Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-18


define further"-Deep thought-'Tt
y the artillery carried by men and not
ny horses. One man asked in all
Solemnlty once: Does blood rust steel
| more than water?" 1t is not necessary
10 add That he never became an Off
| Ger.
we worked like nailers, but We're al
ways watching for the word that
| troops We're to be sent across. To al.
| oI us from the beginning, it was not
question of deciding whether we
! Should so or not. We had been
! Drought up with the idea that deplor-
| 9oie as war was, the only way when
u broke out was to go. The only way
! 70 keep peace, righteous peace. was
| " pc prepared and willing to fight.
| sp ehdld example o a fine family
recolu Is gwen by Governor Manning 8
! FAMILY, of South Carolina; seven sons
all In service, and one paying the SUI
preme sacrifice.
II we mad trained army like the
| SWISS, Germany would never dare
coinhllF any offenses against us and.
furthermore, / believe it highly pos
Sipie ina 1.-THE entire war might have.
peen avoided" was ii statement often
made to me by father at the beginning
Oh the war.
AZ the end of the first three weeks
we heard rumors that a small expa-
dltionary force was to be sent over
Immediately. We telephoned father
at oyster Bay and asked him If he
could help US get attached to this
eHpedluonary force. He said he would
Try, ana succeeded in so far as Archie
ana We're concerned, as we already
iaa commissions in the officers re-
serve corps. We offered to go in the |
ranks but General Pershing said we
would be OF more value in the grades |
Ior Whlch we held commissions. Our
excitement was intense when one dayl
in an official envelope from wash |
lngton we received a commission |
"Subject-Foreign Service Tho |
communication was headed Conf
DENTAL so we were forced to keep
all our jubilation to ourselves, Some |
ten Gays after we received another
communication, Subject - Orders
ana were directed to report to the
commanding gederali port of en-
barkation, New York, "confidentially
by Wire,' at what date we would be
ready to start.
we both felt this was not the mos:
eNpedltous way to proceed, but we
opeyed orders and telegraphed. We
supplemented this, however, by tax
ing the next train and reporting n
person, in case they could not decode
our message, at the same time the
telegram arrived. General Franklin
Bell was the commanding general.
and he very kindly helped us get off |
1nce, we finally leaving IN the liner
chicago within three days for Bor-
1eauX.
Our last few days in this county
we spent with the family Archie
md | went with our wives to Oyster
Bay, where father, mother and Quen- =
IN were. My wife even then an
bounced her intention of going to
Europe in some auxiliary branch, but
lie promised me she would not start
'ithout my permission. The promise
vas evidently made in the Pickwick-
an sense, as when / cabled her from
europe not to come the answer that
got was the announcement of her
trivial in Paris. There were six OF
'ur immediate family IN the Ameri-
can eXpedltionary forestry wife,
me brother-in-law, Richard Derby.
md we four brothers Father busy
is he was, during the entire time we
we're abroad wrote to each of us
Teekly, and when he physically could
n his own hand.
Go be Continued Tomorrow,