The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-03-07
{By E.. II. Tos7EViN.)

10Y. K. 81. w ) - ''''j
Ssmewhere IN. France, February
1918.
it is some canny experience to D
ata1saing on top Of a hill Watchin
Kz1susers, see an aeroplane drop
asssarle Of rockets and then like a tiaS
Asar crash after crash, big shell
4itaains over your head, fifty fee
1Ib14e you and then a moment late
leg IN explosion and hear a report
milk away.
Aou hear the whine of the big shell
~nd ,avoluntarily you duck your hea'
NJ ahe United States Artillery mel
azsre their range too short on a bar
sags fire you may be picked up II
email pieces and your identification
xag aurzed in to the statistical de
Rnrkment but the gunners are tot
035s, and the gun. mechanisms too &C
sz1rAte to brook such accidents.
Today we say large force of mel
nzzreh down the slope of a hill undel
suxer of a terrific barrage fire from
artillery pieces Of various sizes, ane
Aaachine gun rattlery, march to with
IN q couple Of hundred feet of an op
s@sing trench and then whoop it uE
ana capture many thousand Germans
Imaginary OF course
1t was a field maneuver of the
saeu at the school here and was wit
Asssed by some Of the highest mill
haxy heads of the United States army
in France. There was a counter at
sack which was repulsed. 1t was
1ake-believe. but there was no make
SsIsve about the weapons used. Tn
hess you have heard a machine gun
Tearing loose at SO many hundred
xAalls Minute you cannot imagine
EAe racket it makes.
Don't you wish you could pound a
typewriter that fast?" calculated one
al the boys with whom l was stand
xag while watching the affair. He was
a Mnber manager back in North Da-
kuta- That is what it sounds Ike. A
txpsxsiter being speeded to the limit
t1 an expert, but with the noise mag
a1fai thousand times.
And there was no make-belleye
sbo1t the way the Big shells struck
in and around the trenches to be TAX
en- Great crater holes were torn in
sAe muddy turf Of the nlanuever field,
md thsre were enough shells thrown
- siva nearly all of the newer corners
u ''near-to-the-battle-li plenty Of
SOUVENIRS.
For the officers and non-coms are
attending school here. They are be-
xaE given a gruell!ng, CALLING, back
brsa11i0g,, mau-test-n g grind. The
1nsiness of war and modern warfare
Is something that needs study. There
,1ra 20 many quirks and new devices
constantly being brought into use
that men must be trained to know
4ag 70 act in an emergency. The gas
asstK, use of the bayolet, and all OF
stxe infantry sidelines are gwen the
8aen, The enormity of the task they
Aaxe before them has them putting
IN every spare moment studying, MAX
ing notes, or hitting the hay" IN pre-
uuntion- for another hard days work
tSnNrrow
What woula ! give If I could only
saFa loose on this typewriter and let
the folks back in North Dakota know
whit they will face in the weeks and
H1Snths to come. l am quite sure the
&r1lks hack home would appreciate it,
aats perhaps some of these days there
nay be a let down in the censorship
seaEnAatiOns so that it will be possible
r. write, not Of war operations, but
Of the little personal things that the
mothers and fathers and other folks
would like to know bearing on the
welfare OF their boys.
Mast oil the boys in this vicinity
Gre- rom the northwest. There's a
Rand that becomes more dear to lis
wifh each week and month we remain
SEAzy.
as land that none can compare
with
X country we know IS best.
It grows dearer earh day, and dearer
IT'S home the great Northwest.
Ms the land where life is untrammel-
ed,
'Whrre al live lives that are free
ARd where. the sunsets at even
Rarn glories for you and for me.
Where = handclasp is meant for a
handslasp
And 1 man is a man spite of gold
1A0a. SA<S u uS lAAAACI AAcdAlllS VI 11lCAu-
SHIP
Where the bud Of each rose tells a
story
III 4 broader sense seems to unfold.
And sorrow is banished with care.
Whsrs sadness is hid and scandal
forbid
rs, The home that we love, Over
hnrp.