The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1919, Page 16

re eee THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1919 How a Lone Doughboy Held a German Charge From a Ruined Altar eee He Stood His Ground in a Little Shell Wrecked Church, Bombing Swarms of Attacking Boches Until His Comrades Came—Then the Fight in the Church Became a Battle Which the Dough- boys Won. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall # little shell-wrecked etrareh tn No B American battle in a church Man's Land, from which enemy machine gum might have raked fhe American trenches—a battle in which one American doughboy Patrick MacGill wrote a few years modern novels, “Children of the Dead Wad” and “T Ratpit.”. When war camo he went out with the London Irish, and saw plenty of service as streteher-bearer and rifleman. In 1915 he married a nicee of our own Cardinal Gibbons, 90 there is reason for tho interest and sympathy standing at the ruined altar held back a German charge, that is the thrilling story told by Patrick MacGill in his new tale of American boys at the front which he has called, “The Dough Boys is a talented young frishman, who ago two of the best and bitterest of he shows in tris tale of Americans at the front, ‘The most dramatic incident in the book is that of the conflict in the q@urch, first reached by one Sullivan, Irish-American hero of “The Dough Boye.” Near tho aftar, on which stood the figure of Christ sith ene Blown off, Sullivan was watting Ite mates to come up when he ctanced down the nave and saw 4 @erman tn the door, Patrick Mac- (GHD contindes the story - Raising hie rif fe Sulttvan fired, amd tho man tottered and fell, An- other appeared, and another, till the dear wan crowded with rmans, Bat they did not come forward. “Buddenty the forms in field-cr by the door rushed ap the churoh to werds the altar. Sullivan unhooked a bom> from his equipment and, Jean ime back, he Mung it into the first wave of Germans, ft exploded in the midst of them, and a number fell, yelling Mke beasts in agony. “The Irishman flung a eecond bomb. A fash Bt ap the church as if the door of a had been suddenly opened then shut. A shower of bullets was the reply and these hit ij urainst the floor, the walls, and altar| St. Joseph was lying. ‘The stru Jagain he was shoved out, leaving dy, magnificent, he was the veritable spirit of war, “On them? he vyethal, Tet them out of beret” “Under the eadarérp of the yount officer the doughboys multiplied themestves and rach man was worth ten, ‘The Germans on the night, gave way, turned and fied, Their mates followed them and the door- way became a shambles. Hero tho beaten men were met by their own reinforcements just coming in to take part in the fight and they conld no got out, They were shoved in back wards against the bayonets of the Amoricans, “The enemy came In again and the wounded behind on « floor slip | pery with dlood. A third time they attacked, driving the holders of the chureh back as far as the altar steps on which the mutilated statue Seals, Darying themselves in the wood, | Ws very bitter for a full quarter of chipping the walls and ricochetting off the jron. The volley was violent and of « nature to make the boldest shrink. Nhe nave was crowded with jermann, “Keep ft ap, Sulfiven. Keep tt up” “The Doughboys were coming in to help their comrade. Crowding through the door of the sacristy they roshed at in front of the alter with @ young) officer leading, a revolver im cach hand. “0m them, boys he yefed. “with he bayonet! Forward, America!’ “He rushed the enemy furiously firing madly, Seflivan like « mad hing, at his heela, balowing Nke a yw and lunging with his bayonet The smoke of rifles and exploding homtbe fied the building: It was one efi-mell of helmets, figures in groy lowed him, chasing fire and glints lean owt into the open. and Wheki, flashea of o( steel, Men groaned madly an they eM and were trampled on as they ay on the floor of the church, R was & fight dogged and desperate, a fight © the finish. “Men who had lont thelr bayonets sore strangling one er fighting with their fingers and fists, Wounded yen on the floor puminelied one un wther's faces. Hverybody beld rch and nobody held tt. On th oft over the broken seats the Amori- cams made their way towards tho c ght der the waN to} loer, on the right, under Pa i whitch the pictures of “Me § ne of the Cross’ were nafled. The Ger mans were bolding thetr own and making @ little progress towards atta, “Goddenty affairs took @ turn for the better as a fravh party of Amori- cams came in by the main entrance of the church, your, but at the end of that time Top-Sergeant Casey discovered a German machine gun hidden in a corner of the chapel its muzzle thrust through @ little opening in the wall, and commanding the American trenches to the right, It was when Casey was shoved backward by 9 determined thrwst of the Germans that he stumbled across the gun which was covered over with a piece of sacking. Caney fell on this, and in his efforte to rewain his feet he | Pulled the meking away and dis- covered the gun which it hid. "Come, boyal’ he yelled. ‘Out Woh them now: # will be the last He ted the atteck, exhorting the soldiers to follow him, and they fol- the Germans eum was (aken in from its omplace | ment, an ammunition belt was rooted jout from some corner, and with the Maxim fixed in the doorway the Ger mans did not dare to attack asain, | In the evening when darkness had fatien the Americans withdrew, tak ing their wounded away with them. | They reached their own trench and Sullivan, Bu thotr own a sighed deeply, “Tt was a streak o © edt) “The Dough Boys,” tr putitshed by George H. Doran Company Se. Then the| © and Stiffy made for | gout. ‘The younsyters, | dead beat, sa\ down on the floor and | q Will We B By Clyde B. West. Onpyrigh! 191%, by The Prom Publishing Oo, (fhe Now York Proving Work? OHN SCHUYLER SMITH (calling operator im his apartment house on Riverside Drive)-—-Hella, operator, helio. OPERATOR (very promptiy, presumably)—Number, please? MR, SMITH—A want to talk to Mrs, Smith, on board the Angioria, of te Biue Star Line, bound for LAverpoot. OPERATOR——Certainty. 1 iill call you as soon as 1 get the Angloria (Operator calls Radiophone Centra& aed asks for Mra. John Schuy her Smith, on board the Angloria, Forthwith are flashed across the Affantic the letters “Agi,” “AgL” “Agl" the code for the great liner that is ploughing her way acroee the oeean, and at this moment iv about 500 miles east by northwest off Nantucket. Ln a comparativety short time the Angloria's wires: operator gcts the summons and sends forth his responee.) ANGLORIA OPERATOR—Helio, Nar, Helo, Nov (Nor is the cole call for New York Radiophone) -NYR—Hello, Agl. John Schuyler Smith calting Mra. Fohn Srhny. ter Smith on board Angloria, A. 0.—-Hold the atx, please, 2 pached tage at portion ,.| Ms reached a stage at which from, it I" a very close paraphrase of what in fore= ast for the near| future m the . #E) latest textbook on “Radio Telephony,” by Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith, Director of the Radio Teles graphic and Telephonic Laboratory at the College of the City of New York, and one of the greatest authorities on radio telephony im America | J. W. JONES (of Joncs-Wan Co., seated at desk in his office im Broad Btrect)—Hello, operator. Please get Mr. Charles H. Wall, on Airplane KZ721, pound for St. Lowis, via Louie | ville. OPERATOR-—Yes, sir, 1 (ill call you as soon as I get Mr. Wall (Operator rings up Airplane Omn- tral, and after @ serves of calls and re~ sponses similar to those gone through in the onse of AI, Smith, locates Mr.) Walt in the air just above the south- | western corner of Pennsylvania) MR. JONES —Hello, Wall. That you? | MR. WALL-—Yes, hetto, MR. J.