Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-08-18
SOME THINGS THE
YANKS ARE DOING
BEHIND THE LINES

during a trip Of $50 miles.
American boys shaving Themselves
at the public water trough; other
doirg Their washing at The s'mmunity
wash houses.
Five little French girls, none more
than eight years Of age. playing with
dolls in the village where shells oc
easionally fell and where the thun
der Of artillery was constantly heard
Americans with pick and shove
digging in" trenches while she'll
necessarily whistled over their heads
American girls driving small trucks
and ambulances.
More than 500 Americans SWIM
ming in the Marine.
Forty American aviators starting
on a scouting trip over the German
lines.
one sausage (obeservation) bal
loon shot down and an aeroplanS
fieht 10 which ten machines were
engaged. THEE plunged to the earth,
two Germans and one American.
~ A solid line Of artillery thirty miles
/. long
An American miIlionaire's son
; driving an automobile for an officer
who before the war was a small town
lawyer
"a Frenchman rebuilding his house
which the night before had been
wrecked by an aeroplane bomb and
which, foral he knew. would be
struck again before he had the re-
IbDHding finished.
( An American barber shop in a
small church more than a half q
century old. a sign outside reading,
r'shhvine, hair cutting, American
style"
Three thousand Americans prepar-
ing 10 sleep in a woods before going
forward to take their places in the
trenches
Twenty negroes, one with ban
10. singing popular songs.
French soldiers gazing with won.
der while two teams Of American
soldiers played a game Of baseball
In a field overlooking the Marine.
French Hear American Concert.
An American soldier surrounded
BY twenty or more old folks in tiny
village relating wonderful tales about
America and making himself under
stood.
An American regimentAl band
seated In front Of a stable in a very
small French settlement giving a con.
cert 10 all the inhabitants. who nun
bered about fifty.
An American Indian. a poilu. a
Senegalese and a Canadian having a
drink together.
A Frenchman, eighty years old
cutting wheat with a scythe and hi.
wife, almost as old. binding as fast
~ he cut.
Five children. none more than ~
helping an elderly woman gather
hay.
A French girl. no more than ten
taking home a wheelbarrow piled
high with fagots which she had cut
In a woods far from home.
A Frenehman blowing with hors,
and COW hitched together.
A shepherd and his dogs .endinl
q large flock. within three miles OF
the enemy lines
Americans accustomed to ever,
comfort at home. crawling content
eddy into a hay loft with half doc.
en- others TO get nights sleep.
Young American boys fresh from
, school or college returning to head.
quarters after wild dashes on motor.
cycles along roads where shells were
continually falling.
A large American flag Aging from
. cannon loaded with French poilus
Americans driving camions filleC
with poilus.
Chinese driving French trucks.
A hundred Americans at different
places playing with the wonderful
French children, demonstrating, a,
the French say. that ''the Amer
cans are fine men because they low,
children"
Amsrieans Learn Discipline.
The army Is proving a good sehoo
for thousands OF Americans who
until they bcrome members Of an in.
stitution which has rion rules. wer,
IN the habit Of doing about as the,
pleased. One day I saw two pri
Yates walking along a hot. dusty road
One was from Texas and one From
Philadelphia. ] asked them wher,
they were going
Corporal told US TO take THIS road