The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 May 1927 — Page 9

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bavonets! Uh e War at Close Ratine Described In a Jeries Dy an Officer of Ike Mannes — f-V. Capl. JohnW Thomason, Jr. /fSluairated by the Author from -S _. yikelchej Made on the BatHefiddy

STORY FROM THE START The author deecrlbe* how the First battalion of the Fifth marines are quartered near Marigny during the first part of June. 1918, when hey are suddenly sent up north to relieve the First division, bearing the brunt of the German offensive-. Part of the Fifth wrest Hill 142 from the enemy and watt there for the German counter offensive they can see forming. A terrifle German attack soon develops, wreaking fearful havoc among the marines. but not dislodging them On the sixth of June the Fifth runs into bitter fighting In the vicinity of Champlllon and drives out the Boche, but at great cost Then came the Bols de Belleau •nd again the marines acquitted themselves marvelously. Replacements arrive to cover the heavy losses. • The marines are relieved, but the respite Is shortlived, a* they are soon ordered to the Solssons sector, where a great German offensive Is under way. On July 18. after a heavy barrage, the Americana Senegalele- and French foreign legion go forward. AH enemy positions are taken, though at fearful cost, and the First battalion of the Fifth marines are withdrawn for rest and replacement*.

CHAPTER Vl—Continued “So this, Slover, Is the Champagne." said the seconddn-command to one of i*»i« non-coms stood beside him. The sergeant spat. “It looks like hell, sir.'" he said. The lieutenant strolled over towhere a French staff officer stood with a knot of officers In the edge of the pines, pointing out features of this extended field, made memorable by bitter fighting. “Since 1914 we have fought hard here," he was saying. “Oh, the French know this Champagne well, and the Boche knows It too. Yonder”—he pointed to the southwest—"ls the Butte de Sonata, where our Foreign Legion met in the first year that Guard division that the Prussians call the •Cockchafers’. They took the Butte, but most of the Legion are lying there now. And yonder"—the Frenchman extended his arm with a gesture that had something of the salute in it —“stands the mountain of Rhelma. If you look—the air is clearing a little —you can perhaps see the towers of Rhelma Itself." A long grayish hill lay against the gray sky at the horlxon. and over it a good glass showed, very far and faint, the spires of the great cathedral, with a cloud of shell-fine hanging over them. “All this terrain, as far as Rhetms. Is dominated by Blanc Mont ridge junder to the north. As long as the Boche holds Blanc Mont, he can throw his shells into Rheims; he can dominate the whole Champagne sector. as far as the Marne. Indeed, they ■ say that the kaiser watched from I Blanc Mons the battle that he i iH'unched here In July. Apd the Boche ; I'ieans to hang on there. So far, we have failed to dislodge them. I ex- ; (■ect" —he broke off and smiled gravely on the circle of officers—“you will see some very bard fighting in the next few days, gentlemen The second-in-command and the * captain, that afternoon, were huddled < under. a small sheet of corrugated Iron, stolen by an enterprising orderly from the French gunners. The captain was very large, and the other very lean, and they were both abouf the game length. They fitted under the sheet by a sort of dovetailing process that made it complicated for either to move. A second-in-command Is sort of an understudy to the company commandor. In some of the outfits the captain does everything, and his understudy ran only mope around and watt for his senior to become a casualty. In others, It is the junior who gets things done, and the captain Is just a figurehead. In the Forty-ninth, however, the relation was at its happiest The big captain and his lieutenant functioned together as smoothly as parts of a sweet-running engine, nnd there was between them the undemonstrative affection of men who have faced much peril together. “As for me." remarked the captain, drawing up one soaked knee and putting the other out in the wet, “1 want to get wounded ip this fight. A bon blighty. In the arm or the leg. I think. Something that will keep me in a nice dry hospital until spring. I don't like cold weather. Now who is pushta't it'? nothin’ to me. John, if I your side leaks—keep off o’ mine!" So the last day of September, 1918, passed. with the racket up forward ' unabated. So much of war is just lying around waiting tn more or less discomfort. And herein lies the excellence of veterans. They swear and growl horribly under discomfort and exposure—far more than green troops; but privations do not sap their spirit or undermine that Intangible thing called morale. Rather do sufferings nourish in the men a cold, mounting anger, that swells to sullen ardor when at last the Infantry comes to grips with the enemy, and then It goes hard Indeed with him who stands In the way. On the front, a few kilometers from where the battalion lay and listened to the guns, Gourards attack was coming ta a head around the heights north of Somme-Py and the strong trench systems that guarded the way to Blanc Moot ridge. Three magnificent French divisions, one Chasseurs. a colonial division, Une