—B8top off at Lowsville and) s¢o Breckenridac & Oo. about that RODMAN GILDE Ba ER POST, COLUMBIA, branches of the United & Neither tis conversation be-|and Navy, both of wh ve baa | tween a York business man and | large corps of radio and electrical en his partner, presumably a passenger| gincers and other experts teach on an airplane, quoted from fact, but | clisaes in most of the large unive » adniitted to-day by noted rad ies and colleges throughout the Jexperts that such radiephoge von- | country Vorsacona will ulumately be tae ree) To-day the air Viteraliy Aited it of the rapid development of the with telegraph and telephone mes nee of radio communtoation row They penetrate buildings, hia progress trees, even human be The Air Service School for Radio The sudden return of peace M@s- Officers, U.S Army, at closen that are may be said that the oar has been! }men as weil, Tho army schoo’ went; | fine radio equipment. +|the Attantic,” remarked Prof. Slich |means by which they may Jexact bearings. In the case of air-| jwill be in quite genera use om rail-| jtories, In the latter, a manager wilt \be ablo by the application of the radio | | Fert Wayne bond debt. | mastered. Moet amazing etrides [Principle to converse with the head of | have been made by the omullo Army In a very recent paper read before | the American Institute of Flectrical gineers, Major Gen. George ©, Talking This Wey in the Nea (Telephone be tinkles in Mrs. Bmitlh’s stateroom A, O.—Mra, Smith? MRS, 8.—Yea. 1, OMe, John Schuyler Smit, Mow Work, catteng you the wire, please, A, 0, to Nyr—HeNo New York, Mrs. Fon Scineyler Smith ts-on the wire, ready to tuik to Mr, Smith, NYR.—Hold the air, please. (Radio Central calls Mr. moment, please. R. ©. to Agl—Mr. Smith is on the were AGL to R, 0.—ANl right, go ahead. R. 0. to Mr, 8~AN ready, —Hetlo, is that you Marie? —Yes, yes, hello, beloved. MR, MR, in Paris rert Thersdon. MRS. S.—Certainly.. is that otf Yes, Pm qrite well, Here's a | fase through the air, Goodby. sesesinaaminemmntsssnesesasintatio’ HTLE the above ts] war. A science almost in tts in-) the sort m America not an exact tran-| fancy when hostilities began in 1914) momt important year's work it| graduated more than 500 young men in the science of wireless communi- | City cation, The Navy School at Harvard | of performed a similar work. While the | This was regarded as one of the army radio gchool at Columbia has come te an end, this is because tho | war Is over and there is no reason for the Government to carry on such | Honolulu by radio, | large classes in radio work. But the splendid radio department | and jot Columbia, under Prof. W. 1. It has Slichter, an eminent authority on the subject, will be continued with} renewed energy, thus making radio training still available there for not only civilians, but for army and navy to Columbia largely because “When we have airplanes cross to-day, “the radio will be the only| set, their| plane navigation one cannot be guid-| ed by the horizon.” Other celebrated aathorities freely admit the wireless telephone soon way trains, and even in lange fac- a department in any part of tho} building without eneountering the delny of calling him to a wire phone. Squier, Chiet Signal Officer of the Army, speaking of the progre made in radio matters, said “Commercial and military possi. bilities have hardty been touched as paratus soon wil be as essential on | r Future ?, She ansiwere.) ‘mith’s aparument there rings the telephone in Mr, Smith's apartment. R, O.—Mrs, Smith, on board the Angloria, #8 on the air. Mr, Smith —Your cousin Heten has just codted asking gow to meri her to-day closed a] ners of aircraft ter al purposes.” conversations were between an aviator over New York and persons stationed on roofs of the city’s skyscrapers. marvellous Likewise, only a comparatively few | Washington days lines, Paschal, eb’ dio Schoo} Columbia, to-day. “Tt tev, WitFreD Pascrars, yet. It ty believed that radio ap- | Guyer iysTRucToR Ae Service ScHOo. THURSDAY, FE KS The Young Wife's Book BRUARY 6, 1919 “ath Sot “On Domestic Economy’’ ————— And the Views of Mrs. Russ Whyla!, ‘Stage Mother,” Who Counsels the Modern Bride Nol to Be Too Economical Lest Sh By Zoe NCE upon a time the blushing e Give Her Husband the “Grindstone Nose.” Beckley Coorerin:, 1%, by The Pree Pubtistring Oo, (The New York Sv enime: Work? bride went to her unbiushing busbemd , well laden with marriage chests and juicy dowries. She could keap things going indefinitely with her bolts of homespun linen ami her sitks that ‘stood alone.” She had been so drilled in domestic thrift . Husband often did hand embroidered | wet-econcev | Now the point is: Was the