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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-09
AIR SERVICE HELPS VIC
TORY LOAN-IET'S HELP
AIR SERVICE.

When the appeal was sent to I
the air service by the Liberty
Loan Organization for using the
airplanes in helping the drive,
the response was immediate,
and Liberty Loan committees
all over the country are now co.
operating with the air service to,
encourage enlistments.
The air service needs men
ard offers number OF attract
i've inducements to those who
enlist. Those who have had ex-
perience and re.enlist are offer.
ed the following privileges:
One months vacation at once.
} Bonus OF $50.
Furlough fare certificate en-
titling you to ride to your honre
) at one cent mile, with an addi-
tional five cents a mile for trav-
cling expenses.
} Months pay and ration money
on return from furlough.
Free clothing, medical atten- :
) ton and quarters and board.
No loss OF pay while sick.
Burroughs with pay.
Insurance at low rates.
Pay ranging from $50 to
S12150 month.
Langley Field. Hampton. Va.
is a recruiting center and Lieu
tenant Joseph MacLean Ia in
charge.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-09
AMERICAS CONSERVATION.

BY Charles Hall Davis Petersburg, Va.
written on December 10. 1918. after the
.armistice was SITS ned and Germany
defeated)
The peoples blooms now mark in rcd
Your resting place, ye gr'ls~t dead.
In Flanders fields. And I. ley wave
Above each cross-marked. Allied
grave.
And breathe their opiates overhead
To ease each narrow. earthen bed.
Where you now rest-your spirit
fed
Sleep peacefully. we warriors brave
In Flanders fields!
The cause that You so boldly led
With dauntless spirit, unafraid.
Is won. Be ii our task to save.
In memory OF the life you gave.
These rights for which your blood was
shed
In Flanders fields!
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-09
MATTERS THAT ARE APART
Wooer Discovered That Business
Methods and LovemaI<ino ,Ars
Things That Will Not Mix

There was no sentiment about the
training. and he carried business meth
DDS into his social life.
'Will you be my wife7' he. asked.
bluntly.
The girl looked startled.
I'm not much of lover" he added.
but guess I'll make pretty good
husband. might give you whole lot
OF soft talk. but what's the use? Mar
riage Is contract and should be set
tied on business basis. When I
want anything in business 80 after it
-bluntly. generally know what l
won't, too. and want you"
She gnsped. but presently regained
her composure.
fortunately" she said. "I've had q
little business training myself. so we
can discuss this proposed contract
properly and dlspassionately."
I'm glad to find you 50 sensible"
lie told her.
II can give you nothing better than
a second option" she said.
"What!" he exclaimed.
'kmight tell you that am conscious
OF the honor you do me, but that l am
already engaged" she explained.
THAT, with II suggestion that it Is
very sudden. would be the sentimental
way, but 1 will merely say that the
first option Is already taken"
"Then there is no hopper"
>"How foolish" she commented. "As
a business man you ought to know that
first option does not necessarily
mean a closed contract. II you don't
want to take chance on a second op-
ton, say so t.: IL you do. I'll drop you
line II find myself on the matrimonial
market again."
That's sort Of cold-blooded." he
complained.
\ That's business" she asserted.
IL don't believe like business an
well as thought did," he remarked.
Every likely" she returned.
''Td rather have a first option"
"A first option never has been and
never will be secured by business
methods. Eagle.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-09
FARMERS SUPPORT URGED

All the farmers in the United States
are urged to support the Victory Liber-
ty Loan by Oliver Wilson, master Of
National Grange, who characterizes
Inc loan as "our great national respon-
sibility." Mr.. wilson's appeal fol-
lows:
"For the fifth time the government
ID appealing to the people for financial
aid. On the four previous occasions
money was needed to win the war and
people OF all classss iiberally respond.
Now comes the call for Victory Lib
srty loan, 4 loan which. now that tho
iKht V won. is necessary TO aid in
inishing the great task Of assuring to
Ill peoples liberty and democracy. that
our struggles and sacrifices Of the last
lew years may not have been made in
rain.
az desire to appeal to our entire
grange membership and farmers gen
rally to maintain the proud record we
rave made in tho previous loans. Not
,nly subscribe what you can but give
NE matter prominence at your grange
meetings. and encourage neighborS and
riands to do their part toward fulfill
ng this our great national RESPONSE
,ility." ...,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03
He Knew the Sex.

