Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 54, Hammond, Lake County, 13 August 1918 — Page 3

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A MILLION BOY SCOUTS. Boy Scouts of America, Now About 400,000 Strong; .What Foreign Scouts Are Doing in War Time. By Robert Baden-Powell.

I have received a touching appeal regarding the Boy Scouts of Serbia. They did consistent good work for their country through the first days of the war serving as orderlies in their hospitals and doing other public work. Later they aetM as messengers and despatch riders for. their army and did their work with the greatest efficiency during the invasion of their country and through that terrSble retreat into Albania. Although they are r.ow scattered abroad and have lost their home and in very many cases their parents also, these boys are endeavoring to keep together as Scouts, helping each other and continuing to carry out their duties as well as they can. Their spirit is Indomitable, but their bodies need sustenance and clothing, especially n view of the approach cf autumn and winter. Cannot we other Scouts help them? The Roumanian Scouts, too. distinguish themselves most highly when their homeland was rushed. In some cases they managed to arm themselves with the equipment of those who had faJiea and in mora than one Instance displayed heroism In covering the retreat of their army by holding bridges, etc. When their nation was driven to Jassy and there practically Invested the Scouts did notable work In raising food for the. distressed population. These boys have, now probably got back to their homes, but the Beisian Scouts, whJ also distinguished themselves In much the same way by their patriotic service -when their homeland was attacked, are still homeless and In rery many cases parentless as the result cf the war. Large numbers of them have got together again as refugees la England and are keeping up their Scout troops, but there Is also a considerable continent of them still at

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the front, where I have seen them at their work, as cyclist orderlies to their army. They have there made a good name for themselves for patriotism and devotion to duty. Then again In France the Scouts have done very useful war work. A number of them were driven from their homes by the enemy's Invasion of Northern France and they are refugees in other parts of their country. But thoy still stick to their scouting. I came across a smart troop in a town behind the French lines, and found that they belonged actually to Lille whence they had been driven out by the German invasion, but they had got together again and still carried on their Scout work. A letter found on the body of a German officer recorded the gallsntry of one of the brotherhood, when it described the capture of a French Boy Scout by a force of Germans. The boy persistently refused to betray the posi

tion of his own forces so they stood him up against a telegrrarh pole and shot him for his patriotism. The German officer's comment was that "It was a pity a boy should die for sheer bravado" rather it was a splendid example of what a Scout can do for the honor and loyalty to his country. The spirit which distinguished this lad prevails among all these who. homeless and worn with the strain of war. stick to their Scout work and ideals with a courage that is common to all of them, no matter to which nation they belong. The war has put their Scout spirit to the highest test and that spirit has won through. What about us other Scouts whose countries have not been invaded and who have not been driven from our homes orphaned and scattered? If we too have the Scout spirit in us can we sit comfortably by and see our brother Scouts suffering without lending a hand to help them? We can surely do something. Indeed I feel that we could do a great deal. The present is our golden opportunity. We are helping them materially by getting together funds to supply their needs; but whether the sum collctd amounts to much or little the fact of our raising it will have a greater value in proving to them that In the time of their trial they have the whole-hearted sympathy of their brother Scouts throughout the world. If we can do thi3 it will be a strong binding force between the citizens of the next generation and a guarantee towards a permanent and universal peace when it cornea.

Made the trip from Ft. Leavenworth. Kansas, in three days. Am very pleasantly situated here being quartered in Haughton Hall, formerly used as a window. Like all the boys, am aching to cross the pond, but haven't the least idea when I will be the lucky one. Hope, however, that my turn will come before the fuss is over. Have a great deal of junior dorm. The sergeants of the detachment have rooms to themselves s feel quite at home with a room of my

j own looking out over Herkfly oval with

the Ivy or oh! .le twining about the work laying around loose and little time for anything else. For that reason have written little. Presume that the Junior Chamber of Commerce is going strong for the front. Now to the business. Tlease change my address and fordward The Tives to me at Box 4 71, Tale Station. New Haven. Conn. Beet wishes and luca. Sincerely, R. E. AMOSS.

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From It. E. Amoss. New Haven. Conn., Aug. 4, 191S. Dear Cross: Sorry that I will have to confine most of this letter to business as time is very short until taps and lights out. Have been transferred to the Tale Army Laboratory school at New Haven. Conn.

