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/ Deration rolls raging away to the
rear, everything quakes.
Our faces change imperceptibly.
We are not, indeed, in the front-line,
but only in the reserves. yet in every
fac can be read: This is the front,
now we are within its embrace.
It is not fear. Men who have been
up as often as we have become
thick skinned. Only the young re-
cruits are agitated. Kat explains to
them: THAT was twelve-inch.
You hear the explosion first and
afterwards comes the sound of the
gun"
But the hollow sound of the firing
does not reach us. 1t is swallowed
up in the general murmur of the
front. Kat listens: "There1l be
bombardment tonight"
We all listen. The front is rest
less. THE Tommies are firing al
ready" says Kropp.
The Smelling can be heard dis
tinctly. It is the English batteries
to the right of our section. They
are beginning an hour too soon.
According to us they start
punctually at 10 o'clock.
What's got them?" says Muller,
their clocks must be fast"
"Thereu be a bombardment, tell
you, can feel it in my bones" Kat
shrugS his shoulders.
Three shells land beside us. The
burst of flames shoots across the
fog, the fragments howl and drone.
We SILVER and are glad to think
that We shall be back in the hutS
early in the morning.
Our faces are neither paler nor
more flushed than usual; they are
not more tense nor more f1abby-
and yet they are changed. We feel
that in our blood a contact has shot
home.
That is no figure of speech; 1t is
fact. 1t is the front. the conscious
ness of the front, that makes this
contact. The moment that the first
shells whistle over and the air rent
with the explosions, there is sud-
denly in our veins, in our hands, in
our eyes, tense waiting, watch
ing. profound growth, a strange
sharpening of the senses. The body
with one bound is in full readiness.
It often seems to me as though it
we're the vibrating, Shuddering air
that with a noiseless leap springs
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CHAPTER VI

