Dayton tribune., June 21, 1918, Image 4

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sky and we could hear the fragments
slapping the ground above us on our
right und left. Then a Frits would
traverse hack and forth with his "type­
writer” or machine gun. The bullets
made a sharp cracking noise overhead.
The hoy In front of me mimed Pren­
After L. O. McDonald, alias Georg«
tice crumpled up without a word. A
piece of shell had gone through Ida Thompson, alius George V rii Hums, pa­
shrapnel-proof helmet. I felt sick and rol« violator, hud been apprehended by
Dea Moines suthorltiss and Oregon au­
weak.
thorities WOW about l<> go after him
In about thirty minutes we reached news reached Halen» thnt Thompson
the front line. It was dHrk as pitch. bad been turned loose at Dea Moines.
Every now and then a German star
Every man called In the draft In
C o p y r ig h t 1017, by A r t h u r Q u j Kiapry
shell would pierce the blackness out
Linn and Benton counties hereafter
In front with Its silvery light. 1 was will
receive u small silk American ring
trembling all over, and felt very lonely ua the gift of the Albany lodge of Elks.
making wide circles In the air, while and afraid. All orders were given In When the last contingent left Albany,
little puffs of white smoke were burst­ whispers. The company we relieved the lodge presented each one with a
EMPEY GETS INTO THE FRONT LINE TRENCH— AND
ing nil around It. These puffs appeared filed past us and disappeared Into the flag and It has been decided to folluw
like tiny balls of cotton while after blackness of the communication trench thia plan regularly In the future.
WISHES HE WERE BACK IN JERSEY CITY.
each burst could be heard a dull lending to the rear. As they passed us,
The general land office announced
“plop." The sergeant of my platoon they whispered, “The best o' luck that
plans for openlug 150,000 seres of
Informed
us
that
It
was
a
German
air­
mates."
Synopsis.—Fired by the sinking of the Lusitania, with the loss of
public lands In the vicinity of Portland
plane anti I wondered how he could tell
American lives, Arthur Guy Empey, an American living in Jersey City,
I sat nn the fire step of the trench will not be abandoned, despite recoin-
from such a distance because I’te plane with the rest of the men. In each mendntlona of Governor Wlthycombe
goes to England and enlists ns a private in the British army. After a
seemed like a little black speck In the traverse two of the older men had been nnd others that the lands be held "un­
short experience as a recruiting officer In London, he is sent to train­
sky. I expressed my doubt as to put on guard with their heads sticking til peace conies, when they could 1^
ing quarters In France, where he first hears the sound of big guns
whether It wus English, French or Ger­ over the top, and with their eyes try opened for the benefit of returning
and makes the acquaintance of “cooties."
man. With a look of contempt he fur­ Ing to pierce the blackness In “No soldiers.”
ther Informed us that the allied anti­ Man’s Lund.” In this trench there
State Highway Engineer Nunn an­
aircraft
shells when exploding emitted were only two dugouts, and these were nounced that udvertlsenienta for blda
C H A P TER il.— Continued.
Now, Just Imagine my hard luck. Out
of five religions I was unlucky enough white smoke while the German shells used by Lewis and Vickers machine will be offered Immediately on the
The greatest shock a recruit gets to pick the only one where church gave forth black smoke, and, as he ex­ gunners, so It was the fire step for paving of 18 miles o t the Pacific high­
pressed It, “It must be an Allemand be­ ours. I’retty soon It started to rain, way from Aurora to Salem, at an es­
when he arrives at his battalion in parade was compulsory!
cause our pom-poms are shelling, und We put on our "macks," but they were timated expense of $348,000, the state
France is to see the men engaging in a
The next morning was Sunday. I
stand half of the expense out of the
•‘cootie” hunt. With an air of con­ was sitting In the billet writing home I know our batteries are not t i f f their not much protection. The rain trickled to
Bean-Barrett bonding act, and the gov­
bally
nappers
and
are
certainly
not
down our bucks, and It was not long ernment the other half.
tempt and disgust he avoids the com­ to my sister telling her of my wonder­
pany of the older men, until a couple ful exploits while under fire—nil re­ strafelng our own planes, and another before we were wet and cold. How I
Ninety-eight books of pronounced
of days later, in a torment of itching, cruits do this. The sergeant major put piece of advice—don’t chuck your passed thnt night I will never know,
he also has to resort to a shirt hunt, his head in the door of the billet and weight about until you've been up the hut without any unusual occurrence, pro-Prusslanlsm, or of seditious lean­
ing. culled from the shelves of the pub­
llne'and learnt something.”
dawn arrived.
or spend many a sleepless night of
shouted: “C. of E. outside for church
lic library by order of the directors of
I immediately quit "chucking my
misery. During these hunts there are parade!”