'Sfake that picture out of your dis
play window Immediately !" demanded
the lrate mi 81 am surprised that
you would exhibit my photograph to
the commoa gRzeF" lawfully thought
less OF me-" said the photographer
0 few minutes later. II should have
remembered that she liked the profile
best" And the profile wss substituted
for the offensive front view In The dis
play window. and all were happy ever
nfter.--Ksnsas City Star.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-13
October 81, 1917.

October 81, 1917.
Little Diary, something is happen
ing to the captain. / don't know what
1t is, but he stares at me in such a
funny way. Yesterday, when we came
out of the operating pavilion, he re-
marked: Rose, / don't see how you
stand 1t all We had just finished
bandaging up the most pitiful looking
fellow. He was one of the ones hit
by one of those terrible whirling but
lets that tear out the flesh SO jag
gedly. and was just one great bloody
mass. l don't believe there were ten
inches OF him unbandaged when we
had finished cutting away the jagged
places. sewing up where possible. and
using wound medicines on him.
guess one can stand most anything
when one has to. I've found out that
/ can do a world of things I never
thought possible. Today, lie bon cup
tame asked me would 1 object to his
going with me to the kitchen when
was preparing some dainties for a
poor blind boy, for he said he needed
little rest and recreation. Poor SOUL
1 suppose he does need it for he has
surely worked faithfully and untiring-
ly.
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November %, 1917.

4NoNSLiDcI 154i'
Our boys have come, Hurrah, for
the United States marines. They and
the army boys have come to our re-
lief and we no longer have to retreat
inch by inch, but can stand up to the
line. They expect to hold their own
until spring, and then-and then-for
a glorious offensive, which will out
match, out-class the German advance
of the last spring. It is so wonderful
to look out of the dugout doors. our
hospital is a sort of enlarged dugout
you know, to keep it from the view
of stray airplanes, etc, and see a real
American man walking just before
your eyes. I have touched one just
to see il I was dreaming. He laughed
when I asked him, "Parlez vous Fran
cais?'' His answer was, you bet do,
and I don't speak nuthin' else" so we
struck Up quite a comradeship. These
boys sznile-not the wan smile the
gives-not the naughty
smile the Englishman gives, but q
warm. a wonderful honey smile, and
il brings back home to me with all
its charm, its sweetness. and am so
homesick. I have not really had time
TO be homesick very much With all
the murder, wholesale murder, and
work confronting me, I had no time
to maste in being lonely for my loved
ones BY the way. I have had only
ten letters from home. I don't under
stand it, but the captain says that it's
due to the submarines, and the mil
lions of men they're sending over.
Well, my letters can wait, for I know
there are true h(lrts at home. Oh,
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yes. and I have discovered what is the
trouble with the captain. He IS in
love, and who should the object of his
love be but poor little Insignificant
me. He has told me so. and | do like
him. for we have been such good
friends and pals ever since we were
ordered to leave the base hospital /
haven't given him an answer to his
repeated queries of "Will you marry
me, Rose?" because truly, don't
know. There isn't anyone else, and |
do think the world and all of him. but
is such a sacred thing. | will
have to think over it, and when our
boys have won-well, l will give him
his answer then.
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July 4, 1917.
We have been ordered nearer the
front The ambulance train can no
longer bring the men such distance,
so a corps of us has been detailed TO
go forward and we will be just in the
rear of the army of advance Ihe
strain on my mind and nerves is ter
rifle. and will be worse, but l could
give my life no more nObly than TO
give it for our allies poor suffering
soldiers. Les soldatsI How they have
given themselves, There is to be one
captain, three neutenants and fifteen
OF our nurses and helpers TO go and
we leave in half an hour. We are all
acting brave and laughing. but behi~d
our laughter there is prayer to lie
Bon Dieu. l guess, little diary, l will
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November %. 1917.

