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PAGE TWO . "Over the Top" By An American Soldier j Who Went ; ARTHUR GUY EMPEY I Machine Gunner Serving In France 4A>>pyri|tbU 4*17. by Arthur tiuj Hiuucr) (Continued From Last Issue.) CHAPTER X. "The Day's Work " I was fast learning that there is a regular routine about the work of the xrenoncs, amiiin^n It is badly upset at times l?y the (lermans. The real work in the fire trench commences at sundown. Tommy Is like a burglar, he works at night. .lust as it begins to get dark the word "stand to" Is passed from traverse to traverse, and the men get busy. The first relief, consisting of two men to a traverse, mount the fire step, one man looking over the top, while the other sits at his feet, ready to carry messages or to inform the platoon officer of any report made by the sentry us to his observations in No Man's Land. The sentry Is not allowed to Taking Provision relax his watch for a second. Tf he Is questioned from the trench or asked his orders, he reiilies without tnrninir around or taking his eyes from the expanse of dirt in front of him. The remainder of the occupant's of his traverse either sit on the tire step, with bayonets fixed, ready for any emergency. or if lucky, and a dugout happens to he in the near vicinity of the traverse, and if the night is quiet, they are permitted to go to same and try and snatch a few winks of sleep. Little Sleeping is done; generally the men sit around, smoking fags and seeing who can tell the higgest lie. Some of them, perhaps with their feet in water, would write home sympathizing with the "governor" because he was laid up with a cold, contracted by getting his feet wet on his way to work in Woolwich arsenal. If a man should manage to doze off, likely as not he would wake with a start as the clammy, cold feet of a rat passed over his face, or the next relief stepped on his stomach while stumbling on their way to relieve tne s< ntries in the trench. Just try to sleep with a belt full of ammunition around you, your ritle bolt biting into your ribs. Intrenching tool handle sticking Into the small of your back, with a tin hat for a pillow and feeling very damp and cold, with "cooties" boring for oil in your arm- | pits, the air foul from the stench of | grimy human bodies and smoke from u juicy pipe being whiffed Into your nostrils, then you will not wonder why Tommy occasionally takes a turn In the trench for a rest. While in a front-line trench orders forbid Tommy from removing his boots, puttees, clothing or equipment. The "cooties" take advantage of this order and mobilize their forces, and Tommy swears vengeance on them and mutters to himself, "Just wait until I hit rest billets and am able to get my ?wd back." Just before daylight the men "turn to" and tumble out of the dugouts, mnn the fire step until It gets light, or the welcome order "stand down" Is given. Sometimes before "stand down" Is ordered, the commund "five rounds rapid" Is passed along the trench. This means that each man must rest his rifle on the top and Are as rapidly as possible Ave shots uimed toward the German trenches, and then duck (with m? kiiipiianin on ine "uuok"). There in i? great rivalry between the opposing forces to get their rapid Are all off first, hecatise the early bird, In this Instance, catches the worm?sort of gets the Jump on the other fellow, catching him unawares. We had a sergeant In our battalion named Warren. He was on duty with his platoon In the fire trench one afternoon when orders cams hp from the rear that he had been granted seven days' leave for Blighty, and would he relieved at five o'clock to proceed to England.. __ _ , i \ in- wns tickled to death at these K'v?" welcome tidings and regaled his more or less envious mates beside him on to <1 the tire step with the good times in Kins store for him. He figured It out that tfy in two days' time he would arrive at ft?**1 "Waterloo station, London, and then? K'nf seven days' bliss I out At about five minutes to five he Uttl started to fidget with his rifle, and hag then suddenly springing up on the tire step with a muttered, "1*11 send over a couple of souvenirs to Fritz so that iiv ip miss nie wnen i leave," ne stuca his rlfie (iver the top ami flred two shots O when "crack" went a bullet and he our tumbled ofT the step, fell into the mud 'nsr at the bottom of the trench, and lay still in a huddled heap with li bullet we hole in his forehead. At about the time he expected to nr- turr rive at Waterloo station he was laid rlcd to rest in a little cemetery behind the hest lines. He hud gone to Blighty. In the trenches one can never tell? P? i It Is not safe to plan very far ahead. onr After "stand down" the men sit on tron the fire