olg- jfashioned, super-economical wife bet- \ter off? Was sho happier? Did she ‘qurther ber husband's fortunes in the surest possible way? Mmmm—iet as turn to page 102 of the Young Wife's Book and read what a cortain gentie- }man remarked anent his spouse: “Hor father, poor man, spent $700 and ‘nore to have her taught music and whim-whams, which all put to- gother are not worth a sixpence. I would give them all up to see ner make such a transy pudding as that which the widow in the Spectator |nelped Sir Roger to at dinner. | “Why, I don’t believe Belle knows os \mmittam lable, |whether-pie crust is made of but ‘ter or cheese, or whether a ventson pasty should be baked or boiled When I come in, sharp set from hunt- ing, I don’t like to be put off with a tune instead of a dinner. {o marry 0 singing girl is like eating night- ingales, They sing, but are of no fur- ther use, “Empty accomplishments do not accompany true economy. Thoy tend |to diasatisfy a young lady from at- “Aside from tts commercial vane! tending the market early of mornings its usefulness slong practical ang with her own basket upon her the radiophone is destined to| nem, A discreet wife will cart off with if greatest humant- unsparing hand all superfuities which affect not comfort, but cherish vanity. ‘The fatigues of domestic employment are wholesome ones, and every proper | wife should practise economy of foods {amd clothing to the utmost, that she ;shan guard her husband's hearth from want.” Tam sure this gentleman woold be shocked at Annabelle (thongh he would probably enjoy seeing her in the movies), And possibly Annahetle does go too far. Yet I find many modern persons who are ready to defend the, if net actually spend- thrift wife, at least the wife who re- garda it es part of her duty te be pretty well dressed, wefl rested, weil | informed, well housed, well anrased— and who thus keeps her disposition @s well manicured as ber finger nails, One of these defenders of “oxtrava- gance” is Mrs. Russ Whytal, who | plays Alice Brady's “mother” in “For- ever After.” You remember how refuetant athe of life in airplane navigation. The fog, which long has boen the terror of the oceans, more dread od ban storms and heavy seas, will lose | ts frightfulness. ‘The last examinations im the (o- lumbia radio school were eonducted to-day by Lieut. G. A. Paulsoa of | . Colum- | aircraft as it now i on ocean-going | undoubtedty wit save thousaeds of | Tacoma, Wash., one of the instcuc- | lution has been! bia University, probably the largest ; steamships and that its use will|itves at sea and will prevent con-| tors who hes taken a leading part in|her cheese-parings and her fi Wrought In Wireless matters ly the | and most important institution of | enormowky increase the affeetive- fusion, loss of time amd probabiy!¢he work at the university. Air Service School for Radio Officers, U. S. Army, at Columbia University Picture. “The young officer who led the} firmt etiack was st) there, offertng | ‘rimgeelf to every blow of the com- hat, Buthed im perspiration, his eyes Ut up, his mouth foaming, his] ng, mud iniferm unbuttoned, bir EVENING WORLD PUZZLES. By Sam Loyd. Puzzling Pippins. IGHT children divided S2 apples | ug follows: ‘Ann got 1 apple, May took 3) Jane and Kate 4. Ned Smith re- ceived as many as his sister, Tom | Brown twice as, many as bis sis-| ter, Bill Jones| three times as many as his sis- ter, and Jack Robinson four times as many as his sister Qan you tel! the survames of Ann, | May, Jane and Kate? tnswer to the Consumer's Puzzle. In the ‘old days’ the consumer arped $1,500 in a year and bis ex penwes were $1,300 Then xpenscs mereased 40 per cont. to $1,420 a! salary increased 10 per cent. to $ which left him $170 “in the hole. any. Mp aye a ee = Lor Group of the Men Who Have Just Finished the Course. Officers and Instructors Are Shown in Centre of Major Rodman Gilder, Commandant of the Post, Is the Officer Sitting With Folded Arms. under lock and key, doled owt each day's ration of bacon, flonr and sugar and went biind darning, patching and etadying “The Young Wife's Book” by candle light. Nowadays when Albertus proposes on sixty-five a