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Show THE PAYSOSiAN, PAYSON. UTAH The coughing and barking of guns and RR ihe IDrave By E. G. Pipp Copyright, I9ls.) i The ritii'j, jilung tho lim.' ot (lu, Hiit if'h liuiil in Belgium and Noil!) i'iii Krunci were jiiashcs ot tumbleii down Mune and blink amt nun tar. Bhell.s had done thrir wolk eer where. Hunt the cathedral iu any of those cities and you would liud wioch ' age eery time. .Not only cathcdiun-- . but buildings of eeiv kind weie n ruins. Now and then enough of cer lars would be left to afford a place of, refuge for soldiers quuileied tlleie. This was the condition even before! the spring drive of this year. .Nor was it all the result of slid, flic. Ill some cities occupied br the Germans after the big battle of the Somme and before llindciibuig 's fa moils voluntary retreat, then1 was any amount of evidence of buildings being deliberately blown to pieces. One could easily tell the difference between the irregular hits by shell fue and the systematic blowing out o' the find of buildings on entire streets. It was over this teriitory that tin Germans pioposed to make their drive for mions. A study of the map will readilv dm close their purpose. Their line was about 40 miles east of that place. Amiens is an important railway center, and to capture that city would enable the Germans to cut the British army of the north off from the army of the south and prevent communication be tween the Army of the north ami the French, Americans and British south of the Somme. A idling the lines of defense, the cannon, howitzers, wire entanglements and trenches of the British, one would not think it possible for anv human mind to exist so coldblooded and with so little regard for life as to at tempt to push human flesh against steel to the extent reijuied lo break through. For every gain there must be a price there must be a measure inont of loss of life against ground ganed. Men of experience and sanilv can figure in advance to something of a certainly as to what the cost will be, and no general in Ihe British. French or American army has' been found so reckless of human life, so steeped in military heartlessness, as to lie willing to pay the price that Ger many paid, or willing lo order the death of his own men as Germany ordered in this drive. History records that when Napoleon was nearing his finish, when it was regarded that his mind was becoming somewhat degenerate, lie spent his military resource, the lives of his men. with just such profligacy ns was shown by the Germans in the year 191 8. The Kaiser himself came to the western front to make this battle his battle. Intrigue had won Russia, but intrigue could not fool the British, or treachery touch them; so they were to be made to feel the power of Geinian wrath. Mibtni rvail for Germany at all cost; the rulers must make another showing, whatever the loss in life to the men in the ranks, who with their ancestors had had Gaining of more than a century in nothing lint taking orders. And so on the twenty-firs- t day of March, the blow was struck, the Rrit ish resolute, determined, believing they could hold the line, the German generals striking with that madness and recklessness that comes of des peration. Hundreds of thousands of men had been moved from the Russian front to help in the struggle. Smoke screens were thrown up to hide the movements from the observation balloons and airplanes; some of the screens had been thrown up as early as the week before when we were there. TIip German guns coughed harder, louder and more often. : the whiziug of shells made the din we heaid the week beloie seem like child's play. The Germans were shooting over their own line of tieuches into Ihe hint line of British defense. That is the method of starting an offensive. The tiei'inun men m theif own trenches had been diessed ui new uni tonus, had been made to dunk rum and ether so that they would be leek-lesand in a fiame of mud to face anv ordeal. The captains had not been ti uled with the infoi mat ion that they weie being inarched to slaughter. At a given time they were to open writ ten older, and at another given lime the heuvv guns weie to change their range fiom the first line of Bntish defense to the second line, and it was then that the Germans weie to make the rush from their tiem-heto the liist line of the Bntish. To the surpii.se of the British, the liemans came in solid mass formation, ihe same formation that Napoleon used ill his last desperate stiuggles. Many of the British had been killeit ill the bunage, but otlies were there hanging on with tme British grit. As that wave of Germans, a solid mass, came aeioss the land between the British and Get limn tienchcs, the heavy guns of the British opened on them. They had but tu lire. They could not miss the enemy. The Get mans sunk to their death by thousands before those guns. But the war mad managers behind them bad planned for just such a slaughter of their own men. With the death struggles of the first wave of Germans, came a second, uniforms new, hearts beating fast mid lnain borne up with the stimulus of rum ind ether. They, too, went down be fore the terrific tne of the same British guns. The third wave of men