NONemDer %, IJIt.
Did I describe may captain? He is
blonde, with just about sandy colored
hair and brown, sweet eyes. They
are so kind. / cannot help but feel
a thrill OF pride in him and of love
for him whenever / see him SO skilful-
ly using him knife; so gently rebuild
ing the wounds. scraping bones of
poor mutilated fellows who are maxi
ing the greatest of great sacrifice. If
there ever was a hero, my doctor. and
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that ii is all a dream, that the sun
shines, the flowers bloom, the world
is one sweet song. but 1 can't-oh.
cant feel it long, for some stern reality
some fresh hurt stares me in the face
and calls my imagination back. Thank
God, the Americans are ready now to
relieve these war worn veterans. Per
haps it will mean the turning of the
tide
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uninjured of the men, for there are
others who die on the way here, and
some are blown to eternity and have
no chance for treatment, and others
yet who die on the field of battle, just
for lack of someone to go to them.
fer lack of water. All, the pity of it!
pray all the time for it to stop.
There is never a minute that passes
but what some new horror is brought
in to us. 1t is so hard, so awful. to
see the blood, to see the suffering. to
feel the poor, manned boys, to try TO
lessen the pain. to give them medi-
cines. anesthetics, foods and keep
level head and a brave heart. AND
they are so brave-these lads of
France and England. They say
will be here soon
and leViola, We will have it all over
with. And smile through their pain.
Oh, will we never have the proper
army here to succor these worn out
Hurry President Wilson and
send them over.
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raft. How it got loose from the boat
is a mystery to me. for there was no
sign Of anyone aboard or having been
aboard, but l crawled up and pulled
Mary after me. She was unconscious
by that time. and l unlaced the life
belt and tried to get her collar loose,
then I didn't remember anything else
until / opened my eyes an hour and
half aGO, to find myself on board
this destroyer. They have been so
kind. The doctor says that Mary is
alright, but that she will not be able
to be up in the morning She has
contracted pneumonia from the expos
ure. / shall nurse her as soon as
am able, but the doctor says 81, is
doing we'll now. All I have is this
diary-and it's a wonder I have that.
What will I do for uniforms-Mary
has none either. except the one she
had on, as l have-we will probably
have 10 don gentlemen's apparel for
while at least.
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expect to take you with me to the
front line trenches, just to have some
thing to cling to, something which
connects me with my dear old native
land. What wouldn't / give to see
mother-to see my friends, to see
Mary, who is left in Liverpool
August 81 1917
We are here three miles back of the
battle lines and this is the first rest
/ have had in three days. Our captain
sent me away from the operating room
today for fear would fall
fall from fatigue. He says 1 will ruin
my health, but what is the health of
one weak woman to the suffering
these men. men who. If cured, can go
back to kill-kill-kil1 those murder
Gus Huns? ! had to come, for orders
are orders, and we have to obey. 1
was staying up on coffee. black and
strong, with aromatic spirits of am
monia, but I would have stayed till
I dropped. Today we countered their
offensive. and our men are outnlm-
bered but not out -witted, for we have
kept our own with terrific losses.
God is with us. for otherwise, the
battery just in front of our trenches
would have finished the whole inc in
this sector There was a gas attack
last night. and had not the sentry been
on the alert. the whole camp would
have been out of commission, ana as
it is. our little Red Cross hospital has
been filled with. poor fellows recover
ing. Some will never recover, for Il
completely eats out their lungs If
it gets to them. What will not those
cunning demons devise next? They
took the little town just to our left
yesterday. What the fate of the few
villagers left was. no one knows, but
II our men can stand the strain, they
expect to try and rush the towns bat
teries at daybreak can write no
more, for my eyes are closing. / Won
der if I am just twenty-four. 1t
seems I am ages and ages old, and
have seen nothing save war.
October 10. 1917.
We took the village. but 1t took US
three days to do it. and such horrors
as we have encountered. These poor
people have suffered hell from those
Huns. and we have cemetery filled
with all the poor men who so valient-
ly tried to defend their homes from
the brutes. They were stood up by
wall and the whole regiment it
seems, fired on them. for their bodies
were torn beyond recognition. And
the women-death would have been
sweet to them-but such was not the
desire Of the devilish crew. II is in
conceivable, this brutality. We have
four little children in our hospital
one with a bayonet wound in its little
stomach, nearly dead when We found
her, but doing nicely now; one with
it's hands, just the hands above the
wrist, chopped entirely off with the
sword of one of their hellish officers;
a little boy with one ear cut off, and
the other so mashed and pulled that
it looked more like a cauliflower than
a human organ; and another little
boy crippled from being kicked down
some stone stairs. Some times / am
an unbeliever-I can't help but feel
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internes we. have here. Not that we
are allowed social enjoyments to-
gether. but we can talk professionally
on all subjects We happen to know
the words of. They don't speak Eng
lish any better than we speak French,
so you can imagine what it's like
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June Is. 1917.

