The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1918, Page 2

af Unit Is By E. E. TOSTEVIN.) With the 164th U. S. Infantry (First North Dakota) in France. Somewhere in France, January 29th. The First North Dakota regiment, merged into the 164th U. S. Infantry, the pride of the Flickertail state,| has been completely “botched.” The} regiment, of course, still exists, of-| ficered in the main as before, but the! men who composed the rank and file| as it left. the shores of the good old U. 8. A. have been transferred, and new men come in to fill the gaps. | Tears streamed down the face of Col. John H. Frainé,as he saw his joy and pride of twenty-eight yea westroyed by the exigencies of war.) ‘ FIRST NORTH DAKOTA MERGED- TNTOTHE 464TH U.8, INFANTRY E. 4H. Fotevin of Mandan Gives etn Picture of Life in France— Col. Fraine Deeply Affected Wihen State Broken solid hours 500 men just sang and sang. North Dakota Band Plays, And, the night before that the North Dakota band played a fine goncert. The old First North Dakota is the first. band to be located at this amp and it has made a tremendous it. Concerts in the city near here were listened to by thousands of soldiers and civilians. The band boys aré the “big cheese” now. The girls of the city have quit teaching French to officers and now have tae mus! ns as the ir proteges and pupils. The other North Sikota band is now located at division headquarters “somewhere else in France.” Gen- You. folks back home will soon be receiving letters from the boys of the various companies from new a1- dresses in new. regiments. And yet) withal, though there are sorrows and heartaches over the parting, there is} no complaining. ‘The rest of us re- maining in the old 164th may train} new men. All the American officers coming here are sent to the train-| ing schools to learn modern trench} warfare. Up Where the Guns Boom. | Last week wo were “Some- where” in the south of France. | Today we are in the north of Fratice where we can hear the ‘big «guns on the front not very ¢ far away. We have just finish- ed @ trip to this place full of | vivid, strange, weird and in- teresting experiences. I don't P *. know when we will start in on another one but I hope not right | away, for this appears to be a very fair place, though just at this: moment we are camped on the hills and waiting to be as- signed to barracks. Tonight I am writing in a Y. M. ©. A, hut somewhere in France, and near enough to the front to hear the} big guns talk. Despite the fact that the Paris edition of The New York +Herald, today carried the name of Private Standish of Minot, as one of the, men Killed, and there was a shadow, of gloom spread over the North Dakota boys, the men are for- getting the hardships, the gnawing hunger for home, because there is music in the air. Refiiembe? the old skating rink back ‘home, or the old town hall; illy lighted, reeking with tobacco smdkKe, creosote and a composite of other odors, tte contribution of ‘at untold unmber of dancers, i 7 smokers, banquets, prizefights and all; a clammy dampiess; frayed and bedraggled bunting, highly colored posters, calendars and signs bravely attempting to 1 add@ a little cheer. There you have something like this Y. M. C. A. hut; a great wooden build- { ing: 50x100, rough pine tables capable of accommodating six each ranged each side of the hall. There are 48 of them. I just stood up on one of tho pine benchés to count ithem and every table is crowded ito capa- city and more by student sol- diers studying or making up note books or writing home, Dakota Orchestra Cuts Loose. It was comparatively quiet until @ moment ago when ithe North Da- kota orchestra cut loose with, “How's every Little Thing in Dixie,” ana has been following that up with other “hits” popular a year ago. And song hits of today in America would: not find favor here, because| ‘the ones the orchestra are playing| are famflidr and the new ones would have no connection with the days that are-gone. This orchestra really can rag and with the music tne whole atmosphere of the place seems to hdve changed. Even the old fel- Jow in the ‘tobacco placard above me more. benevolently, -It is music the boys “know, numbers they danced with “the girl” back home. Fond! music and yet it seems to sootic] rather than augment the longing for the day when peace shall send ‘them back to loved ones and will give ‘them surcease from things military. The