By A BRITISH MUSKETRY OFFICER (Written for the United Press) LONDON. July 21 A man who rides a bicycle wonders how on earth It Is possible to fall off, Just as a man who is learning to ride wonder how on earth It is possible to stay on. That is a contract which every musketry instructor must keep continually in hi mind. If he does not he will forget that to every recruit the rifle Is a new and perhaps a dangerous thing. He approaches It with respect. Exactly as with the bicycle he wonders not only how he will manager it, and what it will do with him. That is why you cannot drill men into shooting as you can drill them into forming fours, and why with harshness and impatience you may spoil a good man at musketry. Tou are doing more than to teach him to do a new thing, you are putting a strange Instrument into his hands, as you might give

j him a curious animal, end he has to be

come accustomed to it. If you let him use It wrongly. If you let him fire his first shot with a loose grip and hurt himself with the kick, you may make him permanently afraid of it. That is an abvious carelessness which every good instructor avoids, but he has to do more, he has to remember that every man with Imagination enough to learn at all must have a certain gun Bhyness at first even If he never shows

(it. and must wonder what the first shot

will feel like. That as every instructor knows is a hard thing to keep that perpetually and consciously in mind. Men Show Nervousness. Gun shyness is a well chosen expression and in the exact sense of It every man is gun shy at the beginning, but H Is used more often simply to describe the most obvious physical nervousness that some men show when they first handle a rifle. It is very difficult to find a cause for it. It may perhaps be a repugnance to suddtn noist. a repugnance which. If you knew the man's past, you would find to have shown

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ALLIED CASUALTIES LESS THAN NUMBER OF THEIR CAPTIVES WITH THE BRITISH ASKT IN FRANCE, Aug. 13. The contract between the number of prisoners taiiea. la this offensive and the allied easualtloa is regarded as remarkable. The casualties of the entire allied forces were considerably less than the total prisoners taken. When it is understood that this battle has not been waged for the purpose of taking prisoners, tho casualties inflicted on the Germans must have reached a large figure.

itself in other ways At the same time it Is Interesting to note that artillery officers do not find as much gun shyness among their men as might be expected from the greater volume of noise. Or it may be the excessive nervousness of an Imaginative man at handling a dangerous thing for the first time In his life; or it may, in rare cades, be a definito fear of some particular accldtnt. a fear of which the man himself is perfectly conscious. It was so in a case of a man with glasses who flinched badly at every shot. He had a brother who also wore giises and who had been blinded in one eye by a sudden explosion. He was in continual fear of the same accident. The only thing was to put him to shoot without his glasses. He was shortsighted but could see well enough at the short ranges. It did not matter at all tht at five hundred and six hundred yards he could hit nothing. At two hundred and three hundred he could learn to use his rifle; and when he grew to k-iow it, he would probably want himself to see better and take to his glasses again. Difficult Cases. But clear cases cf that sort are rare, and there is no opportunity to try and trace the nervousness back to its source. All that the musketry officer has is the man himself; a puzzled, rather shamefaced man. who for no reason at all that he can find, trembles when he goes down with a rifle, or breaks into a sweat, or cannot see clearly, and he has to put heart into that man and make him a little more than the best of himself. These are the most difficult and the most interesting cases that an instructor has to handle. He has to watch them closely, be ready to encourage them, see at once when they are doing better. If he once lets them think he despises them, if he merely tries to discipline them, if he makes them afraid to speak of themselves, he will do nothing. For he never knows that there may not be some simple thing, like that man's fear cf breaking his glasses, which he can put right, if only the man will speak of it; and even if there is not, the more a man knows you are interested in him, the more he will try to master himself.

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That opening rooming was so successful that it is still a dream to us, but it surely wu a gimper tart for the whole escadrille.

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(Copvright 191S by the United Press). WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE. July 10 (By Mail). The "gimper squadron" , had an ideal Introduction to warfare, back In the middle of April, according to Lieutenant Eddie Rickenbacker, American ace and former auto racer. Let Rickenbacker tell the story: We had finished our tralnig and being tht first American outfit to take to the front, without previous experience we were allowed to fly around until we felt ir.o;a confident, before taking: over responsibility of patrolling a sector. One Saturday night we decided w-e were ready for business. We called up the French and told them. They replied that we could take over patrolling a big chunk north of Toul, beginning the next morning at daybreak. Accordingly we planned the first gimper patrol Captain David Peterson led it. while Lieutenant Reed Chambers and I were the rest of the personnel. Captain Peterson had had

considerable experience over the line. Before going up he told me to take the leadership of the patrol In caso he had motor trouble and had to come down, and that w-e would not need to patrol If it were too cloudy. So we went up with that understanding. Just as we were ready to start Reed Chambers yelled to Douglas Campbell and Allen Winslow. "We'll go out and scare the Heinles up and you guys knock 'em down." We circled around for altitude and Captain Peterson came down. He had declied it was too cloudy to patrol but 1 assun.ed he had motor trouble and started off for the lines with Chambers following.

It was our first trip over and w-e made a long one. Before long we ran into a couple of Huns and maneuvered to fire on them. We got a couple of shots at them and they ran. We continued our patrol not without apprehension, since we were not sure of our locations and that first trip is a scarey one even when you are led by someone who knows the line. Finally I lost Chambers and began patrolling up an " down to locate him. It became more cloudy and I could see nothing. At length I started for what I thought w as home, but it took a long time to find It. Chambers wasn't there.

When I finally came out of the clouds the two Germans we had chased out

jf the clouds were still up.

