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Show THE. WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH. AN AMIlCffl 5011)111-WH- O WENT MM (i OfIT- MAGilNC aTOMNd I) 1917 IN HUNCt BY ADTHiiRHrrtrtffY , FOREWORD - Oyer the Top is , With a wink he replied : "There was no damage; we missed them again. After several fruitless Inquiries of the passersby, I decided to go on my own in search of rained buildings and scenes of destruction. I boarded a bus which carried me. through Tottenham Court road. Recruiting posters were The one that Impressed everywhere. e me most was a picture of Lord Kitchener .with his Anger point lng directly at me, under the caption of Your King and Country Need You. No matter which way I turned, the accusing finger followed me. I was an American, In mufti,, and bad a little American flag In the lapel of my coat. I had no king, and my country had seen fit not to need me, but still that pointing finger made me feel small and 111 at ease. I got off the bus to try to dissipate this feeling by mixing with the throng of the sidewalks. Presently I came to a recruiting office. Inside, sitting at a desk was a a true story of trench warfare on the French front, written by an American soldier who itito the great war two gof years ahead of his country. life-siz- Sergeant .Empey tells what freighting men have done and how they have done it. He knows because he was one of them. His experiences are grim, but they are thrilling, and they are lightened by a delightful touch of With a sane, I replied, Well, Ifs up I the state a little." Then I was taken before the doctor and passed as physically fit, and was issued a uniform. When I reported back to the lieutenant, he suggested that, being an American, I go on recruiting service and try to shame some of the slackers Into joining the army." "All you have to do," he said, "la to ga out on the street, and when yon see" a young fellow In mufti who looks physically fit. Just, stop him and give him this kind of a talk : Arent you ashamed of yourself, a Britisher, physically fit, and in mufti whesr yotfr king, and country need yon? Dont yojj know that your country is at war and that the place for every young Briton Is on the firing line? Here 1 am, an American, in- khaki, who came four thousand miles to fight for your king and country, and you, as yet, have not enlisted. Why dont you Join? Now Is the time. This argument ought to get many recruits, Empey, so go out and see what you can do. ne then gave me a small rosette of red, white and blue ribbon, with three little streamers hanging down. This was the recruiting Insignia and was to be worn on the left side of the cap. Armed with a swagger-sticand my: k patriotic rosette, I went out Into Tottenham Court road in quest of cannou( I AN AMEHCffl S0LME1E was tired out, tnd using f helmet (shrapnel prwf until a piece of shrapnel nits it). rr tin hat, for a pillow, lay down in the straw, and was 'soon fast asleep, i must have slept about two hours, awoke with a' prickling sensation h i over me. As I though, the straw p.j worked through my uniform, w np the fellow lying on my left, who iui been up the line Before, and asf.tj WHO WENT Its worked through my. Will ct shrapnel-proo- j 4-,-" him : "Does the straw bother you. mrv? my uniform an i ' cant sleep. In a sleepy voice he answer., "That aint straw, thems cooties. From that time on my friends the ' 3 MACHINE cooties" were constantly with me "Cooties, or body lice, are the. L of Tommys existence. IN FRANCE GUNNER, The aristocracy of the trenches (& 1917 BY ARTHUR SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE ' -- -- seldom call them cooties, theysp(rA ,r of them as fleas. To an American flea means a sm-.- i Thsec: arpied with a bayonet, wh i wont to Jab It Into you and then h skip and Jump to the next place to attacked. There Is an advan'uge .1, having fleas on you instead of .nones In that In one of his extended jun n said flea is liable to land on the ft low next to you he bas the f ypia'P energy and push of the Ameru ... while the cootie" has the bulldo tenacity of the Englishman; he boid on and consolidates or digs In uqu! his meal is finished. There is no way to get rid of than permanently. No matter how often you bathe, and that Is not very often or how many times you change your underwear, your friends the "cooties are always In evidence. The billets are Infested with them, especially so 11 there is straw on the floor. x I have taken a bath and put or rand-neunderwear; In fact, a com plete change of uniform, and thou turned In for the night. The next morning my shirt would be full of them. It Is a (common sight to see eight or ten soldiers sitting undr a tree with their shirts over their knee engaging In a WY EMPTY EMPEY FIRST HEARS THET31G GUNS BOOMING. Synopsis Fired by the sinking of the Lusitania, with the loss of American lives. Arthur Guy Empey, an American living In Jersey City, goes to England and enlists as a private in the British army. fodder. -- Two or three poorly dressed dvllt