boys playing tonight are Lloyd Harmon, Bismarck, violin; Ed. Gewalt, Breckenridge, Minn., piano; Jacob’ Evanson, Mayville, flite; Max Moore, Lisbon, clarinet; Albert An- drews, Mayville, cornet; Archie Gal- ‘braith, Lisbon, trombone; Harley (Moore, Lisbon, and Harl ‘Hauskins, ‘Wahpeton, drums. Music. Instilis Pep. It is erie that: puts: pep in: life for the boys after a hard day’s drill, after days in active service, and it is ‘band )'concerts, orchéstta music and “singféats”, that the “Y” has found most’ successful in entertaining its thousands of: guests, Popular, did K? “Indeed, the Y. MC. A. Practically all the fun theré'is for tte Boys. Only the chap’ who has ‘heen through it all, the training “camps “over home,” as- sembly camps, embarkation points, English or ch rest. canips . and the camps -hefa “somewhere” near the front and: within! hearing of the - Buns; only the soldier who has everywhere: foufld”a welcome’ at the front “Y? knows: ho’ wmuch: you 8 contribution to id that’ made the huts Persible: seems to smile | recently, as you will have learned ‘by }a member of the graduating class of | To have lived, to have loved advertisement } | young: UB, sitting @rqund.on the chairs’ and, eral Liggett, commander of the divis- ion, recently remarked: “That band is worth a million dollars to the United States army.” He refused to Sat tt eect STAT HP ApoE rR AMO TS D'BRIEN’S DARING STIRS MEN TO FLOCK TO ROYAT. FILTERS let it be split up and the old Second! Regiment band is now furnishing} ‘music for division headquarters and!| convalescents in out of the great Bae hospitals. One of the Crosoy, North Dakota. | boys, Sergeant Newton Lovell, died, the U. Lovell was a splendid S. casualty reports. Young young fellow, Shattuck, 1916, and held the post of} major in that school, At the request} of a number of boys in the regiment 1) am enclosing the following which I| wrote on the occasion of his death: Now to die.. Good God, Can this be the end of it all? Of Life’s ambitions, hopes plans Must I now answer Thy call? and Are the years of a loving mother's care My schooling and all to prepare Me a place in the history of man, ‘All lost because I did dare To do and serve as a soldier should, For the love of his country, and Right? Am I but a pawn in some great game To be lost in this futile fight? ; My eyes grow dim and I breathe a prayer; I'm home again, yet far away, But hope, éternal, flies from my breast, Death, ae ‘st thou thy hand bu: And I might tears, Might do things to win a name, Instead of a place in the hills of France. Hardly marked. fame! ‘brighten this vale of And this is my, I grieve not for self, but for those whose love Will be drewhed in a torrent of tears, For those who have tried and given to me The best they could through the years, I go as a soldier. I answer my name And God—Thou wilt pity me. ve fought like a man,.done the best that I can ‘Now I pass to —Eternity. | France Looks Upon U.S. as People Who Get Things Done (Continued From Page One.) | er crown cut out of linen collars, and a proper trident made of a vroom- stick ,and proper whiskers combed from a flaxen rope’s end, which, witn| the addition of a red Bathrobe anc a life preserver, made him intensely realistic. The two beautiful mer- maids, impersonated by the leanest and lankiest men on the boat, wore flowing flaxen tresses of the same ma- terial as Neptune's whiskers, and Sol- omon in all his glory was not more magnificently arrayed than the other principals. ‘But ithe triumph of achieving the impossible Was in‘ the blue- decorations of the wavelots, and for this we especially shook ‘Lieuten- ant William, So-and-3o ‘oy: the honest hand, and, with mofst-eyet gratitude, compliménted him and asked him how he'd done it. “Last minute stuff,” he confessed with a grin. “I stole the sheets off my bunk, and stood over the ship's painter while he painted them blue, I cut them into strips myself.” You see, it had never crossed Lieu- tenant Bills mind that we couldn't have blue filets and things, it hac only become a Part of his system that he was to produce blue filets: and things; and he made good, He'll do, any place! ‘Now we go to Leftenant Tom. He's an Atierican, too, but he’s in the ar- tillery. branch of the, British army. Been in service a year and a half. So Strongly imbued with the idea that the worll should be made safe for civilization that he couldn’t wait for America:to get into the