Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 23, 1918, Page 2

The Casper Daily Tabune| AMERICA HOLDS POWER BALANCE Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyoming. Publication Offices: Oil Exchange Building. } Business Telephone. —— 18 Editorial Office -___ Subscription—By Carrier 50¢ month;)| by mail, $3 for 6 months, $6 for year. Entered at Casper (Wyo.) Postoffice | as second-class matter, Nov. 22, 1916. peta caidedl Detaled Associated Press Service. | United Press Service. J. E. HANWAY, President & Editor. EARL E. HANWAY, Business Mgr. Associate Editors: R. E. Evans Margaret V. C. Douds Member of the The Associated entitled to the uv of all news not otherwise and also the herein. Associated Pres. ess is exclusively for republication er le news published | the has enlisted with the paper ae ite rause of erica for the period of the war-----+- THE FEMALE IDLER Not all the idlers are male. The anti-loafing laws should be iapactiat| ly enforced. Women demand, and in| some states have ‘secured, equality with men in their right to vote and --*18§ Marne Battle Reflects Fighting Spirit that Will Win, Declares Ferguson, Bril- ,ing months was changed. The Amert- : . } liant Writer at Front | training had won for himself a place, By FRED S. FERGUSON (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, July 1.—(By mail.)— As the world war enters its fifth year the fighting forces of America hold the balance of power in the greatest struggle in the time of man. The figkting men of America have been tried on the world’s most his- toric battlefields, and have proven that for bravéry, for stamina, for all of the things that it takes to win battles, they need bow to none. The American in the field is a jman of a fighting heart. He represents America’s balance jot power that will carry the demo- leracies of the world to victory over German autocracy. But how this power is administer- | ed, how it is led, how it is equipped, how it is fed how, it is clothed, how | it is munitioned, how it is given “eye- | sight” by airplanes that it shall not fighting in the dark, how it is nursed when ill and wounded—upon these‘ joungs depends the distance to vic- NO PAUSE TILL VICTORY It may be near, or it may be far, land Americans, Frenchmen, British- ers (and Germans) may know that | spirit, regardless of the difficulty of the task or the hardships involved; cheerful obedience of orders, anxiety to get at the job and complete it,j} and certainty in execution and then modest disclaimers of having done | any more than was their duty, or} more than any other American woule have done. IN TRAINING During the early months of this} year, the Americans in France were merely training. They could not be! figured as real fighting units in the intricate game of trench warfare. First, northwest of Toul, then on the Chemin Des Dames, then near Lune- ville, and later near Verdcn and in Alsace, American units appeared. They were put in the line with the French, and soldiers and officers alike learned from their French in- structors the tactics of the new war game. It was an irksome job. Losses were always unnecessarily heavy at first. er during shell fire. They learned when to keet quiet—in other worc> when it was to their best advantage not to shoot. They became trained, reliable troops. When the gigantic! German offensive broke Then the Americans began to} learn. They learned how to take cov- in March| | lon the adie Marne, insisting even in the face of the last extremity that the Germans should not cross. CHANGED COURSE OF WAR America paid a price in lives of) | the best type of men she has to offer in the cause' of democracy in the, fighting on the Marne. But during) those five days when a thin line of | Americans stood between the Ger- mans and the road to Paris, the en- tire course of the war for the com- can, despite his lack of technical alongsid the seasoned troops of the | Alfies. He had demonstrated that the fighting instinct of the American had only to be stirred to md. Instead of requiring long peri of! | training, he had shown that with the| instruction he had received at home, when he stepped from the transport: to French soil, he was ready. On the Marne the American proved} his worth as a stout hearted open| |field fighter, either on defense or offensive. At Cantigny he displayed his qual- lities as a “storm troop.” tween the fighting at Cantigny and} about Chateau Thierry. On the Marne it was first, resistance against wave after wave of advancing Ger- mans, coming across open country, thru waving wheat fields or woods. Every third man carried a machine gun. The American was forced to find such cover as he could, also in the open. From behind a rock or from a hastily dug hole in the ground he poured his rifle and machine gun | fire into the Boche lines. fought his way forward and drove the enemy from his advantageous Belleau. Behind the fighting men the munition men and wagons worked; ~There was a vast difference be-| Then he} vositions in Boursches and Bois de| movements. I witnessed a complete |days before it actually took place. It was in a gréat open field back of the lines. French machine gun-| |ners played the role of Germans. They had their machine guns hidden in pits and elsewhere in the field. Other soldiers, forming a long line, waved green branches of trees to rep- resent the artillery barrage. + BRE tanks ,waddled across the field and} took up their positions corresponding | ‘to those they were to take in the act-| ual fight. French and American of-) ficers carefully instructed the men) | who were to make the attack as to/ just how they were to follow the bar-| | rage how machine gun nests were hal be cleared out and how they: were to work in Conjunction with the tanks. Then came the signal, the soldiers,) “earrying”’ the barrage, began wav- ing the green branches, the infantry! and tanks moved forward and the! “German” machine guns began fir-| jing. As the barrage moved forward) \lines were reformed, and the advance| continued. The machine gun nests | were cleaned out in good shape, but .