work Nike as not Annabdelte replies: “Nothing doing, dearte When you make two hundred, come around and talk Housework rains my nati polish. And besides, 1 wam io ' go to Paris for the honeymoon—and let you buy my trousseau there.” j You see, Annabelle is thinking of going into the movies or somethine 4vid | She cam make money herself. And that’s where all the “trouble” oomes in that with assiduons cheeseparing and home dressmaking, not have to ase his check book enti! the firstborn was well into panties and baby sister in “shorts.” Wifie kept her storeroom in in the piece to hawe her deaghte: fall in love with the tmpecuniony youn man? “Well, I have mach fhe same view off the stare an on i,” avers Mr Whytal with the vigor of roal con viction, “I Know nothing so cramp ing and 90 destructive of ail beau in life ag economy, Don't misunder stand me. I held no brief for con stant recklese extravagance, althong’ & touch of it at times ts one ef b= dest cheerers ap in the world. ‘Everything has changed sinee your Young Wife's Book was written, foes on Mrs. Whytal, with « gestarc that implies “changed for the better "Highty years ago a man had to start modestly, There ware no short cuts to fortune. He was acnally ap Prenticed out as a tad. He works up gradually and painfully, and by poor wifo drudged incessantly ant still more painfully. “The poor wife could net help her self, She had to make soap and sown and spin flax, and weave cloth and* carpets, and mould candles, and baks and cook and brew. Now it's dif ferent. It doesn't take an ambitious man fifty years to make his fortune. This is the young man’s day. Thoo- dore Roosevelt was Police Commis sioner at thirty-seven and Governor, of New York in his fortieth year Georgie Cohan was 4 millionaire at thirty-three (whéther he knows it not). Henry L, Doherty, Charles M Schwab and Henry Ford, made bi fortunes for themselves before the |Were even middie-aged. 1 don’t sa jthey were whipped into monoy-gr ting by extravagant women. But | say that many a man who is cucors ful and rich and powerful was mad 80 by the necessity of oarnin= for a. ‘DeautiMml and ambitious wife, “Too much economy, too great « willingnoes to do her own dishes an make over her gowns, keops many + woman a dowd and many a husao with bis nose to the grindstona nev: looking up, newer taking chan mever getting anywhere, “They de oy money i ic q enemy. But 1 insist that laci monoy ® not omy love's cnemy \ the enemy ot all peace and delight the home, aN beauty 10 Ute. So | wi nag their husbands into wea some timutate them into it, sou wheedle them inte it, and some--p ¢ bearts--help thom get a going oul and busting rather th. King at home and economizing “Phe poor wife of a century a could not be economically free, © had no adternative but to go on w turnings, While Husband, think: her quite content, continued a du. and 4 grubber, a nose-grinder and 4 time-server, “I loathe economy myself. Nothin. oo takes the jay out of life. 1 agree! with the man who said be could do without necessities, but he bad to have luxuries, Extravagance is ofte i economy and economy extray vane At alt depends on where you draw th line, The wife to whom economy is a! fetish is @ miscry to herself and a bore to every one else, She som, tenes ruins her husband, just asa too & extravagant wife docs. Fearing to lose the little she has, she chains ber } | husband to bis bookkeeping job or i clerkship instead of flinging the rent money into a vacation for bath ot them, Ten to on would get 4 new outlook and a | they did have to owe the butcher f @ month, It's like a wife who lowes her husband too much, She loves hi let him out of © job even so much that she won't her sight “I know & woman who kept ber husband a third mte bank clerk a his life because she wouldn't go to |live i town’ where had bis work offered him, ema | wouldn't let him ut bert hat woman’ | Part would have made her bushaed a | successful man, , neighborin i gO wi | bit of extravagance on { “Marry on nothing, dopending jeconomy for your happines rye | may get on, But more likely you'll py nice and miserable ‘forever afte: |seian!” (Wath apologies to H Rewland.) ay’