Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 6 | The Fighter's Friend

i l f 4 I I I I t 1 r t 1 1 t I TIfF y yd arr 1 f r At f i i J 1 1 i i r g 1 i i J li j I Ji f Hj I Ie l' l t I e P 4 C I r 4 e 4 Li r ti J j t. t T I i f r k j i 4 mr Jt r t r r 4 1 Its to r r t r sy If 1 j its t i j j f w t. t ft r iJ l' l l 4 j ff i i 1 t f f t r-I. r j. j J 4 y yi i Jr k S rs I e l lS r i W 1 i j Y 1 l k rr Y 1 I f a 1 t Y aar ly t. t r r I d M 1 1 i r 1 SC t.- t. 1 l r t f J- J y y r rw i y 1 f D r k J i 1 L. L f k 1 Y 3 i t J I t t t a f t 1 r J f t r I Ii i I I b q T Tl I t l 1 1 rr rL c r L I. I t 1 7 T r f Y it 71 t I v 1 9 4 I 1 t I r tI tr 7 I 1 1 s t I n WI r 4 l 1 F Ir I. I I Ii I r i tit y J 1 r i 1 R 1 t. t d r r y c 1 tr ili r rl s 1 1 I s t. t ty If l i 4 J i t t t r I I r l oJ 1 i. i i. i r W 4 4 r hV fe j What at Faithful Dogs Dogs Dog's Do I A i 1 4 ATI r y F r J 0 th r On Today Today's s Battlefields I i r t i- i x iI I 1 r FF J 1 It 4 4 1 ib r i r p t I 1 L 2 4 l t i t v r L 1 J 4 I JIE HE friendship of or dogs and men Js is as old as war and has needed no conflict to furnish proof of or Us Its reality On the part of or the dog this friendship has bas f furnished some o of the finest Interpretations of oC loyalty known to lifer life In tho the present war tho the dog dos has more than a chum relation and more than a doglike like office to fill nil The development ent In recent years of dog training In certain forms forms' orm 1 of oC official 1 service as with tho the police has hns opened up possibilities that arc are sometimes of oC an amazing ing character The police pollee dog has hUl Indeed been the raw material for the working out of ot a splendidly r helpful helpful help help- ful s service Dog training for tor war work like any other sort of ot animal training Is a delicate and exacting and exacting business To say that the dog Js is a good pupil Is simply to say that the dog lives up to his traditions How much Is expected of or this faithful helper belper In addition to Indifference toward danger may be guessed when It Is said that that he Is Js sent forth to find wounded men of or his own side In the terrible game to know lenow they are wounded and not dead and to know that they are of oC his own side If Ie the man he finds Is dead he ho Is Is' Is to to know that he Is dead If Ie he Is not Dot dead he Is to bring back something that belongs to the tho man The metal helmet Is difficult for him to toS tor r S carr carry so that he ho by br preference searches for tor 8 something k kelsea else else else-a a cap stuffed In a pocket a pocketbook a n. pipe or I trinket Not discovering one of or these or finding It difficult difficult dif dif- J to extract the object owing to the position of oC the tho man he Is 18 supposed to gnaw away a fragment of ot the mans man's coat coat and and to do this without disturbing the t sufferer That he should do just this and do It successfully t tover over and over OTer again quickly silently without thought of oC himself Is a a. tribute to his Intelligence and his character that must impress any Investigator of DC this work fh The dog plays the game as It If he knew all nil that t t la lay behind It H No man with tho the highest theories oft oCI I patriotism or the finest notions of oC Individual courage could do more than is done by the dog with only his hlo Inbred Instinct for doing the thing that man asks of him Some of ot the most host beautiful as well weB as some oC ot tho the most tragIc stories of oC the war will have for a hero tho the shaggy faithful uncomplaining figure of or a dog Like men they ther are dying at their posts so 80 that there is Js constant call for Cor more soldier dogs Affectionate hands are arc surrendering dog friends friends to the hazards of oC the conflict Certainly sacrifice was as never noyer made mado in a finer 1 cause or one holding greater real glory for the dog himself l 4 r Q