The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-10-09
TWO ARMY REASONS FOR
SUPPORTING LIBERTY LOAN.
Grantland Rice, noted Sporting
Writer, Relates two Dramatic
Incidents of Firing Line.

al reputation, poet of the James
Whitcomb Riley stamp and Ameri-
can fighting man, sends to the Liber-
~ Loan Committee of the Second
Federal Reserve District, two human
~ vital reasons why the Home
Forces" should lay down a barrage
of Liberty Bonds that will keep the
Hun going Berlinward. 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
thcket just this side of the River
Vesle
"Iiis detection was so complete
that he failed to pay any attention
to scattering drift of German
shells, still dropping here and there
through the woods.
''If they had only cussed or rails
ed hell. he said, it wouldn't have
been so bad, I wouldn't have mind
ed it so much
-~ 'Wouldnt have minded what so
so much?' we asked.
at was this way, he continued,
Our bunch had been wiping out
machine gun nests and chasing Ger
mans for six days. They were nail
ing us here and there, but the bunch
still went forward. In fact, they
went forward SO fast that the field
kitchens couldn't keep mp.
For six days they had practical
ly nothing to eat and less ..an lit
tie to drink. But they kept going,
killing and Schasing Germans with
the bayonet. We tried to catch up,
but we never could.
When we finally did we expected
to hear'em raising hell because they
hadn't been fed. But there wasn't
a kick, not a word of complaint.
Viewer mind, Bill" they said; rs
all part of the game. You
couldn't help it,"
Think of mt, Six days with ri
lie and bayonet into machine guns
and shell fire without food or water
and yet not a kick! If they had on
Is cussed or raised some hcIF l
wouldn't have cared so much
This is just one sample of how
the A. E. F. tackled the job in
France of what it has been up
against.
1.-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 will make
good for them also.
'If 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 $4,000 900 600
or twice $4,000, 100000, so quickly
therell he no further debate as to
how strong the country stands back
of the fighting machine it has sent
$500 miles from home to suffer and
die for the greatest ideal the world
has ever known"
Here is the second reason:
sau- him, Ix.fnu Ia. Tho ,n,l-;lo
in the wake of the American adj
vance just beyond Fere-enTard-
enOis.
HE was lying face downward,
theh rim of his steel helmet buried
in the mud A heavy rain was still
falling, but it had not yet complete
ly erased the writing on a letter he
had carried.
'The letter was from his mother.
II 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
oaddy, 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 mud and a bullet hole through
the top of his steel helmet. But he
had fallen toward Germany.
"He was only one of the many
who had made the great sacrifice.
His father and mother were only a
small part Of the many who had
made the greatest sacrifice.
1.-THE question left is a simple one.
How many of these have died and
are going to die in vain because the
people back home couldn't raise the
money to crush the military power
that made such things possible"