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

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBU. THURSDAY, WAR’S SCARS SHOW “Game” Too Weak a Word and New One Must be Coined to Designate Unselfish Spirit Shown by Wounded, Army Surgeon Declares —Youths, Rough on the Surface, Suffer in Silence Insisting Others Need Aid More than They-—Scenes in Dressing Stations at Front. By CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND HEY were coming of the bot blast of dattle—those boys -f tain division now shrugged actually sbragged them as well as he cobld, bundled up in that stretch- qs, and grinned wanly. “Comtn’ fine if I can get you fellers to save that foot She's smashed plenty. If you can't—all the same.’ “We'll run you right in.” “Nix, bo, not me. I'm gettin’ past all right, nothin’ but: my foot. You lemme be here end git busy them guys that’s hurt. I’m Ey @e the waitin’ list.” STILL HARD-BOILED, BUT— to. am outfit that hears and wide for’ being bolled ‘Tough birds, you hear them cated, talking boys with the crust If you had seen them @ month before or two months be fore. when they had not had thetr ing im blood and fire, you would not Lave prophesied that they woud hold back in suffering to wait for one in, greater suffering to be It was an attribute that was not .pparent to the casual -d-botled, you would have was Y. M. C. A. guys. rough outermost. cared for first. eye. you might have agreed, trifle sorry for the enemy that, to encounter them. But'you have stood by with tears in your eyee—not in your eyes but rolling down: your cheeks—and muttered arain and again, are men!” , But now they had felt the Suddeuly they had been dropped into the fur- @ bad come out with Something ‘had wore still hard- boiled, Theft Insnguuge was made up of the same words, but the words scorching breath of: war. mace aii burned away. happened. “hey back out the great ares, throughout France sand on to be famous throughout the world. They were not coming beck because wanted to, bo Mgrretg they had enough it; they were ” stretchers, B cer aspect. eyes. “] had taken on a new meaning, their very faces had taken on & new In spite of blood and grime and the discoloration and burn of gas, you could see that something was present there which had been absent before—until you could not see at all for the flooding of your HONEST ? T WONT BE ROBBIN’ NONE OF THEM BIRDS ¢ got mine....No use—sport—. Can't do—nothin’ for—me. ...Git— busy with some of them boys—you kin—help.” That was the spirit. their souls by the hot breath war. passed it on. gritty, words. ....How’'s Charlie makin’ it? body know? Oow....! wasn't sayin’ much.” “Say, them birds ought to. ¢ was rainin’? hard. ; that, Httle shrimp says for me mind my own business, cartyin’ that stretcher.... hurt me some. .-.Ooow?” Y. MAN A HERO felt a doin’ in that game?” would we. I asked him. He's since this busted out. there. Hain’t had his clothes nave “Here for a week. Looks to me like he’s about ready to crack. But he’s ‘088 late. though.” tenant-doctor. EDWINTON ORDINANCE HAS BEEN RECEIVED Bismarck Devles Into Ancient History to Define Crime of Disorderliness The’ Bismarck city commission! delved into ancient history last even- ing, when it harked back to the action of the Edwinton city council of 1875} to revive on the ordinance ‘books of the city an ordinance passed at that} time defining disorderly conduct. This} ordimance has been in force in Edwin- ton and Bismarck for 43 years, but all records of its original passage have} been obscured in antiquity, and to} make certain that prosecutions brought under this law would stick, City Attorney O’Hare drew up a new ordinance, embodying the text of the} old’ ,and presented it for passage. It} was passed last evening on third read-; ing. = As mos! citizens know, Bismarck did not. start out to be Bismarck at all,; but sported ihe strictly Anglo-Saxon | name of Edwinton for several years| before some thrifty gentlemen con- ceived the idea of tickling the iron chancellor and the men whose money- i bags he might control by calling the! new town Bismarck. While Bismarck was Edwinton, in 1873, when the me- THE MEN IN 7" (CLASS Al) | Hereafter no resignatior A sound, healthy man is never aj back'number. A man can be as vis- ofous an‘ able at seventy as at twen-| ty. . Condition, not years, puts you in! the discatd.. A svstem weakened. by! overwork and caicless living brings | oldsage prematurely. The bodily tunc-' tions are impaired he pl kerre symptoms. ir. The weak- spot is - Senefally in the kidneys. Keep them | clean and in prover