Ians passed me, and although they appeared physically fit, I said to myself, to Join the army: They dont-wanperhaps they have someone dependent on them for support, so I did not accost them. Coming down the street I saw a yonng dandy, top hat and all. with a fashionably dressed girl walking beside him. I muttered, "You are my meat, and when he came abreast of me I stepped directly in his path and stopped him with my swagger stick, saying: "You would look fine In khaki ; why not change that top hat for a steel helmet? Aren't you ashamed of yourself, a husky young chap like you In , mufti when mea are needed In the trenches? Here I am, ah, American, came four thousand miles from Ogden, Just outside of New York, to fight for your king and country. Dont be a slacker, buck up and getlnto uniform; come over e recruiting office and Ill have you enlisted. He yawned and answered, I dont care if you came forty thousand miles, no one asked you to," and he walked on. The girl gave me a sneering look ; I was speechless. I recruited for three weeks and near- CHAPTER mets, a sheepskin coat rubber mackintosh, steel helmet, two blankets, tear-shegoggles, a balaclava helmet, gloves and a tin of antifrostbite grease which is excellent for greasing the boots. Add to this the weight of his rations, and can you blame Tommy for route march? growling at a twenty-kil- o Having served as sergeant major In the United States cavalry, I tried to II. ll Blighty to Rest Billets. The next morning the captain sent for me and Informed me: "Empey, as a recruiting sergeant you are a washout, and sent me to a training depot After arriving at this place, 4 was hustled to the quartermaster stores and received an awful 6hock. The humor. quartermaster sergeant spread a wa- tell the English drill sergeants their terproof sheet on the ground and com- business, but It- did not work. They menced throwing a miscellaneous as- Immediately put me as batman in their sortment of straps, buckles and other mess. Many.a greasy dish of stew was CHAPTER I. lonely Tommy Atkins. I decided to Inparaphernalia lntd It I thought he accidentally spilled over them. him In regard to joining the terview I would sooner fight than he a waiter, would never stop, bnt when the pile . From Mufti to Khaki. British army. I opened the door. He so when the order came through from to reached he knees In1 my long was In an office paused It Jersey City. looked up and greeted me with "I sy, enough to say, "Next, No. 5217, Arris, headquarters calling for a draft of shirt hunt." I was sitting at my desk talking to myte, want to tyke on?" for France, I volB company. I gazed In bewilderment 250 a lieutenant of the Jersey National .t night about half an hour before I him looked I and at "W$U, unteered. answered, the and at of of front in me, Guard. On the wall was a big war pile junk out," you can see the Tommies lights chance whatever a M. wo O. that Is, Ill take Then went . before the hen my eyes wandered around looking map decorated with variously colored t IL around a candle, trying, In Its grouped another for th wagon which was to carry Jt (medical officer) for physical little flag? showing the position of the Without an Interpreter, I to barracks. I was rudely brought to examination. This was yery brief. He jdlm llht, to fid their underwear of opposing armies on the .western front found out the aid of the vermin. A popular and very quick that Tommy wanted to Jknow earth by the quarter exclaiming, asked our names and numbers and method In France. In front of me on the desk Is to take your shirt find drawwent out we said 1 to fight. to join the British army. He Fit," and 'Ere, you, op it; tyke it awy; blind lay a New York paper with big flaring If cared ran the seams back and forand ers, We were Into and of trains me: ever the asked hear "Did you put troop my eyes, es looking for is batman to headlines : flame from a candle and ward In the sent to Southampton, Where we deIn London, elp im carry It" LUSITANIA SUNK1 AMERICAN Royal Fusiliers V Well, burn out. them This practice Is dan- isour trench rifles you know, Yanks are supposed to know Struggling under the load, with fre- trained, and had LIVES LOSTI sued to us. Then In columns of twos The windows were open and a feel-ln- g everything, so I was not going to apquent pauses for rest I reached our we went up the gangplank of a little Sure." barracks (large car barns), and my of spring pervaded the air. pear Ignorant and answered, half-hou-r steamer to one for After lying alongside the dock. listening platoon leader came to the rescue. It, Through the open windows cajrajp the At the on tale of their the gangplank there Tommys exploits wasa marvel to me how quickly he was an oldhead of thewho strains of a hurdy-gurd- y playing In the ly got one recruit directed that decided to I Join. sergeant line, Tommy firing assembled he the equipment. After street "I Didnt liaise My Boy to Be This perhaps was not the greatest we line ourselves along both rails of took me to the recruiting headquarters, me showed