The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1918, Page 2

{ | TWO “ AUDIENCE SITS ENTHRALLED BY EDWARDS’ TALK (Continued From Page One.) haps a concrete ‘illustration will ex- plain what I mean. 1 have been in your country now four weoks, nearly five weeks, ‘I left France on the 17th of April, in the middle ov, rother, the latter part of that terrific drive at Cambrai. The first two weeks ] spent in Iowa and | was in a town in the.south of the state of Iowa. And I saw some boys going away as you say, on draft. The-whole town was filled with enthusiasm and great excitement prevailed. Those. boys, twenty of them, were going away to the camp to be trained; and when I saw the enthusiasm and the excite;] ment and the partings, I thought of the drafted men I had taxen— cal: our reinforcements dyafts, { will call them reinforcements, that I had taken. During iho Cambri fight I came tv England three times in ten days, and once I had ‘to take 2,000 men to \stop the breach. I marched those 2,000 men through one of our southern prts on a Sunday morning. The people were standing along the streets, there were thousands of them there, ‘but as I marched those men to the boat I marched silent men through silent steets, {he street was as silent as you are (his evening. There were 2,000 men going over, but they were ging there to die. They knew It, and oth- ers knew it; and I remember seeing an old gray-headed man with a gray) suit and a black on his arm that told its own story, raising his hat reverently to the lads as they went by, and the women standing there fluttered their black-edged handker- chiefs which told their own story. Men marching in silence through spectators in silence, men going to die—we drank the cup of bitterness to the dregs.’ There is no glamor, no halo, no romance about war for England to- day. War Calls For Mettle. You know war is a sordid it calls for splendid know war calls for courage Jution, for self-denial, fq yes, you say, from line—oh no, that is the mistake. It ca: these quall- ties as much from the inan behind the line as it goes from the men who are’ in the line. It calls for these quali- ties, not only from your lads in the line.but from your men an? women in the nation that sent them there; sor- did thing, but it calls for splendid qualities. Yes, America, the wor has called out splendid qualities,from you, too. You know that your ngfion, great as it was in the past, was never so great as it was in the past, was never so great as in the hour when you}.. stepped down from your pedestal of neutrality and took your part-in this |y world conflict for right and God. Some of you here fathers and moth- ers of Loys who are gone, you know your boys, much as you love them in the past, wére never so worthy of your love as in the day. you sent. them out knight-errants of God, to take part to fight for right. and truth. But you know this great war, its cost in sacri- fice to your allies perhaps: has never really been brought home to your homes, you don’t know what it has cost England. You know, I never sit down to a meal in your country, this is Iterally true—I never sit down to a meal in your country without a feel- ing of sadness. Oh. the plenty of your boards pairs me, when I remem, ber England. I have found on my plate on several occasions more meat for one meal than my Wife ang three \ tittle ‘children at home in England can possibly hope to get in a whole week. You dou't know, wary’yet, America! 1 ‘have seen groups of women nd chil- dren, alniost equal to this audience, out in the streets of our great towns, waiting hour after hour in the rain and weather for a store to open for a little while that they* might possibly from the Ourcq to the Velse. and watched a German. machine on our men for several hours. west, which had just been: taken pulle pe a lines. Yanks are scrapping. They are the German‘army. British bankers. Where? I will tell obtain a quarter of-a pound of mar-|¥oU—on the fields of France, marching garine, butter being quite out of the question. When in France coming home on leave I have been very. anx- ious ta bring home something that would be treasured and valued by my little children, and I have gone to the Expeditionary, Korce canteen and } have been very pleased and very proud if I have been able to purchase @ pound of raisins or a pound of cur- rants. to put in my. bag and take home. as one of. the greatest prizes I could bring them. : The Banker Brigade. 