
AT Epernay and sent him TO the RI I
viera-to Antilles He was operated I
in there by my friend, the chief OF
the hospital for q condition which the F.
surgeon said might have caused the I
soldiers death in five minutes at any I
time during the last two years Later I
an abcess developed IN his right groin I
and there had TO be another operation. ]
The head Of the hospital wanted TO I
send him TO Paris IN the middle Of
April for two weeks conyalescence. F
The military council would not hear 4
Of f.
Every Man Needed.
He is needed al the front and he .
has TO 80 back
The man came TO Paris on his way .
back 10 the front. A second abcess de ;
veIoped fin his groin, and, walking on I
fvvo sticks. ne went 10 Val de Grace TO z
ask 10 be examined. The examination .
was refused. and he had TO 90 back .
10 the front as he was.
IF he gets In TOO bad a condition he .
viii be sent TO one OF the front hos .
pitfalls. but they need men and he has .
20 go back"
End OF the Reserves in siglst.
France is in sight OF the end OF her .
reserves. She has 70 send 10 the front /
every man able TO stand on two feet I
The proof Of this is the way they have 4
-ombed out the embusues in the Mai .
son de Ia Presse-
From a population OF fewer than I
20 600. 900 France has sent one In six .
into the armies The 1917 class went /
into the trenches in the middle OF