Show YANKEE SPIRIT t ur WILL Well WIN WAR Declares Commander of Unit Uni Now Over There NOTHING NOTHING DAMPENS DAMPENS ARDOR i Former Coal Operator With Income o of a Year Plods Along With His Pound Forty Pack Having the tho Time of His Life Spend Life Spend pend Week or More In Rest Camps in n England Before Before Before Be Be- fore Going to France It was dawn A pelting rain min drenched this quaint historic English Tillage Far up the muddy road ov over r the big hills bUls came the Hie muffled tones of ot ofa ofa a military band They were playing Americas America's popular war song sous Over O There Behind them marched singing shouting shoutIng shoutIng shout- shout Ing warriors of Uncle Sams Sam's marching soldiers marching from their rest camp to trains trams on the last leg of journ Journey y to No Mans Man's Land The Ther ln rain min did not dampen their ar nr- dor Through the mud they waded with grinning faces singing Hall Hail hall ball the nil all here what the Uto h li-I li 1 do w we e care Its the tile spirit of or American soldiers going that's going to win mn this war o observed ob oh served Col E. E V. V Smith commandant of one of the units He Be was a jolly joUy old war horse with n the face figure and humor that thai made him bim look the twin of Irvin Cobb I was a n classmate of ot Black Jack Pershing ng at West Point he be grinned Ill Til sure sure be bee glad to see him over there In Fra France cc Some Boys These He Ho hailed bailed from San Francisco and his bis regiment comprised boys from tram parts of Pennsylvania Indiana Illinois nil nil- nois no Is and Kentucky Nothing else In Inthe Inthe inthe the world mattered to him just now but his boys and he was so prow proud of them he said as be he joined a party of ot us l long along the roadside watching the boys swing past See that fellow over there he be pointed d out a cut clean u grinning Yank plodding along with a pound 40 pa pack k on on n his back He was an Illinois coal operator and und had an nn Income of a year until the draft got him Now hes he's getting a little better than a year Bear and likes it rye Ive got ot more just like him In my unit Near by stood a little old lady who rushed out ever and anon to grasp the bands hands of the Yanks Good by there boys boys there was the suspicion of ot a tear and her bel lip quivered ered as she added Hope you all get back Good Goodluck Goodluck Goodluck luck and God bless you you Mother Powell ell they called her some one said From out the big brown shawl thrown over her ber head beall peeped a little old lad lady lads face such as we have bave expected and hoped our dead and gone grandmothers had bad She had lost two sons In the tile trenches over there and every ery morning rain or shIne she was out on the road bidding bidding bid bid- ding the boys good good-by and Godspeed on their journey over o there Some of ot the Yanks ceased their hIlarIty hilarity hilarity hi hI- larity long enough to grasp her hand handor or shout Good by Good by mother One brushed her ber cheek check with his lips Ups and andI I could see him fighting back the tears as he be plodded on The Yanks only stay a week or so In the rest camp here bere but they all aU knew her ber Re Rest st for a a Week Entraining from the boats at an English port all the American soldiers rest up a week or so at one or another of the American rest camps In or around this historic English village In company with three colonels and a n number numbe- of other officers I visited the theair I air i Before the ie r of f these l camps Am Ameri u camaraderie e runs high In England When Yank meets Yank in Great Britain the conventions aro are dropped in the well met met fashion In this manner I met an nn American colonel at the station He spotted me for a Yank thrust out his hand and introduced himself I r got a tin Un buggy going up to the camp shortly i climb in he Invited We reached the camp in time for dinner and it at was some dinner Inthe in inthe the galvanized Iron mess hut but for officers officers of of- I sat Bat down to a real Yankee square feed of or roast beef potatoes peas tomatoes coffee with real un un- skimmed milk and sugar and an honest honest- I tC to American apple pie I II I |