| Show 6 t WORLD I II WAR a. a ri YARNS 1 i I I Ib J b by Frank E. E Flagon Hagan cj II B rr The Most Surprising Thing Ask members ex-members of ot the tite A. A B. B F F. surprising thing thin what was the most most mist and the they In the rhe war surprising thin thing about their answers will be he heir great reat variety y Somebody Some Same marine who had fought fou I body hody astir asked d a n that chat question and at Chateau l Thierry question atwith with the memory of of some of the terrible ter scenes he had ne need t ed there he be so man can cun be lie replied That n a ml oil terribly wounded and recover reco ri right bt Then rhen be he thought ht for n n fI moment mth mo mt h No I reckon o t IP ment went and nd added o I found out ill wits was ib must most surprising thing I that there were so many kinds of beans heans in the world But Cut former farmer members JS J'S of the tho Ei ht ninth division composed mainly of and Kansans I will Rill pru that the thing thin which nil tell you ou nu most surprised them tham Ol was In the words of one of them dent how haw little thorn them fro frog frog- I about farmin after lifter being at nt ir ii for a n t thousand housa nd years yen rs Lieu t. t 1 lack Harrow Barrow a n Denver Den newspaper imm nian who seT served in nn outfit In the tho tells how II a brother r olli came to a u in w which li halt n a dozen Americans were working hard while a n French farmer sat nearby calmly smoking and watch watching u their labors He lie stopped filled flied with curiosity curl curl- at nr the sight and asked what they were doing Looking very elY much em enl the theand men came carne to attention Well Neil and one of them spoke up this old fellow you ou see lieutenant dont don't know ow a n thing about harvesting wheat hent I Evidently considering that 1 y they re rest resumed their work worl finished up the field In ai nit air proved i- i Kansas l style and left lefty uttering contemptuous und find somewhat profane expressions of their opinion of n agriculture agriculture agri agri- rl I culture as ns practiced bv by the French 4 Mistaken Zeal Some o ni 01 the units of the Thirty Thirty- second division lived in an an anold old stone quarry nEar near Jouy France Like UIe other stone quarries on the Western Front this his one was remodeled remodel Into n a first aid aln station says Capt Calt Ralph E. E nil Jill of he the t P. P A A. A C. C d vi victims s as well a as hundreds of wounded were passing passin lt the station almost constantly One flue of the most must on the scene to protect the Injured as well us the whole was was the divisional gns gas officer This Individual Ine was wa a zealot where the gas gns was Involved ol An order that er e every man must have his mask continually con con- continually at the alert was enforced rigidly by hy the d d. d g. g o. o a captain A Ito hospital sergeant walked toward towar the stone quarry early one day when the rhe first of the days day's wounded were arriving ing Two of his men carried a litter on which rested the body body of of a lead dead soldier The ser sergeant had on no gas bas mask mash He was spotted instantly by the d. d g. g o. o Rushing flushing up behind the sergeant the gas officer shouted dramatically Sa Say What In h I h-I 1 do you think you tire are a bear benr Before he could continue the sergeant sergeant ser ser- geant grasped the astonished captain by the neck and anti began to force him down upon the occupied litter meanwhile menn mean while calling to other soldiers to come com cometo to his bis assistance I IOnly Only the timely intervention Inter of the medical officers cels cel's convinced ined the sergeant sergeant ser ser- geant that the captain was not n a victim of shock shell similar to those he be had been handling every day S TL rL CI T IL i A lit A 1 aut One of the principles of high high high- pres pressure sure pres-sure salesmanship is that you u have to talk their language before you can sell em So when Ser Sergt t t. t Paul nul Hob Hob- held si-held of the thc One Joe Hundred and Thirty Thirty- first infantry took tool port part In the battle lit of f Hirl Ridge e. e anti and was Va fired tired on from a 11 huge huc dugout he u used NI NIone one of the principles of salesmanship Cra raveling to o one skip side of the dug dugout nit ou Sergeant who had st Berman erman in Chicago shouted Fritz Fritz FItZ come out litH of r there Iten No answer He Ile Ie pulled pins from fromn two grenades and tossed them down the dugout steps step There was an explosion explosion ex I Si RI R. R I llave you rou hI had I enough Sergeant shouted In Herman gonad 1 beings henius mil mit ha handen 1111 11 nut 1 once out nul with h your hands up Url Following ln this little sales snips talk raIl thirty emi ed one Olle h by ore from their shelter They were were lined up 1111 und and Ill headed for the American lines four comrades cut cur loose with machine guns uns when wilen the party u jm up the tile lines Four our of the Germans German's Ger Gel n mans man's were wen wounded before matte made his capture understood Rushing flushing back to s 's prisoners the e sergeant ordered several se of or them theta to tn assist their wounded comrades On One e ee refused refuse sa saying in g that h he e was an un officer and aud vale vate could Youre not be seen earr carrying ng a J nothing but a n buck buck- private now v. said sold lea In n his o rued German erman ns as he foe tore opt oft the minis mans shoulder straps G Get ee I busy husy i Anti again in his sales salesmanship proved pro e e 1030 1930 Western r er r ti i |
