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America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1918-09-23

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objective Was The opposite al"pe Of
hitle river. Ii MAS our llrsl bIS fight and
tho men were wonderful; they never
halted until they were over the stream
and up the hill On the opposite side, al
though the assaulting battalion was under
direct machine gun lire. They marched
right through the barrage and machine
guns, Waded the river up 10 their waists
and occupied their posilions-what was
left vi them. X Company passed us com
ing up from support to relieve them; tho
company consisted OF one uun-com and
five men.
Next day our battalion made the as
sault. We had hill 10 take, and the
Germans had machine guns hidden on our
right flank. Half way up the hill they
opened up on lis, and we lay there without
cover for two hours until the company OH
our right got the machine guns. That
was the worst two hours l ever went
through, Every little while one Of the
boys lying on the slope would call out
1--we got itP or I'm hit!" Sometimes
they would just give little gruAt and
lie still
Two men were killed and four wounded
in my squad, only two of US getting ont
safe. When the platoon reassembled
about noon there were only seven men
left. Meantime, the second platoon OF
cur company had driven whole company
Of Germans oat of little woods on hill
and We joined them and occupied the hill.
We held thai hall for three days, with ma
chine guns, snipers and artillery trying to
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drive ~ out. Just at dark on the third
day they let loose On us with everything
they had and we were forced 10 TALL back
for one night, but We went in again the
next day and stopped q German counter
attack.
\ division of picked Prussian Guards
had been brought up from Lorraine espe-
cially for this counter attack, and the
TIL Regiment walloped the stufiing ont
of them When this can be told it will
add another chapter to the history of a
regiment that dates back TO the civil war.
The last chapter perhaps, because the old
TIL is SO shot up now it will never look
the same. None Of the wounded come
back to the same regiments under the re-
placement system, and our casualties were
over 80 per cent.
After the Germans failed in their couu-
ter drive they fell back again, and We
chased them up, keeping as close as we
could All this time we lost our kitchens
and had been living on our reserve IA
tons, which consist of four boxes Of hard
tack and can of corned beef. We ate
all the dead and wounded mems rations,
too, and some dead Germans rations,
which are quite us good as ours. The Ger
man tobacco substitute, however, is aw
full; would smoke grass in preference.
Most of the men picked up souvenirs,
such as German watches, coins, helmets,
pistols, bayonets, &c, but, except the
money, they had to throw them away; we
we're moving 10 fast we couldn't take any
thing but our rifles, gas masks and
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Cuts Loose With His Grenade Rifle When
on Night Duty in the Trenches

