Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-06-27
TAKE CARE or
HUNS AT home
YANKS' EARS AND TONGUES ARE
CHEWED OFF-SENT BACK TO
OWN LINES MUTILATED.

take care of the Hun over here-we
will take care of the Hun over there.
You stand back OF US over here and
we'll come back bringing home the
bacon and 1t Will have the rind on it.
Corp. Harold }. smith OF fersnings
fifty told an audience which packed
the Auditorium on Monday evening
to see the opening Of the new govern
ment war picture 'Pershings Cru
saders' and to hear one of the crusa-
ders.
"50-5O Patriotism.
Smith bitterly denounced fifty-fifty
patriotism. He warned his hearers
to be on the watch for German treach-
cry and Hunnish lies at home. One
Of these lies declared the corporal is
that our boys in France are leading
immoral lives. Nothing he asserted
could be further from the truth and
he told of the wholesome clean lives
the boys lead in camp and in the
trenches and of how their vacations
are safeguarded from all evil infu-
ences. "If your churches were made
up of the same kind of decent fellows
we have in the trenches over there
this would be wonderful country.
said Smith. He complimented the
chaplains who are going out into the
trenches unarmsd to administer to the
spiritual needs of the boys. He told
of Jewish rabies ministering to
Catholics and of Catholic priests who
gave Protestants their last comforts.
"There is no creed nor nationality nor
color in the trenches; there are no
Irish no Dutch no Scotch no Norwe-
gians. They are just plain Americans
over there"
For the Hun he expressed the i'm
placable hate which we find dominat-
ing the heart of everyone who has re-
turned to us from the trenches over
there Even such gentia woman
as Harriet Chalmers Adams who
spoke at the Auditorium on Sunday
voiced this spirit Bismarck can no
longer discredit the stories that have
come to us of German atrocities when
we hear them reiterated by eye wit
nesses.
Smith smoke simply as soldier
should without seeking for oratorical
effect and his message was the more
convincing of that fact. Over and
over he drove home the thought up
permost in the minds of our boys ovsr
there: care they standing back of
US? Are they stamping out sedition
and treachery at home while we are
fighting Hunnish hellishness over
there?"
"The boys over there are happy in
the work they are doing. They are
satisfied and contented and proud to
be there. They are confident After
two days in the trenches after sesing
the first Hun atrocity they lose all
sense of fear. All they think of then
is revenge But they want to know
that you are standing back of them
over here. You stand back of them
and they'll come back to you. Fail
}, them and they'll be ashamed to ever
show their faces here again. Thew
will not come back to country which
has failed them"
German Atrocities.
Smith related from personal obser-
walton incident after incident of Ger
man atrociousness which coming from
another would be almost unbelievable.
He told of Americans captured by the
Germans and sent back to their own
lines with legs and arms and ears
hacked Off and aonp,Ies torn ont.
Sometimes when knife was not
, handy their tongues and ears were
, literally chewed off" said the soldier.
"verv soon now crinples will he fnr-
loughed home Thew will beoin cnr,-
ino hon,a NC living witnesses nf B"r-
t1;n,s by.,,tishuesS After thoy rnf