Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-26

lived. and won out. and bu!f homes
for their children
And now, once more the Ameri-
cans are pioneering They are pio-
neering in France. They are build
ing an army and doing it, as their
fathers before them, from the
ground up. III you were not building
these miles OF docks and warehous-
es. II we didn't have hundreds or
thousands OF men constructing ice
plants, storage warehouses, rail
roads. barracks, bakeries. hangers,
hospitals, how would he men in the
trenches get food and ammunition
and Clothes and medical supplies
and everything els& they have TO
have before they can win the war
| put it to him straight, and he
turned an uncomfortable pink
"Of course, you are right he
said But we have to blow off once
in a while. You see we didn't know
anything about II before we came.
We drew our numbers in the draft.
and most of us were mighty glad OF
il. We had the time OF our lives IN
training camp, and we thought we
were going right into the big show.
We thought the engineers would
be right up az the front building
railroads for the artillery. Instead
of that we are kept down here, hun
dreds Of miles from the fighting do
ing the kind OF hard labor some OF
US have money enough to hire done
at home
PropAesies not Fulfilled.
why, do you know he contin-
ued. that in-----,' naming a nearby
engineering camp, where immense
seaplane hangers were being built,
there is one company Of so men
every one a graduate Of university
or A technical SCHOOL, All OF those
men are in overalls, doing day Ia
Dor"
did know those men. / had seen
them. or some OF them, the day be
fore at the noon hour smoking short
pipes and cigarets, sitting or sprawl
ing on their backs beside the road
And a fine, husky. happy lot they
were, too. Nothing in their uniNeI-
sity careers ever did for them What
this rough job Of pioneering was DO
ing.
There was one man there who had
put in a magnificent water system
in his home town When ne went
to France the newspapers gave him
a great send off. describing his work
and said no doubt he would be
called on 70 take charge of the water
system in one OF the large French
cities. when | met him he was act
ing as a water boy TO a railroad tie
carrying squad
The engineers In this part OF
France publish a monthly magazine
called The spiker" They love TO
h-1J %
and 10 publish them with comments
From a san Francisco paper they
cleaned that willie -, the cot
illion leader Of last seasons younger
set, leaves for France shortly with
the Blankth engineers TO take
charge. It is understood, OF the CON
structlon OF telephone system con-
templated by the government to IA
cilitate the hauling Of troops to the
front"
The comment records that the
erstwhile ootillion leader. Private
-, is now on tho business
end OF a No. 2 shovel.
Call Themselves up. g, s."
Well, what Of It? The shovel work
has TO be done Just as tn" prairie
sod had to be turned. The men
growl about It sometimes, but most
" they grin They chalk "P. O ~
on the backs OF their jumpers, the
same letters appearing in white on
the vivid green uniforms Of the Ger
man captives at work in many Of
the camps
They mean Prfsonnier de Guerre,
war prisoner. and when the wealth
er is cold and rainy and letters from
home are DELAYED and spirits sink,
YOU can hardly blame the men from
feeling at times little like prison
ers. They had expected excitement