The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-10-02
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OVER IN FRANCE
Sid 6onney, Writing His Folks From
France, Says Gasoline Is Worth
Its Weight in Gold
WHAT IL GALLONS WOULD DO

Its weight IN 1oio
WHAT IL GALLONS WOULD DO
Mr.. Honney Advises That JOY Riding
be "Cut Out" and That Gas be
Used on the Huns
Dr.! and Mrs. A. F. Bonney, of Buck
Grove, received a long letter from
their SON. Lieut.. H. S. Bonney, from
rest camp in France, excerpts from
which here follow:
Headquarters First Engineers,
Amer E. F., France.
Dear Folks:
i have not thing to do this morn
Ing. SO thought I'd try to get letter
out of my system, providing this ma
chine will remain in action long
enough for me to do so. 1t seems TO
have developed variety OF the PIP
lately, which makes it act very padly.
We have been enjoying short SEES
sion In, q very quiet sector after Inc
big doings on the Marine, and 1t IS a
great relief for all of us. We can en-
ioy a mealsin peace, and also our sleep
Al there is not sound to disturb us
IN any way. In fact have not heard
n gun fire nor she'll come over In
week. and I have been all over the
sector, but suppose like all sectors,
st will wake up some nice fine morning
B and there will be big doings, as 1t
seems we can never keep quiet long
4 at q time.
You ask me to tell you where am
Jtsin accordance with the published"or-
der from the war department that men
IN France can advise their folks where
thew are.''t II you had read that order
carefully YOU would have noted that
III said ssmen in the rear and service
III supply and as it happens that l
VI nm not Sin the rear" nor Sin S. q. S.,
nv address remains the same old
sssOmeWhere in France
The civilians in this village go about
their work as if they we're thousand
miles from the lines instead OF with
/ M. easy gun range as they are.
I'll was talking with young woman
last night when the subject OF Ian
gaape came up, and here is what she
! remarked That English was SO much
harder to learn than French, as inc
words were written in one manner
and pronounced in another. NO" can
YOU imagine that when you consider
that beaucomp in French is pronounc,
ed .bookoo," and suite sweet ana
oui "wes and so on through the who're
Language. Silent letters and queer
combinations until one cant rest.
II have noticed lately aboutsthe great
amount of space that is given over IN
h the papers to saving and help win the
war. Buy Liberty bonds and W. ). ;.
help the Red Cross and everything
n else and in the same column descrlb-
ing how much and in what manner
funds were secured there will appear
items like this: Mr.. and Mrs. Gotrocks
II niotored to Omaha last Sunday; the
Blank family enjoyed the pleasure OF
I their new Ford in a triprto Sioux City
q and Nebraska last week, and SO al
4 lib. ~
Now / wonder if those people who
are enjoying the pleasure OF their
autos in joy riding have ever stopped
stD consider that gasoline is worth It's
4 weight in gold over here. A trip from
Denison to Omaha, about TT miles,
means that in any kind OF car con-
sumption Of at least six gallons OF gas
cline each way, total of at least
twelve gallons before the trip is mn
X ished. Outside of the money value,
those twelve gallons would do few
of the following things over here:
81 Drive an ambulance SO or go miles
q over any kind of road, allow one more
trip for bombing plane over German
lines move tank over field at least
six miles, and thus account for sever
al hundred of the advocates Of kulture,
Nv making them good, furnish the
motive power for the manufacture OF
several hundred shells of various cali
hers, rifles, cartridge; motor or ord
4. nance parts, light trench system or
drive a submarine chaser several
miles.
Nov that is small list of the use,
that those good gallons Of gas would
IS good for here. Add that they
would drive a tractor for harvesting
grain for whole day, or carry a motor
dispatch rider Four Hundred Miles.
Every gallon used for joy riding
{ means that the cost of production for
war purposes is greater than it would
otherwise be, and that there is one
less gallon to be used in winning the
war. 1t may appear to you that the
use Of a few gallons for pleasure
trip is small item, but when one con-
siders that the items appearing in the
weekly papers regarding trips that
are being taken all over the United
States it will be seen that the waste
Isl something tremendous. You buy
Nv. s. 8. and lat the same time waste
gallon of gasoline, and swell up and
say, Gee, but am patriotic" forget
ting that you more than Offset the
saving in the waste of gasoline.
Why not cut out the joy riding and
let Uncle Sam use the gas to kill
huns? That would mean that every
American in France would be home
80 much sooner.
There isn't doubt in the world but
~ that we are going to win this war. The
NJ nun said the Americans could not get
into the game in time to make any diff
ference, and if they did they could
n6k fight. He has been compelled to
change his mind on both subjects.
sSrh nre is little piece of verse in