division with a Verdun history, shattered themselves-In fruitless attacks on the Essen trench and the Essen hook, a switch line of that system. BeyOnd the Essen line the Blanc Mont position loomed impregnable. Late on the Ist of October, a gray, bleak day, the battalion got Its battle orders, arid took over a mangled front line from certain weary Frenchmen. Gathering the platoon leaders and non-coms around them, the captain and the second-in-command of the Forty-ninth company spread a large map on the ground, weighting Its corners with their pistols. “You give the dope. John,” ordered the captain, who was not a man of words, and his junior spoke somewhat In this manner. “Here, you birds, look at this map. The Frogs have driven the Boche a kilometer and a half norttvof SommePy. You see It here—the town you watched them shell this morning. They have gotten Into the Prussian trench —this blue line with the wire in front of it. It's Just a fire trench, mostly shell-holes linked up. Behind It. quite close. Is the Essen trench, which Is evidently a humdinger! Concrete pill boxes and deep dugouts and all that sort of thing—regular fort “The Frogs say it can't be taken from the front—they've tried. We’re goin' to take ft On the other side of that Is the Ellie trench and a little to the left the Essen hook, and In the center the Bols de Vipre—same kind o’ stuff, they say. We’re to take them. You see them all on the map. . . . Next, away up in this corner of the map, is the Blanc Mont place. Whoever is left when we get that far will take that. too. . . . Questions? . . . Yes, Tom, we ought to get to use those “Those Sawed-Off Shotguns They Gave Us at St. Mihiel." sawed-off shotguns they gave us at < Mihiel—though when we get past Essen system, we’ll be In the 1 open, mostly. . . . The old Deuxieme division Is goln’ In tonight—lt’a goin’ to be some party! Move out of here as soon as It’s dark. That’s all.’’ The road here was screened on the side toward tiie enemy by coarse mats of camouflage material erected on tall poles. Through this screen the German flares, ceaselessly ascending, shone with cold, greenish whiteness, so that men saw their comrades' faces weirdly drawn and pale under the*r helmets. .The files talked as they ’ went — “I've seen the time I’d have called those things pretty—but now—reckon hell's lit with the same kind of glims!” . . . “Remember the flare that went up In our faces the night we made the relief in Bellew woods? Seemed to me like everybody in the world was lookin’ at me.” “Bols de Belleau! mighty few In the battalion now that remember them days, sonny. . . -" The road passed Into desolation and wound north, kilometer after kilometer. Presently the camouflage ended and the battalion felt exceedingly naked without Its shelter. Then a slope to the left screened the way, the crest of it sharply outlined as the flares ascended. Beyond that crest the machine-guns sounded very near: now and again the air was filled with the whispering rush of their bullets, passing high toward some chance target In the rear. The upper air was populous with shells passing, and the sky flickered

Many Pretty Legends Concerning the Poppy

The poppy has been the symbol of death since the time the son of Tarqulnius Superbus asked his father ‘what should be done with the people of a conquered city. Tarquin did not reply, but going Into the garden he slashed off the heads of the largest poppies/thereby commending the massacre of the moat influen tial citizens. The color of the poppy, resembling blood, also aymbolizes death. "” en Persephone was stolen by Piuto her mother. Seres, searched for her day and nightS The gods, pitying her and unable to restore Persephone, caused poppies to spring about her feet. She inhaled their heavy, bitter scent, and put the seeds into her mouth, and arcscMiy sleep closed her eyelids and STgaiid that Ntt which her WW body needed. The state flower of California la a brilliant yellow poppy, which shines on the mountain slopes under which gold ilea hidden. The Saxon name for poppy to **popig-’* It used to be a custom in olden days to strike a poppy I**** to lh * bands

