Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-18
COME ON IDAHO, LET'S co,
(By Earl wayland Bowmanl

(by Earl Wayland BOWman)
Baupaume-it happened at Bau-
paume. Remember Baupaume.
The allies were trying to take Bau-
paume. American and French fore
es had begun that relentless drive.
that sledge-hammer drive, that has
been pounding hell out of linden
burg's best divisions since the middle
of July
The Germans were being forced
back.
But they fought! They had to
fight. It was death from the revolt
vers of their officers behind them ifI
they did not fght-2vit was death from
the bayonets, the machine guns, the
hand-grenades, the ghrapne1 of the
Yankees and the French leaping at
them from the front If they did
fight
For the Germans 1t was death,
death, death. Death everywhere
Death ahead of them, death behind
them, death coming down on them
from the air above. Death, nothing
but death-and hell waiting below.
And so they fought, desperately.
ladly.
Waves, waves, of Yanks and
Frenchmen swept on and on.
No human can describe It.
articulate the fury Of the assaults
and counter assaults
It was war-war-and war IL hell,
and hell Is that indescribable condi-
ton of agony and horror Just beyond
the limits of human comprehension
and just this side OF the boundary
line OF imagination, the same and
just the same as Heaven, transcend
ant and overwhelming happiness, il
at the other end OF the capacity OF the
mind of man to vision.
Sometimes the allies advanced
Sometimes they were hurled back
checked by the hail that spurted from
machine guns, the blasts of poison
vapors that were like the foul breath
OF a million fiends. the curtain Of
flame that leaped out and withered
with red torture everything 1t touch
ed.
Milton, Dante, Hugo, these masters
dreamed of such riots of demons yet
had they seen their lips were dumbl
So they fought at Baupaume.
Those lads from America side by
side with the sons of lafayette
against ATLAS hordes reincarnate.
The Frenchmen with the hot pas
sion to avenge, avenge, avenge!
The Yankees to crush a Devil and
free world.
The Germans with the blind fury
of hopelessness.
This was Baupaume.
An American officer in sub-com-
mand saw a position far in advance
deep in the Prussian lines-thRt was
a Master position. II called to him.
called like a challenge from the
Gods
Stretching his hand toward the GOV.
eted goal he asked his French supe-
rior:
May I advance. with my men. t.
that position?"
you couud not hold it"
THE hell we can't! Come on
boys, let's go!"
And they took 1t, and held tt
America is pointing toward Berlin
The Beast of the Ages says: "Yos
cannot reach 1t"
America answers: 1.-THE hell ",
can't. Come on, boys, let's go!"
Idaho, your state and mine. Il
pointing toward a goal-toward thu
goal of her solemn duty
Eight million dollars of War SAY
ings Stamps bought with the earn
ings of the people in this year 0
1918; Eight Million Dollars ioane.
to America that America may reael
that other goal, Berlin.
America asks: Can you reacl
IT."
The blood-mad Hun. the fends VIII
have raped Belgium and made fsi
France a land of desolation, the secre
enemies within our own dear home
Iand-the Judas Iscariots who woul
betray your liberty and mine, crus
the Freedom of your sons and m
aona destroy the Nation of you
fathers and my fathers sneer At Ids
no and shout:
Idaho can't reach 1t! Idaho can
do tt"
Citfzensi Patriotsi men and wome
Z reared here in the shadows OF God
holy mountains, answer them-ani
wer them
The hell we can't! Come OF
Idaho. let's go!"
Tha Ewaniner in only 81 q yea