Arizona republican., 1918-08-25

ways lHc allegro Into the adagio. And that night in the encirc- ling gloom on the boat as We started on our martial adventures he began kidding the ocean. His idea was that he would get to Wichita to vote bonds | for one that would bring tide water to Main Street. He didn't want a big i ocean-just a kind of an oceanette with | seating capacity of five thousand | square miles was his idea, and when | he had done with his phantasie, the | doleful dumps that rosesat the physical | aroma of the hypothetical fried chicken and mashed potatoes of our dream, had !! vanished.
 The Kansas Background
 And so we fell to talking about our towns. It seems that we had each had | the same experience. Henry declared | that from the day it was known he | was going to Europe for the Red Cross, | the town had set him apart; he was somewhat like the doomed man in hanging and people were always treat ing him with distinguished consdera- tion.- He had a notion that Henry Lassen, the town boomer. had the memorial services all worked out who would sing How Sleep the Brave" who would play Chopin's fun eral march on the pipe organ, who would deliver the eulogy and just what leading advertiser they would send around to the Eagle. his hated con- temporary, to get the Murdocks to print the eulogy in full and on the first page! Henry employs an alliterative head writer on the Beacon, and eve wondered whether he had decided to use Wichita Weeps," or "State Stands | Borrowing" If he used the latter, it would make two lines and that would require a deck head. We could not de- eide, SO we began talking of serious things.
 How quickly time has rolled the film since those early autumn days when the man who went to France was a ] hero in his towns eyes. ProcessionS and parades and pageants intermin- able have passed down Americas main streets, all headed for France. And what proud pageants they were! Walking at the head of the line were the little limping handful of veterans of the Civil war. After them came the middle-aged huskies of the Spanish war, and then, so very young, so boy ish and so very solemn, came the sol ders for the great war-the volunteers, the national guard. the soldiers of the new army; half accoutred, clad in non- descript uniforms, but proud and in corrigibly young. There had been ban quets the week. before, and speeches and flag rituals in public but the night before, there had been tears and good byes across the land. And all this in a few weeks; indeed it began during the long days in which we two sailed through the gulf stream, we two whose departure from our towns had seemed such bold and hazardous adventure. When one man leaves a town upon an unusual enterprise, it may look fool hardy; but when a hundred leave upon the same adventure. it seems com monplace. The danger in some way seems to be divided by the numbers. Yet in truth, numbers often multiply the danger. There was little danger for Henry and me on the good ship Espagne with Red Cross stenographers and nurses and ambulance drivers and Y. M. c. A. workers. No particular advantage would come to the German : arms by torpedoing us. But as the Espagne, carrying her peaceful pass engers, all hurrying to Europe on merciful errands. passed down the river and into the harbour that after noon, we had seen a great grey Ger
 
 termed leviathan of the sea in her dock. We had been told of how cunningly the Germans had scuttled her; how they had carefully relaid electric wires so that every strand had to be retraced to and from it's source, how they had 2 turned the course of water pipes, all over the ship. how they had drawn bolts and with blow-pipes had rotted nuts and rods far in the dark places of the ships interior, how they had scientifically disarranged her boilers so that they would not make steam, and as We saw the German boat loom ing up, deck upon deck, a floating citadel with her bristling guns, we thought what a prize she would be when she put out to sea loaded to the guards with those handsome boys whom we had been seeing hustline about the country as they went to theil training camps. Even to consider these things gave us a feeling of panic and the recollection of the big boat in the dock began to bring the war to us more vividly than it had come before ture happened, thus:
 The First Glimpse of War
 As we leaned over the rail that first
 
 blackness, without glimmer from any porthole, with the decks as dark as Egypt, the ship shot ahead at 20 knots han hour. In peace times it would be regarded as a crazy mans deed, to gC whizzing along at full speed without lights Henry had taken two lons puffs on his cigar when out from the murk behind us came a hand that tapped his shoulder, and then a voice spoke:
 "You'n have to put out that cigar sir A submarine could see that five miles on night like this!"
 So Henry abused his light, and tn, war came right home to us.
 The next day was uniform day oi the boat, and the war came a bit near CT to us than ever. Scores of goot people who had come on the boat il civilian clothes, donned their uniforms that second day; mostly Red Cross o Y. M. C. A. or American ambulance O field service uniforms. We did not dol our uniforms. though Henry believed that we should at least have a dres rehearsal. The only regular uniforms on board were worn by little handfu of French soldiers, struggling hom from French political mission t, America, and these French soldier were the only passengers on the boa who had errands to France connecte, with the destructive side of the wal So not until the uniforms blazed ou gorgeously did we realize what an ella borate and important business ha, sprung up in the reconstructive side o war; Here we saw a whole ships com pany-hundreds of busy and success full men and women, one of scores an, scores of ships companies like it, tha had been hurrying across the oceal