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with gun-flashes, but the road along which the battalion went enjoyed for the time an uneasy Immunity. The rests were all too short; the sweating files swore at their heavy packs; the going was very hard. Presently the road ceased to be a road—merely a broken way across an interminable waste of shell-holes, made passable after a fashion by the hasty work of French engineers, tolling behind the assault of the Infantry. The files plodded on each side of the tumbled track, and as they neared Somme-Py a pitiful stream of traffic grew and passed between them, the tide of French wounded ebbing to the rear. They were the debris of the attacks that had spent themselves through the day—walking wounded, drifting back like shadows In stained blue uniforms —men who staggered and leaned against each other and spoke in low, racked voices to the passing flies: and broken men who were borne In stretchers, moaning—“Ah, Jesu! ..." “Doucemeht, doucement! I . . ." Farther beck the ambulances would be waiting for them. The column went quickly through the town of Sorame-Py. Into shells were falling, stumbling over the debris of ruined walls and houses. There was a very busy French dressing station there, under the relic of a church. It was too dark to see, but each man caught the sound and the smell of ft. They cleared the town and went on to a crossroads. French guides were to hats met the battalion there, for the line was just ahead, but . the guides were late. There was a nerve-racking halt. The next battalion In column closed up; a machine-gun outfit, with its solemn, blase mules, jammed into the rifle companies. The Forty-ninth wax the leading company. Just behind the Battalion Headquarters group, and the second-in-command went np to where the major and his satellites were halted. “Crossroads are always a dam’ bad business. Coxy," the major was observing to his adjutant. “Just askin’ for It here —no teilln’ how late our Frog friends will be —get the men moved into that ditch off the road yonder—Ab I thought soI" A high, swift whine that grew to a shrieking roar, and a five-inch shell crashed down some fifty yards to the right of the crowded road. Everybody except the mules were flat on the ground before It landed, but wicked splinters of steel sung across the road, and a machine-gunner, squatting by his cart, collapsed and rolled toward the edge of the road, swearing and clutching at his thigh.

CHAPTER VII Furious Fighting by the Essen Hook. The men moved swiftly and without disorder, to the. ditch, which was • deep communication trench paralleling the road. Another shell came as they moved, falling to the left, and then another, closer, this time between ths road and the trench* A mule or two reared and plunged, stricken; a marine whose head had been unduly high slumped silently down the side of ths trench with most of his head gone. More shells came, landing along the road, between the road and the trench, and one or two of them In the trench Itself. . Cries and groans came from the head of the column; stretcher bearers hurried in that direction; the battalion lay close and waited. Then the shelling stopped. Up forward the major drew a long breath. “Just harassin' fire on these crossroads. I was afraid we were spotted. Now, those guides—” A little group of Frenchmen arrived panting at the head «-f the column and the men were quickly on the move again. “If Brother Boche had kept flingin’ them seabags arour 4 here, he’d a-hurt somebody. Where do we go from here?” Said the major, coming to the head of the Forty-ninth with a French guide—“ Francis, we’re takln’ the regimental front—division’s putting four battalions In the line. The Sixth will be on our left ; Infantry brigade cm the right. Let me know how yo-r sector looks —my P. O. will be—l*4 better send a funner with you. Here’S your guide.” The. company moved off, and the other companies, going Into position in the battered Prussian trench, facing the formidable Essen work. The French riflemen they found there were hanging on In the very teeth of the enemy. Their position had been hastily constructed a few days before by the hard-pressed Boche and was a mere selection from the abundant shell craters, connected by shallow digging- The marines stumbled and slipped through its windings. It was cluttered up with dead men, for It had been strongly held and dearly won. The Forty-ninth took over the part allotted to it from some ten platoons of Frenchmen, eight or ten men to a platoon. Id command of a first lieutenant. It was what was left of a full battalion. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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Improvement of the Dairy Herd Better Feeding, Rigid Culling and Intelligent Breeding Are Factors. (Prepared by th* Unit-ad Stat** Department •f Acrioultare.) Three ways of improving the dairy herd—better feeding, rigid culling, and Intelligent breeding—were emphasised by J. C. McDowell, dairy busbandman of the United States Department of Agriculture, in a talk at the recent farmers' week at Orono, Maine. Way* es Improving. “Better feeding of the cows we now have,” he said, “iacreases average production, tncreaaea total production, and usually increases net profits. Rigid culling out of low producers increases average production, decreases total production, and nearly always increases net profits. The neo of better dairy slree eventually increases average production. Increases total production and. I believe 1 may safety say. with proper management always Increases net profits. “All dairy herd improvement due to better breeding tends to increase profits to the producer and to decrease costs to the consumer. It is one of the ways by which ths world may become richer without decreasing the prosperity of any Individual. Therefore, as I see It, the breeders of good pure-bred dairy cattle are among the world’s greatest benefactors. "It is a common practice to select dairy bulls on their appearance and their" pedigree. The day Is coming when dairy bulls will be selected on appearance, pedigree, and progeny. The production records of a large number of daughters of a dairy bull when compared with the production records of their dams determine the breeding value of the bull as certainly as the records show the producing ability of the cows themselves. Record of Dam. “If a sire has a high producing dam he may transmit high production to his daughters, but if he has already transmitted high production to every one of his first five or ten daughters It Is a practical certainty, not that he may. but that he will transmit high production of an average to all his offspring. The record of the dam of any dairy sire is a promise, but the record of a large number of high-producing daughters is the fulfillment of that promise.”

