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Show PAGE TWO ,- CHEVRONS L ; . TORY FROM THE START Sergeant Eadle and Private Darcy, lately discharged from a hospital, behind the front. In France, become bored and dle-suated dle-suated with Ufa In replacement camp. The elude the guarde and go over the hill to find and rejoin their old outfit, the Seventy-ninth field artillery. At Vauoouleura they are told their outfit haa moved up beyond TouL Late next day they find their organisation or-ganisation in the woode. Both men are worn out and hungry but drive on the German position posi-tion at St Mlhiel la to begin In an hour, and Eadle la commanded com-manded to go along. The Americans Amer-icans are pleasantly aurprlsed at the little resistance met In tbelr advance; the Germans evidently pulled out In the night Eadle U sent back to report the successful success-ful advance to bis captain. A few nights afterward, four sergeants, ser-geants, Eadle, Ham, Baldy and Short Mack, Inseparable companions, com-panions, aleep together. Eadle finds hie old friend, Red Jake. On a night march the columns are drenched by heavy showers. Eadle Is ordered out on liaison duty, to adjust fire and repair telephone lines, in a new attack. He takes Jake along, and they are attached to a lieutenant The attack begins at dawn and this time It Is a, real fight Men fall right and left under withering German fire. An officer asks Eadle to send up signal rockets for a barrage. The rockets attract at-tract an enemy airplane, which does Immense damage, but after a time the Americans get, the needed barrage, and take refuge In a ruined town, from which they drive the enemy. All the officers who are with Eadle and Jake are killed. CHAPTER IV Continued 9 The two stepped back and started to clamber over the debris before tbe door. "Look out, now," muttered Eadle, "these guys are liable to be nervous." They crossed the rubbish heap and arrived In the street, Jake's prisoners tumbling hastily after them. Eadle was about to curse them all from Jake down, but he saw too many doughboys looking at him, their faces turned toward him with all the curiosity curi-osity of cows whose pasture has been Invaded. These doughboys, rattled as they were, and exceedingly prone to shoot first and look afterwards, seemed to realize that Eadle and Jake were Americans, but one of them, some one In the rear of the first party, taw only the crowding prisoners and hurled a grenade. Eadle saw It coming and fled across the street, Jake following. follow-ing. Five or six Infantrymen who were within range of the burst threw themselves down, though such action would not save them from a grenade. Tbe Germans went Immediately back Into the bouse. However, the soldier who had thrown the grenade bad been nervous and unsettled In mind, else he would not have thrbwn It in the first place, and that being the case he had simply pulled out the ring and immediately gotten rid of the grenade. gren-ade. It takes about five seconds for the fuse to burn, and In five second a man can do a lot of things One of the Infantry, seeing no other way of escape, picked the grenade up and hurled It Into an open cellar, where It burst viciously, but did no harm. "No more grenade throwing 1" called the man who had picked up the last one. "Dig those boche out of there I .Where did thore two men go that ran across the street?" "They're a coupla runners," advised some one. "I seen 'era with the battalion bat-talion staff this morning." "Heyl" called the first speaker, "come out, of there I Where's the major?" Eadie and Jake emerged. "Where's the majort" the man demanded de-manded again. Eadle guessed that he was an officer, though be wore no Insignia. "The major's dead." replied he. "Who's In command? Do you know where any of the staff are? Where the b is every one? What com pany are you running for?" "We're artillerymen," said Eadle. "The mujor was killed out there In a shell hole. I don't know who's In command or where any one Is. They pulled a counter attack on us and we've been disorganized ever since." "Counter attack my granny I" scuffed the officer. "That was some d n foot trying to rush the town. We saw It from the trenches. Well. I'm senior officer until some one ranks me out of It You men. bomb all these eel lars and let's get to h I out of here. This town makes too. easy an aiming point." A uian was hit at less than a yard's distance, aa If to give weight to the officer's remarks. Every one else took to ill g tit again. The officer cursed himself hoarse. A very trembling guard appeared with Jake's prisoners. "Just a minute there, buddy." called Jake, "where you fixln to go with them squareheads?" "I'm gonna tak 'em out," replied