The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-06-06
Boys On Other Side Doing Their Part;
|. Up TO Folks al Home TO Stay Be-
- hind Them With Support
NO CAUSE TO BLUSH
FOR u. S. SOLDIER
Sammy a neal Fighter; Shows Use Of Gas
Mask and "Tiu Hail." Is Okla
hOma Boy

Before a packed house at the Meth
odist church last night, Cor
poral Leonard Ormerod, non
commissioned officer in the front
line trenches of the American sector
in France and an eye witness to de-
tails of the European war, spread out
the daily life of a man in action
over there" and impressed the ne
cessity of keeping up the fight at
home while war RACES on the other
side. Corporal Ormerod alternated
from the humorous to the pathetic in
describing the part the olive-clad
boys are playing in bringing Germa-
ny to an unconditional surrender
Clad as : American fighting man
who faces every fiendish device OF
Hun cunning the speaker demon.
strated the use of the British and
French gas masks which have been
invented to Aofset the most deadly
weapon Of Kultur frightfulness, the
German gas-bomb BY demonstrating
&C adjustment of the gas masks the
stSturned veteran threw his first side
light on the problems that must be
met and overcome by the Yankee on
the firing line
Says Atrocities Real.
In speaking of the rumors of atroc-
tiles and barbarities Corporal Orme-
rod said in part: You have your
doubts as to the truth of reports of
stories involving the inhuman deeds
committed by the German beast.
myself had my suspicious until
faced the Hun on the field near Yer
dun. would believe anything out
rageous told on him now. The Ger
man was the only man God ever
created who would stoop to the use
of poisonous gas. In self defense
the allies are sending back the same
attack and now the kaiser would give
half his little kingdom to call the
deal off They have sent the sub
marine to harass the coast of Amer
lea in search of our transports and
to produce a good political effect on
the minds of the people within the
Fatherland The ruthless German
army ruined the happy French home
end destroyed their firesides. We
are fighting to keep that from Amer
lea"
The returned field artilleryman,
posing as an ambassador from the
Pershing expedition told of the he
roism of the American boy in action
and the development of strong moral
/manhood under the terrible stress OF
i war conditions Touching upon the
Nqeports of a degraded soldiery Cor
poral Ormerod said: "Many mothers
believe they have lost their sons
when they go to France; in reality
they have only found them. l have
seen the American troops fighting
beside the veteran French and En-
glish soldiers and not once have
had to blush for our boys 'ovel
there How the American detach
ments come up along sectors on the
fighting line and Immediately star
hot action where only a passive re
prisaP fire was going on is pointe'
out as the fresh influence that would
tell against the Hun.
War Duration Uncertain.
81 do not know how long the wa
will last. Your guG-s is as good a
mine on that. But do know tina
the greatest anxiety of our boys oi
the front is a premature peace.
wish that it could be left to on
fighting men when we start out on
ambassadors to consider a truce wit
Germany. But am sure that Ia
citizenship of America VIII not max
lis stop too soon. And there is
4 work that you can do at home w
do not wait for someone else
shoot when Boche exposes hin