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Show , V t in Sean relieve of further worry. It'a always oa the fob. SECTION i DESERET cta4ned ad Vou THREE SATURDAY hrHnc and mtblnl 1b tbe Sifwt will koy tbs rtghx side of the ledger. FvrWwrxsX, fwnWnf 1918 MAY 2a SALT LAKE CITY UTAH EIGHT PAGES Cat and Other Dirty German Methods in War Excite Americans to Desire For Revenge Life With a V. S. Division Men From All Parts of Union Fused Into a Harmonious Whole Friendly Rivalry of State andCity-r- B road way and Alabaman-Cheerf- ul Acceptance of Hardship! and Discomforts of War Life in Battle Line Not All Danger and Provides a Good Deal of Healthy FunFoiks at Home Have Nothing to be Scared of, and What Worries the Boys Most is When Letters Fail to Come. v ; y d.. o Tl, . . 21'- .. nrn, - R " II 1 yh SIXTH -- t I f io f rt at Thetr iTMpoTTltrTTrr ) le nd In fit rW iy ot it ih h ex at er as 'lr rn is: en a.a- he - ef . ALL AXEH1C V .V France ltrhrr-ii- r All I f.OIN; INTO THF TlliAniiy. Along a Camouflaged ftoad rum the Vniteit Ktnlcx. beloved boys were racing up and down in No Man's Land very day between the raking fire of both side.-- . have been for In the front line dugouts also, hours talking with the men while a dull throbbing of bombardment was going on outside. Nobody seemed to care about it because, in all truth, there was nothing to care about It. was the usual night. Some men slept others played bards or read, the majority smoked and talked. On the dupiul wall were several There were sweet-face- d old ladies, photographs. photographed especially, no doubt, for the soldier's kit. There were women resplendent in pearl laces and evening gowns, with hair done up like British princesses. . There were plain bright country faces, and there were purchased beauties, Broadway heroines. Nothing we can write home makes them believe the lieutenant waved his hand at the ga'lery of the old folks at home that we are living .here almost like human beings and not like animals in dread of our lives every minute. RETURN TO THE CAVE. Dugout .life is tfic return to the cave dwellers. It means dirt and Tats,' .and deadlier vermin popularly termed the Bushes," mud and the contirruii presence of disease germs. It means danger of course, but it provides against every contingency. The dugout itself is ample safety against the usual days warfare. The gas mask is complete protection against gas. Inoculation has defeated many diseases. The helmet is reliable 'against ordinary shrapnel. Now, as most of the days at the front arc usual, ordinary,, war days, ft is apparent that the American soldiers, just as .the masses of French and British soldiers, spend mort of their time in merrily. Never comfortably, to be sure; except as the proportion of exertion and excitement occasions a greater weariness which in turn makes a palace out of a hovel and eiderdown comfort out an srmy blanket on a couple of boards. nr men are not and probably never will be poilua, for that favorite word for the French soldier mean Jhairy," and was coined in that forgotten era when trench warfare was inst brminnim. ope Jf a shave. Our men shave every day or every other day, depending SolUierx Munhing In Lorrahwi. on complexion. The. safety razor that wSll work on a chin moistened but not softened by icy water, is the favorite morning weapon in every dugout. Good soapy soap is much prized. Naturally bur men try to keep their house in order. When the front is quiet, it is no uncommon 1 Phila-deiphtan- s- .'V' ' ' w-- e I .v I 7 , safety;-sometim- - 0j .r r r f belly-fillin- Opens Arms speak-ingan- iv s Big . . cagoans and Des Moines lads, the Iowans and Alabamans and Minnesotans, and especially the detect them by tbeir accent and their manner and then join in long and transcendental arguments with them over the merta of cities or climates or restaurant hash. One of these engrossright, this bringing of bed things out info the trench ing seance broke up with a New York man sayfor an airing, and Fritz got a good pounding one ing : . Hay because he tried to interfere with our passion Well, T wish theyd put us all Into one spec fa! for cleanliness. division jdst Broadway, special divifdon. Wed ' We go in for decoration, too. show you Photographs aliound here in the foul recesses of the earth, newsYes, and you probably would charge Z for the paper illustrations, covers of the magazines- - and show, tbe Chicagoan interrnpted. sometimes something like a Liberty Loan poster All of which is part of life at the front. When gives a dugovt- - a special distinction.. The photos he isnt sleeping or on duty, nothing satisfies memmove 'with the companies, but the others remain ber of the division better than disputing glory with to cheer th new men. an arrogant New Yorker. When he is on duty On one sector of our front have still another things are different. It is Well, that Chicago artilwell today, or Those form;of primitive life. Not the cave man, but the lery is certainly doing American aborigine, the Indian style. The front is Philly guys soitny know how to play the Hotch- wooded and hilly and completely hidden from ths kiss, or again You have to hand it to the Broad" enemy. way gentlmen for what they did to the Bash last It was here that 1 found four New York guards- night men playing poker on the parapet. It ws here that ALL IN THE GAME one of them took the correspondent of a Brooklyn That too, i part of the game. ' But the New Yorker is newspaper and me for a walk in No Maps Land. always a New Yorker.. We're