iad he the a Soldier." completed task, captain. stunt in the world, but it got back at how to adjust It on my person. Pretty the ship. Then he ordered us to take-lif"Lusitania Sunk I American Lives where I met a typical English immedwe who officer told Yes, the had me, belts from the racks overhead and I soon I stood before him a proper Torii-m- y Lost!" I Didn't Raise My Boy to He asked my nationality. take anything over here." I had been them on. I have crossed the ocean American put out my passport iately pulled Atkins In heavy marching order, Be a Soldier." To us these did not a lot of several my recruiting times and knew I was not seagood was spending him. showed to It It and signed camel. seem to Jibe. time In the saloon bar of the Wheat feeling like an overloaded but when I buckled on that life sick, On my feet were heavy-sole- d boots, belt I had a sensation of sickness. The lieutenant In silence openedone Sheaf pub (there was a very attractive studded with hobnails, the toes and of the lower drawers of his desk and blonde barmaid, who helped kill time After we got out into the stream all by I could think of was that there were a took from It an American flag which I was not as serious in those days as heels of which were ,My legs were In- million German submarines with a torhe solejnniy draped over the war map I was a little later when I, reached steel woolen in cased puttees, olive drab In pedo on each, across the warhead of on the wali. TheU7 twntn? to me with the front) well, It was the sixth day with my trousers overlapping which was Inscribed my name and ada grim face, said: and my recruiting report was blank. color, at them Then a woolen khaki dress. the top. "IIow about It, sergeant! You had I was getting low in the pocket barwas a bluish gray which under tunic, After five hours we came alongside maids haven't much use fof anyone woolen .better get out the muster roll of the a collar; beneath a pier and disembarked. I had atminus sMrt, so-looked Mounted Scouts, as I think they will who cannot buy drinks :hls shirt a woolen belly band about tained another one of my ambitions. be needed In the course of a few days." around for recruiting material, You We n six Inches wide, held In place by tie I was "somewhere in France. We busied ourselves till late-Ithe know a man on recruiting service gets On my head slept In the open that night on the side of white tape. strings recruit a "bob" or shilling for every evening writing out emergency telewas a heavy woolen trench cap, with of the road. About six the next morngrams for the men to report when the le entices into Joining the army, the luge earlaps buttoned over the top. ing we were ordered to entrain. I recruit Is supposed to get this, but he Then gall should COPe from Washington. the equipment: A canvas belt looked around for the .passenger would not be a recruit if he were wise with ammunition Then we went home. pockets, and two coaches, but all I could see on the sidto this fact, would he? I crossed over to New Yjrfc, and as wide canvas straps like suspenders, ing were cattle cars. We climbed Into Down at the end of the bar was a called "D I went up Fulton street to take the straps, fastened to the belt these. On the side of each car wts subway to Brooklyn, the lights In the yonng fellow in mufti who was very n front, passing over each shoulder, a sign reading Hommes 40, Cheveaux tall buildings of New York seemed to patriotic he had about four Old crossing in the middle of my back, and 8." When we got inside of the cars, be burning brighter than usual, as if Six ales aboard. He asked me If he attached by buckles to the rear of the we thought that perhaps the sign Snnkl "Lusitania could Join, showed me his left hand, belt On the read had too, belt they, of the side had reversed the order of right two fingers were missing, but I said hung a water bottle, covered with felt; painter American Lives Lost!" They seemed 48 hours In these tracks After things. that did not matter as "we take any- on the left side was my bayonet and we detrained at Rouen. At this place to be glowing with anger and righteous The left hand is The Author's Identification Disk. thing over here. Indignation, and their ntfsiwlwagged scabbard, and intrenching tool handle, we went through an intensive training carried Is as the hand 1" rifle piece the the message, "Repay this handle strapped to the bayonet for ten days. gerous, because yon are liable to burn at the slope on the left shonlder. Near-l- y scabbard. In the rear was my In Months passed, the telegrams lying rudiThe.. la -- everything handyhnt- covered with dust Then, looTTcarrled ln a canvas case. ments of trench warfare. Trenches careful. even general traffic keeps to the trenchlng one momentous morning the lieutenant This tool was a combination pick and had been dug, with barbed wire ensent to Blighty Recruits port side. with a sigh of disgust removed the A canvas haversack was tanglements, - bombing saps, dugouts, for a brandgenerally spade. of Insect powder adverI took