77 i A man. asked me the other- day, there were a large number of bankers gathered together: “Have you ever seen so many bankers together. before in one room?” I hac&kthe pleasure of addressing hundreds of bankers down in Iowa. I don't think I saw quite as many as are here this. evening, but, gentlemen, I have seen many more ‘bankers than this assembled together, Rheumatism | A Home Cure by One Who Had It, In the spring of 1893 I was at- tacked by Muscular and Inflamma- tory Rheumatism. 1 suffered as ff! only those who have it know, for over three years. I tried remedy after remedy, and doctor after doc- tor, ut such relief as J received was only temporary. Finally, I found a remedy. thei cu completey, and it has nev ed. I have given it ic number #{ who were terriby and even bedridden wi atism, and it effected a cure in every case. I want'every sufferer from any this marvelous healing power. Don’t send aacent; your name and address and I will send {t free to try. After you have used it and it has proven itself to be that long-looked-for means of curing your Rheumatism, you may send the price of it, one dollar, Dut, understand, I do not want your, money ualess you are perfectly sat- isfled to send it. Isn't that fair? Why suffer any longer when posi- tive relief is thus offered you free? Don’t delay. Write taday. + Mark H. Jackson, No. 167-E, Gurney Bldg. $ 5 Syracuse; N. ¥: into action. My regiment is the Royal Fusiliers regiment and the 31st battal- ion of that regiment is efitirely com osed of bankers. I have seen a bat- talion of a thousand men marching in- to action, to fight and to die, and ev- ery man a banker. That ig our experience in England, Why, our business men jih England; one man in three reifains; two are taken from the business, one remains. He docs he work of the other two ald shares what profits there are~ with with their jamilies[and: all our busi- nesg men, our business men in high places, serve four nights a week &3 special constables on the street. Why? h, becanse our police force is fight- ing in the line. ‘Two thousand miles of our railways have been torn up, we sent thougands of- locomotives, our. rolling stobk, across to France, The Cost in Manpower. _ You don't know what it has cost us in man power. A man said to me the know, ‘since we have come into this war, we are going to show the world what we,can do, and this American nation is going to startle the world in this war.” He said: “If needs be, }We are goitlg to put into the fields of France five million men.” Five mil- lion men! You know, I copldn’t help looking him tn the eyes and. asking him if‘ he had forgotten what a colos- sal campaign thi sis, and: whether it was not too late to expect -to stagger the world by. putting five million men in the field today. I said: “Look here, my friend, you know that in the first two years of the war England by voluntary enlistment without conscrip- tion of any kind, had brought five mil- lion men to the colors, and at the end of 1917 we had placed in the field in France—in the field—and army of six million men.” And, I said, “you under form of rheumatic trouble to try }/stand what that means to, England? "Six million men out of a population simply mall || of forty-two millions, that is one man in seven of the whole of our popula- tion, old people, women and little chil- dren, one in seven.” I said: “Your population in America is one hundred and ten millions, one-seventh of one- hundred and ten million is nearly six- teen million. I don’t say it boastfully, I am simply telling vou what we in England have had 1) (90, and when you have placed sixteen million men in the field, you will then have done what we were compelled to do in 917. __ Now, you men in America, you are in touch as very few others are, with all the labor and the financial condi- Mr. Jackson is responsible. Above. statement true. ood tions of the country. You know the effect upon industry of the removal ot that tremendous number of men, what BY J. R. GROVE CG: Newspaper Enterprise Association Artist Attached to General . Pershing’s Army. f , With the American Army on the Vesle—I have just: returned: from the front, where I saw the Yanks driving the Germans back - I think I was nearer the front-than.any other correspondent. I lay in a shell-hole just outside of Sergy about the 1st of August “cooties”—and that’s‘some thick. Finally, however, our. men: kept: creeping up on the Heinies. until/they were completely surrounded, and seeing all hope was lost, threw up their hands and yelled “Kamerad!” in an endeavor to save themselves. Some