The word "stand down" was passed the Portland Library association, will
weight about” from thnt time on.
lots of pertinent remarks bandied back
along the line, nnd the sentries got be Interned under lock and key for the
I kept on writing. Turning to me. In
and forth among the explorers, such
Just before reaching reserve billets down off the fire step. Pretty «non the duration of the war, though preserved
a
loud
voice,
he
nsked,
“Enipey,
aren't
we were marching along, laughing, and rum Issue came along, und it was a for purposes of future historical refer­
as, ‘‘Say, Bill, I'll swap you two little
you C. of E.?”
singing one of Tommy's trench ditties: Godsend. It wanned our chilled bodies ence and comparison.
ones for a big one.” or, T v e got a
I answered, “Yep.”
black one here that looks like Kaiser
t want to go home, I w ent to s o home, anti put new life Into us. Then from
Under the direction of the fish and
In an angry tone, he commanded, I don't want to so to the trenches no the communication trenches came game
Bili.”
commission, two carloads of
more
dixies or Iron pots, filled with steam­ young salmon were planted In Oswego
One sunny day In the front-line “Don't you ‘yep' me. Say, ‘ ’es, ser­
W
here
sa
u
sa
se
s
and
w
h
lss-b
an
ss
are
g
a
­
geant
major.’
”
ing tea, which hnd two wooden stakes I-ake. These salmon, from one and a
. trench, I saw three officers sitting out­
lore.
side of their dugout (“cooties" are no
“I did so. Somewhat mollified, he T ake m e over the sea. W here the A lle­ through their handles, and were car­ half to three Inches long, will attain a
mand can't se t at me.
ried by two men. I filled my canteen growth of from eight to 20 Inches ss
respecters of rank ; I have even noticed ordered. “Outside for church parade."
my. I don't w ant to die,
a suspicions uneasiness about a certain
nnd drank the hot tea without taking land-locked salmon.” The two car­
I looked up and answered. “I am Oh. w ant
to s o hom e—"
It from my lips. It was not long be­ loads of 5-montbs-old fish contained
well-known general), one of them was not going to church this morning.”
when overhead came a “swish" through fore I wns asleep In the mud on the approximately 166,000 little salmon.
a major, two of them were exploring
He said, “Oh, yes, you areI”
the air, rapidly followed by three oth­ fire step.
their shirts, paying no attention to the
The recent hot days have caused a
I answered, “Oh, no, I’m n o t!”—But ers, Then about two hundred yards to
occasional shells which passed over I went.
My ambition had been attnlned ! I steady rise of the Columbia river,
our left In a large field, four columns was In a front-line trench on the west­ which now stand* at the highest mark
head. The major was writing a letter;
We lined up outside with rifles and of black earth and smoke rose Into the ern front, and oh, how I wished I were this season. Bottom land gardens arc
every now and then he would lay aside
submerged. Probably (he greatest I om
his writing-pad, search his shirt for a bayonets, 120 rounds of ammunition, air, and the ground trembled from the hack In Jersey City.
wearing our tin bats, and the march
will be to George L. Davenport, of Port­
few minutes, get nn inspiration, and
land, who had his foreman plant a
then resume writing. At last he fin to church began. After marching about
choice variety of potatoes In the land
Empey take* his first turn.on
ished his letter and gave it to his “run five kilos, we turned off the road Into
I
north of the Mosier depot last week.
an
open
field.
At
one
end
of
this
field
the firing etep of the trench
ner.” I was curious to see whether he
the
chaplain
was
standing
In
a
limber.
Members of the Oregon Dairymen's
while the machine gun bullets
was writing to an insect firm, so when
le ague have decided to raise the price
whiz over hie head. He soon
the runner passed me I engaged him We formed a semicircle around him.
of milk to the distributors 16% per
learns why Tommy has adopted
In conversation and got a glimpse at Overhend there was a black speck cir­
cent on June 20. according to an­
cling
round
and
round
In
the
sky.
This
the motto, “ If you're going to
the address on the envelope. It was
nouncement made by Alma D. Kats,
get it, you'll get it, so never
addressed to Miss Alice Somebody, in was a German Fokker. The chaplain
the president. Extremely unfavorable
hnd
a
book
in
his
left
hand—left
eye
worry."