the applicant over to headto the left side of the belt, observation posts and machine gun em- tised as "Good for body lice. The adflag from the war map and returned strapped exto his desk. I immediately followed while on my back was the pack, also placements. We were given a smat quarters, where he was hurriedly vertisement Is quite right; the powder were surgeons amined. Recruiting this actioo by throwing the telegrams of canvas, held In place by two canyas tering of trench cooking, sanitation, Is Guy Empey. good for "cooties;" they simply not have and did over the shoulders; suspended bomb throwing, reconnolterlng, listen- thrive intothe wastebasket. Then we looked busy in those days straps on It at each other In silence. ?Ie was by Lansing. After looking at the much time for thorough physical exam- on the bottom of the pack was my ing posts, constructing and repairing was men of our battallon were me The he older that inations. My recruit was passed aa mess tin or canteen in a neat little barbed wire, "carrying In parties, squirming In his chair and I felt de--1 passport, he Informed as made scratchers out of and It wiser not to over enlist me, could but sorry "fit" by the doctor and turned canvas case. My waterproof sheet, methods used in attack and defense, pressed and uneasy. ' wood. These were rubbed smooth with would be a breach of neutrality. . The telephone rang and 1 answered a corporal to make note of his scars. looking like a Jelly roll, was strapped and mass formation, wiring parties, bebit of stone or sand to prevent splin that I was not neutral, I was mystified. Suddenly the corpo- on top of the pack, with a wooden stick the procedure for poison-ga- s it It was a business .call for me, re- Insisted attacks. a real ters. seemed that cause to me It They were about eighteen inchesa ral burst out with,' "Blime me, two of for cleaning the breach of the rifle proquesting my services for ap we again met our On tenth the day when neutral not me be and could to Tommy guarantees that his fingers are gone." Turning assignment Business was not American jecting from each end. On a lanyard friends "Hommes 40, Cheveaux 8. long, the but in of this length will reach scratcher were have progress, You your certainly he said, a huge jack- Thirty-si- x waist around very good, so this was very welcome. big things my hung atand more of hours misery, any part of the body which may he nerve with you, not alf you aint, to knife with a After listening to the proposition I captain would not enlist me. attachment we arrived at the town of F were lazy fellows out Some of tacked. the With disgust in my heart I went seemed to be swayed by a peculiarly The pack contained my. overcoat an bring this beggar in." After unloading our rations j and and only made their scratchers twelve The doctor came over and exploded, extra pair of socks, change of understrong force within me; and answered, In -- the street il, had gone aboutwhoa on the road in inches, bnt many a night when on What do you mean by bringing In a wear, hold all (containing knife, fork, equipment, we lined np "I am sorry that I cannot accept your block when a recruiting sergeant fours columns of office man In this condition? waiting for the order guard, looking over the top from the offer, bnt I am leaving for England had followed me out of the comb, toothbrush, lather brash, to march. 1 ipoon, : trench, they with his fire step-o- f the front-lin- e next week," and hung up the receiver. tapped me on the shoulder the comer of my eye shaving soap, and a razor made ef tin, outof Looking "quid The could can thousand heard. be A a I dull said would and rehave rumbling given The- lieutenant swung around in his swagger stick with "Made In England" stamped on I noticed that the officer who had man to a turned I the was sun let We have In for the the shining. and army. otherjixjnches. chair, 'and stared at me in blank aston-- get you cruited me had Joined the group, the blade; when trying to share with Once while we were In rest billets an Ishment -- A sinking sensation . came tenant, do wna tithe other . office .who I could not belp answeringrWell,'slr, thls It made yon wish that yon were onmylefraniT'askedrrWhats'the In an aver me, bnt I defiantly answered his can do anything. He haa Just come I was told that you took anything over at war with Patagonia, so that yon noise. Bill?" He did not know, but hi Irish nussar regiment camped After n color. Jim, open field opposite our billet a .ook with, "Well, Its so. Im going." out of the O. T. C. (Officers Training here." , could have a "hollow ground" stamped face was of neunot did not what and know on also does know, but they had picketed and fed their horses, immy right, corps) And I went. I think they called it Yankee "Made in Germany") ; then your awsk" the sergeant g genyral shirt hunt took place. The that I suggested The trip across was uneventful. I trality Is." I decided to take a chance pudence," anyhow Jt ended my recralt outfit, consisting was an old griz- troopers ignored the