The Cottage Grove sentinel., November 10, 1938, Image 4

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Reminiscences of World War and
Editor, The Sentinel:
As the twentieth anniversary of
Armistice Day draws near there
returns quite vividly to the mem­
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Axley, Mr. ory of every World War veteran
and Mrs. Schofield Stewart. Dr. certain experiences and observa­
and Mrs. W. E. Lebow and Mr. tions of interest to our fellow
and Mrs. Robert Savage left Wed­ citizens. After so many years I
nesday for a few days visit in have thought to recall for The
Goldendale, Washington at
the Sentinel readers some of my war
home of a sister of Mrs. Axley's. experiences.
June 4th, 1917, I volunarily of­
fered my services as a "Soldier of
ACCIDENT BREEDERS.
Fortune" in the Canadian Army
Medical Corps. Later I felt more
The nation-wide reduction in highway tatalitics this year or less like a "soldier of misfor­
challenges the mobilized forces of the traffic safety movement tune."
to go forward with a yet broader program to combat existing For three weeks before going
maladjustment, said Wallace Falvey, chairman of the advisory into line duty I was in charge of
officer-patients dining .room at
committee of the National Conservation Bureau, recently. Pay­ a an rest
camp at Bully-grenier,
ing tribute to the part state authorities have taken in saving back of Lens — possibly three
lives, sparing human suffering and protecting property on miles behind the lines. While here
America’s highways, he emphasized that greater uniformity of Sir Douglas Haig caused to be
laws, regulations and administrative practices of motor vehicle posted the notice which read:
Stands With Her Back
departments would benefit not only the officials charged with “ to England
the Wall” and further urged
motor vehicle control, but also legislators and the great body every ‘Officer, N.C.O.. and Man’
to do his utmost. Emergencies
of motorists.
“The multiplicity of traffic control devices and regulations like this always appeal to men.
Daily hundreds of men and horse
which confront the motorist when he ventures beyond his home drawn
field artillery passed our
territory, create confusion and irritation, he declared. And camp on the way to the line.
confusion and irritation breed accidents.’
When warned for 'up line duty’
States and municipalities developed traffic control in a I told my officers good-bye. They
more or less helter-skelter fashion. No effort was made to showed appreciation of my efforts
by getting up a purse for me.
achieve uniformity. The consequences are obvious. A motorist One
young officer said: "Slim,
traveling in a strange territory is confused. He drives through you won
’t enjoy it up there."
overhead control lights, because in his town the lights are plac­ However, Sunday, April 21st.
ed on sidewalks, or roadsides, or on the pavement itself. He 1918, my company, the 10th Field
looks in the wrong places for Stop and warning signs. He vio­ Ambulance Co., moved by motor
from “Fosse 10" to St.
lates laws innocently, and unknowingly takes risks that lead truck
Pierre and then marched into
to accidents.
• Loos, a very much battered little
The time for a change has arrived. KWe have managed to city adjacent to Lens at the north
start the accident curve downward. And the inauguration of a end of Vimy Ridge. Here we took
the 'Advanced Dressing Sta­
movement to standardize traffic control devices and regulations over
tion’ and our squad was immedi­
would help keep it going down.
ately assigned to carry stretcher
cases from “Junction post."
There was first, the ’Regimen­
DIES INVESTIGATION.
tal Aid Post,’ with the Infantry,
then the ‘Advanced Aid Post’
Despite the opposition from some sources of the present then
the ‘Advanced Dressing Sta-
administration many people feel that the senate investigation tion.’ then the “Main Dressing
of the Dies committee into the activities of the various un- Station,” then the "Casualty
American organizations is well worth the money that has been Clearing Station” and finally the
"Base Hospital.” That is the or-
appropriated, since it has served to focus the attention of thej der
in which wounded men were
public on how far to the left the nation has swung through the transported for medical attention.
insidious propaganda promulgated by the Fascists, the Com-| Each case was given a hypo for
munists and similar sects. As a matter of fact the $25.000 the anti-tetnus (lock-jaw) four times.
the fourth time the sensa-
investigation has cost to date has been worth more than a lot About
tion was as the English say—
of other appropriations made by congress.
“Beastly Awful!”
The inroads made by the red, facists and nazis in the past Some will wonder how a battle
twenty years is astounding. We have permitted the radical field looked. To me it seemed like
leaders a privilege denied in the countries where socialism, com-, some monster giant had taken
munism, nazism and facism is taught and practiced. The right a four-ton sledge hammer and
battered the brick and steel
of free speech and a free press is a back number in countries buildings, railroads, etc.. then,
where these theories exist.
with a huge pick axe worked the
We not only favor the continued congressional investigar whole country and borrowed Paul
tion but an appropriation for the deportation of radicals from Bunyon’s big blue ox and plowed
crooked trenches every­
our shores and an additional appropriation to teach American­ deep,
where. It surely seemed like the
ism in the public schools.
very “abomination of desolation.”