June Is 1917.
We were thirty eight miles from the
front-we are now thirty five miles,
and the Germans are advancing-God,
help us There are constant air raids
the noise of the guns is terrific and
the patients hear il continually. 1t is
dreadful on these poor men. The
aviation men have anti-aircraft guns
and they are constantly on the look
out for Hun raids from the air They
have driven back three squadrons Of
them already 1t seems some infor-
nation has gotten out as to our where
a bouts and the whereabouts of this
army division There isn't much
chance of their artillery reaching us
yet The doctors are overworked and
worn out Most of them are turning
gray and as for we nurses-we are
nearly frantic and as nervous as any
woman ever gets TO be. My, what
we have seen and been through. These
poor French villagers are as good as
can be 10 US. They are furnishing
the food vegetables and such meat as
they can get to the hospital for the
poor wounded boys and we know they
are starving themselves. The women
are keeping up the fields and are do
ing all the work, yet the brave things
the boys appreciate their sacrifice
There is nothing so wonderful as the
spirit of these women of France. In
one of the air attacks they had lately
a school house with about 200 per-
sons, about a mile away from our To-
cation, was bombed and all the little
children killed or manned for life
The horror of it. Poor little things,
and to think, ruined-my mind is
suspended it seems. 1 just go about
mechanically and try not to dwell on
the horrors l have seen. We have
done our duty and continue to do it.
because We have a love for these
Frenchmen as for our own, which will
soon be here. / have not heard from
Mary, but I feel sure she is still alive
and somewhere on the battle lines.
God protect her.
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June e. 1911
They still advance. l have not cou-
rage to stand being taken prisoner
II they take this hospital. l expect to
use the captains gun on myself Tor
I could never submit to the Germans.
I do not understand how men can be
such beasts.
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June l, 1917.
My orders came today. / am bound
for just Is miles away from
Paris. There is a naval base there
aviation one, on small stream, but
the hospital is just in the rear of the
army camp. T shall be in the zone of
advance contingent. and expect lots
of active duty. Mary isn't going. She
is learning some more wound surgery
before they send her. / hate to leave
her, for I feel that IL is a last good
bye / don't feel as confident of re-
turning to Florida as / did enroute
for 1 have heard so much-so much
of the atrocities and the murders and
pillaging to have any hope. Thank
God, 1 am resigned. and it pleases me,
if / have 10 give my life, TO give 1t
for our country. l always did thrill
when on holidays the wave of sol
diers passed by in drilling in the pa
rades. Those Mardi Gras parades.
Even as a child, it affected me, and
now-it is my pleasure TO be serv-
ing those same heroes-those same
comrades in arms, of mine-truly, fate
IS a strange, tickle thing. Mary has
been in tears today, but I have told
her that this is war, and separation is
not for always. / wonder what l will
put on these pages next.
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June ,, 1871.
Well, I am here, in a quaint little
French village, soldiers on the right
of me. soldiers on the left of me, and
sailors in the rear of me, almost to-
tally surrounded by uniformed men.
The hospital is quite well equipped,
and is called a base hospital in the
rear guard, because the little sub
stations up nearer the front send pa
tients back to us. Oh, those patients.
1t rends my heart TO think of the
agonies and sufferings those poor
boys go through. We are filled TO
overlooking with Frenchmen. English
our boys haven't become actual fight
ers yet. They will relieve these men
who have so valiantly held the line.
Please God, let them come soon. These
men are being driven back, further and
further, and are giving their lives in
thousands to hold them back. The
hospital is in a little cathedral the
French had built-its a case of the
house of God being a house of mercy.
1t is an old building, having been
built some time back in the 10th CEN
fury, and while we are well equipped
with surgical instruments. we lack
many many advantages that are really
essential We are Well protected. The
aviation corps has the air patrol. We
are in daily fear of air attacks, be-
cause the Germans have no regard for
the Red Cross flag which flies from
the bell tower.
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December ], 1917.
am transferred again hospital
a few miles away in the same froat
line trench. has been totally destroyed
by the enemy. and they need a re-
placement division. / have been choS-
en- as head nurse because ! have a
steady head and have had so much
experience here a this place. | hate
to go. When separated FROM home
felt the pangs OF sorrow. When sep
arated from Mary ! felt rev panCs,
but now, that I viii he separa led from
John. | feel that my life is being
taken away from me. War has never
created a sterner duty for ne 70 take
up but since il is the call OF God.
shall answer with a steadfaSt heart.
John says il will determina how deep
~ l love him. but he feels and re-
grets ii as | do. Think of those poor
boys sick and hurt lying helpless.
with the Red Cross flag, the ffg OF
mercy flying above their temporary
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the captain Of this base. is certainly
it. II | don't love him, ! feel ! am
unworthy of love.
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Liverpool.
Well here we are-both of us still
together, in the American hospital,
in Liverpool. and just as busy as
bees. This is the first minute 1 have
had in which TO sit down since about
a. m. this morning. when 1 went
on duty. This hospital has about 500
patients-just pneumonia patients
taken from the men who arrive with
the incoming drafts. The trip is SO
very hard on the men, for there is
so little room and disease is so very
contagious. There are three of the
soldiers here who wen. down with the
same transport we went down on. and
they were saved by the Utah, instead
OF by our destroyer I expect to be
here for a month, to learn the ways
and means of foreign nursing. My
French is very poor, and 1 am expect
ed to learn a lot from the French
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THE DIARY OF RED CROSS
NURSE