step or repair to their respec- our tlve dugouts and wait for the "rum is- *ens sue" to materialize. Immediately fol- ' lowiug the rum comes breakfast, rftKt brought up from the rear. Sleeping Is P? ( then in order unless some special work ^on turns up. ",e Around 12:30 dinner show's up. ?uul When this Is eaten the men try to ,<on mauler iiirin.M n^ *111111 U*H JinilfHTS ' ' ' If tl It w -kill) T 8 to the Front, <!rn| nasi , sore vfiSP'" ? AmjBbI1 |,up' |^ nn ? ino y _ . HF'nwl nppi Lewis Gun in Action. nnd .?a. ..i. > ..... _ frnr m niMun iour o ciocK, tnen "stand to" """ and they carry on as before. While In rest billets Tommy nets up rnK< about six In the morning, washes up, s answers roll rail, Is Inspected by his ' platoon officer, ami has breakfast. At '' 8:4.r> be parndes (drills) with his corn- y pany or goes on fntlgue according to ,e the orders which have been rend out [ v by the orderly sergeant the night pre- en vlous. ^ I Between 11:30 and noon he Is dls- w^' missed, has his dinner nnd is "on his Pet own" for the remainder of the day, nnless he has clicked for a digging or <V'n working party, and so It goes on from day to day, always "looping the loop" ? and leoking forward to peace nnd j Blighty. | In* Sometimes, while engaged In a ,n(*( i "cootie" hunt, you think. Strange to say, hut It Is a fact, while Tommy Is | *? I n?nrrning nis anirt serious thoughts WB> , come to him. Mnny a time, when per- ] Th? (forming this operation, I have tried to | I to figure out the outcome of the war ?nd and what will happen to me, the My thoughts generally ran In thla i ,he: channel: , the Will I emerge safely from the next j attack? If I do will I akin through the following one, and ao on? While your j "ac mind la wandering Into the future It la likely to be rudely brought to earth ^es by a Tommy Interrupting with, "What'a r,ai good for rheumatism?" r^?I Then you have aomethlng elae to think of. Will you come out of thla ? war crippled and tied Into knota with ' rheumatism, cauaed by the wet and ffuid of trenches and dugouts? You ' c?' THE LANCASTER I 1 It lip as a bad 3?b nnd generally iter over to the nearest estmnlnet Irown your moody forebodings In a s of sickening French beer or to your luck at the always present le of "house." You can hear the ;-song voice of a Tommy droning the numbers as he extracts the e squares of cardboard from the between his feet. CHAPTER XI. Over the Top. n my second trip to the trenches officer was milking his rounds of lection, and we received the cheernews that at four in the morning were to go over the top and take German front-line trench. My heart led to lead. Then the officer earon with his Instructions. To the of my memory I recall them irs nvs: "At eleven a wiring party will )Ut in front and cut lanes through barbed wire for the passage of ps in the morning. At two o'clock artillery will open up with an ine bombardment, which will last un'our. Upon the lifting of the bar' the first of the three waves will iver." Then he left. Some of the no'os first getting permission from sergeant, went into the machine tiers' dugout and wrote letters le. saying that In the morning they e going over the top. and also thnt be letters reached their destination ould mean that the writer had been pd. hose letters were turned over to captain with instructions to mail e in the event of the writer's being d. Some of the men made out r wills in their pay books, under caption, "Will and Last Testait." hen the nerve-racking wait corniced. Every now and then I would ice at the dial of rnv wrist watch was surprised to see how fust the ntes passed by. About five minutes wo I cot nervous waiting for our s to open up. I could not take my ! from my watch. I crouched nst the parapet and strained my eles in a deathlike grip upon my As the hands on my watch ved two o'clock a blinding red flare ted up the sky in our roar, then ider, intermixed with a sharp, whis- I I sound in the nir over our heads. I shells from our guns were speedon their way toward the Herman s. With one accord the men ng up on the fire step and looked the top in the direction of the man trenches. A line of bursting Is lighted up No Man's Land. The was terrific and the ground treinTl?/.?1 *- * ni-ii, iii^ii mmvr our neuus we d h"nr a sighing moan. Our hlg j behind the line had opened up 0.'J's and 1.r?