Show WORLD WAR YARNS by y frank E hagan no delusions of 0 grandeur it happened late la to september 1018 the seventy seventh dl di gislon was given glien the job of driving lie germans out of the argonne forest as the allied force forces pushed n toward sedan and the pree hundred and sixty eighth la to fantry a regiment of colored coops formed the connecting link the french fourth and the hin erIvan first armies a position chith would place it in to the fore curd of the attack hut but there was one soldier in that who hud had no delusions of grandeur liun deur about the part he was going to play in the history ter which wis vi to be fought ought on the morrow the night before the bat je the following conversation ac to thomas johnson Jo lineon war correspondent of tue tise new york aun un took place between to mem bers tiers of the three hundred and sixty eighth first negro soldier well guess hresc were gwane show lem cm to tomorrow morro heur ilear dey got fifty tho shousan usan while troops behan us an when hen we bus ie le line for em dey coln right through second ne ro soldier leal eari first negro Soldier What yo so gloomy about lese ese gwane be la in ill all de newspapers tomorrow what you reckon beyll dey 11 say second negro Soldier whal What dey 11 say bayl chy N by dey 11 say I 1 fifty rho shousan usan wl WI lie troops trampled pled to death dac datis wh want a I 1 dey 11 say I 1 the litany of the the germans had their hymn of df flate but the trench had their 1 litany rally of the iloilo and that may lime had something to do with ith the final outcome ine of tile the war it was a trench jest which 1 Is said aid lo 10 have hae originated somewhere along ng the lie ainne a bit of humor which helped break the strain and bus pond pend the waiting under sheli shellfire fire could there be a more pe fact philosophy for the foldier soldier than this tills of tro things one Is certain alther you are mobilized or you are not mobilized if you are not mobilized there Is no need to norry orry if it you are moll ll ed of two things one Is tain eliher you re behind the lines or you re on the front if boure oure behind the lines there Is no need to worry if it you re on the front of two things one Is certain aither youre you re resting in a safe place or youre you re exposed to danger janger if you re resting in a sif sito place thre Is no need to worry if you re exposed to danger of two things me ne Is certain either you re woun wounded deL or youre not wounded if you re not wounded there Is no need to norry orry if youre wounded of two things one Is certain either you re vi bounded seriously or you re hounded slightly I 1 if it you son re wounded slightly there Is no need to worry woy if you re bounded seriously of two things one Is certain cither either you recover or you die if you recover there Is n no 0 need to borr worry if you die dle you cant orry when the shells fell short great consequences often cult from small acts and such cant objects may change file destiny of of burn humin be ings A small defect in some american made exl explosive losie supplied to the british during tre horld war mry have saved the lives of thou sands of Gerni ins and cost the lives of an il number of eng lish up to a certain time the shells bich came caine from this factory had been very accurate the timing regular and the percentage tag of c small then the british gunners began to notice a differ ence the timing and the bumpus bursting of the shrapnel shells was very short the ministry of munitions realized the seriousness of the sit nation cation and sir ernest moir a member of the council was sent to america to ini investigate he ile visited the factory end made a investigation being able to locate the difficulty then quire quite by chance it occurred to him that there might have hae been some change in the manner of handling the powder and consequently a change in the voids between the particles clea 3 of the powder 1 bon 11 t P head of the fac fat try was asked if there had been any such change he replied why yes we have been making an adal tion to our factory and have had to bring the powder in trucks over temporary roads instead of by rail road as formerly immediately sir ernet saw bit hi problem solved the cowder powder had been shaken more in te ile trucks truels than it had been in the railroad lars am consequently the void voids between the parti particles elps were ere less leas the quantity of air in the powder less and the rate of burning was quite definitely affected so at his sug 1 the rough method of trans tran port was abandoned and from that time on there were ere no A 2 1111 1931 western union |