Continued from page 49,
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CONTINUED on Page Eiehteen)
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May, 3, 1917.

May, 3, 1917.
I've been up az day. and have been
nursing Mary. She hasn't pneumonia.
but just a bad cold and shake from
that awful half night in the Atlantic.
We always wanted an ocean swim, but
never that far out at sea. 1 shall
never forget 1t. The officers have
been wonderfully good to US, and have
sent radios back home for both of
US. have neither money nor clothes
and mother will have TO borrow, steal
or beg to outfit me again. Mary says
her father can send her as much as
she needs, so we will probably have
a cabIegram for money when we
reach Liverpool. I found out that the
destroyer saved numbers OF our COM
panions on the transport. A subma-
rine hit it amidships and she went
down in about a half hour. which is
rather a long time. 1t is that long
time which saved Mary and I, or
we would have been sucked down
into the NAV OF the sinking ship If
we hadn't had time to get away from
there. 1t seems the sub was on the
lee OF the destroyer we are on, and
didn't appear at all to the observers
on the lookout. The first they knew
of it's whereabouts was when the tor
pedo went whizzing through the water
just for our boat, and they immed-
lately began a heavy fire. The sub
escaped, but, my God, a number OF
lives went down on our ship. The
CAPITA and most of the crew perish
ed because they went overheard too
late to swim away. The commanding
officer of this boat says the soldiers
and others became panic stricken
and 1t was all the captain could do to
get them aboard. He doesn't under
stand how we two women were left
out, but I feel sure they all thought
we were safely in the berths assigned
as on the little boats. Nevertheless,
il was the hand of Providence that
guided us, for that boat was lost. The
submarine crew either captured it or
it sunk, we cannot ascertain which.
Wonder what mother thinks? I know
she is worried to death.