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Show were insignificant in number, or inex- periem-cd in warfare, or oven cowardly. ; The common soldiers hav been afraid j of personal contact with them. If artillery ar-tillery ami machine guns failed to stop them, then; was nothing to do but run away from them. Kven calling them 'crazy' lias not helped the matter. At close quarters an army of lunatics is the most terrible of all. "Our boys have contributed something some-thing to the confirmation of this superstition super-stition by going gayly into battle with Indian war-whoops, college yells, fuut- I ball slogans and other 'saage' shouting. shout-ing. It is an amusing phenomenon, that the Huns, who have been the representatives represen-tatives of unprecedented ferocious , ' fright fulness, ' should be so scared by. the memory of Buffalo HiU!J' . Xaturally, the Germans have been surprised to find the Americans scientific scien-tific fighters, to find that each soldier uses his brains. Jf the Americans would only fight as they did in the "Wild West" show it would be easy at times to slaughter them, but instead of racing rac-ing forward on Indian ponies, they use all the strategy and tactics employed by the kaiser's best storm troops and add a few Indian tricks for full measure. mea-sure. If the world cannot be made safe for democracy that way, it cannot be made safe at all. THE AMERICAN BOY. The crown prince has been defeated by the American boy. Tho American boy thinks for himself, while the crown princo has his thinking done for him. A few days ago it was necessary to retake tho village of Epicds from the Americans if tho crown prince's troops were . to bo saved from disaster. An overwhelming force of Germans wore hurled against the town, which changod hands three times. To hold it the Germans Ger-mans placed machine guns every ten yards, but the Americans recaptured it by a ruso. Feigning a frontal attack at-tack iu force, they crept through the high vegetation Indian-fashion, and attacked at-tacked tho machino gun nests from every side and captured all tho guns. Tho German soldier is taught, not to think, but to obey. This has its advantages advan-tages in some kinds of warfare, especially espe-cially in the mass attack, but when the mass is broken up into isolated groups tho individuals can save themselves only by individual thinking. When the Germans erossed the Marne and attacked at-tacked the American positions they broke through by weight of metal and numbers. The Americans wore cut up into small groups, many of them back of the enemy lines. Sergeant J. F. Brown, 23 years old, hid with his captain in a thicket. At a favorable moment -they charged and captured a machine gun. ' Just as the gun killed the captain, the sergeant killer the gunner. Another American Ameri-can came along and they appropriated appro-priated another machine gun. Eleven Americans heard tho firing and rushed to the aid of their comrades. Then it was that Brown or someone else did some thinking. The men scattered and fired on a party of the enemy who occupied a trench. Brown enfiladed the tronch with an automatic whilo his companions continued to fire from twolve directions. direc-tions. The Germans thought that they were surrounded by superior numbers, and all of them surrendered. Two Atncricnns were captured by two Germans, who placed them in a canvas boat and started to paddle across the Marne. The American boys must have been astonished at the stupidity of the kaiser's soldiers. They simply rocked the boat and all went into the water. Tho Americans swam back to the south bank and escaped. An American machine gunner's right hand was blown away. He could not turn the gun upon the enemy, and so he proceeded to turn the enemy on the gun. With his automatic pistol he fired at the Germans in such a way that they deflected their course and ran in front of his gun, which he then operated with his left hand, slaughtering tho unsuspecting unsus-pecting foemen. The American boys are thinking whilo they fight. Tho Germans fancied that the Americans would fight just about as tho men of Buffalo Bill's show fought the Indians in the stage coach robbery scene. In the Engineering and Mining Journal Jour-nal we are told by R. W. Raymond that this is precisely the idea the Germans have of American soldiers. He writes: "According to abundant evidence, there is a general impression in the German Ger-man army that the American troops are savages and cruel. A German officer, offi-cer, captured in a recent battle, made to one of our reporters the surprising statement that the Americans mutilated the bodies of the wounded as well as the dead; and numerous German prisoners prison-ers have expressed great surprise at being be-ing kindly treated after capture. How could this strange misconception antedating ante-dating even the arrival of Americans in the fighting line have originated? "The answer is Buffalo Bill; The 'Wild West' show produced in Germany a profound sensation, and was visited by millions of people, who regarded it as a picture of American warfare. The German soldiers now in the ranks, cherishing cher-ishing the traditions of their childhood, have been expecting the American infantry in-fantry to assault them with wild war-whoops, war-whoops, to torture prisoners and to scalp the wounded as well as the dead. The cavalry horses were to advance .ipon their hind legs, pawing the air, or bucking and jumping while their riders tired unerring shots from immense revolvers. re-volvers. In vain have been the official offi-cial declarations that tho Americans |