Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-04-30

kNODGH BARB WIRE TO FENCE THE
GOOD BADGER STATE
LBy Sergeant Melvin Olson, 327 Clothing and
Bath Unit BerncastIe, German, February ~ !
Dear Friend Manson; Have been thinking
! Of cropping you line since came into
the army: but have some how neglected doing
] So We left Newport News the 18th Of De-
sember and arrived in St. Nagaire. France On
Ne" Tears day. After staying there four
DAYS IN the mud we went TO Camp Clayton,
thatear De Loir. in box ears-not much like
tTayeiing IN Pulimsns, back in the good old
mud. but IL rained every day We we're in
france, SO its wonder it was muddy.
Aitsr staying there a week We we're assigned
TO the S0th Division which in Germany,
% az once we started travelling again in
french box cars Room for forty men eight
horses, and don't care how you would ley
down, there was always seven eight that
had 70 stand up 5lt standing about rs
comfortable IS laying down. The sO-cailed
sac aoor Futtmans gave Us good chance 70
see the country ard Il was sure worth seeing.
France - beautiful country, bat the St.
Mihsii front looks bad. There must be enough
I BARRED wire entanglemenfs there TO fence the
Hhole state OF Wisconsin. We are in charge
Of the clothing for the 90th Division AID we
sare issue some clothes. When | think Of
see Why the liberty loans come around 50 fire.
Copies Of the poem unfair Discrimination
have been circulated among the boys in the
goth Division and each one has been asked to
send a copy Of the same to his home paper.
Hope his FINDS You as well as i leaves me-
04NE AK DAEGKAAkA4NF AAOE
When Percy fillmore Wibble learned that he
must work or fight
It made the boy so nervous that he laid awake
all night.
But his maiden aunt Patricia quickly banished
every fear,
When she suggested hat he join and do his
soldering over here.
Now. his neigtbor. Biicky Fadden, who lives
across the street,
Didn't give a dam for Bosehes nor for Fian-
der's snow and sleet.
IF my Uncle Samuel needs me for that iOb
across the sea,
TIOb-nailed Hell and COrned Willie don't look
So Micky saw the trenches and that gas-in-
Tested He'll:
Pe took his job and did it, and by God. he
While the only hikes that Perey's shining rus
sets made.
Were when they needed more material for the
Labor Day Parade.
When Die Wacht Rhein" finished and
the Hun was down and out,
1t was then, oh kindly reader, that our Perez
began TO pout,
This iiliy-handed warrior who never heard a
gas alarm,
Was Jealous of the ChevrOns that adorned
And when dear Aunt Patricia saw the lad was
growing i'll,
She said it wasn't fair at alI--weTl have Con-
gress pass bill:
Wen put the ban on Service Chevrons regard
less of the fact
That two million men have won them where
Then the Senator whose son had also done
his bit at home
In the Quartermaster's Office just beneath old
Freedoms dome,
Commenced to preach determination" with a
Senatorial wall
That made the pictures of the warriors in
that sacred place turn pale
So Mieky ripped away the ChevrOns that adOrn-
ed his old D. d..
He threw away the helmet he had worn across
the sea.
He gave them back the rife he loved with all
his heart,
As part of the price a doughbOy pays who has
gone and done his part.
His Divisional insignia also came beneath the
ban
They made him take off everything that show
ed he'd been a man;
And he wondered, as his thoughts went back
TO the ArgOnne Trail
If this the nation that shouted so when
the Huns began TO fail
Unfair Discrimination" to the ones who had
TO stay7
But what about the lads who marched up and
sailed away?
Every bird in the A. E. F. knows that those
who stayed behind
Could have used the self-same pull to get up
where the Berthas whned.