Eliminate Fly Breeding Places to Save Trouble Eliminating the breeding places for flies Is one of the best means of lessening -the troubles which this pest will cause the stockman later in the season. To prevent flies from breeding we should turn our attention to their breeding places which are manure piles, outhouses, garbage cans and any other places where fifth is allowed to accumulate. Outhouses should be properly protected, garbage cans and slop pails covered. Hauling manure to the fields as It accumulates will not only save a lot of fertility that would otherwise be lost, but It will also prevent the manure piles from becoming breeding places for flies. If It is impossible to haul the manure direct to the fields it is possible to treat it and kill most of the maggots and prevent many of the eggs from hatching. The government recommends the use of one-half pound of hellebore to ten gallons of water. Allow this to stand for 24 hours and then sprinkle it over the manure at the rate of ten gallons for every ten cubic feet of manure. Find Cocklebur Sprouts Poisonous to Animals A warning has recently been Issued by A. A. Hansen, weed expert of Purdue university, to the effect that cocklebur sprouts are poisonous to sheep, young cattle, and particularly to hogs. On a farm near Connersvill* 36 hogs died within a few hours from this cause. Farmers are advised t« keep animals off of cocklebur-infested land until the sprouts are at least four Inches high, since they seem to lose their toxic properties after they reach this sire. Symptoms of this poisoning are depression, nausea and vomiting. Rich cream seems to counteract the effect of the poison. If given during the early stages of the trouble. Prices of Beef Cattle Prices of beef cattle go in waves, or cycles. For a number of years price* climb higher and higher. And then for an equal number of years prices descend lowar and lower. Prices usually climb up for eight years, and then go down for another eight. We are going up now. In fact, we are two years up grade, so now Is right time to go Into beef cattle production, since prices, in all probabiliey. will go on up for five or six years more.

V Agricultural Notes t Dairymen who buy feed in small quantities'at retail and sell milk at wholesale can never make money. • • • Implements are high-priced, oi course, but one pays an even higher price by trying to work with worn out machinery or makeshifts. • • • A good family garden should con. tain at least twenty-five different vegetables. Including several varieties sot greens or salads. ••• • \ Clip sweet clover high enough tc leave a number of green leaves on the stubble, or it will be killed. It is usu ally unsafe to clip later than the last of May. When a sow farrows she should b< given only a limited amount of littet and the pen should have guard rails around the sides about eight or ter Inches from the floor to protect tb< pigs when she lies down.

jT J jiajr aicay jrum ‘ Peterman 9 s l It has killed your whole family! 99 w|~xONT walk through iL Don’t one roach gets a little powder on | J smell it. Don’t touch it. Go his legs. Back to hi* nest he goes, hungry for days first.” He crawls over the others and She’s right. Peterman’* Roach eggs. Every roach he touche* Food exterminate* every roach dies and disintegrate*, in your house. Nothing is left Here is the right insecticide but a little dry dust. for each insects Some housewives make the peterman’S roach food exiormimistake es fighting cockroache* n,,ee «ekroaehe». with* spray. Those are the houses PENMAN’S ANT FOOD wurmi-w. roaches stay in. I hey live down flyosan kill* Sir. and monputor.. behind baseboards, under the peterman'S discovery extennifloors. No spray can possibly aata* bedbugs. ■ reach them, or their young, or peterman’S moth food protect* their eggs. Only a powder can extenni- You mu»t have a specific innate them. Peterman’s Roach *ecticide for each insect. No Food is the right powder. Just single insecticide will exterminate them all. We know that is true. We have had nearly SO ~ years’ experience. Parartnaa*. baa tba right ■ f ~t— 9 JuUimOAlA 200 Fifth A»*, N. Y. City

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“Purges” and ■O “Physics” Bad ■Mfli for Old Folks DR. W. CALDWELL. AT THE AGE OF 03

While Dr. W. B. Caldwell, of Monticello, 111., a practicing physician for 47 years, knew that constipation was tie curse of advancing age, he did not believe that a “purge” or “physic" every little while was necessary. To him, it seemed cruel that so many constipated old people had to be kept constantly “stirred up” and half sick by taking cathartic pills, tablets, salts, calomel and nasty oils. In Dr. Caidwell’s Syrup Pepsin he discovered a laxative which helps to “regulate” the bowels of old folks. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin not only causes a gentle, easy bowel movement but each dose helps to strengthen the bowel muscles, shortly establishing ■

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