the other. "Xou Jurt leave 'em be," said Jake. "I'm lookln' after them krauts. They belong to me." "l.ay off." said Eadle, seizing Jake's arm. "You've got to turn 'em in somewhere. some-where. You don't think they let you take era all the way to Bordeaux, do you? Hell only go back as far as tbe II. I'. line wuh 'era." "Well, what the h I Is the use of takln' rylsoner If yon can't go back with em?" AiK-ili -i man fell with a sharp cry 'Let's ge out vf here!" yelled the tvfu-er. "Co qp on tha bill and come down again behind tbe town. Then any one that's In these cellars will come out and aurrender. You two artillerymen stay with me. Do you know bow to ask for a barrage?" "I know," said Eadle, "but 1 don't think It will do any good." "Well, you do It anyway. I'll tell yon when. Here I You see that clump of bushea op there? Walt for me there. I've got to go back and pry tome of these dugout barnacles looser He went raging back along tbe street, and assisted by some noncommissioned non-commissioned officers, began dragging drag-ging men from behind walls and out of doorways by the scruff of their necks. "Come on," said Jake, "1 know how we can get through those houses. Yon go In a bouse and out the back." They went to tbe front door of a house and out the back and cautiously cautious-ly climbed the bill, keeping below the crest as much aa possible. From here they bad an even better view of the battlefield than from the town.. Smoke, smoke in all directions, balloons on the far horizon In the direction of tbe American lines, and balloons on the other horizon where the Germans were. Westward were thick woods wltb shrapnel blinking above the tree tops, and to the east a red-roofed town and a road wltb ambulances running on It Here was Eadle, on the crest of tbe American advance, and on tbe right ambulances run ningl "They're Americans," said Eadle, looking at them through his field glasses. He pointed them out to the officer who arrived at that moment wltb two others like him and a group of Infantry. "Yes, I daresay they've got ambulances ambu-lances running," said the officer. "That's the G d d d regular army for you, go kiting across the landscape and devil take any one else. You'd think they'd give a look once In a while to see bow tbe rest of us were getting on, or not getting on, rather." The officer began to send messengers messen-gers off wltb directions for an advance. ad-vance. Eadle gathered that tbe advance ad-vance was about five hours behind their schedule. The officer was a young man, clear eyed, and an athlete. He had been a football player, probably president of his class, and was undoubtedly a splendid leader. An officer, however, must have more than ability to lead, especially if he has noncommissioned officers who are as ignorant as himself. him-self. Eadle, on his stomach beside Jake, nudged the latter. "He's going to leave that town as full of boche as a dog of fleas," said Eadle, "and out, they'll come the minute min-ute we go past and blow b I out of us." "I don't think so," said Jake. "1 think the prisoners 1 took was the last Tbe others pulled foot about the time that bold brave looey took bis platoon Into the town on the gallop and made a lot of work for the buryln squad." "What's all this?" cried Eadle, "Why, when we was out there In the bole with the major a looey takes a platoon or so and makes a rush for the town with a lot o yelllu' an' grenade gren-ade throwln'. I don't think they got far." "1 didn't see that," said Eadie. "1 thought that noise was a counter attack." at-tack." "You were too busy keepln' your head down," replied-Jake. "That so? Well, you want to keep your block of solid bone down, too, or you'll get a slug through It" "Listen, artillery." said the officer, drawing over beside Eadle, "what can you do for a little fire? See that bill over there? There's a pill box on top of It That's, where this fire Is com tng from. Now, until we find some one better, I'm in command. I'm rap tain of what's left of F company I want some fire. Can I get It or ootr Eadle took out his code book and consulted It tie found nothing there that he had not seen before, except thnt a chain of green stars was to announce the battalion's arrival at a certain road, and a red smoke the capture of Montfaucon, wherever that was. "I can't do It," said Eadle. "There's no way you can call for tire on points not designated beforehand except by telephone or messenger. We might get a plane over here and stake out our line with panels and then make hi in the signal that we were held up by artillery fire." "Well," said the officer, -it we can't get any artillery we'll have to do it with the rifle. In five minutes we try. Give nie a cigarette." The