All day yesterday We had about a doz.
inspeetuns of all kinds and then rs soon
as il gut dust III the evening we started
marching up To the trenshes. 1t wasn't
very long until We begun hearing the big
cannon that the hunns has got, but We
kept right on marching and then after
while they got lo&der aud loNder and then
after while We could see some lights 90
up and they Vas flares over Nomans Land
and then pretty soou we could hear some
machine guns and auto rifles splitting and
rat-tating aud then of course We knew
we was getting up where the music was
being played.
= by this time i. was dark Barney and
We was tired from marching about seven
or eight miles carrying everything that
We owned and CUES most everybody had
a kind of funny feeling marching right
on up there where them hunns was shoot
ing at us, hut We didln fater or nothing
Ike that Barney, not Us soldiers. CUES
about the only time anybody ducked vas
when we was about five blocks away there
was an awful big eXplosun and every body
thought some Germin shells was explod
ing right on oar doines.
OF eorse it didn't bother HE none and If
| had been alone | would not have cared
d sue but couple Of fellos around me
layed down there in the rode and saw
a nice little place under a bank and all
these nervus soldiers hollered Duck so |
run under tins hank and land there
What the hellsiire Is the matter Of You
men," our captain shouted then. Don't
You fools know your own artillery from
the hnns. Fine soldiers Yen arel Don't
you know nothing at all, don't you"
Well come on ont then and was sore
10 because il them towards had not
dropped TO the rode would have knOwed
as well as anything that ii was some guns
Of cur own near 10y that was shooting.
And of corse there Was a lot of fresh
birds that tried to kid me about just kind
Of stepping underneath that hank.
shell shocked alredy Bennie?" one of
them hollered
No Im just gassed by ysu hot air sol
ders," / said then and | cues that held
That bird for awhile.
Well l got to ring the klaxing on this
leiter old pal but | will write you all
about trenshes in my next letter, if l
don't get popped eff before l have time to
write it. So long anyhow BExNR.
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pIa.rrI hccAu-c the destruction Was 50
Terrible. by the roadside lay piles "f
abandoned equipment; all the salvage Of
an army that had retreated twenty kllo-
meters in three days.
The last night We camped in the park
pf ruined chateau. Tbs next night We
went III, our company relieving three COM
panics of Frenchmen, who had been IN
the sector fifteen days. They were hold
ing wood, having dug in hastily, each
man digging an individual hole just large
enough 10 lie in as protection against
bullets and shrapnel We dug holes and
lived in them over stretch of sixteen
kiiumeters during the following ten days.
The abused intrenching shovel was our
best friend; after the first day everybody
carried one, even the officers.
Our first attack was made on July &c;
B o'clock in the afternoon was zero hour.
We marched through tho woods in battle
formation with bayonets fixed, and two
Elometers beyond INTO the open before We
established contact with the retreating
German army. Then they opened up on
US with machine guns and light artillery,
until at dusk We fell back and dug in for
the night.
was ON gas guard the first hour and
spent The tune digging my hole extra
deep. That night while | was asleep u
shell fragment six inches long struck the
side Of my shelter two inches above my
head, just where my head would have
been bat for this eSra digging.
Next day We attacked at dawn. Our
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shuyrls. The watches seemed Ia lie bad
luck, and two boys III our company were
killed soon after they had picked them
mp, SO the rest Of US were supcrstitious
about watches.
Tho night We were relieved we marched
ont sixty strong with Second Lieu
tenant ia command. Paddy - had
his leg broken by shrapnel when We were
almost back to the zone of safety; ! felt
more sorry for hun Than any one | knew
To get hit after going through 80 much.
Two boys in our company, twins, jim and
Joe --, ought to haze page 10 them
selves when the story of this fight can DO
written properly. They were wonderful,
helping everybody and fighting with
everybody.
Big Red -, who won the troix dc
Gucrre last spring, WAS another soldier
who was all ever the field all the time,
and there are a lot of others. Most or
the officers were fine, too, especially the
old -th officers. Capt. Tom --------
of b Company wouldn't leave the field
when he was wounded, and got wounded
again; he stuck it out until he was
wounded three times; then he had to 90.
They have made him Major III place Of
Major -, Who was killed the liIst
day leading his battalion across the river.
When We came out we camped ten days
in the woods We had drive4 the Germans
out Of. We were issued new uniforms
and We needed them-and had nothing 10
do but sleep and eat. We did plenty OF
both!
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Yaphank Bonnie Starts Trouble in Earnest

wonderful dug outs and some of the men
stay down there because it is safe but not
me- | am writing tins letter to You sit
ling right in the bottom of a trcnsh and
if shell should light around here You
would not even get this because thero
wouldn't be enough left Of il to tell who 1t
was addressed To, so CUES you will appre-
ciate what it means TO write You this
Well old pal mess has just come up in
some big cans they call dlxies and cyca
If ii is a Kind of mess 1t is food and IN
this army Nou better be on the ground
floor when the he'll rings or all You get
would just about lit IN your eye. You
got To fight all the time in the army, old
pal Well farcwc, BENNlE.
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left all around Us We never even turn our
hairs and | CUES the hole Germin army
could come over hcse and l would not
even bat my eye.
CUES don't need to tell you old pal
that We are up here in the front trenshes
and that old + Company of the Fighting
Second is holding a scctur all by itself
and that is one Of the hardest fought over
places there is in all Franse. All night
hong we doui have nothing but shells and
shot and machine gun bullets and flares
gong up and then We got a lot Of bar
RACES and grenades and | CUES il you
was 10 ask me | would certainly say that
war is helEiiro and that Roosevelt was
OF corse | don't want TO say nothing
but If the people and especially the VIM
miu back home only knew what AS soldiers
was going through that they would Ger
tanly feel awful grateful to us and that
they would spend all there time writing
us letters and making stuff foE US and
especially us dowboys. 1t is all right TO
talk about general soldiers and sailors and
some of these oilieurs that has got TO ware
spurs 10 keep their feet from slipping
olfn their mahogany tables but it is the
dowhoy in the trenshes that has got all the
medals coming TO them.
Here We are up here riskin our lifes
every minute Of the day and all the time
at night and the Germins is lible 10 come
over any second and want to know what
is il that most of the brave soldiers here
Is worrying about. Is it the Germins, no
a thousand nos. Is it food, no no no.
Well what is it then. Well will tell you
what it is: it is about whether our girls
back home are fooling around with lot
OF birds who Is afraid TO go into the army
or maybe corresponding with sailors or
marencs or some other service that IS
nothing but plane caInelfloge. Here we
are over here in franse shedding our precus
bind and painting the yellow hunns red
with it and fello might get killed while
his girl back home is running around to
places with a lot of slackers all camel
ioged up and that would be what call
Iotun busines-
But We should worry and if people
want TO trete there heros like that well
so ahead beeaus We have got something
to do here besides worry about things
Ike that. We are out in these trenshes
for ten days strate running and We are
50 close to the Germins that felio could
just about reach out and touch some of
them on there helmits. IL / could talk
n little more Germin / bet / could hear
everything they say and / could get ahald
of lot of secrets about when they was
going TO attack US and / could probably
make n hot of money giving it over to our
generils-
j CUES just in shells alone the GerInins
must spend about a millun bucks day
in trying TO knock out + Company but
they amt got ehanse. We got some
The sun., 1918-09-15
IN THE TEESsHEs OF
pEAR OLD FRASsE
Tuesday