WE have to go up on wiring
w fatigue. The motor lorries roll
up after dark. We climb in. 1t is
a warm evening and the twilight
seems Ike canopy under whose
shelter we feel drawn together. Even
the stingy Tjaden gives me cigaret
and then light.
We stand damned in together,
shoulder to shoulder; there is no
room to sit. But We do not expect
that. Muller is in a good mood for
once; he is wearing his new boots.
The engines drone, the lorries
bump and rattle. The roads are
worn and full of holes. We dare not
show light, so we lurch along and
are often almost pitched out. That
does not worry us, however. It can
happen if it likes; broken arm is
better than hole in the CUTS, and
many a man would be thankful
enough for such a chance of finding
his way home again.
Beside us stream the munition-
columns of long files. They are max
ing the pace, they overtake us go
ing forward. We joke with them
and they answer back.
A wall becomes visible, it belongs
to a house which lies on the side of
the road. I suddenly prick up my
ears. Am I deceived? Again I hear
distinctly the cackle of geese. A
glance of KatcZinskV-a glance from
him to me; We understand one
another.
Kat. I hear some aspirants for
the frying pan over there"
He mods. at will be attended 70
when we come back. I have their
numhT.'
OF course Kat has their number
He knows all about every leg of
goose within a radius Of fifteen
miles.
The lorries arrive at the artillery
lines. The un-emplacementS are
camouf1agd with bushes against
arial observation and look like a
kind Of military feast of the taber-
nacles. These branches might seem
gay and cheerful we're not cannon
embowered there.
Tn air becomes acrid with the
ymoke of the guns and the fog. The
fumes of powder taste bitter on
the tongue. The roar of the guns
makes our lorry stagger. the rever-
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The why" as 1 see it is that with
responsibility divided as it is at the
present, there is no way for the
President, congress or the people to
put a finger on the weak spot in
enforcement.
The result is constant buck-pass-
ing between them so fast that per-
son gets dizzy trying to secure i'm
provements as though watching a
toe dancer whirl.
Man Power Wasted
No great additional sum of money
Is needed to improve prohibition
enforcement. There is plenty of
man power. though not all of the
right kind. But the man power isn't
made to work to the best advantage.
With Capitalization, with proper
exchange of information and per-
sonnet, there would be more of the
Remus type of bootlegger caught
and convicted, the men at the head
Of the big liquor rings.
Right in the treasury department
Itself, there is a scattering OF re-
sponsibility that encourages buck
passing" when anything goes wrong
with prohibition enforcement. The
secretary of the treasury necessarily
must occupy most of his time with
the financial affairs of the country.
The real solution Of the enforce
ment problem is to secure the close
grouping and proper coordination
of the misunderstanding branches
of the treasury department with the
prosecuting agencies under the de-
partmnt of justice. There should be
one head to determine policies. 1t
doesn't have to be the department
Of justice. but certainly control
should be centralized somewhere.
Plug Alcohol Leak
II is essential that bootleggerS be
cut of from their supply Of indus
trial or specially denatured alcohol.
Previously, I have stated in detail
what the alcohol leak amounts TO.
and how it can be plugged by re-
writing regulations and tightening
up on permits.
When the alcohol leak is plugged,
there will be vastly less bootlegging
in the United States Of America
than at present.
Another method of improving en-
forcement will be to cut off the TOW
of liquot from Canada and other
points outside the United States.
First, it will be necessary to con-
vince the Canadian authorities OF
the honest intentions and integrity
of our own officials. in order to get
more effective aid from Canada. A
good start has been made in recent
changes in the customs service at
Detroit. Second. it will be necessary
20 strengthen our border patrol.
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ana afterWaru ne would be almost
sure to have limp.
It's got someone pretty badly.
Cries are heard between the explo-
Sions.
At last it grows quiet. The fire
has lifted over us and is now drop
ping on the reserves. We risk a
look. Red rockets shoot up to the
| sky. Apparently there's an attack
coming.
Where we are it is still quiet.
sit up and shake the recruit by the
shoulder. "All over, kid! It's all
right this time"
He looks round him dazedly.
You'll get used to it soon," 1 tell
him. ..-t
He goes off. Things become
quieter, but the cries do not cease.
What's up, Alberto" I ask.
"A couple of columns over there
have got it in the neck"
The cries continue. 1t is not men
They could not cry so terribly.
Wounded horses" says Kat.
It's uncomfortable. 1t is the moan
ing Of the world, it Is the martyred
creation, wild with anguish, filled
with terror, and groaning.
We are pale. lettering stands up.