advance did aot begin again In five minutes, nor yet lu fifty. The ap pea ranee ot the Americans on the ris Ing ground above the town bad been the signal for a ball ot fire, mostly from the left front, where there were considerable forests. A patrol went cautiously forward toward the pill box and made progress, and Eadie. watching them through bis glasses, could see them getting closer and closer to the concrete structure. Some enterprising officer began to follow this patrol with a force of about company strength. A patrol on the other Bank, crawling out across the fields, was met with a burst ot fire from a patch of woods and killed. A faint popping and t e gushing of smoke from tbe plil box announced an-nounced that the patrol had managed to get close enough to bomb the place. Tbe officer with Eadle bad THE LEHI SUN. LEHl. UTAH By LEONARD NASON llluttrationt by IRWIN MYERS. D.S.C Copyright by Owne H. Doras Compter. WNU Service hardly expressed his satisfaction when a muo came crawling np from the direction of the town, demanding demand-ing the whereabouti of the command Ing officer. "What do yoo waot bltn for?" asked tbe officer. Tvt, got a message for blm from the colonel," replied the soldier. "Let me see IL" The ofllcet took the slip ot paper and opened It tie read aloud, but softly, as though to himself. "To the Commanding Officer, Dank battalion: Advance. If an advance Is not signaled In your sector within five minutes, consider yourself relieved re-lieved from command and report to me under arrest."' "Ummm 1 That's nice. Ail right tell hint I'll advance. Tell him Captain Cap-tain Lawrence (s In command of tbe battalion now." The messenger crawled back down the bill and Eudle nudged Juke. "There's a John for you," whispered Eadle. "He should have steered that messenger somewhere else. He might "Counter Attack My Grannyl" Scoffed the Officer. know that anything that came from rear to front would be a lot of red hot peeve. Now he's elected himself goat for whatever bard luck we run Into." "Forward I" yelled the officer, blowing blow-ing his whistle. He signaled with his arm and received quite a hearty response. re-sponse. Mer who had been concealing conceal-ing themselves In shell holes and behind be-hind folds In the ground and remnants rem-nants of hedge fences, crawled for ward quite readllv. Most of them had seen the progress of the attack on the pill box. "You wait here, sergeant," said the officer. "Yon know a one-pounder outfit out-fit when you see it? Well, there ought to be one come by here and 11 it doesn't you go down Into the town and find It. 'Then bring It up on that hill for me." , The officer went down the hill, con suiting bis compass, and evidently talking to Jake, who paid no heed, but kept looking sadly back at Eadie. Eadie turned about and surveyed the country - behind him. He knew what Benefit of Thorough Once upon a time there was a little lit-tle boy who was Imbued witb the am bit ion to become a great novelist One day be said to his father: "Dad, I wlsb to become a great writer, the author of books which will entertain the world. What shall I write about?" "Son, yon should write about ad venture," replied the loving father. The parent, who wished for his son a great success and a place In the Hall of Fame, gave his entire time to the education of the offspring. The boy was taken all over the world to get first-hand Information regarding every sort ot land and every kind of people. He was shown everything that had to do with adven ture. He was taken to Iceland am' to the South Sea Islands so that he would know every clime and ever)' country. He was taken across plains and tleserta and ranges of mountains. Ik-was Ik-was taught, from actual experience. "Com Oat of the Kitchen" One evening, after dinner, the fun lly was reading when Junior, age five, said: "Daddy, will yoo go In the kitchen with me to get a drink? I'm afraid." "You dont need to be afraid," replied re-plied the father. "Too can take your dog, Fat. with you." Junior seemed to approve the Idea and started to arouse tbe dog, sleeping sleep-ing near by. Tbe dog growled some at being disturbed. Junior turned to his tther and said: "See, daddy. Pat la rfrald, too." to look for. A one-pounder was a toy 1 ..ioi f a 75. that cannon, a uoy m looked like something a man would bis son to play soldier w th. or fo celebrate Fourth of July. This can non had wheels, of course, and 8 ridiculous shield, and was drawn by a tiny limber and a mule. When the gun went Into action, however. Its likeness to a toy ceased. The gunners gun-ners would unhitch It from its cute little limber and drag It themselves to a good position where the gun would be taken off tbe wheels and set