The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-12-26

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At the conclusion of Mr.. Barnes adj
dress the chairman introduced Lieuten-
ant Wayland Brooks ,one of the heroes
of Chateau Thierry who in a short adj
dress held the attention of the audience
in vise-like grip while he recited
some of the conditions with which the
American soldiers have to contend.
Lieutenant Brooks is as modest as he
is brave and did not enter into long
description of what he passed through,
although he has been wounded in ac-
ton several times, but spoke in a gen
eral way of the hardships of the sol
der and the brightness and good cheer
that is brought into their lives by the
Red Cross Girl who has also left her
American home to go to a foreign coun-
try to minister to their needs. Among
other things Lieutenant Brooks said:
Il think it is the greatest honor
mixed with the greatest pleasure to
have fought for my country and to be
able to return and tell you, not of the
hell of it all, but of the little bit of
heaven mixed with the big lot Of hell
all due to you people Of the Red Cross.
SHERMAN said War Is Hell, and he
never knew anything about gas. He
did not know about machine guns, and
aeroplanes which sailed about in the
air and opened their tailgates and
poured shells and dynamite bombs down
upon you. He knew nothing about IL
Guild fire that was blown out Of huge
death-dealing machines which would
lick up whole regiments as though
they were stubble. There are thous-
ands Of things in modern warfare that
Sherman did not know about when he
made that famous declaration that War
is He'll But he did know about the
drudgery of war and that was what
he was talking about.
"War is 95 percent drudgery and 5
percent glory.
81 remember one day in Belleau
Wood German machine gun was play
ing upon us and cutting our men down
right and left. One of our squad took
a hand grenade and ran across No
Mans Land for the purpose of throw
ing it into the squad operating the
gun and silencing it, but just as he got
within about fifty yards Of it he was
shot down. His comrade seized another
hand grenade and attempted to put the
gun out of action and he fell within
arm s length of his comrade. The third
man went, the fourth, the fifth and they
all fell within arm IS length Of each
other. The sixth man tried it and he
succeeded in throwing the grenade, des-
troyed the squad and captured the gun.
What is it that makes men go to
death like that? 1t is for America.
It is for you. It is the American spirit.
If you have friend on foreign
soil find out when he will be back home
and have few friends to meet him.
His first impression when he returns
is going to be lasting one.
After we landed in France we were
loaded into little box cars labeled forty
men or six horses. The little French
train goes humping along up the creeks
and hollows and every American soldier
who sees it wonder when he is going to
get chance to wind it up.
"Never put bull beef or corned beef
before an American soldier. He has
had enough of that to last his life
time. The great cry Of the soldier IS
When do we eat, but notwithstanding
that he puts off tackling his bareback
as long as possible.
Travelling along over the hills and
valleys Of France he sees Gods great
est gift to the American soldier, the
American Red Cross Girl. She supplies
him with coffee and sandwiches and
smile and after he has eaten them he
buckles up his belt a little tighter and
says to himself, Well, this is pretty
good old world after all.
"We went to Chateau Thierry, not to
check the German advance nor to drive
them out, but to hold them as long as
possible. We rode SO hours in those
little French box cars. We met the re-.
fugees coming out and they said 'tGood-
Bye When we had been at Chateau
Thierry a few days we realized what
they meant. Some of our comrades
would never come back, and some of
my pals and your sons still lie there.
While we were fighting the order came
from a French officer to retreat. The
reply of our commander went back.
The American soldier don Il know what
it means to retreat and ID if we
will What made him say and do
that? It was you. When he is wound
ed he is taken to the hospital and the
little American Red Cross Girl waits on
him and cheers him up and nurses him
back to life and health.
"As I was getting on board ship to