God! For Gods sake! Shoot
them!"
He is a farmer and very FOND. Of
horses. It gets under his skin. Then
as if deliberately the fire dies down
again. The screaming of the beasts
becomes louder.
One no longer can distinguish
whence in this now quiet, silvery
landscape it comes; ghostly, inviSi-
BILE, it is everywhere, between heaven
and earth it rolls on immeasurably
lettering raves and yells out:
Shoot them! Shoot them, can't
you? Damn you again!"
"They must look after the men
first" says Kat quietly.
We stand up and try to see where
it is. If We could only see the ami
male we should be able to endure it
better. Muller has a pair of glasses.
We see a dark group, bearers with
stretchers and larger black clumps
moving about. Those are the
wounded horses. But not all Of
them. Some gallop away in the dis
lance. fall down and then run on
farther.
The belly of one is ripped open,
the CUTS trail out. He becomes
tangled in them and falls, then he
stands up again.
lettering raises his gun and aims.
Kat hits it up in the air. "Are you
mad"
lettering trembles and throws his
rifle on the ground.
We sit down and hold our ears.
But this appalling noise. these
groans and screams penetrate, they
penetrate everywhere.
We can bear almost anything.
But now the sweat breaks out on
us. We must get up and run, no
matter where, but where these cries
can no longer be heard. And it is
not men, only horses.
From the dark group stretchers
move off again. Then single shots
crack out. The black heap is con-
vulsed and becomes thinner. At
last But still 1t is not the end.
The men can not overtake the
wounded beasts, which fly in their
pain, their wide open mouths full
of anguish. One of the men goes
down on his knee. a shot-one horse
drops-another The last one props
himself on his forelegs and drags
himself around in circle like a
merry-go-round; squatting, it drags
round in circles on it's stiffened fore
legs. apparently it's back is broken.
The soldier runs up and shoots 1t.
Slowly, humbly it sinks to the
ground.
We take our hands from our ears.
The cries are silenced. Only long
drawn. dying sigh still hangs on
the air.
Ito Be Continued a
Copyright 1929. by Little. Brown & Co.
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Another step toward making pro-
hibition enforcement effective is
complete elimination of political ap-
pointeeS from the enforcement or
ganization. AS long as one-third of
the prohibition force is made up of
people who have not qualified under
proper civil service examinations,
and political pull and influence are
instrumental in keeping dishonest,
unframed or stupid men in the serv-
ice, there will be little possibility
of the kind of enforcement that is
required.
Must Have Local Aid
To local communities must be left
responsibility for the kind of police
work that will detect the half-pint
and quart liquor peddlers.
And, finally, when the United
States district attorneys and their
assistants are appointed principally
on the basis of legal fitness, integ-
rity, and willingness and determine
ton to enforce all the laws, instead
of on the basis of political influence,
another 100 per cent will be added
to the effectiveness of enforcement!
Let me say again that prohibit
ton never will be successfully en-
forced from Washington alone. 1t
simply can not be done. 1t is local
opinion and vigilance that will bring
about effectiveness in the districts
throughout the country.
If one person is given centralized
authority to coordinate forces and
establish policies. if he be willing
to face the difficulties and the in
finite details of the task, and if he
will stand up and take punishment
and keep fighting. he can carry the
work on to success. He will have
the backing of President who has
spent his life doing what timid men
said was impossible.
She's Had Her Fun
There are some who will count
me lust another "out" in the game;
others will say. "She made a sacri-
fee hit" What is said matters little,
because of my sure conviction that
the man who follows me will ad-
vance the policies in which 1 be-
lieve.
In one sense I'm sorry to leave,
even on the wings of the challenge
of aviation law. For in looking back
over the last eight years tthe full
measure of public service for any
lawyer who doesn't want to get
"governmentitiS". 1 realize that ]
have had lot of fun in the struggle
itself. because. as President Roose-
Welt said: Aggressive fighting for
the right is the noblest sport the
world affords"
THE END.
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many a moon. It is the winner of
the second prize in the Dutton-
Methuen Detective Mystery Story
contest.
1t is we'll worth the two bucks that
is charged for it.
It
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
Our Gang Kids at the Lyric, -Four
Feathers" at the Circle, Lucky
Star" at the Apollo, THE Greene
Murder Case" at the Indiana. Our
Modern Maidens' at the Palace,
Eddie Leonard in Melody Lane" at
the Granada, French Models at
the Mutual. River of Romance" at
the Ohio, and movies at the Co.
lonial.
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Best Sellers

