Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1919-09-26
MISSOURI HERO
SETS PEACE Time
EXAMPLE FOR ALL
eoHpoRAL BARkLEr DID NOT
QUIT WHEN HE HAD DONE
HIS FULL DUTY.
VENT FAR ABOVE AND BEYOND
Americans Duty to Country Did Net
End When Foe Without Was
vanquished.

There il q regular soldier still In
france who is going to get the Con
occasional Medal of Honor. To him
v.s given the supreme honor OF
hreaking up q German attack all BY
himself, an attack, IL It had been sue
ossful, would have decided the for
tunes Of the battle in favor of The
Hun.
And be 1t noted that he could have
vary well said to himself on that 'oc-
ossiop that he could not afford" to
remain where he was. . target for
The whole German army.
He could have very easily placed
himself In the attitude some people
have taken toward the Liberty Loans
and the War Savings Campaign. He
was Just an American army corporal.
\ Yankee non-com from Missouri. But
he didn't try t shirk any RESPONSE
bility.
1t happened near verdun. in the a.
day Battle of the Argonne. The regi-
ment to which the Missourian be-
longed was pretty badly shot up. The
Huns had thrown a smoke screen out
and were driving the Americans back
under cover Of the artificial gas fog
from Hunland. The lone soldier vas
falling back with the others when
he sighted a disabled French tank and
q German machine gun at about the
same time.
He planted that Hun rapid-firer in
the French tank and got busy. From
his station he commanded a hill top
over which the Boche must advance.
As they came on in battalion forma-
ton he swept them down." to use
his own words, like hay in front of
q sickle"
He had no one with him to feed
that unfamiliar machine gun. emem-
her. The water jacket on the gun
boiled dry from the stream of bullets
that he kept squirting into the German
masses. He emptied his canteen Of
water into the jacket and cooled it
of q bit, and went m~ethodically to
work again, killing Germans. All the
time he was firing German cartridges
collected from the abandoned German
machine gun nest behind the tank.
He was on the job and doing what
he had been trained to do, what Amer
ica sent him over TO do. Finally the
Huns called for a barrage to get that
lone Missouri gunner in the smashed
TANK. They sent over something like
wv six.inch shells in an effort to put
him and that gun out of action. None
landed" he reports.
That sort of American spirit is need
60 o to make the coming genera
uon a prosperous and thrifty me-. To
make America solid before the world
1or all time to come, each n Of US
must stand his ground" and do HIS
part in this work of reconstruction.
IL Corporal Barley had quit, the
hun advance might have gained force
and given the Americans . serious set
back A Hun victory OF any size would
save delayed the end of the war. But
corporal Barley did not quit. He
made the best Of what he had and that
oest was very good. good enough, in
Iact, 10 win him the recommendation
Tor the Congressional Medal Of Honor,
which is something worth having.
we can no more afford to ignore the
principle of thrift and saving and the
Splendid opportunity our government
ouers for saving and investment, than
could the soldiers OF America on the
french battlefelds. We have q task
70 take care Of that 10 ours and ours
sione, In this work Of reconstruction
and thrift.
Each Of us has his own little sector
VI The front and 1t Is our job to see
mat we not only hold, but that We I'D.
vance as far as possible all along Inc
Ilne. II We do as well as Corporal
narkley, we will keep our country in
me worlds front ranks and our chill.
oren and children's children far from
want.
II is for us to show the way BY
lnflIty living, by using wisdom In
spending and saving. by being sur OF
our investments, and to be sure Of An
Investment means to become interest
co IN government securities. Right
now there is absolutely no better an
Investment for our children and our-
serves than Thrift Stamps, War Saw
,nes Stamps and Treasury Savings
certificates OF 800 and $1,000 denorni-