Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-28
HILLS SAYS MINER is PRE-
PARED FOR ANY
EMERGENCY
Be THE BEST Of THE BEST
Danger Is No Stranger To the
Miner--Used To Shooting
and Every Other Form
Of Risk.

Frank Hills, writing in the Record
Herald, gives expression to the fol-
H. inr relative to the miner being o
g .pl 9ldier
"TheN great number of men who aNe
being drawn in the draft from this
field lrings home the question, what
kind of showing will the lead and
zinc miner make in the greatest Of
all vars"
There is only one answer from
those who know him best. That he
viii make .he best Of the best. for h.
is ait American, either By birth OF
adoption, and that would make him
the best.
by the best of the best We mean
the best qualified For the fray, where
skill and alcrtncss count Us much as
courage and rs the miner has all
these he will be better than the men
who has less.
Danger is no stranger to the miner
az he is face to face with it every
hour hc works Every move is made
with caution and he is drilled to not
only look out for himself but his bud
dy as we'll and to risk his life at any
moment the call may come for a
friend who is in trouble.
"Only few days ago, the writer,
in visiting the ground in one of the
great mines Of the district, heard
man say to the superintendent, "Tell
The boys not to shoot till we come
through for we can't get out any
other way"
"I'he boss answered with monosyl
able and passed on, talking with the
men with him, but the fact that
should he forget would mean the
death of the men in the mine so af-
fected the correspondent that he de-
termined to see that he did not al
low the other to forget.
IA tunnel several hundred feet was
traversed and a number Of wonders
brought to light and the newspaper
man forgot all about the men. The
great can came down the shaft for
the visitors and the superintendent
said: Don't shoot until the other
men come through as they can't ret
out the other way" He turned to 20 |
then over his shoulder he said, "Re-
member, don't shoot till every man is
out, for they have no other way to
get out"
"a mining engineer who had spent
a great deal of time in school of
mines; who had served several of the
biggest mining compan+& and at last
had been trained by experts from the
battle fields OF Europe receiving a
commission as captain, spent few
days in the Miami field not long ago
visiting the men in the ground, get
ting the secrets from the men which
they had learned by experience as to
the action of explosives. As he left
here he said he had learned secrets
from the common miner that he had
never heard of in school, in the train
ing camp or in actual work and that
his knowledge picked up in the
ground would cause the Hun 10 suf !
FER. d
When the zinc miner steps on the !.
ield of battle, he will do so with n o
feeling that he is ready for any b
emergency. Wounds are not new to /
lin. He has been covered up in ex- e
,losions and caveins. He has nerves /
# steel. He can dig like mole, blast d
,ut the other fellow, bind up wounds. b
The lead and zinc miner has only o
me thing TO learn to be the best of o.
he best and that is to keep step. Il
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