war. Trying Lnow: for his transfer to the. American army, however; feels, that that’s where he belongs, . Leftenant Tom Has been wounded three times in ac- tion, He’s just been mended. again, and by, the time this gets into print will, have exchanged | his.. nice, soft featherbead.at an expensive hotel in Paris for the rougher accommodations of the front, where he'll have to crack ‘the ice to'get: his shaving water. Lef- tenant Tom ‘isan extremely. modes: man. and: it took eight or ten oF ceeds aera UNION SACK AWD What Lieutenant Patrick O'Brien, | tiero of daredevil exploits as aviator nid later as fugitive from German’ captors, has done any wideawake young fellow equally athletic can do, O'Brien said on his flying trip. to his ‘old home in Illinois. His modest as- bertion made a new call for recruits at all depots of the British-Canadian| Recruiting Mission for the Royal Flying Corps have’ immediate re- Bponse, Is there adventure for tl puccessful in Canadian e, cadet | raining ! latest American arrival, a war-rail- road man, “Well, no,” corrected the leftenant, strtightening his leg cautiously. “lis the slowest thing there is; no excite- ment about it, You see, we followed a creeping varrage. The ground is all laid out in imaginary squares, and a platoon of six guns has to drop 18 shells on that square. If two or three of the guns are out of commission, the rest of them have to divide it up, but 18 shells must drop on that square, which makes it pretty. ceriain tnac there won’t be a living thing left on top of the ground. ‘then the guns are trained on the next square ahead, and the infantry follows up to huni the Boches out of the pill boxes.” “What time was this; dawn?” came from one who craved picture. “No, about seven-thirty,” consid- ered the leftenant. ‘Well, adout nine-thirty, after I'd spent a couple of Pigeons ,the enemy's barrage came forward to meet ours, ~ and a shell dropped behind me, and got me, in ihe hip. My light went out for a minute, but 1 came to right away. 1 lay there seven hours in the mud, but] it didn’t hui% very much. I was pretty comfortable. In that time, ‘two barrages passed right over me, our own and the enemy's. About five o'clock the stretcher-bearers found me. Say, they’re the brave fellows!’ That’s the way he told it. No can- non’s red glare, no ear-bursting din, no pandemonium tearing loose, no fierce, struggling figures amid the roil- ing smoke, like weird demons let out of hell, no straining forward until the blood veins seemed bursting in the temples, no mortal gasp as the fragment struck him, no frenzied ef- fort to preserve«consciousness as he slid into the din shadows of oblivion, no taking us in on his probable vivid pictures of home and mother, and the boys on Main street, and the girl at the garden gate, and no seven long hours of agonized torture while the battle raged around him and death dealing shells were dropping on every hand! No fireworks, no dramatics, no lurid thrill}: particularly no thrill! You wouldi't thik sentiment or ‘po- etry was in that’ man, would you? “But what's the big idea about go- ing back into it?” inquired: a gentle- man of the’ commercial. contingent: “You've, done your bit. You could quit with credit right now.” Leftenant Tom. straightened up, and Idoked. at the gentleman of the com-| mercial contingent with wonder in his, soft, brown eyes. “Quit?” said he. “Why, the Boche isn’t licked.. We can’t quit, any of us, until humanity: is safe.” And Lieutenant Bill. talks exactly like Leftenant Tom. He has a fine medical practice at home, a nice wife, a beautiful little daughter; and his father didn’t want-him to come. “Look here, Bill,” said his father. “What's your idéa in going? You're doing better than, any of us ever ex- pected, so why doh’t you stay right here and hold your practice?” “Well, father,” said’ Lieutenarit Ell, “every man must be true to him: self.” There you are. .The Américans who came over here are fighting with ex- actly that, sort of thought’ in mind. And it isn’t “bunk,” ‘because they're risking their lives for it; moré;than their lives; everything they holt! dear. This is the biggest collection 6f Si- mon-pure’ altruists ever brought to- gether! “In our high idealism’ lies the answer to thé Frenchman's deep regard for us, his trust in us, ‘his su- preme confidence! The bond of sym: pathy betwéen ud is' the péetry in us both. How's. that? WANTED-—Salesmen ahd Bera for