having a healthy time, living in the "Whats over at the Hippodrome now? Everything would be woody," this officer said. This was the amzting first question shot at u . pleasant here if it wasnt for Minnie at a certain headquarters camp where the Brook' ' '. Who?" we asked in unison. lyn correspondent stopped to visit some friends just Minnie. Minnie Werfer, he replied. "She is one returned from their bit in the line. of the fattest daughters of Busy Bertha of Essen, The Chicagoan in the division issighing for the Germany. Wait a minute and Ill show you where Loop. At an artillery dugout, one day, one of the she tried to set. a date with us one day. widely heralded but by no means reversed German We walked along a path through the wire in No shells ws traveling overhead. These proMans Land for several hundred feet and Finally jectiles sound like a freight train in fall' flight. branched off into the woods. There we found a "Just like the elevated cm the Loop, the and shell hole filled with water big enough Chicago ' said with emotion. ' gunner . to give a hoys a bath in. . Our men are thinking about home cooking, too. This is where Minnie came to greet us," said Not merely the mothers or the -ew Tiirker. M.irrk'ity'now of our boys irstrong' madams Bnffakrisnry':home,,f cooking, bat tbe home cooking of the chain'' those cares he for are soldier only a little while. But just yon ask around worrying. Some of the men for German affinities, so Minnie was disapthe saloon sandwiches and, of course, restaurants, the court house in Buffalo if they know W. K. , I have met in' the past three months who are buildpointed. But" she is a mighty tough dame to meet the good restaurant meals. are rotfintr They barrack or selling cigarette in a commissary a and Ill bet you theyll tell you who I am. You see. ing alone nn i ihrk nights .. to eat. Stew and beans and rice and bacon, enough in the south of France have shown me letters. The I've been practicing law since 1911 over there; The New York City men in the division are coffee with evaporated milk and oleomargarine, solid The Clevelanders and Chi The other man was Broadway. One of those rare read as if the mothers iiiiil uwei'llii'Hl 'i Ti Tievud Iheu easily 'distinguishable. and butchangeless and inevitable like persons born within the soundsjlmost within thel time and tide and the mess sergeant. For their fpw on Broadway,. 'anHenfHforoTBroadwayTemployed days leave they will be able to select French cookliving in one of those stone palaces on Fifty-eoming, but they will remain, like theTled Cross and Broad-, thing street, just off Broadway, volunteer in a Y. M.'C. A. and other civilians helping in France, d way regiment, qow living in a dugout but still food homesick, thinking Broadway. The soldiers from the farms Are wondering about Along the road through the woods that morning the crops and the horses and cows and chickens. ' I met the colonel. And, of coarse, they think and lay a ffreat deal "Sure enough, he said, our boys want a, bit of about their home folks, which subject is illustrated revenge for last night You see, our boys here are . by php to graphs of sister or mother or the cottage they-ar- e at home.YYhen they are vcry mnch-lik- e with the family all dressed up and sitting sternly Mothers at Home Need Not Worry About Boys But if Fritz are in for it Being Lost While. Wandering in Vacation Towns Deseret News Correspondent a for they j,, fight on the front steps for the photographer. Finds Her a Qwn Veteran New Son, crowd this York the one over She in r Crowded Hotel of thinks he can put Hardly Recognized,' Their talk becomes more interesting when they why Fritz has another think coming, soon too, and come together, the easterners with the westerners to were after going go this isnt brag. I dont say Written for'The Saturday News by Rhetjt Childe Dorr. and southerners. The New Yorkers and Philadelhim tonight but we are going to get him and his phians, for one thing, have found oat that although HW he think has him for every OOKING back over mg three grs tanks and pay Alabaman is s soft spoken individual, he is never, his letters through an is of It care ferthe meal Intelligent so taken, an too part American I hoped - month In France, most'of the-- . - branch poet office In tried on this front . to of irar sold ierr' overseas that even, on theless hammer and nails when it comes to a Tarts, and they vently, .because I had been ordered scrap. are or leaves from sent the of to him their In care of his duty, to write tbe story time spent In visiting American permissions, THE CLOSE VIEW OF WAR. Take a lot of these men whose modes of living and fleet vacation of our soldiers. the highest authorities know exactly and his with no more camps, ome sspec,..