Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-26
Our Huge American Army Digs and :.
Builds for lucky Lads" at the Front

Sometimes the boys get crouch
from thinking OF the fun they're
miSsing--but work has TO be
done and they do it--and picks
and shoyels real weapons at
Cambria.
(By RHETA CHILDE DORR)
The man on sentry duty on that
section of the huge unfinished wharf
was in a bad humor. He was In
very bad humor. II a stray cat or
dog had appeared on the wharf al
that moment he would probably
have kicked it, As it was a woman
in the khaki uniform OF a war cor
respondent the sentry contented
himself with roaring challenge
that brought her up standing Hav-
ing produced her pass he STOOD
aside with a. scowl. shouldering the
rifle which had been pointed at her
most menacingly. and made a ges-
ture with his head which meant
We'll. then, move on.
But the correspondence was the
correspondent--did not move on /
stopped and said mildly, You don't
seem to be enjoying yourself today.
What's the matter ?"
whats the matter" he repeated
furiously. Every darn thing is the
matter. What did ! leave my bus
mess for, what did l leave my wife
and kids for? Why 10 come over
here and fight the boche. And what
am l doing? Roustabout work on a
blasted line Of docks. miles away
from the front Been here five
months in this hole, working like a
subway digger
His People Pioneers.
Look at the town back there
where we so for bit of amusement
when the days over, Worse than
any slum back home. Talk about
the horrors of the trenches. I'd swap
the mud we live in for a trench
Talk about Fritz's poison gas. When
the winds right the fumes from that
picric acid factory up the river blow
down and chocke the lungs out OF
u.s.
DO you get these spells often? ,"
I asked. Whereupon he grinned a
little and relaxed his scowl. asked
him where he lived and he named a
thriving town in western Kansas.
He had a real estate business in
town but his folks still lived
on the big farm which his
father had proved up on thirty
place, yielding a big income,
enough to keep the old people in
comfort for the rest of their lives,
and to support his young family
while he was at the war
came from the prairies myself
and l could Just see that farm and
the old folks who had gone out 10
Kansas in their lusty youth 10 take
up government land. They had
built a sod house, turned up the
tough prairie grass, plowed and
sowed and cultivated under the
burning sun, performed terrible la
Dor to get their first meager corn
crops
They had fought drouth and
grasshoppers, lived through Billiards
and cyclones, endured poverty and
privation untold They we're pioneers.
or such is the greatness and the
virtue Of our America
I sat down on A nail keg and
talked to that lonely homeslck. ag-
grieved soldier about the pioneers.
From England first. and later from
every other country in the world
they had come, moved by the dlVlne
unrest Of ambitious spirits, to the
United States
On the Job Once More.
They had crossed the plains IN
rough wagons, daring weather, star
walton and thirst hostile Indians.
They had leveled forests, they had
built homes with no tools but axes
and hand saws They had farmed
arid lands They had lived In caves
and dugouts. They had raised corn
that some years they had been
forced to bSrn for fuel because theirs
was no no.. kst for it. But they