The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-11-06
YANK SOLDIERS COOL,
WILLING AND DETERMINED

Germans came over, and fifty Of these
UNFRAMED boys" withstoOd the attack
and stuck to their guns. The Germans
who were still alive and able to run,
retreated. double-quick time.
All In Days Work.
Speaking Of the way the newly ar
rived Americans take to the trenches
and to their duties, one brigadier gen.
eral. who had just finished complete
relief, said: 'They're not exactly glad
to get into the trenches. l guess no
one is glad of that. But these boys
all figure it's work to be done, and
they're here to lick Germans. They're
keen to get the job done. They're con-
fldent, all right, but not boastful, be-
cause they know there's a lot to learn"
A doughboy gave his version Of how
he and his pals felt while out there
facing No Mans Land for the first
time. "We're not scared Of the Ger
mans, and when the time comes, we'll
show them. We're going to do our
best. which is about all they ask Of us.
Believe me, it's going to be mighty
good best"
The new men in the fighting game
adapt themselves to the front quickly
as did the first Americans over. Every
night it Is lover the top" for patrols Of
them, and in few days they are en-
tirely familiar with No Mans Land.
The German front trenches next fall
In the line of investigation and the
Germans soon adopt the policy of fall
ing back to avoid fighting.
Back of the lines on the home side,
bank clerks, BARRIERS and men of every
profession who have temporarily be-
come soldiers soon make themselves at
home among the ruins and in woods.
They eat army "grub" and relish 1t
more than the most delicate meal they
ever ate from white linen covered
table and real dishes, especially If
there has been work to do. Soldier
ing agrees with them, you can see. by
the work they do, the meals they eat
and the huskies they have become.
Chauffeur Gets "Fresh."
Discipline is fine, even If it is hard
A major tells how his chauffeur be
came little "fresh" one day. Know
ing the doughboy was good chap, the
major took him aside and talked tc
him instead of "bawling him out" be
fore the crowd. The doughboy apollo
gized.
"rm sorry, mc01or." he said. "Yor
see own a couple of businesses bacl
in New York, and have more than {
million dollars in my own name, ant
it's little hard to remember my place
in the army now. But I'll do 1t, som.
how"
! You think you are in an information
al army when you visit some Of tn
} new American units now In the lines
: One company from New York boast
that its members know seventeen Ian
} guages, and If you wander in on then
about mess time, when talking ant
} plates full of grub" have been emp
. tied, you are convinced.
| But all of these doughboys are al
dent Americans, and they have wo
the admiration Of their comrades VIII
can speak the tongue without an az
| cent. They are all snappy looking sol
: diers.
, Sure Of Success.
The new units have dragged thei
clean and fresh-looking equipment
!, such as supply wagons, camp kitchens
. machine-gun outfits and all that
: needed up into the Alsace and LOrrain
= hills. The line runs up and down stee
mountain sides and across pretty va
legs. 1t is beautiful country and
. fine Iace to be initiated to the from
. for the doughboy must be on the alel
', all the time. In this area there Is
;, shell-swept, well-wired No Mans Ian
y across which Germans cannot CON
without being easily detected. WOOD
:. and hills and wild country make Il
. place one in which only strict ate
y ton to business will keep the German
:, out.
~ These doughboys in the line have I
- hankering to stake things easy" e
J. cry man in the line will tell you
- confidential tones that he has DC
sonal grudge to settle with the HUI
for dragging the world into this mas
80 business, and the sooner aggressi
:" action is taken the sooner Germany
=. going to be punished sad war made
=. thing Of the past.
~ This is the job every doughboy
20 ures he has to do, and the confiden
's with which he takes to the trench
tells the world he will succeed.