The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-05-18

oetlutu Anton, thll Wehthero0
! farmer who. like 80 others.
was busy strapping up bun
dies and luggage.
I'VE win be lucky to get Tents add
ed another man. who spent the anx-
ious minutes In alternately looking
after his family and standing tiptos
to look through a dusty. mansioned
window into cobbled courtyard.
where vehicles. both horse and motor,
were one by one being backed into
line. "Well. God be praised, we viii
he home again al any rate"--this from
Il very old man as he was working
against the palsey OF his hands to tie
fast the shoe OF wlstfully sweet
child with ioo-ihln legs-"and We can
work our ground with a good army In
front or Us 20 keep OF tramplers."
That may be grandpere." laughed
Anton. hut II will be hard wedding
this year. for instead Of thistle II 10
barbed wire, and we shall fnd holes
many Of them-and much broken tnSo
20 clear. .
March Toward New Home.
At this juncture a door nj the far
end OF the building opened and a man
called out In bad French that they
were 10 come out for they were going
to start of. And SO on this crisp,
bright morning the human tenants OF
another village moved westward TO-
ward home. "No there we're no
more farms" they said aboard the
wagon as they rolled along good
French roads. Hadn't Paul and his
friend tod them that the country was
but one ocean Of mud waves and that
houses had been thrashcd into aouf
OF brick dust by the shell nre." No.
they were not despcndent. just phIlo-
sophlcal, as one gets II experiences are
bad enough. and one is truly French
Already some one is pointing out IA
miliar associations. and dImly In the
distance there IL a silhouette Of many
things that looked like houses. except
that they were yellow, and. as Anton
snld. "Who ever heard OF yellow
houses In their village, and. anyhow.
Paul said there was no vilisge-now."
But In one-quarter mile incredulity
gave way TO honest doubt, and In Hve
minutes even the old mans failing
eyes were telling him that there were
new wood
Suddenly one Of them, man who
bad said little during the whole Jour
ney came to life. Five devils" he
ekIkaf In A<
Is that thing on my heldi" And he
pointed excitedly to an American trac-
tor made in our own middle west
Here II wa, plowing a Eve foot "trip
of soil al at once. "Tanks7" some
ventured. But here the driver, who
bad been through the same experience
many times. came TO their rescv~
That Is a Red Cross piow." he sas,~.
1t runs on petrol"
Ready Made Houses
"who built the housesr rAsyl q
he self established o. q The
'front.' seat "weIl. yor ~ he
aid. with sigh f'nl NJ perfect
neld OF boredc~, a. kpatience
When you ash &c "a Seilt them. 1
10 not know. zen lke from Amcr-
a all built iyQ i me who bought
hem. | . "A QySe Red orass, but
With WI x II, heaven aione can
now sll You people l have
eer nual bf them In 20 places.
ID msGk8 these plows, too" .
49, v6fhed TO the aged one apd
al sYeu were a prophet, gfand-
ere and then, turning to the nan
Fhos, nesd was being ploved, hs ~
narkesi. Il shall learn to drive hat
ron ele. hsnt .yself."
L.ssls 81 Rsd crssA
But now hey are In the vtllaeo--in
be midst of s'orss Of new h6uoos sAaf
ave sprung h. . lDrsaisht ffom old
mes like second gSoWsh frVm rosted
rec stumpx IN, - IRE maky sounds
md much bustlil- sbsut cleaning
treets. repairing gr'terS adswSlka
nlosding people and i-eunesl An OF
the magic OF heter. lOoous amy
altered from the four co-nssu q the
srth. all working under Ia. 0oll. the
urse and the wisdom Of ycSr ~.
m Red Cross
As saw II all lcotine back bu rat
az. from the starting point to ire
estimation. I thought OF home ana os
,e home fciks side OF if-the stv.
IL IL because have seen I,
lst want TO say. Your giving seems
lnobled- II I have told you ne
cry well enough you win seree the,
'ur giving Is accomplishing wsnderp
ycu believe what is told here. please
slieve. too. that your giving sbosld
y cesse-ss. more than fAat Il mus,
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