-lneh shells commenced iping into the German lines. The 1 of the guns behind the lines, the am of the shells through the air. the flare of them, bursting, was a tacle that put Pain's greatest disinto the shade. The constant pup, of German machine guns and K-casional rattle of rifle firing gave the Impression of n huge audience lauding the work of the batteries, ur 18-pounders were destroying the man barbed wire, while the heavier f was demolishing their trenches hashing In dugouts or funk holes, lieu Fritz got busy, heir shells went screaming ovor1, alined in the direction of the s from our batteries. Trench mori started dropping "Minnies" in rront line, we clicked sevwal onsies. Then they suddenly censed, nrtlllery hud taped or silenced n. urlng the homhnrdment yon could r>st read n newspaper in our trench, ictlmes In the flare of a shell-hurst inn's body would be silhouetted nst the parados of the trench and ppenred like n huge monster. You d hardly hear yourself think. When order was to be passed down the eh you had to yell It. using your ds as a funnel Into the ear of the i sitting next to you on the fire st?g>. fihout twenty minutes a generous Issue was doled out. After drlnkthe rum. which tasted like varnish sent a shudder through your ae. you wondered why they made wait until the lifting of the har? before going over. At ten mlni to four word wlla passed down, n minutes to go!" Ten minutes ive! We were shivering all over, legs felt as If they were asleep, n word was passed down: "First e get on and near the sealing ladhese were small wooden ladders eh we had plaeed against the pnrato enable us to go over the top on lifting of the barrage. "Ladders of th" we railed them, and veritably f were. efore a eharge Tommy Is the post of men. There Is never any pushor erowding to be flrHt up these lers. We crouehed around the base the ladders waiting for the word to over. I was slek and faint, and i puffing away at an unllghted fag. n came the word. "THree minutes to; upon the lifting of the barrage I on the blast of tjie whistles, 'Over ton with the he?t n' Wnr>tr onH m hell.'" The famous phrase of western front The Jonuh phrase the western front. To Tommy It ?ns If you are lucky enough to come k you will he minus an arm or a Tommy hates to be wished the t of luck; so, when peace Is dered, if It ever Is, and yon meet a nmy on the street, Just wish him the t of luck and duck the brick that own. glanced again at my wrist watch, all wore them and you could hHrdly I us "sissies" for doing so. It wns a MEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. I minute to four. I could see the ha * move to the twelve, then a dead I lence. It hurt. Everyone looked to see what had happened, but not 1 long. Sharp whistle blasts rang c along the trench, and with a cheer t men scrambled up the ladders. T bullets ^ere cracking overhead, a occasionally a machine gun would i and tear the top of the sandbag pai pet. How I got up that ladder I w never know. The first ten feet out front wns agony. Then we pass through lanes In our barbed wire, knew I was running, but could feel motion below the waist. Patches the ground seemed to float to the rt hk If I were on n treadmill and se? ery was rushing past tue. The (5< mans had put a barrage of shrapt across No Man's Land, and you cot hear the pieces slap the ground ahc you. After I had passed our harhed wl and gotten Into No Man's Land Tommy about fifteen feet to my rij: front turned around and looking in t direction, put his hand to his mou and yelled something which 1 could r make out on account of the noise fr< the bursting shells. Then he cough* stumbled, pitched forward and lay st Ilis body seemed to float to the re of me. 1 could hoar sharp cracks the r.'r :.nout me. These were caus hy nassing rifle bullets. Frequent to my right and left, little spurts dirt would rl?*o into the air and n rlr chet 1 "Met would whim- ?>n its wn If a Tommy should vsee one of the little spurts in front of him. he won tell the nurse ulicut It later. T1 crossing of No Man's Land remains blank to me. Men on m.v right and left wou stumnip and fall. Some would try pet up. while others remained huddli and motionless. Then smashed-! barbed wire came into view ai seemed carried on a tide to the re? Suddenly, in front of me loomed hashed-in trench about f<rur feet wit] Queer-looking forms like mud turtl were s.. ambling up its wall. One these forms seemed to slip and tin rolled to the bottom of the trench, leaped across tills Intervening spat The man to my left seemed to pause midair, then pitched head down In the German trench. 