The following is Q list of the six best
sellers in fiction n Bretano's New York
stores:
Fiction
"They STOPPED to Folly" Ellen Glss-
gov: Doubleday Dorsn. $3.50. A bril-
liant and witty history of shifting
fashions IN morals.
"Roper's Row." Warwick Deeping;
Knopf. $3.50. new character novel
by the author Of "Sorrell and Son."
'Ex-Wife.'' Anonymous: Cape and
Smith. 81. The story OF what hap
pened to a young woman suddenly
abandoned by her husband.
THE Galaxy" Susan Ertz; Appleton.
$3.50. A portrait of a lady by the
author Of Madame Claire"
IAN Quiet on the Western Front
Eric Remarque; Little Brown, $3.50.
The great war novel.
Hide IN the Dark" Frances Noyes
Hart; Doubleday Doran. 50. new
mystery story by the author of THE
BeIlamy Trial"
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BY MABEL WALKER wILLEBRANDT

Copyright publication
worldD
position in because, so
President all prohibition
justice
supervision.
who want to believe such story do never have
while all the prohibition
circulation during the
emphatcay
prohibition policies should centered
place stated publicly and pi
vately.
there's nothing original with about that idea More than
reorganization government de-
six major recommendations of that
functions the
treasury department"
specific recommendation by the experts that the
taken supervision of the secretary of the
experts the reader will want know
prohibition
itv els han 10 ne DEPARTMENT.
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COLLEGE PROFESSOR
SOLVES MYSTERY
"The Murder in the laboratory Is One of Those Poison
ThrIIers Which Is Nearly Impossible to Solve
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

IN MY days when covering the my
l. ing assignments poison mystery
They few and far between they
right
And when intelligent poison mystery the
press 1 wild to get my it,
And when E. p. & of
Murder in the Laboratory Davidson Zeppelin
speaking into it with all working.
There is good deal that be said Of
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Central Authority
Called Great Need
in Prohibition Rule
Too Much Chance for Buck-Passing Under
System Now in Use, Declares Mabel
Walker Willebrandt


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DEM. NATIONAL COMMITTEE. TO PAY OFF MILLION OF IN
 DEBTEDNESS IN. FEW DAYS

WASHINGTON, May l.-Chair- man John J. Raskoh announced today that within fortnight the million and a. half indebtedness of the Demo- cratic. National Committee will have been reduced to less than one-half million dollars. He also announced that Jouett s. House, as chairman of the executive committees, is opening permanent headquarters here for. the purpose of recovering in the 1880 congressional elections some of the ground lost vast year.
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 Airplaners
THREE YOUNG MEN BURN TO DEATH WHEN THEIR MA
 CHINE CRASHES.

LOS ANGELES, April 3o.-Wil- liam Oviatt, 22 years old, rich son of William H. Oviatt, former manager of Morris T. Gerst, noted stage pro- ducer; Ray N. Scott, 25, nephew of Charles Murray, famous screen come dian; Mack A. Flicker, 25, motion pie ture character actor, burned to death when the airplane in which the trio were joyriding crashe dto earth yes terday.
 Workmen at the Rogers airport, from which he plane took off, report ed that all three men were under the influence of liquor.
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FORM FER ALASKA PROSPEC-
 TOR WINS CONTEST TO RE-
 COVER HALF $43,O0O ESTATE

SEATTLE. April 29. Superior Judge Howard M Lindiey has rnia.i that George Mclean, Alaska pres rector, 60 years old, anl deaf, shall have half of the S43,000 estate of his sister, the late Mrs .Revelle, wife' of Joe Revelle, Seattle policeman and brother of Thomas F., Reyelle, former United States attorney.h Lindley denounced Revelle for having fraudu- -ently attempted to cheat Mclean out of his half, and srdered set of ap- praisers to ring in a ne waccount- ing of the estate. Revelle had repre- scented that Mclean had received his share of the estate.
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Joyridin8
 and Death
WOMAN KILLED, SEATTLE MAN
 FACES CHARGES OF MAN - ..- SLAUGHTER. h.. ...-

SEATTLE, May 2--Charges of manslaughter were filed today against Jacob William Knauss, 63, and married, in connection with the death Sunday in an auto crash of Mrs. Zella May Harvey, 36, wife of Guy J. Harvey.
 During the inquest Knauss related that he and Mrs. Harvey were auto riding; that as he was kissing and embracing her with one arm, driving the machine with one hand, the auto ran into telephone pole. The woman was killed. Knauss sustained frac- tured leg.
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INTERIOR DEPT. ASSISTANT
 TO MAKE VISIT TO ALASKA

WASHINGTON, April 30.-Ernest W. Sawyer, administrative assistant to Secretary of Interior Wilbur, will leave Washington on May 20 on an inspection trip which will carry him through number of Western States and Alaska. He first plans to go to Chicago to confer with officials of the Alaska Railroad. In Alaska he pur- poses studying in detail the adminiss tration of that Territory.
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Railroads
 Battling
TIMORE & OHIOp AND CHES-
 APEAKE &. OHIO.-