| the clever French machinegunners “put over” one on the Americans that they did not forget when it came | to the real battle. FRENCHMEN IN TREE In the center of the mimic battle ground wasia tree. One of the tanks} waddled slowly by and a detachment of infantry dashed forward. Then, from apparently nowhere a fierce rat- tle of machine-gun fire burst on the Americans. The officer in charge of the detachment knew that he was theoretically wiped out. Every man} \dropped to the ground for cover, as he would in a real engagement, and | then looked for the machine gun. The Frenchmen had mounted it in the ttree. They had also withheld their FISPFLLLLL LZ? rehearsal of the attack on Cantigny |=) SUPERIOR CLEANERS , Located with sia THE TAILOR - EXPERT FRENCH DRY CLEANING 123 East Second St. Phone 431 PAINE i iH PIPPI OC POOL EEL LLC FOR SALE A Bona Fide Paying Business Proposi- tion in Casper, Wyoming Have five year lease on building, and s4- rents more than pay the entire rent of build- ing. For full particulars address Box 222, care Tiibune Office. IMI MPAA PAIRPAPAL DAL LLP 2) TZ NEN ‘SILI LIMON IIIS SS. 1d bl h the American fighting man will not some were put permanently into the| tirelessly to keep him supplied. Posi-| fire until the tank had passed, ane hold public office. Their responsi-| consider his job done, until the AI- line in the Bacarat region and north-|tions were constantly being changed.| made their play, for the men—and bility toward the ¢ommonwealth | lied cause is victorie But the dis- west of Toul in the place of French| Food was uncertain. But the Amer- |got them. TKe tank was signalled to should also be equally recognide andj|tance is not to be measured by the divisions which were rushed away|iean hung on, and is there today — | come back to put a cannon shot into equally exacted. |resistance of the German alone. In- to the big battle line. Others fol- REHEARSING CANTIGNY |the tree. This done, so that they A case has been noted of two wo-|Competence at home, faulty leader-:lowed the French, and in Picardy _At Cantigny the American showed | — men mother and 18-year-old daugh-|Ship in any of the branches dealing took their place in the line which | adptability to carefully planned (Continued on ter. The father away at work all day, | comletes the roll of the family. At about 9:30 every morning mother| and daughter appear upon the porch. | At noon they disappear for about a) hour, presumably for lunch. They! spend the afternoons on the poreh and the evenings also. These are charming people. ery busy woman with a basket on her arm, going or returning from} the stores, is glad to pass a word}. with them. The children who play| about the neighborhood are pleasant-| ly received. But they do nothing all | day except to visit with the passing neighbors and each other. They do not knit. They do not sew They do} not even read. They just sit and| smile. | Here, surely, is needed Red Cross} labor going to waste. To the right of | them lives the busy mother of four} children who employs no maid. She} does not go to the:Red Cross to work | for obvious reason But she is Tiv-| ing, and canning, according to Heo-) To their left lives a womai th one child, and ‘ore maidyttho head of one of the ‘democratic committees and whé spends mbSE“6Y her time in active war work. Her| little son understands ‘that by cutting | short his usual candy allowance he is saving sugar for the Allies and} helping to win the war. Next her| lives a woman, born in Germany, with } a son in the American army. She also spends much time on her porch, with sad eyes following the knitting of Red Cr . Then comes a} minister’s ‘e—which sufficiently describes her absorption in useful work. In_ this sitt he sla Ev- active, productive group, Fortunately, their conspicuousness is due to the fact | that everyone else is working. But} all over the land are scattered slack- ers. Can nothing be done about it? Me THE LAST BIG PUNCH The fifth German drive may be set | down as flat failure. It has not at- tained any of its important object- and therefore a defeat. The) lies’ success is almost as definite as was that of the Italians in ‘the re- cent Austrian drive. The German failure, the same token, is almost as signal as the Austrian. | There is no question of the import- ance attached to this drive by the German general staff. It appears to have been as ambitious and energetic a blow as any struck since Germany began this great series of offensive moves at the spring equinox. All the! available power of German arms was/ behind that blow. The result was, less territory taken, fewer prisoners captured, less loss inflicted, than in any previous drive. The Allies have taken twice as many prisoners as the Germans. They have lost hardly any guns. Their casualties have ce’ nly not been} greater than Germany’s, and in all probability much less. Their morale has risen during this struggle, while the German morale has visibly sunk. Germany still has a lot of fight left in her, but we are safe in say-| ing that this is her last great effort. She can never hit so hard again. She hasn’t another such punch left in her. ise Se A Na BE The greatest meat-eaters are the Australians, who before the war con- sumed an average of more than seven pounds per head 1 RUGS RUGS RUGS We are now prepared to clean all kinds of Rugs and Carpets. Dry Cleaning of all kinds is our business. CASPER DRY CLEANING CO. Phone 255 J 1 with the war; is going to mean z= longer path, and a path dye@ with American blood. Representatives of America’s bal- ance of power as arriving in France by hundreds hourly. As this is writ- ten more than 1,000,000 men have landed. Every man brings the hour of victory nearer, but the adminis- tration, the leadership, must be be- hind him. I have been with the Americans in every important action to date, from the first raids in Lorraine to the taking of Cantigny in Picardy jand the second battle of the Marne. 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On the Marne as bright a page as is to be seen in Anierican history, was written by the Americans who stop- ped the German advance there. For! five days they fought unceasingly. They met the best divisions the Ger- man high commane could throw against them. All were turned back. Munition carriers ambulance men, supply men—in fact everyone— worked or fought day and night. It was the extreme test of American stamina to date, and was met glor- iously. The best traditions of Amez-. ica were more than fulfilled. The German rush toward Paris was_stop-| ped. The morale of the French was} raised to new heights at the sight wand by the story, of these Americans and which they ex-| CONSERVE time and money. Phone IN WAR TIMES, Don’t Discard that Broken Costing, but bring it to us to be welded. We save you Welders and Brazers of Cast Iron, Steel, Aluminum, Bronze and all other metals. Oxweld’s Portable Outfit for Field Work. Welding of Scored Cylinder Blocks a Specialty All welds guaranteed. 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