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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1918)
mmiwJ: nk Did ohq oi When the En; Dead Man's Curve! THEY climb aboard their loaded truck at sundown, fifteen miles behind the lines. They rumble through the winding streets, out on the white road that leads to Germany! The man at the wheel used to be a broker in Philadelphia. Beside him sits en accountant from Chicago. A news paper man from the Pacific Coast is the third Now they all wear the uni form of one of these organizations. The road sweeps round a village and on a tree is nailed a sign: "Attentionl L'Ennemi Vous Voitl The Enemy Sees Youl" They glance far up ahead and there, suspended in the evening light, they see a Hun balloon. "Say, we can see him plain tonight!" murmurs the accountant from Chicago. "And don't forget," replies the Phila delphia broker, "that he can see m just as plain." The packing cases creak and gropn, the truck plods on straight toward mat hanging menace. They rpach another village where ' heaps of stone stand under crumpled walls. Then up they go, through the strands silence broken only when a great pro jectile inscribes its arc of sound far overhead. They reach a turn. They take it. They face a heavy incline. For half e mile it stretches and they know the Germans have the range of every inch of it The mountain over there is where the big Bodies' guns are fired. This incline is their target. The three men on the truck bring vp their gas masks to the alert, settle their steel helmets closer on their heads. At first the camion holds its speed. Then it slackens off. The driver grab3 his gear-shift, kicks out his clutch. The engine heaves and heaves and stalls! "Quick! Spin it!" calls the driver. The California journalist has jumped. He tugs at the big crank. "Wh-r-r-r-r-r-r-room!" The Shell breaks fifty yards behind. Another digs a hole beside the road just on ahead. And then the engine comes to life. It crunches, groans and answers. Slowly, with maddening lack of casta, it rumbles on. UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN ' . letters co ie Stalls on " Wh-r-r-oom! That one was close H-iind. Tha fr agments of the shell are rutting O the truck. . How shells are falling, further back r'ong the ,-oad. And the driver feels f.ift snmmit &3 his wheels begin to pick up speed. , . - Straight down a village street in r.-hich the building are only skeletons cf buildings. He wheels Into the court yard of a great shell-torn chateau. "Well, you made it again I seel" says a smiling face under a tin hat a face that used to look out over a congrega tion in Rochester. "Yep!" says the driver glancing at his watch. "And we came up Dead Man's Curve in less than three minutes including one stall!" Later that night two American boys, fresh from the trenches bordering that chattered town, stumble up the stairs cf the chat23ii, into a sandbagged room where tha Rochester minister has hi3 canteen. "Get any supplies tonight? " they ask. "You Let I did!" is the answer, "What will you have?", "What's those? Canned peaches? Gimme some. Package of American cigarettes let's see an' a cake of chocolata an' some of them cookies!" "Gosh!" says the other youngster when his wants are filled. " What would we co without you?" Ycu hear that up and down the front, a dozen times a night "What would we do without them?" Lien and women in these organiza tions are risking their lives tonight to ccirry up supplies to the soldiers. Trucks 'tr:d camionettes are creeping up as close as any transportation is permitted. From there these people are carrying up to the gun-nests, through woods, across open fields, into the trenches. The boys are being served wherever they go. Things to eat, things to read, thinss to smoke, are being carried up everywhere along the line. With new troops pouring into France, r.rx supplies must be sent, more men ard women by tha hundreds must be c .listed. They are ready to give every thing. Will you give your dollars to Lc.p them help our men? A DUSTY courier r'id off his motor-cycle at the big double hut in a French town and tramped up to the canteen. "Got a note for the secretary frcm ray commanding officer," he said He handed a piece of paper across the counter to a smiling middle-aged man. j This is the note the Secretary read: ' We landed here three dsys ago miles from anywhere. Can you send us some supplies, especially writing paper? This is the first chance the boys have had to write homo and wg have no paper to give them, The older man lookrd r.p and grinned. ; "Got you away off in the woodsy have they? J . "I'll say they have I" "Can you carry anything?" ?3r v-4 fAW you'll give me!" From the shelves the secretary took big packages of paper and envelopes. "Too much?" Ha asked. "It will be gone ten minutes after I get back I M said the boy. "Tonight," the secretary went on, ''Til drive out a truck . with more supplies and a man to stay with you. And tell the boys that if their letters are finished, Til bring them back with me tonight, and get thjm into the mails." An hour later that motor-relist whizzed into camp, loaded down with writing paper, and in ten minutes letters were being written to 200 American homes. The United War Work organizations know what letters mean to American soldiers. They know that fighters want to get letters and want to write letters. o in e very hut and on every ship your boys find writing paper, envelopes, ink, pens and pencils, and tables where they can get off by themselves ant" tell tro folkst -ick home how things are going. Millie .is of ib eel: are given away free every week to American boys overseas. That Is why the letters you get from your boy are written cn M12 static ry cf ona of these organizations. It is one of tthe pirns to bridge t: o Athn'ic. Help keep the letters (jomingl it Your cellars will supply a wnote Company for several days. Dig deep today; help to bhd tcoahcr WL j you she 'Id give twice as much as you L'vr gave before I Tha reed I? to; . turn of 70p e"-' tlvn any gift ever asked lot sfnea the wr'id be nan. Ttt Gove -neiil 1. is 6nJ thu 5um at $170,300,000. b giving to t"u. "even .--ganbuitioiki nil M c.'-ca, tha coat and affattaf ate aeV diti joal ar.rpJu,.i9i.i i-.vaJ. Cn'HS American, give twir as mwb ati avet btftte, OaXMMlaca and sailors may ui enj.7 dun.it . 19 ILjiii 9 0 P"tratiir. Hnndines 1 0 W '?a oi M-j ie t'iliu j L' "... -!taj Stan , Ml MJatic Direc'.urs . do: SC'Vt efforts o fn.Iit srd I" V a (', ' -.! a boi.ie urn wu:i L..11 V-, ir-.-n 1 .-'-. Now ') I1J,: UNITED YAR WORK CAMPAIGN .Bx J kJ v.;. v 1 ' C these 200 me to you? ; France and here. 2,510 Libraries supplylne) SrtSQMt book i S Hciiieta Houses 1 ' 0JO Dlg-brother "secretarta 1. 1 Hons of dollars of home eoiWbtta , you TiaKe r,r that every flghte bafl tha efceef ad 'rBn'-i'.i' nfl p':-1 step of the wy from horoa to tha irovide hurt .1!' a church, a theatre, a oheetful horns, ' in u ' I tit tlaanda knowledge that tha U)iV back ! loul I r;. , . ' to ii'j-.ply their physt-al needs, tilts I.r. iile th:U In win..ing the warl 1 ATI CAT! '.iC WAI ycTf 9v fs N 1 r !