The Arizona copper camp., 1918-10-05
RETURNED SOLDIERS TELL RAY|IES
TO BUY MORE BONDS FOR VICTORY
! AND END GREATEST Of ALL WARS

machine bullets, and operated on for
appendicitis. He fought in the
trenches, had hand to hand bayonet
battles in the open, was exposed to
infantry and artillery fire. and had
to walk through the deadly barage.
Liquid fire and the poisonous gas
were also elements he had to face. Van
seems to be a peaceful man; he told
us that he had an excellent chance to
live peaceful life in France, but
didn't see the chance when it present
ed itself and might not have taken it
if he had. Not feeling well, he had been
told by his captain to stay at a GER
tain house along the road while the
rest of his company went forward; !;
the captain said that he would be
called for that night and would be
taken forward by the army ambu-
lance. The inmates of the house were
an old man and his daughter. At
sight of the latter he seemed to con-
| FdiCOCC dI OuCe.
For some reason, the army ambu-
lance did not call for him that night:
1t was hay gathering time for his
hosts, and Van, under the influence
OF the smell of the hay or the pres
ence of the farmers daughter, helped
with the threshing for about week.
He thinks it was the hay that kept
him there that long, but he isn't sure
At the end of a week he thought it
was time for him to hunt up his COM
pany; he didn't succeed in finding it
for about three weeks, and when he
presented himself they told him that
they had forgotten all about him and
never expected to see him again. 1t
was then that he saw the chance he
missed; but we won't believe him: he
wouldn't have missed what he went
through afterwards for the sake of a
| little hay.
His account of the hardship the
! men have to go through in the
trenches and the fighting in the open
with seen enemy, seemed insignifi-
cant to the strain the men must bear
and the courage they must display in
going through the deadly barrage fire.
This fire is supposed to kill every
thing before it; no enemy is seen
while the barrage firing is going on.
The men are ordered forward while
this firing is going on; they can see
the tearing of the ground where the
shells and bullets are falling: they
walk to it and it gradually approaches
them; the moment arrives when they
and the shells meet; before they know
it they are beyond the shell fire, but
there are many gaps in the line on
each side of them. Then comes the
chance to get in the counter blows
and the men go at their work with
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The speaker urged that the only
way to put a stop to this terrible sac
rifice of life and the manning of men
and to make of the world a safe place
/ to live in, was not one subscription
for bonds, but their subscription over
and over again, to show the Hun the
futility of his plans and that the
people are united to see that the war
shall go on until he does so. He also
urged the purchasers of bonds to hold
on to them and to make sacrifices in
| doing SO. The boys in the trenches
never give them up; they hold onto
them to the extreme sacrifice and the
bond purchasers should hold their
bonds in the same spirit
The Hon. Thomas Campbell also
spoke, urging the purchase of bonds.
He agreed that he could not put the
matter more forcibly to his audience
than was done by the two soldier boys.
He congratulated Ray on it's patriot
ism and the evidence of it which it
showed in the purchase of the bonds,
and agreed with the sentiments of
Van that the purchasers of bonds
should hold on to them at any cost.
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