working condi-' jos ahd you wil! generally find ‘your. lass Al. Take GOLD MEDAL; Capsules periodically and | your systeifi will always be in work- img order. ‘Your spirits will. be en-| rT your” muscles supple, your} active, and your hody: capable or ‘work. Ajo Don’t wait until you have been re- eUd.to sour aeigetee man pow. ir c et a trial box of: MED- great. TaoLn MEDS Brand. In e8. first-class. ist at|/ MEMBERS OF DRAFT BOARD MUST SERVE UNTIL RELEASED BY THE PROPER AUTHORITIES The following telegram from the provost marshal general has been re- ceived by Adjutant General Fraser: “The increasingly large number of resignations of members of local boards threatens a serious impairment of the efficiency «17 expeditious classification of the registrants. may be ac- cepted until after refereuce to this office, with complete statement of facts and personal recommendation of the governor. Under Section 6 of the Selective Service law, board mem- bers, having been appointed by the presidént, are compelled to rénder ser- vice asi such members until” relieved by the president. Concerning the in- ne That was the thing that had been burned into They had forgotten them- selves. Jim was not thinking of Jim but of Mike. Mike was not thinking of Mike but of Jack. Each The dressing station was small and many must le oute!de until the men who were taken in first could be evacuated. You heard: groans, but amid the groans you heard cheery, “Oow, that damn leg Any- I seen him git it.... “just took Charlie in, He stretcher bearers ought to git the Croy de Gerr, them See ’em fetch me back with them shells bustin’ like And would they ? Not a damn bit.e I hollers to them to git a move on or they'd git busted one on the dome, but he was Afraid if he hustled he J shake me up and Can you beat that? “Two of them stretcher bearers What they had--)-“Volunteered, one of them told been workin’ up in thet dressin’ station right where she’s happenin’ ever T seen him ways there with a cigarette or a cup of coffee, or a cake of choco- Now-*he’s ttin’ stretcher. . Needs a stretcher himself, seems as “Leg and a chunk somewheres in the chest,” , “Out of luck.” “Out of luck nothin’, Didn't I bayonet three of them Germans be- fore they got me? Eh?....Luck.” The story goes that this division was called upon to stop the rush of five times its: number. The story goes farther and says they not only stopped the rush but caused @& movement in the other direction. It was not an affair of hours but of days, days of constant, bitter, hand- tohand fighting with horrors added by the Hun that no American soldier has ever been called upon to face. But,they had dammed the flood: had even swept it back for & little, and they were proud. SPIRIT OF ALTRUISM But their achievement on tbe flel@ was not the great thing that came into view in those days. It was the spirit that flamed up in their hearts —not merely a spirit of courage, of daring, of heroisin against odds, but a spirit of altru'sm, of love for the other fellow. Somewhere in that holocaust those hard-bolled boys had gotten it, and the manifesta- tions of it that night in the little courtyard before the dressing sta- tion, made the spot one never to be forgotten by: those who: witnessed it. A hurry call was sent to the distant Y. M. C. A. “Can’t you do something for these boyg that are being brought in here?” the officer in’ charge de- mandod. “What can we do?” “Something to eat and smokes. Coffee. -A bite and a smoke do a wounded man more good than any- thing else. Do you know some of thoge boys have been out there in that for two days with nothing to eat but bardtack!” : So the Y. sent its men and its irucks; it made coffee, it brought of to off al- “You're next, son,” said a iicu- such fruit ag it could; it carried “Where you got it?” ocolate bars. “Here you are, sport,” said one of them, coming: into the courtyard. “Here's a cup of chocolate.” The boy raised himself painfully on bis elbow and reached for the cup—then he motioned it away. “I hain’g hurt much—and there's a lot of guys here that's messed ‘bad. You hain’t got enough to go around, Git. busy.” “I've got smokes and hot choco- late for every man. Go ahead.” “Honest? 1 won't be robbin’ none of them birds?” “Honest.” The boy drank—and was trans- formed. He lay! back with a cigar- ette between his, lips, with his eyes closed, and the. expression on his dirty face was ‘such a reward as few men ever earn. “That's livin’.”’ he said softly. CUT OF THE ;BATTLE FLAME One boy was,brought in with a broken leg.’ It haf-been an accident aud not a wound won in battle. He had gotten inthe way of a motor i é truck. * “Tost fix 7 thai all of thei thr fan bat in bi- it. cut here what .he, creasingly large number of retire- ments of medical members from local | hoards, on account of acceptance of commissions in the medical corps of | the army, thereoy rendering them in- eligible to continue as board members, | this office recently had an agreement ! with the surgeon general of the army, which was announced to you by gen- eral letter of August 23. “Membership in the so éalled volun- teer medical service corps does not create military status and does not af- fect therefore the statug of regis- trans before the selective service law. Resignations of medical members of Selective service boards, based upon membership in the volunteer medical service corps, will not be accepted.” tropolis to be was but three years old,| it_ became necessary to define the art f disorderliness and to fix a punish- ment therefore. That thing t! dinton city council did to a nicety. The rehabilitated ordinance as pass- ed last night covers intoxication either from alcohol or drugs;, prohibits the forming of mobs and rioting, or the gathering for illegal purpose, or the lying in wait for en enemy with a sling-shot or six-shooter, or wearing the dress of the opposite sexx or | the city commission felt that with the pehlesper. ITALY’S WHEELED FORTRESS ; : Armoured cars of this type are nainereus in’ the Italiali arthy. They o| diers in the great retreat to the Piave last fall by fighting rear-guard actions with the ‘Austrians. equipped with three Fiat machine guns in a revolving turret, and is ‘bullet-proof but The car is: gambling or flim-flamming, or begging, or exhibiting lewd ahd indecent plays, or abusing animals or one’s own fam- ily, and a whole host of othér mis- demeanors which appear to have been as common in that ‘frontier period as they are today, if not. more so, as it were. The punishment for disorderly con- | duct is a fine of not more than $50! and not more than 30 days in jail. both. That was the price in 18 FIGHTING FRENCH ~~ TO TOUR THIS COUNTRY MUSICIAN , HERO ARES. Captain Gabriel Pares, conductor of the ‘French Army Band. which is to make a tour of America for the French Red Cross. war on and the cost of everything so high. today, it couldn’t be made any 1 saved thousands: of sol. Hot shell-proof. In front are two long blades for cutting through: barbed wire entanglements. ' you can,” he said. You fix me here and leave me here Somewhere, some time, they had to them out of the flame and crash gas; ght of suffering. same, yet they, were not the same. ‘They usss In their voices. thing better than they had ever known came. to:them. -There was utter. ignoring of ‘self, and it was a thing’ wonderful to witness. surgeon, “Game won't do,- These game. I've never seen anything like i Each of Its 61 Soldier Musicians | wounded. \ }one of the heroes of Verdun. |was brought over under the auspices “49 ily t THEY OUGHT TO GIT > “THE CROY DE GERR -— ~~ THEM You get to the hospital, son.” , “They’ Nix. Hospital's for those fellows t’z hurt. 1 just got a busted pin. ever If) One When you git a chance.” on the gotten this thing. It had come battle; it had: been: carried to mon clouds of searing, noxious it had awakened jin them ‘ough suffering and through the They were the were not gentle, yet one cied he could, detect a gentle- But out of the some- you.. IT The tle and the suffering, Maybe We've got to have a new word the language.” said a Captain- wound "3 are something more than come I dont know what it fs.” Even inured to suffering and tq scenes cf bloodshed, wiped his eyes. all, they’re something! Nobody was and falling as he struggled for breath: “He’s ont his way,” said the doctor to a,Y man who was acting as orderly, nurse, assistant, anything. ‘The Y man went over and touched the boy’s forehead. “How about it, old man?” he said. “Kind struggled toward him. He took it and. held whispered to the boy a moment. the words, it was a prayer. the hand: of the friend who had moment—his last glorious. moment. He was giving his utmost for his country. The Y man sat still until ~The Yo MAN SAT. STILL UNTIL THE HAND GREW LIMP AND LIFELESS iN HIS OWN: the hand his own, ‘grew limp and lifeless in and then he moved away to other errands, for it was a night demanding much of men. p The courage of, the battlefield seems to be a comon commodity; but the courage to bear pain without flinching; of death without crying out; Teach .a courage. BIRDS OUGHT TO Pana to realize the approach to moment when’ you know you must face|life maimed, without arm, leg, with black rage or’cry out with despair—that is ‘another kind of eye—and not to curse But it'was there. Not one it, but it seemed as ff all those wounded had it—it .was not the gameness of’ the ‘bulldog: It was something: that had to do ‘with the soul. re—they’re—why, damn it fineness, ke them.” Wad lay inside on a mattress floor, ‘His chest was rising ence. it was a the day day. of—lonesome....Maybe’j -could sit....here till WAS BORN OF AGONY |, Y man sat down anda, hand. ‘truth. .