- - definite addresscompany, mjfltarr No where they live add how. mother than 'AjuericsH'Ki-peditlonar- y as the primary colors, and after' in a village back of the line a lot of men were ences stand out above all others. One, .. No Need of Worry. need worry lest her son get lost in manners may vary Force. My eon knew my Rn the trenches, the 1 arrived two ; He same sort Paris of lost. the can't France. the around get. a he even experiences address, but could discussing soup first the dispensary, not, precious personal after experience, gave gathered day In two minutes 1 had my son's aJ bj wishedw to do so, tell me his-1me my first insight Into the splendid contingent of men, the dried mud or and reserve bases, throw , them together dugout events. Our men do not talk about the war as abhowas on to and dress the .the my way thousand more Impatheir uniforms trenches, Idealism and Individual worth of the tient youngsters my boy had enlisted tel. He was not there, but thn black-eye- d and their worn caking stract war. They run true to type here, for ft 1 again, and they begin to live Ad harmoniously a the boots had marched to enlisted men of our army. I had gone before the draft, fearing little patronne, also sympa Jietic... music he the that and cheers through who men talk least about the war to France a newspaper correspondent, an axiom that the ' phenomenon for which they were named. It is here on room draw a late number. He signed me dia found his floor might I It drove streets of Alx. a single plan, without even on the day when I. sailed for' Ruswas near the luncheon hour and f iq France that the United States is doing most-theadtip the from to rectly ar the, men fighting it. They do, however, talk all without station the a hop of seeing my soldier son. I sia, and he was in France nearly two quarters of sat, down 'at the window nearest the fuse the elements of her population. ' provost marshal, and ri. months before I returned to the Lnlt-e- d asked - If - athe day about their own few feet of trenches, of their had no Intention of using my street, eagerly scrutinizing every sol; certain private ' to him seek out. I Slates. Thus our separation had so dier who passed, especially those who was The spirit of rivalry born From the circumstance if That did not positionwhere he corn dugout, of their own observation post. ..and in town, nor did know, was, been in a One here. He a turned at the hotel gate: Finally longer than was usual in eras there, and is all the war means to them while the -- r fighting. I ask. this war.- So when he wrote me' In a aoldler; came swinging dowfi the of state boundaries and pride of city is an important sympathetic young man' in the uniThe American soldier abroad Is . ...March that he had form been of searched a week's the 'east . theoretically given the A hole in the ground,' or a slit br.sVs. police military still In America, He gets lea.va.and hoped to be sent to Aixthe lists for the (Continued on pug. two.) (Continued on page two.) record of his hotel. they-notice- he it it' Jr LANE. and on the west by some other group. When they go info reserve, their horizon broadens. jMERICAN FRONT, FRANCE, One of those d rockets fell in our. trench May 16. Our men here in the ' last nightman Ohio infantryman wassayTng. Lit trenches have hot yet learned ta on my helmet and made me step lively or Id had my hate the German. Bat they want gas mask burned off my face. You infantry guys are. always complainin'. J revenge. On erne of the night which I used to be an infantry too, before I became - a machine gunner. Nowadays half of Fritzs artillery, spent in the front lines with the division, the Borhe take it from me, is directed at us machine gunners." He us minnenwierfers threw all barraged heavily. his worked around us, machine guns until the lead The speaker now was a Philadelphia veteran of came down like sheets of rain whipped by wind gusts about 19. gas , What you . fellows, know about it? a. Chicago acity pavement, and then ho shot-som- e field artillery gunner cut in. at us. Why,' all the noise hear day and night and wonder what it's all you If there is anything that turns rage into the work. Thats about, is us getting it in counter-batter- y blood of our soldiers, it is an unfair! attack. War He is what this war ha come to, artillery fighting, artilis war, but he considers gaa an assassin! ' well armed for it and it may have few terrors for lery, day and night. Say, I wish 1 was safe where him, but it impresses him. Nowadays it is'gas that you are in the trenches. . At this point someone could not refrain from calls for quick revenge. We had no gas casualties. When the alarm was chanting the little old song, beginning with the infantry, the infantry, with dirt behind their ears, given, first by colored rocket from our trenches, then by auto horn with which we have amply pro- - and concluding with the cavalry, the arti!leryvand vided our lines and communications, our men in the the lousy engineers, they conld not lick the infantry entire rone of released gas and gaa shell adjusted in a hundred million years. Meanwhile the stew slum, they call it was their masks quickly. The next morning they red ' being devoured and then the green membered that operation. Well get friend Fritz for this, good and plenty,"' armband with the correspondent's red C. They all wanted to know if I could put a piece in the said Corporal Bill. I ' - with them borne town paper, about .them.Bet thope Chicago gunners raise Dont you believe this bunk-yohear around tonight," his companion, a second class private,, sug-one of them said. Our folks at home are I here, like feel over and going myself gested. choking a couple of Bushes to death. , x scared about us, but you can see for yourself that Both the speakers were New York men, one, the'' there is nothing to be scared about. Most of us arq nervous the first day we are in, but how that -- corporal, slightly over the draft age, and their ex-- r pressions were ..typical of the revtfige feeling that we have had our turn;, we dont think two pins about has spread all along our lines where the enemy has ? TV We like to argue about it. Its agame,-that'- s all. been up to his usual tricks. . Our men are carefree, but not careless. 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