The Washington times., 1918-05-05
Us Aeros and Liberty MotO Is Message From Sammes Front

devil doEs'-were auartered. They
were billeted in dwellings and other
buildings. One night they got orders
| to move. After they were gone, with
in a few hours, a shell came along
and RACED a building in that town
took 1t clear to the ground.
And in that building there had been
CHARTERED sixty United States Marines.
II that she'll had hit a few hours
earlier. there would have been a
casualty list that would have brought
tears TO sixty American homes.
. Cold and Mud Fierce.
The cold and the mud are fierce.
I've fought in lots OF places with the
Stars and Stripes, but that mud and
cold in France nearly got me. But
our boys are taking It cheerfully. and
not grumbling We've got a bunch OF
little pamphlets, and they say:
There's no room for GROWERS
here"-and there isn't.
I'VE all take It cheerfully. Charley
Taft-sOn OF the ex-President. Will
lam Howard Taft-seTgeant major. he
ISIS my bunkie. He's one of the
gamest boys in our bunch. He takes
AhAhB we'll HAhu0S mt. anu
cheers up the rest OF us now and then.
We've got lots OF trench stories
all showing how we feel. Here's one:
1t now takes two German sentries
to one American prisoner while work
ing in German fileds, we are told.
Here's why. At first the Kaiser had
one sentry and two Americans. They
were planting spuds-pOtatoes. The
sentry would dig the hole. The first
American would drop the potato in.
Then the second American, who was
supposed to NIL the hole up, would
take the potato out Of the hole and
hide IL in his pocket. When the time
came for the potatoes to grow and
show above Eround-nothing doing
So the Kaiser said there must be two
sentries-and. at that. the American
prisoner must dig the hole now.
They're not taking any chances OF
his stealing that potato.
When "ArchIes- HurI Shells.
The most wonderful sight I ever
saw at the front was that OF an air
plane under anti-aircraft IRE. 1t was
a wonderful sight, that little machine,
thousands OF feet high, with those
shells bursting around her, and the
roar of the guns down here and the
sputter OF the bursting shells up
there. There are two kinds OF shells
-shrapnel and high explosive. The
shrapnel bursts into little white juffs
balls up there, and the high explo-
sives make black smudges. II was a
wonderful sight.
The difference between US and the
French Is this: When a village is un-
der bombardment, we're all driven in
doors for shelter. When a she'll hits.
the Americans rush out and shout,
where was that hit?" Not a French
man is to be seen. That's the differ
what's going on.
But we and the French get along
fine. We're like brothers.
You've heard OF camOuflage. Do you
know about noise camouflage? A
bunch Of the French T5's are collected
around one of the huge 13-inch guns.
The noise OF the smaller T5's browns
out the sound OF the huge 13-lncher,
and battles the Germans in their at
tempts to locate the bigger guns.
"EverythInE's jake
You people over here don't use the
term Jake" do you? I've used It since
landing here, and find you don't get
my meaning. It means "alI right"
So when you hear me say every
things Jake" 1 mean everything's
all right
But as said. we Americans don't
like this kind OF war. This isn't war
its murder. But we're going to
stay # through, and we'll see the
Kaiser canned before we come back.
You know, had charge OF our men
at the funeral OF Admiral Dewey.
Well, / want charge OF one more
funeral-that of Bill Hohenzollern.
Kaiser.
Were all waiting for the airplanes
and the Liberty motor. That's whats
going to win the war. Get the air
planes over and We'll win. Get the
BOchcs out OF the trenches and we'll
drive them clear to Berlin. That's
what our boys say
Message To Their People.
The boys told me. when they
learned I was going back home TO
talk to you people. to tell you this:
Send us chow-eats-lots OF cof-
fee, send us guns. send us airplanes.
send us clothes. and wen do the rest.
Get behind the Liberty loan. Give
Uncle sam the money to send us the
essentials OF war. and Wen do all
that's expected OF US. Send us the
stun. well do the rest" That's the
message Of the Americans in the
trenches to the Americans at home
When the French ask us how
America feels about the war. we tell
them:
III this million mon don't do II.
we'll send another. n the two mil
lion don't. We'll send a third. and 80
on. And we'll give our dollars. too.
Wen give and send until every man
and every dollar in America is in the
battle for democracy. IL needed"
That's what we're telling the
French.
Are you backing ms up?
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