came and a thiid wave of men died. Thousands more came in the fourth w;ie, and were piled dead above the bodies of (he com rages. So it went, wave after wave, the Geiiunn generals determin'd to make the kaiser's own battle a victory by wearing out the British guns with German human flesh. The British gunners actually became Just a few purely pertinent pointed pithy paragraphs pushed by the pen of one who doesnt wish to disturb the serene minds: of Payson, but feels the necessity of unloading the constant ais cumulation of dope under his' hat. Butter is worth $10 a pound in ltus isti. But vim euii still buy Bol-diiki at about doc a head. Were strong fur the who says she van sing but to pmve it. Bayson girj doesnt try Somvtime.s we wonder if theie was ever a weather man foolish enough to bet on his own pi ('diet ions. lot of Bayson men follow n trade, a lot of others seem to never eatih up with it. A and Ionsider, also, that among Germany! greatest losses is the lo-- s of the worlds respect. most lawyers prefer to lueak womans will after she is dead. And a As a general thing youll find the fellow who doesn't care which way the wind blows standing on the stieet coiner where most people pass. Tho Bayson man who says he never had a chance wouldn't know an opportunity if he was introduced to one. A bulletin from the agricultural de partinent says There is gold in your war garden, and here comes a southern editor wanting to know of what carrot. We can put our finger on one Pay son father who isnt half as much interested in a fathers day as lie is in a week off when he ean go fishing with no questions asked. with killing the poor beings who marched to their death on the orders of their own cruel generuls. It lias about reached the point in When the ninth wave of men had where the only way to get layson come and died, the cannon in tho first domestic help is to marry it. line of British defense became so hot that they could not be fired any more. It s none of our business, but some The gunners took off the breech locks and retired to the second line of de how we ean t lead ourselves to believe that fashion experts ever intended fense. boot-tohosiery to be worn with On came the tenth wave of Germans, skirts. there to meet the fate of the nine that had gone before. On came others, sacA Berlin paper says: Either Ger rifices to the will of an autocracy determined to fasten on the rest of the many or England must be pushed out unild the same militarism that made of the ranks as a world power. Thats what we are fixing to do and it these subjects give up their lives. But the German generals hail more is easy to guess which one will be men to feed into the barrage of the pushed. second line of Bi itish guns, and fed The Payson man who lias outlived them; fed them until more British gunners were sickened by the sight his usefulness has something on the and fired more from duty than hatred middleaged man who never had any. except such hatred that must arise m men with red blood and hearts of Silence is often the price of dohuman beings for generals who will mestic felicitv. make such a sacrifice of human life. So human flesh wore down more Trying to get away with it is vvliat steel, men paid tho toll with their keeps the prisons tilled. lives until more British guns became too hot to be fired. Wave after wave DO YOU KNOW OATMEAL? and column after column perished before the defense after defense. StalDo you know that oatmeal makes wart men brought from the Russian delicious puddings and other good front, old men forced into service, mere boys in thir teens, gave up their things I Of course, you know it is a good i's to the god of war; militarism was showing off at its best and its worst. breakfast food, but it is even better At a terrible cost of life human be- fixed up for dinner or supper. It ings wore down the last line of Britmakes ish defense and troops shattered and weary, but still buoyed by remaining Spiced Oatmeal Cakes. effects of the stimulants bore on to The whole family will like these, the west, even past Albert, and dan- and they are easily made. I , cups flour. gerously close to the coveted goal. miens. cup cooked oatmeal. And tlieie they were when we L cup sugar. I reached that city on tho fifth day of I cup raisins. the battle, the day of great slaughter, ' i teaspoon soda. the day on which it seemed to many a teaspoon baking powder. that they might succeed, but the very l2 teaspoon cinnamon. i! day on which they were stopped in the tablespoons fat. With the effects of the ether i cup molasses. open. and rum gone, weary and worn, the Heat the molasses and fat to boiling. Mix with all the other materials. Bake in nuiftin pans for .10 minutes. This makes 12 cakes. heait-sie- rssSO3"1 Jolsons Jolts LETS WAKE UP Our town should wake up to the fact that someone else is really occupying the seat that houses that take away business really belongs to us. This intruder represents that should go to our own merchants. When will our town wake up? As long as we remain are asleep the intruder will keep his place. Only when we decide on the policy of We we fully awake. have seen havoc and ruin of neglecting home interests. 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