1 lauphed out loi in my delirium. Upon alighting on t! other side of the trench I came to w'i a sudden Jolt. Right in front of n loomed a plant form with a rille wlih looked about ten feet long, on the ei of which seemed seven bayonets. The flashed in the air In front of me. Tin through my mind flushed the admot tion of our bayonet Instructor hack Blighty. He had snid, "whenever y< mi in n rim rue and run your Imyon up to the hilt Intotn Gornuin the Frl will full. Perhaps your rifle will 1 wrenched from your grasp. Do n waste time, if the bayonet is fouli in his equipment, by putting your fo on his stomach and tugging at the ril to extricate the bayonet. Simp press tile trigger and the bullet w free it." In my present situation tli was the logic, but for the life of n I could not remember how he had to me to get my bayonet into the G< man. To ine this was the paramou issue. I closed my eyes and lungi forward. My rifle was torn from n hands. I must have gotten the fl< man because he had disappear! About twenty feet to my left fro was a huge Prussian nearly six fo four inches In height, a fine speclini of physical manhood. The bayon from his rifle was missing, bur 1 clutched the barrel in both hands tu was swinging the butt around his hen I could almost hear the swish of tl butt passing Through the air. Thr little Tommies were engaged with hii They looked like pigmies alongside the Prussian. The Tomniv on the w was gradually circling to the rear his opponent. It was a funny sight see them duck the swinging butt ai try to Jah him at the same time. T Tommy nearest me received the hi of the fiermun's rifle in a smash! blow below the right temple, smashed his head like an eggshell. 1 pitched forward on his side and a c< vulslve shudder ran through his bo< Meanwhile the other Tommy h gained the rear of the Prussian. St denly about four Inches of bayor protruded from the throat of the I'rt sinn soldier, who staggered forwa and fell. I will never forget the lo of blank nstonishment that came o> his face. Then something hit me in the It shoulder and my left side went nun It felt as if a hot poker wns bei driven through me. I felt no pair just a sort of nervous shock. A bt onet had pierced me from the rear, fell backward on the ground, but w not unconscious, because I could t dim objects moving around me. Th a flash of light In front of nay eyes a unconsciousness. Something had ] me on the head. I have never fou out what it was. I dreamed I was being tossed ab< in an open boat on a heaving sea a opened my eyes. The moon was ah Injr. I war on a stretcher being c rled down one of our communlcatl trenches. At the advanced flrst-i post my wounds were dressed, a then I was put Into an ambulance a sent to one of the base hospitals. 1 wounds in my shoulder and head w< not serious and in six weeks I had Joined my company for service In 1 front line. CHAPTER XII. Bombing. The boys in the section welcomed 1 back, but there were many strar | faces. Several of our men had gf 1 West in that charge, and were lyl "somewhere In France" with a lit $ n,l [wooden cross ut theTrTicads. We were c s'~ In rest billets. The next day our cnp- v Fu,> tain asked for volunteers for bombers' K school. I pave my name and was accepted. 1 had Joined the Suicide club, . ^ and ny 'roubles commenced. Thirty- . H> two men of the battalion, including myself, were sent to L . where we rip si ra- went through a course In bombing, fi .111 linen ? ?? A * * ,,, ,vrre mvirucieu in the uses, w In methods of throwing and manufacture p ied of various kinds of hand grenade?, el I from the old "jam tin," now obsolete, a no to the present Mills bomb, the standard e on of the British army, ar H all depends where you nre as to tl mi- what you are railed. In France they n er- call you a "bomber" and give you med- b lei als, while in neutral countries they lid call you an anarchist and give you n >ut "lift." s< Irom the very start the Germans Ire were well equipped with effective ^ 8 bombs and trained bomb throwers, but >ht the English army was as little pre?y pared in this important department of dh fighting as In tunny others. At bomb- e' >ot jup school an old sergeant of the Gren- Nv ,,n >ndief guards, whom I bad the good r< fortune to meet, told me of iti? dlscour111. ageinents this branch ??f the ?orvii<o '' ,,,r j RiifTcred before they could meet the 11 'n | Germans on on equal foot J up. (Pa el,l<' I fists and smnll army people in the *' '? j l\ S. please rend with care.) The first (' English expeditionary forces had no >n. honihs at nil, hut had clicked a lot of c< casualties from those thrown hy the Kochcs. One bright morning someone n ](j higher up had an idea and Issued an * (,p order detailing two men from each w a platoon to go to bombing school to ci learn the duties of a bomber nnd how , tti to manufacture honihs. Noncommls- | tl: stoned officers were generally selected pi . for this course. After about two r< IMl weeks at school they returned to their units In rest billets or in the fire hi trench, ns the case might he. and got n busy teaching their platoons how to to * mnke "Jain tins." 01 Previously an order hnd been Issued la for all ranks to save empty Jam tins sc for the manufacture of bombs. A pro- i fessor of bombing would sit on the , gt fire step in the front trench with the j Is remainder of his section crowding a n around to see him work. tt, to <?n his left would he n pile of empty si " and rusty Jam tins, while beside him ej 1 on the fire sten won I ft ho ? niivcniin. n< 'n neous assortment of mnterlal ?sed in b< ,1'> the manufacture of the "Jam tins." to Tommy would stoop down, g?