city .of Bismarck and outside territory. Inquire at- once 111 /4thi BOYS WANTED | 5,000. t. STARS AND STRIPES MOREVER A camps? _ Ask Flier..O’Brien—he has: had a whole book full. The opening again of recruiting at British-Can- adian dépots fourd a‘waiting throng! For many months recruits only have been accepted.in New. York. Lieut. O’Brien’s plane was, shot down last. Aupiist by a German air} j Plane behind the eaehy lines near} pres. From thet. time. until he; lended in Buckingham Palace, King; George’s’ guest; he experienced a; series of: thrills which followed one: another thick and fast. LAST GAME OF SEASON FRIDAY The last basket ball game of the! season will be played at the High School Gymnasium, Friday night, Feb. 22, at 8:30, whens Fargo High and Bismarck High will meet. BISMARCK GETS BLACK EYE IN IGHWAY BOOK Bismarck has a very legitimate grievance against the compiler of the National Parks Highway association’s tourist booklet’ purforting. to offer authoritative information as to the | towns through which the Red- Trail passes and the facilities which these towns offer the motorist. The popu- lation of the Capital City of North Da- kota in pamphlets which are now reaching Bismarck is given as 5,443. Jamestown is shown to have an even 7,000; Valley City 6,500, and Dickinson Bismarck, fourth city in North Da- kota, with approximately 8,000 people, is advertised to the world as the sixth city, with a population mark which is based on statistics five years old. Businessmen generally are inclined to resent the misrepresentation, in view of the fact that tens of thousands of these booklets are going into the hands of persons whose good will is worth something to the city. LET HER CRACK; HURTS NOTHING Friends who have displayed some anxiety over the huge cracks, which have appeared in the asphalt pave- ment a various places about the city may forget it. City Engineer Atkin- son and Commissioner Kirk are auth- ority for the statement that these cracks are perfectly natural results of winter’s contraction in a monolithic pavement. With warmer. weather, ex- pansion will unite the sections which have parted company during the wint- ér, and the ‘ordinary. traffi¢ will iron out the ‘junction and: make. it smooth. The matter was brought’ up at city commisssion meeting last evening, and was explained to the satisfactio? of everyone, ST: PAUL ,UL EMPLOYE BURNS TO DEATH Mobridge, 8. 8. "Di, Feb. Feb. 19.—Kire midnight destroyéd eight: bunk éai used to housé about’ thirty Chicago, Milwaukee’ & St.'Paul railroad“‘ein- ployes. Tony’ Nidelkoff, day ‘tutn: table operator, was burned. to, sa as’ he’ attempted to; return blazing ¢ats’ after money which te had hiddett there ; stove in Nidelkoff s'c1 he AMERICAN BOY. ~ TELS OF AIR VICTORY OVER TEUTON PLANE Seater Machine After Their French - Pal Falls SAW FRIEND, DROP A MILE Sammy Writes to Parents of a Thrilling “Experience in Battle in Clouds Tommy dived from abpye and coming up.underneath him and then shooting peating the performance. “He, (the Boche) was descending | all the tinie and finally at 2,000 meters his ‘engine must”have’ given, out, for his propeller stopped. The aa bel the way he had to Yopplane pad Cambridge, Mass, Feb.“ 18.—The story of how. two ‘American youths, William A. Wellman, aged 21. years and Corporal Thomas Hitchcock, aged 17, of Lorig. Island,.\N. Y., both mem- bers: of the LaFayette escadrille, brought down a German ‘aviator who previously had downed a French air- man in’an attack over the trenches in France, was given by Wellman in a letter received today by his parents here. announced last week, have been de- corated for bringing down the three Gernian machines in six weeks, In his letter, Wellmar said that he and a French aviator named Miot went up after a2 German two-seated machine. “I got to just 4,000 met- ers,” Wellman says, “ and the boche dcad ahead coming toward me, when I saw Miot make his first and last at- tack. He dived at the biplane Aoche and one of his wings snapped off. Im- yards froth me, and I saw the poor boy: drop into a spin and not come out of it until he hit the ground. “Well, by this time Tommy Hitch- cock, the other American ‘with me here; liad arrived at the scené ‘and to- gether we tackled the boche. First, Basket Ball FARGO HIGH BISMARCK HIGH FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 29 * — 8:30 P. M. 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