Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-04-24
+ 7lTnN5 should
STIR CIWLIha5 To
EMULATE TROOPS
ABOVE RNG BEYOND THE CALL
OF DUTY" A PHRASE or
DEEP MEANING.
SERVICE TO UTTERMosT
Rsccrds of Our Heroes in France If.
f1rd IN Inspiration FOR Victory
Loan.

I. NiliepiSue Of South Carolina. On
October Is, 1913, he was sent with
t"o men to scout through tie vii
IEge Of Vaux.Andigay. Machine guns
opened, splitting death, killing one Of
lis men and wounding the other. The
corporal went on alone. Without any
Rid or support he pressed on SOC
yards in advance OF his platoon, with
Shell fire breaking over him and ma
chine Gunners Gniping at him He met
tour Huns and killed all Of them with
q hand grenade. He pressed on $50
yards further, rushed a machine gun
nest and killed four and captured six
Eoclles With his prisoners and two
light machine guns he rejoined his
command. He was severely wounded
In the arm.
These were the sort of men we
we're backing with cur Liberty Bond
drives and our war work of 1918. How
small the efforts Of the stay-at-ho1nes,
the last line of defense, seem when
compared with the things these men
did 1t is to back up the deeds OF
heroism that were done by these and
hundreds of ether Americans that we
are asked to float the Fifth Liberty
Loan, the Victory Loan Of the pres
emit 1t is our time to show that we
are as willing and as 2atrioiotic as
these lads who gave all they had to
give in France.
There is citation of First Lieut..
Samuel WOodfill Of Fort Thomas, KY,
that reads like leaf from romance.
1t is told in the same terse, plain
style as the other citations:
Like Leaf From Romance.
while Lieut.. Woodfill was leading
his company against the enemy at
Canuel, France, Oct. ~, 1918, his line
came under heavy machine gun fire
which threatened to hold up the ad-
vance Followed by two soldiers at 25
yards the officer went out ahead OF
his first line toward a machine gun
nest and worked his way around it's
flank while the two soldiers remained
In frorS When he got within 10 yards
OF the gun it ceased firing and four
Of the enemy appeared, three of whom
were shot by Lieut. Woodfill. The
fourth, an officer, rushed at Lieut..
Woodfill who attempted to club the
officer with the rifle in his hand. AZ
ter a hand-to-hand struggle Lieut..
Woodfill killed the officer with his
pistol His company thereupon CON
tnued to advance until shortly after
ward another machine gun nest wae
encountered. Calling upon his men to
follow Lieut.. Woodfill rushed ahead
OF his line in the face of heavy fire
from the enemy, end when several OF
the enemy appeared above the nest
he shot them, capturing three other
members Of the crew and silencing
the gun. A few minutes later this o.
fice7, for .he third tins, demonstrat-
ed conspicuous daring by charging
another machine gun position, killing
five men in one machine gun pit with
his rifle. He then drew his revolver
and started to jump into the pit when
two other ginners, only a few yards
away, turned their gun On him. Fail.
ting to kill them with his revolver. he
grabbed pick lying nearby and killed
them both Inspired by his excep.
.ioNal courage his rlen pressed Gu to
their objective under severe shell and
machine gun fire"
Y IS up to US to finish the jcS for
which these men fought ard died
that the United States OF America is
10" calling on all patriotic men and
women to subscribe to tine 'Victorr
Loan." And it was these nen wau
nedc it the "Vlctcry Loan"
Had Il not been for their sacrifices
We would have been fa5in- Fifth
L-se.'y Lean, and maybe a SIKH ana
p Seventh Loan There woG,a have
lzcl no peace had not u,ese men
fought their way through tho ~
E7cDc, along the Chow o. the Accuse
s-vcr up through Chen1y and ESe7
Gcat and on TO G~end Pre- and thence
~ h@NNst-4-B AJ--il--E'AN Na4O EJELtt1tF,
smashing the tierman Ein6enhurc
and Krlemhlde Stellung lines and
tearing the German gate fyolA is
hinges.
Their Imr7ediatc Task.
Tfc Woodfills, Skinkerg, Robbs.
VilleYigues, Roberts and others o. the
62athlessly valiant mado al this nos.
sible for us, "At0ve and Beyond the
Call of Duty" was he way these men
saw the immediate tasl: In front O,
them. If their lives were required
of thcm, they gave their lives.
u the American peoD.e tackle tic
Job Of raising the Victory Loan" in
the spirit that these men swan rivers
under gun fire, rushed machine sun
nests, and threw themselves upon
the Hun bartcG-wiro. the Loan viii
0e subscribed and oversubscribed.