The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-10-11
TWO ARMY REASONS
FOR supp 2TING THE
9TH LIBERTY LOAN
By GPAETLAND RICE,
Noted Sporting Writer, Now q
Lieutenant in France.

-eiN A' -4ulA 44-tf W4.# INC
American EXpeditionary Forces in
France, sporting writer of national
reputation, poet Of the James visit
.omO Riley stamp and American fight
ng man, sends to the Liberty Loan
Committee Of the Second Federal Re
serve District two humanity vital rea
sons why the home forces" should
ay down a barraee Of Liberty Bonds
hat will keep the Hun going Berlin
ward Mr.. Rice, who has been from
he Somme to A1sace along various
parts Of the front since he went across.
Ieyeral months ago, writes:
1.-THE sergeant sat at the edge Of a
.hicket Just this side of the River
Jesle.
His detection was so complete tat
be failed to pay any attention to a
scattering drift Of German shells, still
iropping here and there through the
woods.
III they had only cussed or raised
hell he said, 1T wouldn't have been so
bad. wouldn't have minded il SO
ouch
"'V ouldnt have minded what so
much. we asked.
1T was this way he continued.
Our bunch had been wiping out ma
chime sun nests and chasing Germans
Tor six days. They were mailing us
here end there. but the bunch 8ill
went forward. In fact, they went for.
ward SO fast that The field kitchens
couldn't keep up.
"For six days e. ey had practically
nothing to eat and less than little to
drink. But they kept going, killing
and chasing Germans with the bayo.
net, We tried to catch up, but We
never could.
when we finally did we expected
to hear EN- raising hell because they
hadn't been fed. But there wasn't a
kick, not a word Of complaint. "Never
mind, Bill they said, ITS all a part
Of the game. You couldn't help it,"
Think Of it! SIX days with rife
and bayonet into machine guns and
shell fire without food OF water-and
yet not a kick! If they had only
cussed or raised some hell | wouldn't
have cared so much.
"This is just one sample of how the
A, E. f tackled the job in France-o'
what il has been up against.
"rhe folk back home had no doub.
that the men at the front would make
good for them. The men at the from.
haven't any doubt that the folk bacl
home will make good for them also.
IF one delegation can storm ma
chine gun nests for six days withou
food and water in the midst OF death
desolation and destruction without
complaint, the others are pretty sur,
to raise $4,000. 600, 200. or twice $4,000
600, 900. so quickly theren be no fur
Their debate as to how strong the coun
try stands back Of the fighting ma
chine it has sent 3 500 miles from
home to suffer and die for he creates
ideal the world has ever known"
The Second Reason.
Here is the second reason:
81 saw him lying by the roadside, II
the wake Of the American advanc,
just beyond Percent rdenois.
He was lying face downward, tn,
rim Of his steel helm ct buried in thu
mud. A heavy rain was still falling
hut it had not yet completely erased
the writing on a letter he had car
ried.
The letter was from his mother
Ii expressed the wish and the hop.
that he was well and dry and safe
that he was happy anu would soon b.
back, as they were thin king Of nothing
else but his return. y our daddy, sh.
wlote, sits by he fire at night ant
refuses to talk Of anything but yot
and Of the day you'll be back with u
again.
"Well-and dry-and sate-with tn.
rain beating on him, face downward il
the midland a bullet hole through
the top of his steel helmet But h
had fallen toward Germany
He was only one Of the many VIII
had made the great sacrifice. Fl
father and mother were only a smaI
part Of the many who had made H..
greater sacrifice.
"The question left is a simple one
How many of these have died and ar
going to die in vain because the pee
pie back home couldn't raise tn
money to crush the military powe
that made such things possible
IZARD ACCEPTS
Resp 0NSlpII IT.