Don’t
miee
the
next
London. The “runner” informed me
pasture conditions make the price ad­
installment.
that Miss Somebody was the major's on the book—right eye on the airplane.
vances necessary as an emergency
sweetheart and that he wrote to her We Tommies were lucky, we had no
means of preventing dairymen from
quitting (he business.
every day. Just imagine it, writing a books, so hnd both eyes on the air­
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
plane.
love letter during a “cootie” hunt; but
Portland's most novel demonstration
After church parnde we were
such is the creed of the trenches.
of what the Red Cross can do will be
NEW
AND
GREATER
THINGS
marched back to our billets, h nd.pl nyed
furnished by the opening of a Red
football all ufternoon.
* W f.ç
C H A PTER III.
Cross sulvage bureau which will han­
Possibility Ever Open to Mankind as dle junk—old Iron, old metals of every
I Go to Church.
the Periods Dividing Life Are
& W a SS
C H A P TE R IV.
possible description, rags, bones, pa­
Upon enlistment we had identity
Successively Crossed.
per, discarded mnterlul of all sorts
disks issued to us. These were small
ranging from tubes thnt once held
‘‘Into the Trench."
disks of red fiber worn around the neck
The poetry of all growing life con­ shaving cream or tooth paste to the
The
next
morning
the
draft
was
In­
by means of a string. Most of the Tom­
sists in carrying nn oldness Into a now- remains of great pieces of machinery.
mies also used a little metal disk which spected by our general, und we were '
nesfc,
a past Into a future, always. So
The possible construction of a rail­
they wore around the left wrist by assigned to different companies. The
only
cun
our days possibly be hound road by the federal government from
means of a chain. They had previous- : boys in the brigade had nicknamed
‘•each to each by natural piety,” I Yaqulna bay. through the Waldport
ly figured it out that if their heads this general Old Pepper, and he cer- | ~
»
-
would not for the world tlilnk thut 20 country and Into Lane county for the
were blown off, the disk on the left tainly earned the sobriquet. I wns as­
years hence I should have ceased to see purpose of reaching valuable spruce
wrist would identify them. If they lost signed to B company with another
the things which I see now, nnd love tracts, is Indicated by the presence of
their left arm the disk around the neck American named Stewart.
surveyors who are working on the west
them
still. It would make life weari­ coast of Ijine county near Heceta Head
g l» ®
I
For the next ten days we “rested,”
would serve the purpose, but if their
some beyond expression If I thought lighthouse. The engineers have been
head and left arm were blown off, no repairing roads for the Frenchles, drill­
that 20 years hence I should sec them working between Yaqulna bay and
/f^ONTEBNAWNAl.
one would care who they were, so It ing, and digging bombing trenches.
lyNtwascRvict
Just
ns I see them now, nnd love them Waldport for several weeks.
One morning we were Informed that
did not matter. On one side of the
with no deeper love because of other
disk was inscribed your rank, name, we were going up the line, and our
A special bulletin, devoted almost ex­
visions of their lovnblencss. And so clusively to the subject of Fourth of
A Bomb Proof.
number and battalion, while on the march began.
there
comes
this
deep
ami
simple
rale
July lemonade, was Issued from the
other was stamped your religion.
It took us three days to reach re­
C. of E„ meaning Church of Eng­ serve billets—each day’s march bring­ report—the explosion of four Germnn of any man ns he crosses the line divid­ Oregon food administration headquar­
land; It. C„ Roman Catholic; W„ Wes­ ing the sound of the guns nearer and five-nine’s, or “conlboxes.” A sharp ing one period of Ids life from another, ters by Assistant Food Administrator
leyan : P„ Presbyterian; but If you nearer. At night, way off in the dis­ whistle blast, Immediately followed by the same rule which he may use also as W. K. Newell. The privilege of run­
two short ones, rang out from the head he pusses through any critlcnl occur­ ning lemonade stands will be withheld
happened to be un atheist they left It tance we could see their flashes, which
of
our column. This was to take up rence of his life. Make It n time In over the state on the “glorious Fourth,”
blank, and just handed you a pick and lighted up the sky with a red glare.