call DinnefCP, la nded a t Tt lbu ry,.Epgl a nd,.lhen got and accepted hla Invitation for an in- lng. button brass f a stick, ;two stiff .Coming towards us entered to troduction the lieutenant! into a 6tring of matchbox cars and property fed' up with and kept on with their search for btg or brushes, and a box of "Soldiers zled sergeant, awaked went to and offltn the him, opened xame. They hid a curious method him. up to I there London, arriving proccctkJ a shoe brush and war.,) Friend" then over paste; shirts -- about 40 p. tp- - I took a room In a hotel up my passport and said: Thlnk Its going to rain, sergeant?" procedure. They hung their some, In training quarters, a box of dubbin, a writing pad, lndel- enBefore going further I wish to state looked at me In contempt, and He near St. Fancras station for "five and hedge and beat them with their hears In where and pay book, France," Empey lble envelopes, pencil, ter rain with trenching tool handles. ' lx fire extra." The room was minus that I am an American, not too proud the big guns booming and makes and personal belongings, such as a granted, " Owg It and to to want I looket seemed army, "extra" to sun fight, your bloomin the join bnt the the fire, I asked ohe of "them wbjeyUltft' small- mirror. adecratTazor" and a the, acqualntanceef.Jth!coo?. he anme was warm. me at That there. night, . keep pick them off by band, aad ties." Read about his experiof unanswered letters, and fags. guilty, sheaf or bath a had see much manner, and answered, Thats all a Zeppelin raid, but I didnt Thems the guns np the line, me swered, We havent Iron ences In the next Installment haversack In carry your yon your of it, because the tilt in the curtains right;, we take anything over here. r clabber. get enough of em be-- nine weeks or a change of rations,. meaning a. tin of bully beef, lad, and youllback was too small and hadnodeslre to :l looked at him' kind of hard and to r UTe3Tfol?IcFfhi'1lax)tresBiri3 T Blighty:" fore yoa gets four" biscuits" andacarTrohtiljQtngleair wwr. (TO BE CONTINUED.) make ltiarger,-- Next HJoruingrtbelel-- r seemed to wilt, and I would be here for duration of knees My of a Oxo cubes and couple 1 sugar Ms shirt, someone at and bell head. his look asked,' rang, After taking a close epbone rifle squeaked out a weak "Oh P a of of tin a and News." shag, pack pipes Newport He got out an enlistment blank, and Are you there?" I was, hardly. AnyThen we started our march up to the agreed 'with him; it was alive. Tommy Is Virginia's early days" common! ca oil, andL way, I learned, that the Zeps had placing his finger on a blank line said. o treks. After the first carries the oil with his rations; line In Son with the mother country was, of to their fatherland, so l went Sign here." arrived at our rest we It gives the cheese a sort of sardine days march out Into the street expecting to see I answered, "Not on your tintype." course, wholly by ships, and when one In the next Inktallment Sercall them rest France In billets. they n taste. resU-tioall were colonists was the cowexpected scenes of awful devastation and a "I beg your pardon?" geant Empey tell of the because while In them Tommy first-ai- d billets, a and home. a arnews this to Add from pouch for the was hie to would but eagerness Then I explained him that I everything of hie ambition ering populace, seven days a week and on the normal. People were calmly proceed- not sign It without first reading It I On the occasion of one, it may have long, ungainly rifle patterned after the works In a first lino trench and rival Is he week of the given an eighth day ing to their work. Crossing the read it over and signed for duration ef been the first, of a certain Captain Daniel Boone period, and yon have of how he wished he were back r hours "on his own." war. Some of the recruits were lucky. Newports expected return from Eng Idea of a British soldier In Blighty. twenty-foustreet, I accosted a Bobble with : in Jersey City. Our billet was a spacious affair, Before leaving for France, this rifle land, at or near the place now bearing "Oan you direct me to the place of They signed for seven years only I road 4 Then be asked me my birthplace. X his name, a large number ef persons Is taken from him and he Is issued large barn on the left side of the damage?" hundred one entrances, which rifle trench new." short (TO BE CONTINUED) a to collected receive with "Newports He asked me, What damage?" answered, "Ogden, Utah." wind and for ninety-nin- e rats, shells, to now its shortened a Hence the ration outside of name, ind said. bag. In surprise, I answered, "Why, the Just He "Oh, yes. Cheap notoriety Is dear at any price. In France he receives two gas hel- - rain, and the hundredth one for TomNew York?" present form. damage caused by the Zeps." - t w - V ) -- I , to-th- - -- 1 e half-moon- s. 1 J trfllnlng-jconslstedof-th- "by-the-l- eft, - ? out-of-to- , -- can-open- er :Sy, pea-gree- -- -- -- He-look- ed . I . ' pull-throug- h. gen-eral- ly ed ten-kil- , Lee-Enfie- ld b-n- 1 1 - |