The Springdale news., 1918-10-25
LIBERTY LOAN BOOSTER RE
.LATES INCIDENTS FROM THE
FIRING LINE.

Lieut., Grantland Rice, with the
American Expeditionary Forces In
| France, sporting writer of national
reputation. poet of the James Whit
| comb Riley stamp and American fight
| Organization TWO humanity vital rea.
| sons why the Home Forces should
! lay down barrage OF Liberty Bonds
that viii keep the Hun going Berlin.
ward. Mr.. Rice. who has been from
the Somme TO Alsace along various
parts OF the front since he went across
several months ago. writes:
The sergeant sat at the edge of a
| thicket just this side of the River
| Fesle.
His detection was so complete that
! he failed 10 pay any attention TO a
scattering drift OF German shells. still
dropping here and there through the
woods.
If they had only cussed or raised
hell, he said, it wouldn't have been so
bad. wouldn't have minded 1t SO
much
Wouldn't have minded what so
much?' We asked.
II Was this way he continued.
our bunch had been wiping out ma
chine gun nests and chasing Germans
for six days. They We're mailing us
here and there, but the bunch still
went forward In fact. they went for
ward 50 fast that the field kitchens
couldn't keep up.
Six Days Without Food.
For six days they had practically
nothing To eat and less than little to
drink. But they kept going. killing
and chasing Germans with the bayo-
net. We tried to catch up. but we
never could.
When We finally did we expected
to hear EN- raising hell because they
hadn't been fed But there wasn't a
Kick. not word of complaint. Never
mind, Bill they said; its all part
oil the game You couldn't help II"
Think OF it! Six days with rifle
and bayenet into machine guns and
Shell fire without food or Water-and
YET not a kick! II they had only eussed
or raised some hell | wouldn't have
cared so much
his is just one sample of how the
A +. f. tackled the job in Franee-of
what 1t his been up against.
The folk back home had no doubt
that the men at the front would make
good for them. The men at the front
haven't any doubt that the folk back
home VIII make good for them also.
II one delegation can storm ma
chine gun nests for six days without
food and water in the midst of death
deSolation and destruction without a
complaint, the others are pretty sure
to raise 100000, 600. or twice Sc 600
100000. so quickly therell be no fur
ther debate as To how strong the coun.
| try stands back of the fighting ma
chine ii has sent 3 500 miles from
home to suffer and die for the great
est ideal the world has ever known"
The Second Reason.
Here is the second reason:
l saw him lying by the roadside. m
the wake of the American advance.
Just beyond Fere Tardenois.
he was lying face downward. the
Rim OF his steel helmet buried in the
mud. A heavy rain was still falling,
but 1t has not yet completely erased
the wiring on letter he had carried
The letter was frcm his mother. 1t
expressed the wish and the hope that
he was well and dry and safe; that
he was happy and would soon be back.
as they were thinking OF nothing else
but his return. Your daddy she
wrote, sits by the fire at night and
refuses to talk OF anything but YOU
and OF the day you'll be back with us
again
"Well-and dry-and safe-with the
rain beating on him, face downward
IN the midland bullet hole through
the top of his steel helmet. But he
had fallen toward Germany.
He was only one Of the many who
nso made the great sacrifice His ia
ther and mother were-only a small
part of the many who had made the
greater sacrifice.
The question left is simple one .
How many of these have died and are
going to die In vain because the PEG.
pie back home couldn't raise the
money to crush the military power
that made such things possible? ?"