The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-05-02
CITATIONS SHOULD
STIR CIVILIANS To
EMULATE TROOPS
sA5ovE AND BEYOND THE CALL
OF DUTY A PHRASE OF
DEEP MEANING.
SERVICE TO UTTERMosT
Records OF Our Heroes In France A.
ford an Inspiration for Victory
Loan.

Consider the gallantry of Corp. John
C. Villepigue OF South Carolina On,
October IL, 1918, he was sent with
two men to scout through the viii
lage of Vaux-Andigny. Machine guns
opened, splitting death, killing one Of
his men and wounding the other. The
corporal went on alone. Without any
aid or support he pressed on 500
yards in advance of his platoon, with
shell fire breaking over him and ma
chine gunners sniping at him. He met
four Huns and killed all of them with
hand grenade. He pressed on 100
yards further, rushed a machine gun
nest and killed four and captured six
Boches 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
were backing with our Liberty Bond
drives and our war work of 1918. How
small the efforts of the stay-at homes,
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 other Americans that we
are asked to float the Fifth Liberty
Loan, the Victory Loan Of the pres
ent. 1t is our time to show that we
are as willing and as patrioiotic 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 a 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 IL, 1918, his line
came under heavy machine gun fire
which threatened to hold up the ad-
vance. Followed by two soldiers at Is
yards the officer went out ahead OF
his first line toward a machine gun
nest and worked his way around its
flank while the two soldiers remained
in front. 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. Woodfili. 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-
tinued to advance until shortly after
ward another machine gun nest was
encountered. Calling upon his men to
follow Lieut.. Woodfill rushed ahead
of his line in the face of heavy fire
from the enemy, and 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 Of
ficer, for the third time, demonstrate
ed conspicuous daring by charging
another machine gun position, killing
i've men in one machine gun pit with
his rifle. He then drew his revolver
and started to jump into the pit when
two other gunners, only a few yards
away, turned their gun on him. Fail.
ing to kill them with his revolver, he
grabbed pick lying nearby and killed
them both. Inspired by his excep-
tlonai courage hisS men pressed OH to
their objective under severe shell and
machine gun fire"
1t is up to US to finish the Job for
which these men fought and died
that the United States of America is
now calling on all patritic men and
women to subscribe to the Victory
Loan" And it was these men who
made it the Victory Loan"
Had 1t not been for their sacrifices
we would have been facing a Fifth
Liberty Loan, and maybe a Sixth and
Seventh Loan. There would have
been no peace had not these men
fought their way through the Ar
gonne, along the elbow of the Mouse
river, up through Cheppy and Exer-
| LIpuI anu uu W HTSuu tTS ana LnGQCe
to Sedan. Montmedy and Buzancy,
smashing the German Hindenburg
and notwithstanding lines and
tearing the German gate from its
hinges.
Their Immediate Task.
The Woodfills, Skinkers, Robbs,
Villepigues, Roberts and others OF the
deathlessly valiant made all this pos.
sible for us. above and Beyond the
Cali Of Duty" was the way these men
saw the immediate task in front on
them, If their lives were required
of them, they gave their lives.
II the American people tackle the
| Job Of raising the Victory Loan" in
the spirit that these men swan rivers
under gun fire, rushed machine gun
nests, and threw themselves upon
the Hun barbed-wire, the Loan will
he subscribed and over-subscribed.
THE VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN