American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-11-02
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WAR Is not nearly 20 bad a. q is
CRACKED up TO be"
When one reads about the bic and
little missiles thai are peppering the
trenches ali the time. u seems strange
thas an the soldiers in Europe we're
not wiped out long ae0 and Il q some
what difficult 90 take the above rather
cheery view % The situation on p
batsle. fronts og Europe Aud yet
Arthur Guy t.npey. On American Who
haa been i machine gunner with 2
British army for 4 year and q haiii
certainly should knoW whereof ne
Epeaka. FOR. besides having been Sc
xefely wounded several times. he ~
WearlnF a. 8 souvenir ~ the present
a-npieaaanincss q piece Of another
m&n's rib in hts cheek. which WAS
auaFAed b. AZ exploding bullet.
nut Fmpoy. NhO b the author ~
soter me Top. and "a o 10 this
country 81 badly 'ah0t-up" that be ~
ireapaciiaied Tor further service Al
the front AZ present iusista that the
American troops wiil aOon fnd that he
IS right And be- strongly urges them,
A. soon a. they car get hia point Of
vlew. a. write "the folks AZ home
about H. With his own full exper-
lence 10 draw upon. Empey. in an In
tersieN in the New York Times, Of.
irrA some bits Of valuable advice 20
the American troops going 20 the front
abroad one Of his emphatic "don'ts'
la.
when YOU have heen looking out OF
a trench through a periacOpe. don't
stick our head ove the top 90 see
what you saw"
But be- adds a word Of prophecy that
H. scarcely encouraging when he says.
n am afraid that the American sol.
der Is going 10 get u rough AZ nrst
for the same reason that the British
~eoloniaia got Il rough az hrst. VI,
have heard a great deal about the
Canadians and their splendid nghting
and I take of my hat 10 Canada every
time. But we have also heard al
sorts 81 German propaganda talk q
the effect that the Canadians did al
the nehtiuF Whiie England sat back.
that the English put tho Canadian
Ca the hottest part Of The line. an'
that sort Of thing Well, ia true tina
Il waa the hottest part 81 the line
bui u Isn't true that the English pa
them Ca if What Is true Is that whef
ever tho Canadians we're would be- fh
hottest part of the line, because tha
was a definite German plan. TO di'
courage recruiting and 90 spread m
report that England let her colonies 4
her nghting for her. the Germans spe'
ideally concentrated on the colonil
lines. n didn't discourage recruitin
But I think Il IA quite likely that n
Germans vim Do the same thing wil
the nrst American forces on the hatil
front Uey viii concentrate again
them. go make people az home BELLE
that the Americans are being Hrut
the worst parts OF the line, hiling
gaps. 81 they say SO think that
ihe beginning it viii be rough
Then the gunner went back 90 2
original word OF cheer.
The trouble with che Americ,
pnhiic is that they have heard al
read 80 much of the great var and
horrors that they think their boys a
going 10 DO continually la the mid
a. hlOodshed and constantly In diHcol
fort. and they concentrate on the "a
rlble side OF ID ana ask. How long "
q BE- before he % kiilcdF They don
SEQ that that ie not an there rs 90 Il.
IA d natural enough. Of course.
man Ariiea a book about the va
takes onr Incident, and another. al
another. makes chapters Of them, wi
the result that the man and wom