-Here’s it im his own, and he Whatever The led man lay still, his hand in it was @ prayer. meaning. to him in his last dark Soldier. “You come around ta you've give: some_to the/boys over there.. They need it.”' That is what was there. It has: Tead something. new new. word must designate it. It was born of battle- and agony. ‘ s It was greatness, it was it’ was a thing that com- pelled the watcher to uncover his head and stand bared in its. pres- MUST COIN NEW WORD They were,Americans. Perhaps: it was their birthright. More likely new thing; newly born of: and the business of the Whatever it was, whenever and however it came, it was‘presert. ;This had: been ression, ‘with a striving for- under ‘Statement, with a wish to tell the The thing was there. brought it back with them. “How are you making it, sport?. . written’ with re- They a cup of coffee.” mn me: after into. the of the words Americas As the doctor said, some ‘be: coined to A BAND Has Been Decorated for Brav- ery in, Battle at the Front. (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) New York, Sept. 19—The French army band is about to tour America. Rvery one of its 61 soldier musicians has been decorated for bravery under fire. Many have been “gassed” or At Chateau-Thierry on June 6, mem- hers of this band: found, thgniselves under fire in the thick-of¢the «fighting when. the German troops tried to break |, through the line. The musicians threw away their instruments, seized: rifles; lined up with the troops to which they were attached, and went) through the day’s fighting. The concert, master, Roger Villate, a pupil of M. Pares, former conductor of the 28th Regiment Infantry Band, has taken part in the battles of Char- leroi, Guice, the Marne, Rheims, and Berry-au-Bac. Leon Le Leroy, virtu- oso clarionet of the band, was. for-a time in- charge of the concerts for the wounded at|Rouen. Georges Mager, cornet and trumpet, has been at the front since the outbreak of war inj 1914, He was taken prisoner and\ex- changed ni July,{1915. Emile Stiev- enard, clarionet, was wounded'at the battle of Ypres. Charles Houvenaghel, clarionet, is Robert Caron, cornet, was wounded at Cham-. pagne, wherd he was cited for bravery. Georges Truc, pianist, was wounded at Verdun. Alexandre Debruille, vio- | linist, ‘has been three times “gassed.” Captain Pares, formery conductor of the famous “Gardes Repablicaine,” toured America before the war. The tour‘ of this group of musicians is for the benefit of “du Foyer Soldat” —The French Red Cross. The: band of the War Work Council, by request of Secretary of War Baker, and will visit the United States army canton- ments in the United States. | BUY Wes 8 : | | ‘ULTUR | The women, mostly soldiers’ wives or widows, employed by the firm of Rheinhardt, at Weisbach, on govern< ment ‘contract clothing work, have long complained of the outrageous treatment they receive at the hands ‘of the firm’s manager. who thinks nothing of striking. them in the face with ‘his fist on the least provocation. Last Saturday this gentleman cele- brated his birthday, and ‘several of the women offered him their tributes, which comprised a ‘bottle of wine, some vegetables and a: small quantity of sausage, although in view of the terrible scarcity prevailing in the neighborhood, it is a puzzle how they could manage to secure these articles. The manager, Herr Oppenrieder, al- Garis 3A IES tholgh deigning to accept the gifts, dismissed the donors with the follow- ing words: “You dirty, unmannerly,pack! How dare you insult me by giving me one NAVY’ EMBLE a Uncle Sam’s aids to cupid, at one training station at least, Great » Lukes, are not solitaires, but rings with gold insignia of the branch of service in which lovesick Jack Tar may be'enrolled, be it aria eee hos- pt corps or gun crew. ith the jan on booze to increase the surplus cash, this new and better. way to sus- tain the zest of navy life has proved a success, : MS" FOR JACK TARS INSFEAD OF GEM LOVE TOKENS yottle of wine? 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