After Chambers promise to scare tip

some Huns, Campbell and wlnslow had

gone into the tent and were playing cards. Suddenly they were called to

answer an alert. They had barely

Jumped Into their machines and gained some altitude when they saw two Ger

man planes coming for the camp. Both thought the Germans were com

ing to strafe the hangars and each picked out a German to head him off. i)oug took the first one and got on hie tail. He landed the German right on the aviation field four and a half minutes after he had left his cards. Winslow had a little more difficulty but took only a minute and a half longer to bring down his Boche right near the field. The German fivers were all captured, and the feat of landing them right on the home grounds made the victory more than a perfect score. We were looking them over and AVinslow gave his man a cigarette for lack of knowing what else to do, and then went up in the syir, when Reed Chambers, who I had lost in the clouds, came buziing in. Chambers was surprised but an instant at finding the German aviator there. "Those are the birds we promised to round up for you to knock down." he said. "Ask them if they are not the Heinies we met up there. Questioning the Germans revealed the fact that they were the ones we had shot at and driven. In their flight they had lost their vj and were spotted by observera vy.o alerted us to get them.

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'Copyright 1913 by the United Press) WITH THE AMERICAN AIRMEN IN FRANCE. July 10 (By Mall) A sausage strafing party Is about as much fun as a real hun fight among a bunch of aviators. Our last one was decidedly a success. We followed the plan of scaring Heinle to death, .-aid Eddie Rickenbacker. all American ace and erstwhile auto racer. He says: This was an organized strafing party and was extra on our bill along the front. We did It voluntarily, and for the fun of it. It wasn't exactly work. We organized the strafing party into two groups. One started out eariy and got a high altitude by flying back and forth twenty minutes or more before the second group started up That first group was the strafing party. The second party went up and crossed the lines at a low altitude. The Germans were evidently surprised. Their astonishment turned Into amazement when the low-flying group of Americans began doing stunts right over the German guns. Loops, sideslips and all safe stunts. It was as big an insult as the German mind could stand, and they turned loose with vengeance. Elack puffs were all around us but we kept on with motors at full speed diving, looping, turning and making them still madder. Meantime the group which went up flrst crossed lines at high altitude with motors off, gliding along. They were unnoticed on account of the racket of the motors cf the stunt groups, and succeeded in getting positions above, half a dozen balloons before Heinle was the wiser. Then they dived, each man straight tor a balloon shooting as he came, the guns being loaded with incendarles. Out of every sausage there came an observer hanging on a parachute and the machines on the ground frantically hauled in the boche sausages. The whole flock of American planes sped across the line, having cleaned the sector of German balloons w-ith one general dive. Heinle won't forget that little surprise party for a while. It wasn't as dangerous as It sounded, for his guns are set for high altitude. As a general rule the German archies are more to scare you than to bring you down. It is the shots from an opponent that are more dangerous. There Is one gimper in the crowd, who is the most punished of us all. He never failed to draw fire, for somi reason or other. He has rather poor eyesight and can't see the boche in time. As a result they're always plcqulng on him. One day he came down with seven bullet holes In his fuselege and another raked his rudder control. WThen he landed he jumped out of his plane and hopped around like a chicken to see what damage was done to the plane, thinking nothing about himself. Just then an al rl came in. He Jumped in his place in a jiffy and shouted: "Let me at 'em. I'll get 'em the sons of Boches. Then he was off in a minute and drove the Germans home, but not until he had some mors bullets planted in his machine. It takes courage of a special sort to stand the archies and bullets. Captain Norman Hall who Is now a prisoner In Germany was an- ideal aviator in this respect. As the boys say, "He wasn't scared of Hell!'' He was an Walist through and through and was wounded serously one time while flying at the British front. He concluded that he owed his life to the fact that the- bullet was not an Incendiary. After he refused to use Incendiary bullets, he said he never wanted to land a Boche if h could not do it fairly. One of his favorite games was doing stunts to make the archies shoot at him. He maintained it wast

ed valuable ammunition since it takethousands of shots to hit his plane.

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Lewis Falk left yesterday morning for Sioux City. Iowa, where he goes to visit his mother for a couple of weeks. Mrs. C. Walker of Chicago, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. Augusta Einsphar and other relatives here. Grant Hayden and son Vernon, went to Lafayette on business Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Collins went to Montlcello Saturday to visit relatives. Mr- and Mrs. George Hoevet and daughters. Violet and Pearl, drove to Waterford, Wisconsin Saturday to visit his brother M. H. Hoevet and family for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Sanders of Monon visited his mother, Mrs. M. J. Sanders here yesterday. Harry Tllton of Whiting, came down Saturday evening to see his mother, Mrs. Irene Tilton, who is quite seriously sick. Will Hack, who is working Jn Gary, visited his family here yesterday. Mrs. Lulu Hansen of Chicago, came last evening to visit her mother. Mrs W. U. Northrup. Myron Wallace of Grand Rapids. Michigan, visited his family here yestetrday. Charles Fisher, who is working In Chicago, visited his daughter here yesterday.

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