DEAR GERTrE: Well the shot and shell
has been falling thick and fast around
here but should worry about httle
thing like that old pal and don't care no
more for my life than for couple of
packs of cigarettes. just little while in
the trenshes and US soldiers get hard like
that and when We see men dying right and
The sun., 1918-09-15
Monday
BY FRAZIER HUNT.
Author Of Blown In by the Draft"


II RIEND BARNEY: Well old pal
Il here We are right up here IN the
very front liue ticncles in the tuck and
than Of the battle and | would like To see
them yellow hunns start some big oifensif
now. But they aint chanst of II Barney
because they know We are here already
aud You can bel that them birds OF Ger
MINIS would not b. suckers cnouf 10 start
anything against soldiers with the kind Of
regulations We got, eh Barney. | have
not got any love lost for Gcrmins hut
there gcncrils are not no fools and they
been reading about us draft soldiers in
the papers for months aud they know all
about what kind af fighters We are so
ing 10 he.
Funny Barney about them knowing We
was here, but about the first thing we saw
after IL got light this morning was u big
Elnt htTbo i4tatiu ihhi ss''N Wv
come laphaukers! OF corse ! amt seen
any olfieul explanation about II yet but
gaes some friend they gut over here IN
some of these FIciIsh villages hearing
what line snldeIs We was wanted the
Gcrmins 10 bc On there guard and not
start nothing so he tipped them Of. And
YOU can bet that one word 10 wise guys
like them is as good Us mile.
Well old pal it certainly Is some stuff
up here In the trenshes but of eorse it Is
mans work and not for people who would
get put in eXenptun elames and Is afraid
b. do there duty when il comes 10 lighting
for there country. l CUES when us real
soldiers get back home We will not show
up these birds or nothing like that, oh no.
But We know there is some like yourself
Barney who has got u excuse and of corse
We would not make no suckers out of you
and lew more who has got good trends
III the army.
CUES I could write eople books
alredy about trensh fighting Barney but
of corse don't dare say 10 much in letter
or them censur birds who Is ofiicurs would
cut it out. Most ofiieurs after the war
is over are gong 10 leetur or write books
and if they did not do lot of eensuring
they would not have nothing to write be-
cause they got 10 steel the stun us buck
priyates write or they wouldn't have moth
insIo say at all
Well We Vas getting along fine hack
IN our billets behind The line and We was
doing lot of training and everybody was
wondering why they didn't send Us up
where the fighting MAS when all Of
sudden Yesterday morning We was told
that We Was gong INTO the front line that
night OF corse the old Fiehtin Second
baitulon VAS the enc first chose To 20 into
the trenshes and old + Company was one
Of the two companies hut You would have
knowed that an! how Barney without me
telling you.
The sun., 1918-09-15
FRANSE
Wednesday

DEAE MANA: Wen We are in the
trcnshes at last Mama and You would b.
surprised 10 know how safe il is here
and for all You hear the war might just
us well be over IN Russia as III Franse.
We got some nice clean trenshcs that amt
got no more mud in them than Fifth Ave
hue has and we got some deep dugs outs
with some cots in ard the German trenshes
is 81 far away that you would have to
have IL telescope to even see there wire.
All we do Mama is to sleep and eat all
day long and then at night We stand
around and kid each other and just kind
of see that no lost Germlns strayIns
around come over TO close. Once In u
while somebody way back of the hines
shoots u big gun at some other batteries
about three miles from where We are and
then they shoot few times and then they
get tired and quit
So you see Mama that there is lot Of
bunk about all these dangers of trensh
fighting and you don't want TO worry a
bit about me because | am just as safe-in
these trenshes as | would be in the old
subway. Why a fello could walk all
around out there in Nomans Land and he
would not be shot at and If they did take
pop at HIM it is cIneh that these
Germin birds would miss hun mile.
So | am all right Mama and l don't
want you TO worry at ALL, Well l have
got to close now and 90 on guard awhile
but l will write you some more in a couple
of day. Good bye. You sob
BENNIE.
The sun., 1918-09-15
IREN SHES
Thursday

DEAG BARNEY: Well I CUES you will be
surprised to know that | have not been
killed yet and although We been having
some awful hard fighting and CUES have
killed lot of Germins that l am still on
deck and doing business with the same old
VB rifle.
=. Did / tell yen in my last letter old pal
that I got u very important job, in this
seetur now and that l got V.B. gun
that 1 fire and got guard along with
me who has to tend to bringing me up
plenty Of ammunition if We had big
attack. OF eorse We amt had no big at
tack yet but CUES we are hble to have
one any second and believe me Barney We
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-09
OUR SUPREME COURT.