NEW YORK;. May 1.-The. Times says today that battle of millions for the control of strategic railroads in the East, comparable to that waged between the. Pennsylvania railroad and the Gould interests in the early part of the century, has been started between the Pennsylvania railroad on one side and the Baltimore & Ohio and Chesapeake & Ohio on the other side.
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ANTI DEMONSTRA-
 TION AT MEXICO CITY MAY l

NEW YORK, May 1.-Anti-Amer- ican demonstration in Mexico City, in which police and riot squads quelled several hundred men and women in front of the United States consulate, and clashes between Berlin police and communists, in which one man was killed, marked the observ- ance of May aday, 1929, by radicals abroad. At Mexieo City the nemon' strators shouted Death to Amer irans!"
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s1 INDICTMENTS. RETURNED AGAINST FORMER ALLEGED.
 BAD ONEs,. CHICAGO HEIGHTS

CHICAGO, May, 4.-A four-years' Investigation of liquor law violations in Chicago Heights was ciimaxed to- day by return of federal indictments against eighty-one persons, including former police officials, tn postmaster and alleged numerous officers. It is said that. evidence will be presented showing that they did a business of 5 S36, 100000 dufing that period and are directly responsible for score of murders in the city,.
 Charlie Goebel, after a visit of sew gal days here, left this morning. for AcGrath. Going dors.; at the same ume was Bernard H. Ivey, after a
 sey of three or fous days here.
 aptain George A. Green, master
 Athe steamer Tana. returned to Me-
 eth on Monday, astsr>a 9 winter on
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EDISON TO, SELECT BRIGHT
 EST OF 49 BOYS, WINNER TO-, GET A. COLLEGE EDUCATION

NEW YORK, April 3O.-Thomas A. Edison has. asked the governor of each State and commissioners of the District of Columbia to designate a board to select from among high schools and preparatory schools pu- pills, each, boy who ha sshown him. self with ability in scientific sub- .jects- This school year he will pay the expenses of forty-nine boys, from their home t ohis laboratory, and there he will select the brightest one, the winner to be given a college edu- cation at,Edison's expense
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ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. r., May

ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. r., May 4--Parker Cramer, who last year at tempted nonstop flight from Rock ford. Ills, to Stockholm, Sweden, landed here last evening in a Cessna plane, in which he left Nome, Alaska, last Saturday. He arrived from Chi cagD, where the round-trip flight to the Actic Circle started and ended.
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GERMAN AND. AMERICAN
 PREPARATIONS DELEGATES
 REACH A FULL AGREEMENT

PARIS, May 4.-The German and American reparations delegations have, reached full agreement on com plete settlement of reparations prob- lens. It remains, however, for the American to win the Belgium delega- tions to their plans. The British, Japanese and Belgians have ap- proved the settlement tentatively
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JUDGE CARLOS s. HARDY, AC-
 QUITTED, RESUMES DUTIES

LOS ANGELES, April 30.-Carlos s. Hardy, following his acquittal by the California Legislature of articles of impeachment in connection with the Aimee Semple McPherson affair. resumed his duties today as one of the Superior Court judges of Los Angeles county.
The Kusko times., 1929-05-04
SENAT ETAKES 10 MINUTES TO ExTENpaGREET1NGs TO
 COL. CHARLES. LINDBERGH

WASHINGTON, April 30.-The Senate took a recess of ten minutes scday to greet Col. Charles A. Lind bergh. Standing between Vice Presi- dent Curtis and Senator Bingham, Lindbergh smiled and shook hands with the Senators as they. filed by to congratulate him on. his exploits.
The Kusko times., 1929-05-04
NON STOP FLIGHT AROUND
 WORLD NEXT SEPTEMBER

WASHINGTON, May IA non- stop flight around the world next September is the project oi Lieut.. AL bert D. Hulse, army reservef flyer, Captain H. w. Lyon Jr., navigator of the Southern Cross when she made the trans-Pacific flight, and three others.