trick! were on the pojnt of surrendering. - : From ,Sergy I went: to Fere-en-Tardenois, three miles north- a heoric fight by a stretcher-bearer to carry a wounded’ man to safety. The HUNS were sniping him and he was wounded, but: he ¢ himeelt ‘together. and plunged over the Ourcq River to:our ce i i ‘ The other sketch Iam sending shows the type of ‘soldiers the prince’s best; strong, well-fed, and the best other day in America, he said: “You | 00 guns crew pour a murderousfire The bullets were thicker than I sketched them just as they by the Americans. There I saw a couple of prisoners, the crown fighting. troops in \ their removal would mean to Englana,’ the equivalent of sixteen million men in America, and that at the end of 1917. 2 Army .Under. the Sod. You. know, men often ask. me what are the lines of the British:army. A man said the other day: “What is your biggest army, where is the biggest British army? .I .said: “Don’t you ‘know? ‘He said: “No, I do not.” I said: |The. biggest Britigh army is under the sod.” That is, where the, biggest British army is. In the first, few months of the war—these figures are quite authentic, I verified them. at the .Eritish embassy ‘before 1 venture to put them before you—in the first few, monthg of the war we lost 550,000. ren; we lost 78 per cent of our en, tire fighting land forces in the first) few months of the war. In the great retreat one division went- into action 12,000strong and 2,000 came.out. Out of 400 officers in one engagament 4» returned. You talk about the Somme fight, you know what it dost:us?_ 25,- officers, half a million men, and U can’t: tall you about the Dardenelles. We Jost in the first year of the war 550,000, in the second year of the war 650,000, in 1917. We lost, 800,000 men, You know what France lost that sam year? “300,000; that is to say, that in 1917 the British force lost half a-mil, lion men more than France. The rea, son for this heavy loss was the flerce) fighting in Flanders. You read about) Passchendaele~ and Vimy Ridge and}, they are names to you, but oh, the cost of them. We lost 27,000 men in one month killed in Flanders, a portion of the line; ‘at another point we lost, killed, 6,000 officers*and 95,000. men killed. I can’t tell. you what we lost in March, but I' know. this, our, offt.| cers’ casualties were 10,000. Verdun. you have heard of Verdun, you know how many divisions were thrown in there? Twenty and a half divisions. Germany threw in twenty and-a half divisions against Verdun from first to last. You know what was thrown fh at Cambrai? She threw in Cambrai 107) divisions and102 of these were) thrown against one point of the Brit- ish’ line—and some people/are fools, enough to ask: “Why was there a gap in your line?” Why was there a gap in your line! Why? “Contrast the 20 divisions at Verdun. with 105 divisions at Cambrai and with all that arma- ment of Germany and ypu will under- stand why there was a gap in the line. Where the War Is. You know, you speak of the war as “over there,” and rightly so, because your boys are over these and. where your boys arg yfour hearts are. “Ah, ‘but men and women of America, this war is a.much bigger, thing than “ov; er there,” if you mean Flanders and | BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE ARTIST GROVE SKETCHES HUNS UNDER FIRE PICTURES BATTLE FROM SHELL HOLE NEAR MARNE as The type. of soldiers the Yanks are scrapping—the crown \ce’s best ; gtrong, well-fed, and the best fighting: troops.in the ; j An incident near Fere-en-Tardenois ; a wounded stretcher- bearer sniped by the HUNS plunges over: #rance: I know lads from many homes: who are fighting the foeman in many fields:, We Kave an army in the north.) west frontier of Indfa, another in Egypt, another in. Palestine, another in, Mesopotamia, hundreds ‘of thous- ands of lads are sleeping in Gallipoli, we have an army in Saloniki, I have taken reinforcements twice to the army, of Italy, and then we have the army: of England which, with the army: of France, for four jlong years has been ‘holding that line—aye, that line} with their backs. to. the, wall, their yacks ta the wall, waiting, waiting, bardment continued Men were maim- ed, blown out of existencé,: casualties, casualties, casualties, repeated all the time with -heart-breaking regylarity. Another man, another man, two men, other men, and our guns were strange- ly silent. The enemies’ guns never ceased and the fire never faltered, but our guns were silent. And I phoned back tg our batteries behind the line, the datteries there for our protection. I phoned back to retaliate, ani then : we crouched down Wehind our broken ot mass of trenches, waiting to hear the protect us. But we heard nothing. 