The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-18
TAKE CARE0F
HUNAT HOME,
URGES SMITH
Pershing Man Declares Ameri.,
can People Owe Duty to
Boys, at the Front
TELLS OF HUN ATROCITY
Yanks Ears and Tongues Are
Chewed, Off-Sent Back to
Own Ii Lines Mutilated

"You take care of the hun over
her-we will take care of the hun over
there, You stand back Of3lis over
here, and we'll come back, bringing
home the bacon, and it Will have the
rind on it," Corp. Harold J. Smith
of Pershing's fifty told an audience
which packed the Auditorium on Mon
day evening to see the opening OF
the new government was picture.
"Pershing's Crusaders end to hear
one Of the crusaders.
w ~ $3.50 Patriotism"
Smith bitterly denounced fifty-fifty
patriotism. He warned his hearers to
be on the watch for German treachery
and Hunnish lies a home. One OF
these lies, declared tho corporal, Is
that our boys In France are leading
immoral lives. Nothing, he asserted.
could be further from the truth, and
he told of the wholesome, clean lives
the boys lead in camp and In the
trenches and OF how their vacations
are safeguarded and the boys are
shielded from all evil influences. III
your churches were made up OF the
same kind OF decent fellows we have
in the trenches over there this would
be wonderful country" said Smith.
He complimented the chaplains who
are going out into the trenches un:
armed to administer to the Spiritual
needs Of their boys. He told o.
Jewish rabies ministering to Catho'
lies, and Of Catholic priests who give
Protestants their last comforts. There
is no creed nor nationality nor color
in the trenches; there are no Irish,
no Dutch no Scotch, no Norweg1ans.
They're just plain Americans over
there" s..
." lmpIacable Hate.
For the Hun he expressed the tmpla-
cable hate which we find dominating
the heart of everyone who has return
ed to US from the trenches over there.
Even, such gentle woman as Harriet
Chalmers Adams, who spoke. at the
Auditorium on Sunday. voiced this
spirit. Bismarck, can, no longer dis
credit the stories that have come to
us of German atrocities when we hear
them reiterated BY eye witnesses.
; Smith spoke simply, as soldier
should, without seeking for oratorical
effect, and his message was the more
convincing of that fact. Over and
over he drove, home the thought up.
perimnost III the minds Of our boys over
there: "Are they standing back of
us? Are they stamping out sedttion
and treachery at home while we ara
fighting Hunnish hellishness over
2. Boys Are Hsppy.
1.-THE boys over there are happy In
the work they are doing. They are
satisfied and contented and proud to
be there. They are confident. After
two days in the trenches, after seeing
the first Hun atrocity, they lose all
sense Of fear. All they think of then
is reveng. But they want to know
that you are standing back Of them
over here. You stand back Of them
and they'll come back to you. Fal!
them, and they'll be ashamed to ever
show their faces here again. They
will not come back to country which
has failed them
~ German Atrocities.
0lultLI ICloSCV AlOn PCl 6OuoA wv
servation incident after incident Of
German atrociousness which coming
from another would be almost unbe-
lievable. He told of Americans cap.
tured by the Germans and sent back
to their own lines with legs and arms
and ears hacked off, tongues torn out.
Sometimes when knife was not han.
dy, their tongues and their ears were
literally chewed off," said the soldier.
VERY soon now, these cripples will
be furloughed home. They will begi,
coming over as living witnsss of Der.
Inns brutishness. After they get here
you will not have to handle the Hun
here at home. They'll get to him
they will take care of him somehow"
Smith introduced himself as 100
percent American, whose message was
for 100 percent Americans. There's
place for Americans whose quality
is not 100 percent, but it is not In
America" said the corporal. ',
$50 Y Box Speaks.
The speaker was introduced by Sec.
rotary Thomas Allan Box of the state
council of defense, who briefly out.
lined the creation of the national and
state councils and the work which
they are attempting to do. when Gov.
ernor Frazier named the members of
the North Dakota Council Of Defense
he announced he would fire imme.
diately any man he found playing pol.
itics or working to advance his own
interests. We are telling the county
councils the same thing, and we have
ancient enemies, men long at outs pol
itically, working side by side in these
councils They know no politics, no
religion nothing but patriotism, gen.
uine and absolute"
Great War Picture.
'Pershing's Crusaders" repeatedly
stirred the big audience to spontaneous
applause, and frequently the. crowd
broke into cheers. The theatre was
filled to capacity for the second show,
and altho, because of the length Of
Corp. Smiths address, the second
show did not begin until almost II,
a large audience remained for the
finish. The pictures will be shown
again at the Auditorium today and
tomorrow, for matinee and two even.
ing exhibitions. The pictures are pre-
sented under the auspices of the home
guard and they are PROFESSIONALLY
the most vivid perturbation Of the war
that has come to the capital city.
FOR STATES ATTORNEY
Of eurleioh County.