Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-09-13
MIRACLE OF BATTLEFIELD BURNS
ALL SELF-TH0UCHT OUT OF YANKS
HardBoled Boys Dropped Into the Furnace of War; Come Out
With the Dross Burned Away, SeIfSacrifcng Heroes
Hold Back in Suffering for One in Greater Suffer-
ing to Be Cared for First.
BY CLARENCE BURLINGTON kELLAno.

to be forgotten by those who wi
messed II.
A hurry call was sent to the distar
Y. M. @. A.
Cant you do something for thes
boys who are being brought In here
the officer In charge demanded.
what can we dot"
Something to eat and smoke. Col
Zee. A bite and smoke do a wound
ed man more good than anything else
Do you know, some of those boys hav,
been out there In that for two day.
with nothing to eat but bareback z
So the sent Its men and It's, trucks
1t made coffee. 1t brought such frui,
as 1t could; 1t carried chocolate bars
Here you are. sport" said one OF
them. coming into the courtyard
Here's cup Of chocolate"
The boy raised himself painfully
on his elbow and reached for the cup
then he motioned 1t away.
II hain't hurt much-and there's 4
lot of guys here that's messed bad.
You haln't got enough to go around.
Git busy"
'.I've got smokes and hot chocolate
for every man. Go ahead"
Honesty I won't be Robin none
of them birdsf"
Honest"
The boy drank-and was transform
ed.
That's lfvin'." he said softly.
One boy was brought in with a
broken leg. 1t had been an accident
and not wound won in battle. He
had got In the way Of a motor
truck.
"Jest fix me up out here what you
can." he said.
"You go to the hospital, son."
mix. Hospitals for those fellows
that's hurt. / just got busted pin.
You fix me here and leave me here
When you git a chance"
Language Needs New Word.
Somewhere. some time, they had all |
got this thing. 1t had come to |
hem out of the fame and crash of |
)attle; 1t had been carried to them
IN clouds of soaring, nOxious gas; 1t |
lad awakened in them through suffer-
ng and through the sight Of suffering
They were the same, yet they were
lot the same. They were not gentle,
ret one fancied he could detect gen.
,eness In their voices. But out Of
he battle and the suffering. something
etter than they had ever known came
o them. There was utter ignoring Of
elf. and 1t was thing wonderful to
We've got to have a new word in
he language" said captain-surgeon.
Game won't do. These boys are some
hing more than game. I've never seen
nything like 1t. I don't know what
Is" Even he, Injured to suffering I
nd to scenes Of bloodshed, wiped his :
yes. "They're-they're-w damn
all, they're 'somethingI' Nobody
as ever like them!"
One boy lay inside on a mattress b
/ the floor. His chest was rising d
I'D falling as he struggled for breath. =
Hes on his way" said the doctor F
man who was acting as orderly,
lrse, assistant, anything. r
The Y man went over and touched r
e boys forehead. >
"How about it, old manT he said.
kind of-lonesome Maybe
u could sit here b
|
The Y man sat down and a hand =
ruggled toward him. He took 1t F
d held 1t in his own, and he whis- in
red to the boy moment. Maybe
was prayer. Whatever the words,
was prayer. The wounded man W
: still. his hand in the hand of the =
end who had come to him in his
It dark moment-his last glorious
'ment. IN
Another Kind Of Courage. ~
The courage of the battlefield seems
be common commodity; but the
rage to bear pain without fiinchIng; =
realize the approach OF death with
crying out; to reach a moment
en- you know you must face life
lined, without arm, leg, eye-and L
to curse with black rage or cry \
with despaIr-that Is another kind
courage. But 1t was there. Not
! man had 1t. but 1t seemed as II :!
those wounded had it-lt was not
gameness Of the bulldog. 1t was
,ething that had to do with the
|. 1t was greatness, 1t was fine -
s, 1t was thing that compelled =
watcher TO uncover his head and 4!
Id barred In Its presence.
hey were Americans. Perhaps II
their birthright. More likely 1t
a new thing; newly born of the =
and the business of the day. What
: 1t was, whenever and however
anne. it was present. This has
a written with repression. with a n
wing for understatement, with a
4 to tell the truth. The thing was
e. They brought it back with
n. II
How are you making it, sport9
Here's cup of coffee" =
lou come around to me after Ii
va oriUan Snp1a to th1 hOx-1