Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-09-26
COME ON, IDAHO, LET'S GO!

Baupaume. American and French
forces had begun that relentless drive
that sledge-hammer drive. that has
been pounding hell out of Hinden-
burg's best divisions since the mid
die OF July.
back.
But they fought. God, how they
fought, They had to fight. 1t was
death from the revolvers OF their
officers behind them II they did not
fght-it was death from the bayo-
nets, the machine guns, the hand
grenades, the shrapnel Of the Yanks
and the French leaping at them from
the front If they did fight
For the Germans it was deatl,
death, death. Death everywhere.
Death ahead OF them, death behind
them, death coming down on them
from the air above. Death, nothing
but death-and hell waiting below.
And so they fought. desperately,
madly.
Waves. waves, of Yanks and
Frenchmep swept on and On.
No human can describe 1t.
Language has not been invented
to articulate the fury of the assaults
and counter assaults
1t was war, war. and war is hell,
and hell is that indescribable condi-
ton of agony and horror just beyond
the limits of human comprehension
and just this side of the boundary
| line of imagination, the same and
Just the same as Heaven, transcend
ant and overwhelming happiness, is
at the other end of the capacity of the
mind of man to vision.
! Sometimes the Allies advanced.
Sometimes they were hurled back
checked by the hail that spurted
from machine guns. the blasts OF
poison vapors that were like the foul
breath of 2 million fiends, the cur
tain of flame that leaped out and
withered with red torture everything
that it touched.
Milon, Dante, Hugo, these mas
ters dreamed of such riots of demons
yet hsd they seen their lips were
ldumb!
So they fought at Baupeume.
Those lads from America side BY
lside with the sons of Lafayette
lagainst Attila's hordes reincarnate.
The Frenchmen with the hot pas
sion to avenge. avenge, avenge.
The Yankees to crush devil and
free a world.
The Germans with the blind fur,
of hopelessness.
This was Baupaume.
An American officer in sub-com
mand saw petition far in advance
deep in the Prussian lines-that wa
master position. 1t called to him
called to him like a challenge from
the Gods
Stretching his hand toward tn
coveted goal he asked his French su
perior:
May l advance. with my men, t
that position?"
"You cannot reach it-and if yoi
do you could not hold it"
'The hell we can't. Come Oh
boys. let's 60"
And they took it and held it.
America is pointing toward Be:
2 lin.
The Beast of the Ages says: "Yo
: cannot reach it,"
I America answers: THE hell W
can't Come on, boys let's go,"
Idaho. your state and mine,
t pointing toward a goal-toward tn
o goal OF her solemn duty
:. Eight Million Dollars of War Sa,
t ings Stamps bought with the earnin
of her people in this year of 1918
y Eight Million Dollars loaned
America that America may reach ths
other goal. Berlin.
America asks: "Can you reach 1t?
The .bloodmad Hun, the fiend
I who have raped Belgium and mad
Z fair France a land of desolation, III
4 secret enemies within our own de:
: Homeland-the Judas Iscariots WI
\ would betray your liberty and min
9 crush the Freedom OF your sons an
I my sons. destroy the Nation OF yo'
. fathers and my fathers snccr
!. Idaho and shout:
. Idaho can't reach It, Idaho can
q do it,"
q Citizens, Patriots, Men and won
en- reared here in the shadows
= Gods hold mountains. answer the
n answer them
q The hell We can't, Come o
= = Idaho. let's go!"
=, Earl Wayland Bowma
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