“artillery
formation.” We divided Into which you shall realize your faith, and In the interests of sugar conservation,
shovel. On my disk was stamped C. of
Against the horizon we could see
small
squads
and went Into the fields also In which you shall expect of your the bulletin explains. Orangeade and
E. This is how I got it: The lieuten­ numerous observation balloons or “sau­
on the right and left of the road, nnd fnlth new nnd greater things. Take other sweetened drinks are also to be
ant who enlisted me asked my religion. sages” as they are called.
under the ban.
crouched on the ground. No other
I was not sure of the religion of the
On the afternoon of the third day’s shells followed this salvo. It was our what you believe nnd are, and hold It In
To have his right arm shot away
your hand with a new firmness as you
British army, so I answered, “Oh,- hny march I witnessed my first airplane
first baptism by shell fire. From the go forward ; but look on It with con­ and suffer other serious Injuries while
old thing,” and he promptly put down being shelled. A thrill ran through me
waist up I was all enthusiasm, hut from tinual ami confident expectation to see he slept In his bunkhouse was the un-
C. of E.
add I gized in awe. The airplane was there down, everything wns missing,
fortunate fate of R. T. CornelluB, nn
it open into something greater and employe of tho Pelican Bay Lumber
thought I should die with fright.
truer.—Phillips Brooks.
company, when a hlgbpoWcr rifle In
After awhile, wit reformed Into col­
the hands of C. E. Lusk was accidental­
umns o f fours, und proceeded on onr
ly discharged. Lusk wns cleaning his
R
e
h
a
b
ilita
tio
n
o
f
H
o
ly
Land.
w ay.
Im m e d ia te p la n s fo r the re h a b ilita ­ gun In the room adjacent to thnt of
About five that night, we reached the
tion of the Holy Land, to fit It for the Cornelius and it Is believed that the
rained village of II----- , and I got my
home of the Jews of the world, are muzzle of the gun was not over two
first sight of the nwful destruction
feet from the victim when It was dis­
now under consideration by the officers charged.
caused by German Kultur.
of the New York Zionist organization.
Marching down the main street we
A medical unit will be dispatched to
Total fire loss In tho slate outside of*»
came to the heart of the village, nnd the stricken land, loans will be made Portlnnd
for Mny is estimated at $261,-
took up quarters In shellproof cellars to the colonists to rebuild and refit 000 by State Fire Marshal W o II h , in his
(shellproof until hit by a shell). Shells their farms und vineyards, and Irriga­ monthly report. This Includes losses
were constantly whistling over the vil­ tion nnd sanitation problems must be on «9 buildings, Including 32 dwell­
lage and bursting In our rear, search­ solved. The $1,000,000 fund now being ings, 24 mercantile buildings nnd
ing for our artillery.
raised will be used for Immediate pur­ Htocks, seven barns, four sawmills and
These cellars were cold, damp nnd poses, and It is believed the recon­ one school. Two of the fires were
smelly, nnd overrun with large rats— struction work will Involve un expen­ from overheated stoves, three from ex­
big black fellows. Most of the Tom­ diture of approximately $100,000,000. plosion of gasoline, six from the ex­
plosion of lamps, six from electric
mies slept with their overcoats over
Irons and defective wiring, eight from
their faces. I did not. In the middle
Advance by Retrogression.
exposures, 21 from defective flues, and
of the night I woke up In terror. The
The rookie was being tnken to the 23 were Incendiary or of unknown
cold, clammy feet of n rat had passed guardhouse.
causes.
over my face. I Immediately smoth­
“Quick promotion," he njuttered to
ered myself In my overcoat, but could himself. “I am already In charge of
Union county’s quota of grammar
not sleep for the rest of thnt night.
a squad of men."—Boston Evening school graduates has been filled, five
Next evening, we took over our sec­ Transcript.
by volunteering nnd the remainder by
induction.
tor of the line. In single file we wend­
ed our way through a zigzag com­
Women W ill Tell.
Training of a 100-vcice choir to ap­
munication trench, six Inches deep
Mrs. BnCou—I see English bnnklng pear on the fourth of July celebration
with mud. This trench was called institutions employ over 54,000 wom­
program at I,a Grande, began recently
“Whisky street.” On our way up to en.
under the direction of Mrs. A. L. Rich­
the front line on occasional flare of
Mr.
Bacon—
Of course. Where would ardson.
Diagram Showing Typical Front-Line and Communication Trenchee.
bursting shrapnel would light up the you expect to find tellers?
OVER THE TOP”
By An American
Arthur Guy Empey
Machine Gunner, Serving in France
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X
STATE N E W S
IN BRIEF.