4 phoned baek again: “Retaliate, bom- | bardment heayy, casualties serious,” and we waited and waited but heard nothing. Ard again I sent an even more-urgent message because we were almost, beaten,’ and ‘then the reply came, the old English reply: “Oarry on, carry on! Hold the, line at all costs, but: we can’t retaliate, have got no shells.” |, Ah, you people’ of- America, you don’t know what this war meant to us in the beginning in all our unprepared ness. “We have got no shells’—and there are some fools today’ who still ‘say that England wanted war. fire! . Mr. Lloyd George, my great fellow- countryman, called. together. together the women of ‘England. He asked: |: “Will you save the line?” They said, - “Yes.” 800,000 of them went into our factories, transformed into munition \ | works; and: today, we have 93 nationat arsenals and-we have 5,000 great fac- toriés controlled by ‘he government changed’ into munition works and we have’ 5 million women working for] England; to save England and save the line, and 70 per cent of all the machine work on our shells and fuses and: trench. warfare equipment is the}: product of the labor of women. Wom- en saved, the line in 1915 and, saving Bcd the line; they saved the world. S Play the Game. + Put your patriotism before your profits, play the game, © America, hurry up, America, I know you will, I know you will. And I know that will some.day the real nature of war and your men will be as grand as the men of your allies have been and as; grand as your lads in the line today are.and. have already proved them- selves 13 be, and your women will be as splendid and as heroic as the wom-! en of Englahd’ and the women of; BUY W. 8. 5 CHAPLAIN HERO Rescues. Wounded : Men Under b - Terrific Fire | K 5 SKETCHED FROM A SHELU-HOLE IN ACTION . AT SERGY, FRANCE > (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass’n.) dore B. Hardy, a chaplain who has deen at the front since 1916, and who had already won the medal of ‘the Dis- tinguished Service order, has been awarded the Victoria Cross for his heroism under fire. Though 53 years old, he has won great praise for his fearlessness and his. devotion to the men of. his bat- talion. Three examples of his valor were cited in honoring him: Hearing firing in Na Man’s Land, he, followed a patrol jfor 400 yards beyond the front line and found an offider dangerously wouhded. He re- mained under fire until he got help. On another ocgasion, despite shell- fire, he went to the spot where a Ger- man shell had exploded to extricate two’ men. He got one out who. had been completely buried; the other was dead. In another battle it was believed’ that all the British trops had been withdrawn froma wood, but the chap- lain came out of. it, asking. for help to. get in a, wounded, man, who Jay wfthin. 10. yards of a pill-box which had been recaptured by the enemy. The man was too wek to stand, but the chaplain and a, sergeant got him to the British lines. Less. than a year ago‘he won. the D. 8, O. by bringing in wounded men after his wrist had been broken and 7 s x: put.in splints. His only son is a cap- CASTORIA oe” MH the b 4 Signature of ¥ £ Mandan, N. D., Sept. triotic ; PREMIUM Premiums for Red Cross Wor “ work. SKETCHED IN ACTION ent ERS TAROENONS ey Red Cross A products. of the exhibitor. he Ourcq River to safet TIMELY DEMONSTRATION tt / Wheat Rust. 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Do you know—I will close with this +that the women of Eng.and saved the world in'1915? “I leaye it to you: ‘i I\was in the line in 1915 and my CAVALRY DRILLS, CHARGES, trenches on one occasion were so|{/ Faces, and expert ridin ‘bombarded. they were beaten down to ‘ the ground during the day and all night my. lads toiled’ to rebuild, them | to gave their lives, and again the :om-t Contests. i A BIG PROGRAM OF AN ORGANIZATION: OF seream of our shells going over to)-. “We_daughter a nurse in France. have: rot no\shejls!” My men were ishioners at Hutton Roof there, flesh and, blood in the line, add ayound the village smithy and hailed }no shells, pounded; {nto fragments. by ii the high explosives of the enemy's Tig neMs Of hls Va C-WatD cheers: when this great nation realizes as it! | London, Aug. 72.—The .Rev. Theo-| . '- ATTEND THE: _ MISSOURI SLOPE. FAIR. BST. 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