Connecticut western news., 1918-09-19

facing No Mans Land for the nrst
time. Were not scared of the Ger
m:tl,S. and when the time comes, Wen
shaw them. We're going to do our
best. which is about nil they ask of us.
Believe RE, it's going to he mighty
good hest"
The new men in the fighting game
adapt themselves to the front quickly
As did the first Americans over. Every !
night II is cover the top" for patrols or
them, and In a few days they are en-
tirely familiar with No Mans Lana.
The German front trenches next rali
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 or every
profession who have temporarily De
come soldiers soon make themselves at
home among the ruins and In woods.
They eat army GRUB" and relish IL
more than the most delicate meal they
ever ate from a white linen covered
table and real dishes. especially III
there has been work to do. Soldier
ing agrees with them, you can see. oy
the work they do, the meals they eat
and the huskies they have become.
Chauffeur Gets "Fresh."
Discinline is fine, even If Ii is hard.
A major tells how his chauffeur De
came little "fresh" one day. Know
ing the doughboy was good chap, the
major took him aside and talked 10
him instead of ''bawling him out" be-
fore the crowd. The doughboy apollo
gized.
sTm sorry, major" he said. you
see own a couple of businesses BACK
In New York, and have more than q
million dollars In my own name. and
! It's little hard to remember my place
In the army now. But I'll do 1t, some
how"
i You think you are in an information
al army when you visit some or the
= new American units now in the lines
One company from New York boasts
that its members know seventeen Ian
l. cuages. and If you wander in on then
e about mess time, when talking ant
# plates full of grub" have been emp
l. tied, you are convinced.
q But all of these doughboys are an
:. dent Americans, and they have wo
q the admiration of their comrades VIII
II can speak the tongue without an az
cent. They are all snappy looking so
ie diers.
Sure of Success.
The new units have dragged the
u clean and fresh-looking equipmen
he such as supply wagons, camp kitchen
1g machine-gun outfits and all that
IS needed up into the Alsace and Lorrair
go hills. The line runs up and down stee
rs, mountain sides and across pretty va
an Ieys. 1t is beautiful country and
In fine place to be initiated to the fror
OIL for the doughboy must be on the ale
re all the time. In this area there Is
he shell-swept. well-wired No Mans L1I
across which Germans cannot cor
or without being easily detected. Woo
re- and hills and wild country make t
ers Mace one in which only strict ate
lst ton to business will keep the Germa
out.
ev. These doughboys in the line have
the laundering to stake things easy" L
Mt ery man in the line will tell you
Ile confidential tones that he has p
the sonal grudge to settle with the Hu
:. for dragging the world into this mas
do business, and the sooner aggressl
one action is taken the sooner Germany
18th going to be punished and war made
III thing of the past.
This is the job every doughboy
re- ures he has to do, and the confidei
md with which he takes to the trencl
he tells the world he will succeed.