Arizona republican., 1918-09-10
Seventeenth Installment
 Chapter V (Continued) "Ru 1ha na.,. EL ;nL4u


 By The Oawn's Early Light"
 When the line out there in the train ing camp has gone to it's objective, Whlch usually is the third or fourth en- eny trench, the men begin digging in. Then they go back to the sergeant ma Jor Tor more instructions. The digging Tn Is usually done under curtain or flre to protect them. It is great pie ture
 In another part of the field we saw the engineers learning to make tunnels under the enemy; saw the engineers blowing up enemy trenches-a pleas ant and exciting spectacle: saw the en- Slpeers making camouflage, and it may ! interest the gentle reader to know that one of the niftiest bits of camouflag. we saw was over French SeVenty-five gun. It was set in the field. A rail- road siding ran to it. On canvas over the gun two rails and the usual number of ties were painted, and the track ran on beyond. Fifty feet in the air one could not tell that the gun was there.
 6ayonet Practice
 The llVelieSt part of this martial clolster was the section devoted to the l bayonet practice. And as we watched the men trying to rip the vest buttons off dummy and expose its gastric arrangements with bayonet, while loplng along at full speed, we recalled a CIVIL War story which may well he | revived here. A down-eas from l vermont and a Southerner were gong | around and around one day at Shiloh each trying to get the other with the nayonet, but both were good dodgers l Finally as the Yankee was getting Wlnded he cried between puffs:
 Watch aout-. Mind what yer dew1n! Ye dern smart aleck! Haint yeW got no sense. You'll stick the pint or thet thing in my boawels, if you ain't keerful."
 We heard a lot, of shivery stories around that training camp. They told us that the French chasseurs, the ia nous blue devils, were more or less careless about the way they forgot 10 take prisoners. They are a proud peo- pie, from the French Alps. and exceed | lngiy democratic. A German brigadier caught under their barrage, came up to a troop of chasseurs and when they de- manded his surrender asked curtlv, Where's your superior officer?" They pointed down the hill, and he started down. At safe distance they threw a hand grenade into him and obliterated VI that much safer for democracy" It is told of Canadian who came across a squad of Germans with their hands up that he asked: How many are you ?'' | Eleven, they said. He reached in his pocket: found his hand grenade and threw it at them, remarking. I'm sorry have but the one; but divide it be- tween you."
 Hard to Get Fit
 There is also the story of the Indian Slkhs, who begged to go out on night raiding party-crawling on their bel lies with their knives as their only weapons. Finally two of them returned with new pairs of boots. Showing them proudly to their amazed captain, they said humbly, Yes sire, But you would be pained to learn how long we had to hunt for a fit" There is also the story Of the festive Tommy who tried to play a practical joke on his German pris- oner by slipping a lighted bomb in the Germans pocket. The Tommy ther started to run; the German thought ne must keep up with his captor and Tom my realized that the joke was on him just as the bomb went off and killed them both.
 Such stories are innumerable. They are probably untrue. But they indicate what men at war think is funny: they reflect certain impolteness and lack of courtesy that prevails in war As il wears on, it grows more or less un- neighborly. And yet the upheaval ol war is just passing emotional disturb ance in the normal life of men. Even in France. even in the war zone, there is no glOrifying of war; men in war, al least on our side of the line. hate wal more than they hate the Germans. And with the whole heart of the civilized world-if one frankly may call the Turk and the Prussian the savages that they are-set upon maintaininG this war to a victory for the allies, civ ilization may be said to be in the val as a makeshift.
 The Dawn of Peace
 Everywhere one hears that it is . war against war Every one is Hong ing for the dawn of peace" when il shall come with justice and in the meantime France is as deeply devoted to healing the wounds of war as it is in promoting the war. Six hundred French societies arc devoted to various war works of mercy. Every man ana woman in France who is not a soldier or nurse is working in one of thest SOClelIeS- Anu yet il1e goes on With 2I this maladjustment of it's cams an( cogs and levers much as in it's ordinary routine. There never were more joy ous dahlias and phlox and china aster' than We saw coming back from tha training camp where men were learn. ing the big death game. And when VI: came to Paris the real business of wa seemed remote. Of course, Paris is af- fected by the war But Paris is nc war like. One doesn't associate Pari' with 'grimvisaged war;" For if Parii is not gay. still it remains mighty amiable. At noon the boulevard .afe! are filled to the sidewalks. and anti nine o'clock at night they give a fai imitation of their former happiness Then they close and the picture show are crowded, and the theaters are filled
 A Tug of War
 One sees soldiers and their woInei folk at the opera and at the vaudevill shows more than at the other showi During the summer and the autumn strong man put on show at the Fol lies with the soldiers that was the Ctll