If the radicals don’t like the way we are running our gov- This country had been fought and
eminent, let them go to the country that is practicing some of shelled for some three years. The
trenches were, of course, deep
the cracked brain theories they are expanding! Why let them enough
to walk erect and still be
try to tear down a government that we have spent 150 years well below the surface level.
in building when it is so easy to go to a country where the com­ Walking along these trenches one
could see hundreds of discarded
munist, fascist or nazi theories are practiced?
communication wires which had
been buried and new ones laid.
TWITTER.
Here and there someone had plac­
ed a cross with the familiar in­
The story is told of a man who had a canary which sang scription “R.I.P. Unknown.” One
could also see whole or frag­
sweetly. When summer came the man thought it was a pity to ments
of steel shelters, which
keep the canary indoors, so he decided to hang its cage out in a were called "pill boxes,” and
were made of boiler plates and
tree in his yard.
Now. it happened that this tree was frequented by spar­ served as protection for snipers
gunners.
rows in great numbers. Before long the canary’s song lost much or In machine
the basements of what had
of its sweetness, and by the end of summer it couldn’t sing like been a home was our quarters.
a canary any more at all. All it could do was twitter, twitter, the entrance at the rear. The
twitter, like an English sparrow. It had spent the summer in first night here a decaying mouse
under my head in the bunk
bad company, and it ha<l become like them, losing its finest gift. was
and the body lice became very
If we have free time on our hands, it is well to think about chummy. For these, when oppor­
how we can best spend it. To be busy with interesting things is tunity permitted, we turned our
the best way to keep out of bad company during leisure time. underwear inside out and sprayed
By doing this we will not only be keeping what is fine and good the seams with creosote, which
did the work. Water was
in our make-up, but we will be growing in character. The song always
hauled in tanks or carried and
of our lives will not then have deteriorated to a mere twitter.— every drop was doped with chlor­
The Front Rank.
ide of lime, giving it a bad taste.
A familiar topic of conversation
was the prospects of assistance
“The trouble with reformers has been that they wanted to from the American troops. Prob­
do their work without regard to its effects upon the producing ably the principal pastime was
agencies that created jobs. Reform was placed ahead of recov­ "penny-ante poker,” which helped
to spend the leisure hours. While
ery, regardless of the consequences, and oftentimes without re­ most
of the men smoked "players
gard to the kind of reform or the necessity for it.”—Manufac­ cigarettes,
” more than 10 percent
turers Record.
of our company did not use "to­
bacco.” At the front in dugouts
William Harcombe, Eugene at­ music was not often used for ob­
torney indicted by the Lane vious reasons. For the same rea­
county grand jury October 15, on son sensible men did not stick
charges involving three checks, their heads over the trenches to
including a forged endorsement, see what “No Man’s I^and” look-
went on trial yesterday at Eu- ed like. The curious were short­
gene. Taking of testimony occu- lived, it was presumed.
pied the greater part of the case.
The stretcher
squads were
Jurors serving on this trial from moved from one living quarters
South Lane county were: Mamie to another to make a change of
B. Zumwalt, Roy S. Hands and scenery, I suppose, and to divide
Alvin Rust was sentenced by Kate B. Kennady.
up the work. At this time we
Judge G. F. Skipworth in circuit
The trial of Thomas Wiseman, were in what was considered a
court at Eugene yesterday to indicted on a charge of second-de- quiet sector, which made It bet-
serve five years in the state peni­ gree murder for the death of Her- ter to introduce one of the real-
tentiary for laceny by bailee of man Scott, his employer, will be- ties of war. The new men worked
an automobile. He was found gin in court this morning.
with the more seasoned. No one
guilty by a jury Monday after­
Harcombe was found guilty by laughed if you got scared when a
noon. Testimony at the trial a jury yesterday on two counts, bursting shell hit near and the
showed that Rust borrowed a car He will be sentenced by Judge fragments Imbedded In the bank
from W. E. Niles, took it to Cor­ Skipworth sometime today.
I near you.
vallis and traded it off.
Going toward the line with
Rust had also been indicted on FOR SALE: CHOICE O. I. c. folded stretchers we took the
a charge of failure to support his
weaner pigs.
Also new two trenches because Fritz’s observ­
children. It is expected he will wheel trailer for sale or will ers might mistake the stretcher
be taken to Salem some time to­ trade. Arnold Duerst, Disston for a machine gun, but returning
day.
route, phone 19F4.
13-ltc ( we took the short cut overland
Rust Given 5 Years
In Pen for Theft
Of an Automobile
National Editorial Association. Oregon
Newspaper Press Association
with stretcher carried on our
shoulders. Of course all medical
men wore red crosses on txith
arms beside a white band four
inches wide, with red cross. sew-
ed on the left arm. stamped with
our orderly-room stamp. Every­
one wore steel helmenta. Gas
masks were worn about the neck
hanging in front at a ready posi­
tion. A first aid field dressing
was sewn in the corner of every
soldier’s coat, that was for him­
self. He carried his own “Iron
Rations," which, under severe
penalty, must never be touched
without direct orders from an of­
ficer. Ours had been previously
put in tin can« and soldered up
to keep gas from them. Shell
dressings were issued to every­
one. as many as he wished to
carry. Several were usually tied
to the rings of the gas mask case.