up on a tripod. The gun having been aimed, fire would be commenced with small steel shells, filled with high explosive powder. Then let any machine gun. pill box. or mlnenwerfer within range look to Itself. Eadie found the head of .the one-pounder one-pounder column at the south entrance of the town, a disgusted officer sitting sit-ting on a stone, and the personnel stretched out on the ground. To this officer Eadie presented the request for the advance of the oue-pounders. "All he can have is one," said the officer. "I'm glad to give It to him. We'd like to see some service. First squad, go with this sergeant. You'll be under tbe orders of the battalion commander. He wants you to do some shooting." The squad leaped at their gun wltb alacrity. Two men seized lr from Its carriage, two more picked up the trail the thing came apart like a takedown take-down shotgun and a fifth man removed re-moved the wheels to the ditch. Two sad-eyed men, two who were probably spare gunners, and the sergeant, burdened bur-dened themselves with ammunition, and looked at Eadle. "Forward I" said Sergeant Eadle. From shell bole to shell hole tbey went, and once over the crest of the first rise, they began to be fired at, but none of the men was hit Eadle on bis own initiative took tbe squad a roundabout way, and brought them up the eastern face of the hill on which the pill box stood, along a trench -system that had been turned Into a gigantic furrow by the Anier lean artillery the night before. Here the sweating, panting, one-pounder men flung themselves to the ground and took a five-minute rest Their next surge forward brought them to the pill box, where they found Jake, the acting battalion commander, and another officer Impatiently awaiting them. Tbe one-pounder was set up and the officer in command. Captain Lawrence, .took the one-pounder sergeant ser-geant out on the flank a little way and pointed out some targets to him, principally the clump of brush and another pill box down the valley. The one-pounder began Its peculiar whining whin-ing bark and the doughboys In the surrounding holes were highly encouraged. en-couraged. "Now then," said Captain Law-rence, Law-rence, coming back to where the two artillerymen and the other officer lay on their stomachs, "we're going forward for-ward again. I've been looking around up here. The most resistance Is from those woods over there on the left and from farther up the valley. We'll pound the woods and the valley a while and that ought to allow us to advance." Ping I went the one-pounder, and the watchers on the hill saw presently pres-ently a little thread of white smoke wander out of the woods. 1'ing ! went the gun again. It tired for several minutes, then at the suggestion if Captain Lawrence and after s-une hoarse shouting on the part of the sergeant the target was changed and the gun fired a dozen rounds or so Into the clump of brush In the valley Tbe sergeant, then exclaiming that he could see troop movements lu the val Training Made Plain about typhoons and hurricanes anil cyclones. His education was lai-kins In nothing that would form a ground work for wonderful stories ot the ad ventures of men under the most try Ing circumstances. And so It came to pass that the soi, repaid bis father for all that be had done for him, out ot the prin-eetls oi the sale of his first book, the title ot which was, "Her Passionate Hoor."-Boston Hoor."-Boston Globe. Complimentary Degrees LL. D. Is an honorary degree. When t-i u. is conrerred upon a man it in dicates that he has a iirrifimnil L-n....i edge of th laws of his profession or cunt Department of knowledge In wmcn ne l working. LL I), is the old est, highest and most valued m,i. sity degree, and is conferred only on such as have made themselves verv eminent by their skill lenrntn,, on.i original work. It is seldom conferred before the recipient Is fifty years of -,age. LL. D. Is usually conferred as an Honorary degree, but SnurtlefT. Chi cago, and MeGill proimse to ennL i, upon the completion of required work and examinations In an r th t,t. department of knowledge. LL. D. Is sometimes conrerred as a third degree. In line with LL a and l.i. i work in law schools. D. C L Is more iuien tuuierreu ID mis way. Not Fir$t Pantheon The Pantheon wi-s built lu Home In 123 A. D. to replace the previous Pantheon of M. Vlpaaalna AEr!nDa erected 27 a a ley, began sniping about at wUL Tha Infantry, lying about In the shelter folds of the ground, enjoyea mem-selves mem-selves hugely. Some opened cana of hash and ate. Tbe distant roar of the battle held no terrors for them. Tha men sent for ammunition returned. Ping I went the gun gleefully. There was a sudden scurry of feet. Eadle, rolling a