The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-02-06
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John Munyon Sends German Propa-
Ganda.

that ! am all o. K, nope thls 4nus
you the same. We took shor1
move yesterday OF about I m'l tSi
roads mas vas vas pretty muddy. We are
going to have little schooling here
| guess. | received your. letters OF
four and five yesterday, also letter
from Hurley and Joe. How is the
weather there? Is pretty cool mere
but hasn't showed any here yet So
that it stayed on the ground. I'm: Ihe
way Hurley writes the corn ism
much good. l haven't seen an ear
of corn since l have been over here;
sure wish | was there to help husk
corn. l see in the paper that some
of the other divisions are gong
home but sguess we are here Tor
awhile yet anyway. Well mother,
you wanted nsS IT, to ok know WY Mhnt is k dep
ent now than when | was in the
trenches. We had to carry the gun
or tripod or two, ammunition boxes;
which have $50 rounds in them, and
when we were up there some times
l would put ammunition in the belts
and some times l would fire or help
fire the gun. ! don't like to De by
me the headache. You wanted to
know if l ever went over the top in
the tanks-no | never did, but have
been where they are and they, are
mean thing to meet on the battle
field. We never had any to come
ever at us but believe if ! saw one
coming l would take my hat in my
hand and beat it, ha, ha. There are
destructive but the looks Of them is
what gets me. Well l am certainly
glad that it is over with as it was
sure II up there some times. 1
got SO / didn't mind hearing a rifle
bullet go by but those iron found
ries was what l didn't like and be.
lieve me, when we heard one or
of some kind. | didn't know | could
get in so small a hole as | can be-
fore. | and two other boys slept in
shell hole that was no more than
three feet across, one night as we
were going into. the lines. ! read
Charley Rogers letter in The, Re-
porter and it was pretty good. | am
dead bodies. l shall never forget
the first American boy ! saw dead;
He was lying with his face upward
and it was misting rain. ] suppose
he had been killed instantly. |
went on little farther and there |
saw several Germans and four ma
chine guns. They We're lying by the
s.,
hurt and was bandaging it and fir
ing the gun with his feet when they
shot him. Well l expect that you
think it is funny l don't write you
more about the way things We're,
but guess we are censored pretty
close. / have had few pretty. close
calls but as the old saying is, an
inch is as good as mile: 1T was wa.
/ have had shells to light closer. to
me than they did to some that they
bumped off. Well it sure was sad
news to me about frankie South
and the boys that went into the
navy. l hope they have control of
that disease now. There were quite
bit of it here but ! was lucky
enough not to get oi it. wei 6ad as mess mess
quit awhile and get my dinner
Well this is evening and will write
again. You wrote that you dldn t
get the slip to send the CHRISTMAS
box yet. ! mailed it the goth of
October. They issued us leather
vests with felt lining so when l. get
the sweater l had ought to keep
German propaganda | got on the st;
Mihiel front on October 18th.
think it is pretty good it sure did
MT work the way he wanted 1t TO.
All the boys wanted to go over but |
wanted to take their guns with them
for it sure did make everybody sore:
Well as ! have run out OF paper l
will close with love to all, John.
z PROPAGANDA
How to Stop the War-do. your
part to put an end to the war: oPut
an end to your part OF 1t; stop
Fighting! That's the simplest way
you can do it. You soldiers Just
stop fighting and the war VIII STOP
If it's own accord. You are not
lighting for anything, ANYWAY. M u9as
Metz or Strausburg, you never saw
hose towns nor knew the people in
hem. so what do you care about
hem? But there is little town
Jack home in little old united
States you would like to see and II
-ou keep on fighting here in the nope
If getting look at those OLD Ger
lome again. The only way to stop
he war is to stop fl hting, that's
,asy, just quit it, and slip across
70 Mans Land and join the BUNCH
hats taking it easy; they are walt
ng to be exchanged and taken
lome; there is no disgrace in that
lunch of American prisoners; they
VIII De WGlCOHlP just de- wal ihi. eS |
ou who stick it out in these in
ernal trenches; get wise and get {
yer the top. There is nothing, in ,
he glory of keeping up the war, but ]
hink of the increasing taxes you !
viii have to pay the longer the war
asts the larger those taxes at nome I
viii be. Get wise and get over. All !
he fine words about glory are tom :
ny rot. You haven't got any buSl, I
ess fighting in France. You would
etter be fighting the money trusts I
t home instead Of fighting your fel-
DIV soldiers in gray over here where ,
/ doesn't really matter who sticks
0 you how the war goes Your s
needs you; your family
eeds you and you need your life
or something better than beng t
assed, shot at, deafened by cannon I
hots, and rendered unfit, physical /
' by the miserable life you must s
I've here. The tales they tell you I
t the cruelties of German prison t
amps are fairy tales, of course, you Is
nay not like being a prisoner OF
7ar. but anything is better than i
his Internal place with no nope OF I
scape, except by being wounded al
er which you will only be sent back {
or another hole in your BODY: Is
Wake up and stop the war, you can [
{ YOU want to. Your government
oes not mean to stop the war Tor ,