The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-05-29

Iii. man o:l sentry iu'y IN thai Sec
tom - ~. hug unfinished wharf WAS
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i".r:"t on IA. wharf I; thIt m"""ht hH
wnud rr.,hn!i> hnr" %i'iu'I II. AZ II
Mas = w"'':i:' ia III" knrki GnIi"r:" al
a war correspondent III" sentry colt
, tented himself with roaring - ''hHll"n%"
. tia, hrnu IN h'r up standing liaElhE
produced her pass il" sl""d ASld" WITH q
Srrw., sh"llI-r,'i tho !lfl" whira hhi
been pointed m"naclnGiy. AID mad" 4
gesture with his head winch m"an'<
| well. then. NOV" IN.
Eu: the cnrr..%i-,udcut-I was tho
r"rr,.s I"nd,ni lid not move "Il.
stopped ami said mildly: "f"u don
| -"rm u L." "njoEins yourself to-day
| What's 'hr NATTER.
whats tn, NATTER" hc repeated fur
! iou&iy. EVERY darn thing is tn" mat
ter. What I'D l"acv my business tor
what did l'av" my wife and KIDS Tor
! WHY to come over h"r,' and fight Tho
hochc. And what am doing" RnuSIa-
bout work "u = blasted line "f docks
miles away from III" front l:"en here
five months in lhiS hole. WORKING !ika
Il subway digger.
Els People P1Oneer5-
Lock 1T the town back thor" wh"r"
We 20 for 4 bit nf amusement when tho
DAYS o:.r. Worse, than any Stun back
home. Talk about the horrors "t the
trenches. I'd sXap Tn" mud we live in
for any ,r,.nrh Talk about Fritz S
poison gas When lhr winds right tho
fumes from, that ri"r" acid factory ur
tho river blows down AMI choke tho
lungs out Of lis"
DO YOU gel these spells "ft"n?" [
asked Whrrrupon h" Erinn"d huin
and relaxed his Sruwi ! asked han
where H." LIVED and h" named 81 thriving
town in western Kansas IL" had Il real
estate business in town hut his folks
still lived OH the big farm which his
father had proved up On thirty years
ago. II was q fine. place yielding Il hiS
income. enough to keep The old people
in comtCrl for the rest nt their lives.
and u support his young family wh:!o
H. was at the war.
| came from thr praIricS myself and
I could just soc tina, farm and the old
folks who had conc out 10 Kansas in
their lusty youth tn tax" UP government
land They had huIlt 4 sod house. turn
I'd ur the tough prairi" grass. pluuEhcd
ard s"wcd and cultivated under the
burning sun. performed terrible labor TO
got ihci7 first McaSrr corn crops.
They had fought droulh and grass
hoppsr$ lived through billiards. and
,yclon.S. endured poverty and priva-
Alons untold. They were pioneers. OF
such is the greatness and the virtue OF
our America,
I sat down on nail kcc and talked
To that lonely. hnmrSck. aggricvcd sol
: Ia No n a Il
first. and later from every other cnun-
try in tho world they had come. moved
| By the divine unrest of ambitious spir.
its. u the United States
On The Job once More.
They lad crossed the plains in rough
wagons daring weather, starvation and
| thirst. hostile Indians. They had ley.
/ clcd forests they had built homes with
| no tools but lNjs and hand saws They
| had farnled arid lands. They had lived
! in caves and duEouts, They had raised
| corn that some years they had beer
! forced 20 burn for fuel hccnus" there
WAS no market for It. lSut They lived
and won out, and built homes for thci!
! children.
And now, once moro tn" Americans
! ar, pioneering. They are pioneering IN
! France Th"v arc building IN army and
, doing Il. as their fathers before them
from the ground up. IF rou w"r" not
! building ,hcs,, miles of docks and ware
houses. il W" didn't have ,hundreds OF
! thousands ct nrn constructing ict
! plants storage warehouses. railroads.
! barracks. bakeries, hangers. hospitals
how would the men in tho trenches got
| food and am nunit!on AMI clothes and
medical supplies and everything els"
q h,,, in
the war; I put Il 10 him straight. pnd
! he turned m uncom Portable pink.
"Of course YOU arr right NJ said.
! Put VIC have to blow off ono" in a
! while You snr We didn't know any
thing about it before We came. We
drew our numbers IN the draft and most
; of us were nightly glad Of il. W" had
! the time OF our lives in training camp.
/ and We thought NC were gOInG RICH;
/ into tine big show.
We thought tho engineers would he
! right up ~ ne front building railroads
! for the artillery. Instead Of that We
! arc kept down hcra hundreds Of miles
, from the lighting doinS tho kind Of hard
! labor some Of US had money enough ~
hire done 1T home"
Prophecies Fulfilled.
why. do you know" he continued,
chat in -" naming nearby IN
! ginecrinS camp. whore immense sea
planr hangers wrr" b"niC built. there
is one company Of 25n men. every on" Il
graduate Of 81 university or a technical
| school. All vf those men a-c l.: over
ais, doing day labor"
7 did know these mon. I had Sr.on
them or sonIe OF them. tho day before
at the noon hour smoking short pipes
and cigarettes. sitting or SpraWlins a,
! t1,r ~ hacks beside The road. And Il
fine, husky. happy lot they were, too,