cigarette, looked up. A white-faced officer, bis Ill-fitting blouse bulging from his pistol belt, bareheaded, bis breeches torn In great rents and showing bloody wire cuts In his legs, came rushing Into the group about the one-pounder and knocked the gunner headlong. He seized a shell and burled It Into tbe scenery, grabbed a leg of the tripod and grunting tremendously, overturned over-turned the gun. The protesting -sergeant be knocked Into a sprawling heap. (jn . cried Eadle, "lie low, Jake I Don't mix In thlsl They'll probably shoot bjra full of holes." "I'm lying low," said Jake In a muffled muf-fled voice, for his face was burled in the dirt "Tell 'em to put up their guns, sargiut" "Steady, men I" called Captain Lawrence Law-rence "Put up those guns I What's the trouble here, major V The officer who bad upset the gun turned panting. He wore a pistol belt and what was known as a mall order uniform, but be bad a major's gold leaves on his shoulder. "Who who's shooting that gun?" he demanded. "The gunners," replied Captain Lawrence. The major thereupon swung on Captain Lawrence, a sharp vicious Jab that would have probably laid the captain away for some time, but that several soldiers burled themselves on the major's arm and thereby stopped the blow. "Take him away," went on the captain. cap-tain. "Give blm a shot of coke and a bucket of water over bis head and let him wait for the doctor." The major flung the men from blm as though they bad been so many babes. He held up his band. "Listen 1" be cried. "Just a minute until I get my breath I" No one moved. There was that in his eye and attitude atti-tude that commanded obedience. "Turn around," whispered Eadle. "There'll be a b I of a smell over this and we want to be able to say we didn't see it." "Not me." said Jake, "It's too inter- estin". 1 like to ko to court anyways. It gets yuh out of work." "You big ass!" began the major, pointing his finger at Captain Law rence. "You d d fool! You've been shewing tbe h 1 out of my bat-. talion!" What!" cried all, like the chorus In an opera. "You Idiot I You're under arrest or relieved from command or whatever they do 1 I've a G d d d good mind to bring my outfit up here and police you all upl Have you got any sense? Did It ever occur to you that fire to the flank might land in some other element of the division? No, It did not 1 You're Insane ! You ought to be killed like a mad dog) You've driven my men out of a position it took three hours to capture. Well, I'll have your hide for this. Don't forget It for a minute. And you men" he shook his fist at the one-pounder crew "this time ten years from now you'll still he breaking rocks!" Abruptly the major turned and ran down the hill. "Set up that gun again," directed the captain. "I still think he's crazy." Then it was that things began to happen. Runners arrived, a half dozen of them, all with Imperative orders or-ders to cease firing and to advance. Fire, possibly from American troops who had been shot up by the one-pounder one-pounder was suddenly opened on the troops on the hill and many were hit Captain Lawrence, a little white about the lips, blew his whistle and ordered an advance across the plateau. pla-teau. The one-pounder was taken down and the gunners sweated forward for-ward with the Infantry. This battalion, because It had advanced ad-vanced ahead of the others, and because be-cause the troops on the left had fallen back under the misdirected fire of the one-pounder, now had Its flank In the uir and began to receive fire from both flank and front The men lay down, the one-pounder was set np. and firing very carefully to the front, It quieted some machine gun fire from that direction. The afternoon began to grow Into night and the battalion, like a wounded wound-ed 8Ui.ke, dragged its bleeding length slower and slower across the platean that shelved upward to the ruined own In the distance. On the hill they hud been unmolested for two reasons. The right of the hill "as m the sector of another division, a division of veterans, who bad gone Hhrng their sector rap,,,,, roughly, and who were now some S,eHiaW:!,t0.theDOrth- Elements of his division had lost their way In the Hi nd ha(1 In and attacked he Germans In front of Eadie', bat talion. flank. The Germans had welcomed them rovallv h, ,k . " . leans bad not broken off the attack untd well on in the afternoon when? had become apparent that not only were they lost. bu, tnat fim to direction In which ?, .8iDS WaS 'Wihie. Once these troops withdrew, the German tdd tun, .u their menu , rSYpUh,ch tto s coHxiiirsnj Sisals, Lis! FARMER'S te GETS STRUT, vegetable Echoolfield, Vanr. taken.. Lydla E. 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