AS originally made up the supreme
court consisted of chief justice and
five associate justices. In 1907 sixth
associate was added when new dis
trict had been created to take in the
new western territory comprising the
states of Ohio, Tennessee and Ken
lucky. In 1887. the expansion of the
nation westward again called for an
increase in the court, and two more
associate judges were added.
In 1863 a ninth associate justice
was needed, but five years later, when
approaching vacancies made it likely
that President Andrew Johnson might
have the appointment of the new mem
bers, congress, then in open antagon-
ism to the chief executive, reduced
the number to seven, thus preventing
him from making an appointment.
This number two years later, after
the Inauguration of President Grant,
was increased to eight associate JUS
tees and a chief justice, and as then
constituted the court has remained.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-09
THE AMERICAN RocKING-cHAIR.

"The history of the rockingham
is yet to be written" says Walter A.
Dyer in early American Craftsmen"
According to some writer's, rockers
began to appear in this country be-
fore 1850, and Windsor rockers soon
after the Revolution. Others assert
that Windsor rocking chairs were not
made until about 1910, and that most
of the so-called Windsor rocking
chairs are simply old armchairs cut
down and fitted with rockers. Ger
tainly none of the early advertise
ments or inventories included any
mention of rocking-ch
"The first rockers were merely short
boards cut straight across the top
and rounded on the bottom. Then
the top side was shaped, and later
the rocker was fashioned much as
that of today, except that it extended
only four or five inches back of the
rear legs. 1t was not until 1920 or SO
that the discovery was made that
rockers heightened behind increased
the safety and comfort of the chair.
During the decade following that as
tonishing discovery the popularity of
the rocking-chair spread rapidly"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-09
A LITTLE BOYS TROUBLES.

That all my troubles were done,
I thought when I'd learned my
letters,
But I find myself much mistaken,
They have only just begun.
Learning to read is awful,
But nothing like learning to
write;
I'd be sorry to have to tell it,
But my copybook is a sight.
The ink gets over my fingers,
The pen cuts all sorts of shines,
And won't do at all as I bid it.;
The letters won't stay on the
lines,
But go up and down and all over,
AS though they were dancing a jig;
They are there in all shapes and
sizes,
Medium, little and big.
There'd be some comfort in learning
If one gets through; instead
Of that there are books awaiting,
Quite enough to craze my head;
There's the multiplication table
And grammar, and-ah, dear me!
There's no good place for stopping
When one has begun, see.
My teacher says little by little
To the mountain top we climb;
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-09
Los ANGELES Time!
JOY OF POCKETS.

The pocket has to be lacked before
it is properly appreciated, the London
Chronicle says. This writer had taken
his pockets as a matter of course until
one evening he attended fancy dress
ball in costume which, he discovered
when too late to remedy the defect,
was absolutely pocketless. The ques-
ton at once arose what to do with
pocket handkerchief, money, cloak
room ticket, and so on. The handker-
chief, of course, went up his sleeve,
but it took some minutes to devise
receptacles for coins and other neces-
saries in the lining of the cap, the
heels Of the shoes and the cuff of the
coat. All night long, however, he felt
lost through having no place to
thrust his hands into. Since then he
finds himself frequently putting his
hands into his pockets to experience
the sheer joy Of knowing that they are
there.
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"MINE EN- N.Y."
Today, tween Gertrude Hirsch an

Today, tween Gertrude Hirsch and
me,
A river flows in waters red.
Our sons as foes have met and
fought,
And they are numbered with the
dead.
(Oh, Mary, with your own close by,
BE pitiful when mothers cry.)
AS neighbors dwelling side by side,
We shared our simple quiet ways.
Her bees were mine, my flowers hers.
No one in those harmonious days
Might say who owned the gracious
vine
That gave to each its grapes for wine.
Together, while we served, / cleaned
Wise laws from out her household
lore
Concerning children, hearths and
homes,
Rich laden shelves, the linen store:
And oft she sang an old Rhine song
A song of love, not hate or wrong.
An evil thing swept through our door;