We also carried handkerchiefs,
wool socks, towel, soap, etc.
For eats we were fortunate.
Medical units always carried ex­
tra emergency rations for about
200 men. In camp, bread, bacon,
potatoes, rice, rolled oats, mush
and coffee or tea and the old re­
liable plumb and apple jam. also
mulligan stew were the rule.
Hardtack was always plentiful
and corned beef (bully beef) too
much so.
Contrary to what might be
supposed the trenches had signs
like city street signs.
Some
examples are, "Netley trench
“Junction post;”
"Netley relay
"Martyrs Post,' etc. The names
were not plain like street signs
but were signs nevertheless.
From the “A.D.S.” we moved
up to “Junction Post" into a reg­
ular trench dugout. This, like
most of the dugouts In this sec­
tor. had been constructed by the
Germans and the entrance faced
the wrong way. The stairway
ran straight down some fifteen or
twenty feet below the surface.
Here was a small room, as I re­
member, about ten by twelve
feet and a small side room for
supplies. In one of these holes
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity
were actual facts. Everyone
bunked together and each one
was a cook. Each man ate out
of his own dish but everybody
drank out of same cup or pail. If
anyone received a parcel it was
divided among all of us. Yes! We
got mail in those places, how I
couldn’t say. Often parcels had
been wet from sea water.
The first night I was assigned
to sentry duty. Sitting or stand­
ing beside a table with a gass-
proof blanket, treated with chem­
ical, hung in front at the en­
trance, while behind all of this
boys slept soundly, usually from
shear weariness, gave a feeling of
unusual importance and knowing
that one wink of sleep on your
part might easily spell the end of
the war for all present. There
was no sleeping sentry. I can as­
sure you.
When cooking time came we
used a brasier stove and coke.
Coke was used because it made
little smoke, however, any was
too much so one man stood up in
the trench and fanned the air
with his hat. Beside the entrance
someone had dropped a sandbag
containing about a pailful of
Mills bombs. They were always
dangerous, but especially so when
a little old and-rusty as the only
thing which kept them from ex­
ploding was a small cotter key
with a ring attached to it. Pull
the pin and it exploded in four
seconds.
By day and by night the firing
went on. R.R. guns back three or
four miles threw huge shells
which went over head rattle,
rattle, rattle, landing far off with
a crash. Field guns threw 18-
pounders right along. The high
velocity German shells came zlt
bang!—and were called “Whiz-
Bangs." Some shell made a cre-
cendo of Mew! Some a whining
noise. Machine gun fire was in­
termittant. By night could be
heard the clanking side-rods of a
small oil burner locomotive and
the small flash of light from the
ash pan as the supply train went
up the line. Whenever new dirt
was moved it was always camou­
flaged to look like the rest of the
Central School Notes
THANK TOV
For several wt^ks the children
of the third grade room have
been studying the development of
transportation. One week wns
spent in developing each of the
following topics: land, water and
.■nr «transportation The topic«
and
were develop'd by reading
of
discussing primitive methods
transportation und noting the
various improvements which have
been made throughout the years.
During the language period oral
and written stones have I won giv­
en and booklet« telling the history
of tran.s|x>rtatlon have been made.
Information concerning this topic
have 1**00 gathered from many
sources including library books,
textbooks, plctimes.
magazines
and a study of actual models of
boats, automobile* and airplane*.
The children have collected pic­
tures for the bulletin board and
have kept a scrapbook. They have
made a dictionary tn which new
words learned during the study
were listed. During music |>eriod
songs and music related to the
topic under discussion have been
used. Perhaps one of the most in-
tensting features of this study
has been the construction of a
model stagecoach and sailboat.
The project Is now nearing com­
pletion and we plan to arrange
soon for a visiting day so that
parents and friends may see the
work accomplished.
I wish to take this mean* of
thanking the citizen« of Cottage
Grove for the vote given me on
Tuesday.
Although not elected.
I appreciate your expression of
confidence and hold no ill will for
those who did not support me.
L. J. McCOY
13-ltc
An interesting Pet project has
just been completed by the fir^t
grade. The major objective of the
project was that of cooperation.
This objective was accomplished
we feel through the working to­
gether of the little people and the
lessons drawn from our animal
friends. Mothers were invited
guests of the little folks on Wed-
nesday afternoon.
Try Our Thrifty
Two new pupils have enrolled
in school the past week. Barivi ra
Farr In the second grade and
June Wiscanrtn in the third grade.
Verne Clarke, sixth grader, trans-
fered to Creswell where his par­
ents have moved.
country. Sanitation was strictly
enforced in the British sector.
Hours of work was usually 24
hour shifts, if needed.
ALBERT WOODARD.
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IN DUE.
On October 27th, the Sentinel
mack' a final listing of the llow-
infantile parlaysis
ani
fund. After this issue win pub-
Hahed, we learned that the mime
of one contribution should have
been changed. The contribution
was handed in under the name of
Beside Sutcliffe and should have
been the Social Twelve club.
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