Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-26

men and officers are taught Engin-
eering-Army Engineering, and when
we send men up there, they know
their business-they have to know 1t.
When they receive an order to do
thing, they must do it. There is no
time to ask them can they do it. The
insignia they wear on their collars
is a guarantee that they can. All of
this, though, is a depression from
what / started out to say. 1t was
about the S. o. R. | was going to
tell you.
practically every branch of the
service is represented here. Each
with a very definite mission to per-
form. At the docks or ports of en-
try we have built wonderful system
If docks and wharves for unloading
troops and supplies.
"There are acres and acres of sheds
to house things in. There are big
rest camps there (For, believe me,
he bows are tired after IA days at
sea- The Engineering feats are
wonderful Then we have series of
warehouses all the way to the front.
American locomotives hauling Amer
lean freight cars loaded with Ameri-
can goods for the American soldiers
or the American front. A complete
system of our own, operated inde-
pendently of everything except you
and your power to buy Liberty Bonds.
Finest Hospitals in the World
eve have hospitals and American
nurses-both the finest in the world.
We have over here a refrigerating
plant which is the largest in the
world, and the largest cold storage
plant. There isn't village anywhere
in France that doesn't show the han
diwork of Uncle Sam, and the French
have profited by it. Everything we
have is ABSOLUTELY the BEST to
be had. We have the best clothed
army, best fed, best taken care OF
army in the world. Our death rate
from sickness is lower than that OF
the best city in America before the
war. All this in spite of the unsan'
itary conditions of the country in gen.
: eral and in the trenches in particu-
lar. The American at the front mus
have water, good healthy water anC
plenty of it. The water every place
in France is polluted, SO we have hac
to maintain distilleries and water
purifiers and special water carts -
and we are doing it successfully.
"The French solder doesn't crirl
! water-he always carries wine in his
! canteen and he is seldom sick, and l!
! not subject to the evil OF impure wa
J ter. 1t takes an army to support al
army, and that's what were doing.
3 Every one of us wishes we migh
be right up on the front with tn,
other boys where shiugs ar DOING
but we have no voice in the order
! that keep us here-so We keep ou
= ncse to the stone and 10 our hest
= conscious in the knowledge that ou
! work here is doing more good thai
y the added number of rifles we repre-
= sent would do at the front.
= "You all back there read and hea
= only of the horrible side of the wal
|. Perhaps it is partly due to censor
ship regulations and the pronenes
of the press to magnify the harrow
= ing details of it all. But there ar
Y two sides. l will agree that it is hor
= rible. The atrocities that have bee
= committed are almost unbelievable
= The fate of poor Belgium, Serbia an
u ! northern France is terrible. But it
- - an i'll wind that blows nobody gooC
y For those who survive it will be tn
y making of them physically. For L
y in the States it has taught us to Civ
y unstintingly of our very life blood
y need be. 1t has shown US that theI
y are greater, nobler things in life tina
= the almighty dollar, wealth and az
ie grandizement. 1t has taught US tt
- real meaning of brotherly love. "
- are nation slow to wrath. but no
,e we have risen in righteous indigni
n ton against the Hun, the despoil
"a of honor, love, freedom, liberty al
= justice. Our cause is just, so fig
'h we must We seek nothing for ou
= selves, only the right of people
~ live in peace and freedom.
ye "But, it is a great system, wonde
nc full, and | wonder at the marvelo
GU conception of it all. The men
- Washington have made some mi
rs takes-but when you see what h
r. been accomplished, you are willing
to forget and forgive.
ne Loans Mean Safety
" IL we ever nave dnOLner LlDeT
ps Loan, I'd like to talk to the peoI
he back home. wish 1 could tell the
ar all the things that l have seen-b
re- I'm poor talker. l wish they cot
he all know about their boys as l {
sh There wouldn't be a fear among
nd them. Most mothers picture tn
VI boys as knee-deep in mud and bio,
iui That has been true in some cases, a
me sill is. hut the trenches we are oc,
itn pying are rapidly changing. Our I
zen glneers are up there putting in dra
isn age systems, making things as sa
md tary as the exigencies of the fight
est will permit. The boys don't stay
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