Trench and camp., 1919-05-01
By ]. III. P. METCALFE.


They say that soldiers are always
eomSiaining kicking. kicking. No
aort true than most other sweeping
eneralizatfons about our fellow
men. You will usually find some SOL
gsasan hand TO call the chronic kick
give the lie to the generaliza-
iont s
WI had such kicker around our
hut for quite q while, cynic, down
In DE government down on society,
Aow on the church and pretty in
N saH( BIT about it, too. The "Y' men
falkIe ID with him with little effect No
.re called the fellow so effectually as
an uIbstanding, tall, fine-looking young
soldier. He may have sprinkled a few
adaIhnS" in his conversation, but he
IL aUad thoroughly unashamed to ac-
hnokledge his faith in the Heavenly
FatAer and his common sense convic-
tiorH against radical socialism and in
faydr Of q belief in Uncle Sans rea-
srtble purpose to do all things pos
~, Tor the soldiers.
s His frank manliness attracted me
and after an acquaintance of some
I# tiayk he told me something of his ex-
perHsnee over there: well, where did
fba Huns get you?" / asked him one
Hx anbuttoned his shirt front and
/ sho Fedg me the worst-looking wound
eFyA seen, clear across his chest ana
GER Sering over the right lung.
Mfter I got that" he said, the
aoelor gave me two hours to live, but
herk j am six months afterward IN
scamp Meade"
PAt to 60 back little, Joseph F.
Nc s5onough hailed from Pittsburgh
aualwas in the 305th Engineers. Com
narlss Il SOth, Division. He went to
SSsr3p Les April S, 1918, and left New
porE News for Brest May 25. He went
ma the front lines on the British
fro IN July, but had the pleasure
Of 8penHfng the glorious Fourth in
Pa 81 His bunch was in the reserves
at St sEihiel, but on September rs
weIt into the verdun drive in the
i Lead Then, after weeks rest. begin
nink Oot0ber 49, they motored most of
the Way mp into the front lines for the
Arebnne -Menee drive.
G Oker. the top they went at $3.50 am.
1Noykmbef 4, McDonough being in the
4hiG wave of irresistible khakiclad
Har2ks.% who hit the line hard and
HroHe the Germans out OF their I'M
reknable fortresses and dugouts.
Bft McDonough did not go far.
hIAe hours after he went over the
aa4mt ST Georges his turn came;
mel gave him an awful wound.
keakFtheless with real Irish grit he
Ranked mile and half back to the
mrsIa aid. falling as he reached tne
Loo and soon hearing the doctors
volt as above. Here a priest min
sste| Ia to him the last rites OF the
Ehu1 b Honor to that priest SO near
lhei lont lines!
~ All hour after the two hours were
Shp & with other wounded German
and Amerfcan. were carried in ambu-
ian2 back to an American field hos
pita Itxwas tough journey of four
houE d1rtng which one poor German;
AftdW repeated calls for "wasser,
gaV np the battle and passed on
HI McD0nOugh was operated on,
hise Igi< lung entirely removed AMI
Il Infusion of blood was made,
BonE heroic fellow soldier offering his
plo4 Cor the life Of another.
= Il III he was removed to French
RvaA alton hospital and thence 70
Ba$ 40. Here, nearly three long
mo- Ms after he was wounded, he took
@hisN Mrst Mkep again and was soon
tno%kd on. TO Base 119, near st. Ma
&aiN from which point he sailed for
Am hica January -28. He was a month
ingS into the convaiescent center. And
now he IL on furlough home. Joy
Al s0on as discharged McDonough
will tale up technical course PROB
abl4 mt the Carnegie Institute IN
Pittsburgh, for four years at Uncle
Sans expense, having no fool notion
that the government is trying to put
son4ethsn& over on him IN oHerlhg
him chance for an education.
DID y6u see our convalescents WIN
thelbalE game from Fort McHenry,
to I 10 ne sandstorm?
The Roet says that we can get along
WitkoWk almost everything that civil
ized man has learned to enjoy, but
that We c&f't live without cooks. The
s4Ysss nlkn m the .'O'' hut say, unani-
snously. Here's to the cooks and mess
sarReaISfM In this area! May they live
long allf prosper, and get out of the
Army snon, but t~not till after o. hut
caGhes I'm"
Here's to the whole bunch who
stayed in the home land and did the
W0hk while others went on across the
poiAa to France and glory.
s The writer picked up on one of the
writing tables a soldiers Prayer, to
Z anne ef rs.Now 1 Lay Me Down to
> Here are few lines:
4 N no FIRE drills at night.
IN the m0rning let me wake.
ling scents Of sirloin steak.
II I'M sna fsnm rTork and drills