Williston graphic., 1918-08-08
NEWS FROM OUR OWN

NEWS FROM OUR OWN
These picturesque extracts from The Stars and
Stripes, the official newspaper of the American Exped-
tonary Forces published in France by and for the SOL
diers of the A. E. F.:
perforce to lectures "Why We Are At War;" "The
Mining OF Carraway Seeds in Argentina" "Why We
Are At War" and "Why We Are At War;" to an army
that has been overwhelmingly informed and otherwise
edited, Elsie Janis comes distinct relief. She is
an oasis of color and vivacty in dreary desert of
frock-coated and white-tied lectures who have been
visited upon us. Therefore we are for her!
"We're all doughboys. AS read the definition in
the dictionary known General Usage" doughboy
is an American soldier-any American soldier. Time
was when the applied only to enlisted infantry
men. Time was when there was a suggestion of good
natured derision in it. But with the original dough-
boys in the very vanguard of the A. E. F. the has
taken on new accent of respect. Infantrymen,
tilerymen medical department boys and signal corps
sharps officers and alike, all called dough-
boys Our cartoonist is doughboy. So is General
Pershing So are all of us.-In The Red Cross Mag
azine for August.
G-R-A-P-H-lC
THE AE.F.
That first million of Americans whose presence in
France is now announced constitutes small army
armies 20 nowadays. But it should prove of the
finest armies of its size the world has ever known The
average physique of its members is very high-much
higher than any other nations could produce The
officers who command it are new but they have nothing
to unlearn and, chosen from best, they were,
they should make up for their newness by their
pacity for learning and doing Finally this army's
equipment is as good the best. We slow about
getting that equipment together. We stopped to de-
bate the precise details of adapting the British rifle to
our cartridge. We decided to wait for the Browning
machine guns rather than manufacture Immediately
inf And Of
rs no nation spent money before. We rushed
cantonments to completion under cost plus we paid
four prices for artillery brides, and three prices for
many another item. But we got the contonments: we
got the vast stores needed and wet got the rifles.
No soldiers in Europe have better guns gas masks
or grub.-Collier's.
Correspondents with the Pershing troops in France
declare that the first question of the wounded Amer
lean soldier coming out of the ether sleep, is al
most invariably: "HAVE MADE GOOD?"
The field hospital facilities with the American troops
are spendidly efficient and it often happens that
struck down in battle is carried quickly to the rear
that he does regain full consciousness until after
the operation.
Then he gradually awakens, to find himself be-
tween clean Sheets with the white-clad figure of
RED CROSS nurse bending over him.
At such moments the human mind is incapable of
pose or pretense The brain acts automatically; the
lips speak.
And there is something intensely, peculiarly Amer
ican in the question:
"HAVE MADE GOOD?"
The wounded nephew of UNCLE SAM does not
speak how badly he has been hit whether he is 60
ing to get we'll. Nor does he ask-frst of all-wheth
er his company his regiment has attained its objec
tive. He seems to take that for granted.
His interest and responsibility personal Though
never failing in work, he is the supreme type of
individual fighter.
Modestly, yet profoundly, he feels that it is up to
him to "nake good"
Our Boys are making good "Over There" They
are keeping their pledge to UNCLE SAM.
Have we made good pledge to UNCLE SAM?
Are we buying WAR SAVINGS STAMPS REGU-
LARLY? Are we doing much in proportion the
American soldier to help win this war?
This question can only be answered by yourself.
"HAVE MADE GOOD?"
G-R-A-P-H-I-C
WHIPPErS ARE LIGHTLY ARMED. SMALL AND
COMPARATIVELY FAST
In naval sense, the usual tanks or landships,
have been slow moving, heavily armored and power
fully armed craft meant rather to stand up and fight
whether they be British, French German, have here
tofore been of the bateshp type that to say, they
tc finish than to dash in and out of combat and to
depend quickness Of movement as the main weapon
But in breaking up and pursuing bands of nfantrymen
in the open there has been distant call for Destroy
type of tank-one that could travel at a compara-
lively high rate of speed and that possessed higher
order of mobility in general.
To the British, the originators of the tank idea,
has remained the further honor of developing tank
Of the fast, destroyer type This type, known the