* an rl, 11 empty "Jam tin," take a handful of y< st> clayey mud from the parapet, and line o> n the Inside of the tin with this sub- In stance. Then he would reach over, tli 'n pick up his detonator and explosive, ? ,u and Insert them In the tin, fuse pro- tli trudlnp. On the fire step would he a I'1 ,z pile of fragments of shell, shrapnel to balls, bits of iron, nails, etc.?anything to ot that was hard enough to send over to ' Frit?.; he would scoop up a handful of lc ot this Junk and put It in the bomb. Per- In baps one of the plntoon would ask him tt ' v what he did this for, and he would hi explain that when the bomb exploded , '?s thest* bits would fly about and kill or a IM* wound any German hit by same; the pi l(' questioner would Immediately pull a tl >r" button olf his tunic and hand it to ol iiif iMuiiii nuiKcr wnn, -wen, mnme ni l'd nie. send this over ns n souvenir," or ni l>' another Tommy would volunteer on r* old rusty und broken Jnekknlfe; both ''' wou'o he tc?\ipted and Inserted. i p nt Then 'he professor would take an- A ft other handful of mud and till the tin, v fr '*n after which he would punch a hole in ri t'1 the lid of the tin and put It over the tl top of the bomb, the fuse sticking out. { w Then perhaps he would tightly wrap s< wire around the outside of the tin. nnd 01 the bomb was ready to send over to I *'e Fritz with Tommy's compliments. in A piece of wood about four Inches tl wide had been Issued. This was to be a ft strapped on the left forearm by means "t of two leather straps and was like tho ai to side of a match box; It was called a tl ri<* "striker." There was a tip like the h< ,,e head of a match on the fuse of the le llt bomb. To Ignite the fuse, you bad to J nK rub It on the "striker," Just the same *< ^ ns striking a match. The fuse was vi ,e timed to five seconds or longer. Some ! 01 ,n" of the fuses Issued In those days would tr 'y- burn down In a second or two, while p( ,u' others would "size" for a week before u exploding. Back In Blighty the muni* le* Hon workers weren't quite up to snuff, 01 ,s" the wny they are now. If the fuse took b n* a notion to burn too quickly they gen- 01 ok erally burled the bomb maker next t, ypr J? ??- ? ?* * * ' uwy. su musing Domns couia not De ni called a "cushy" or safe job. I t< After making several bombs the pro- n fessor Instructs the platoon In throw- J a Ing them. lie takes a "Jam tin" from n 1? the fire step, trembling a little, beiy b I to get rid of that "Jam tin," because ^ from experience he had learned not ,ee to trust It en When the powers that be realized n() that they could not change Tommy hit ,l,?y decided to change the type of n(j bomb and did so?substituting the "hair brush," the "cricket ball," and )tlt later the Mills bomb. n(j The standard bomb used In ^he Brltin. i Ish army Is the "Mills." It la ahnnt tti? nr_ I shape and size of a large lemon. Alon though not actually a lemon, Frit* In,j(j slats that It Is; perhaps he Judges It n(j by the havoc caused by Its explosion. n<l j The Mills bomb Is made of steel, the "he outside of which Is corrugated Into 48 ?re small squares, which, upon the explo- | re. slon of the bomb, scatter In a wide jje area, wounding or killing any Frit* j who Is unfortunate enough to be hit j by one of the flying fragments. J Although a very destructive and efficient bomb the "Mills" has the confidence of the thrower. In that he m0 knows It wHl not explode until released from his grip. II 1 It Is a mechanical device, with a a lnK lever, fitted into a slot at the top, ar tie ??? a .? - . " -;-rv . -ivTUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1918. uuse ft Is "nervous work, especially hen new nt It. lights the fuse on his trlk.er. The fuse begins to "slzz" and rrnlter and a spiral of smoke, like hat from a smoldering fag. rises from !. The plr.toon splits In two and ucks around the traverse nearest' to hem. They don't like the looks and ound of the burning fuse. When that use begins to smoke and "slzz" you ant to say good-by to It as soon as osslble, so Tommy with all his might hucks It Over the top and crouches gainst the parapet, waiting for the xploslon. Lots of times In bombing the "Jam n" would be picked up by the Gerinns, before It exploded, and thrown ack at Tommy with dire results. After a lot of men went West In this tanner an order wns Issued, rending [tmething like this: "To all ranks In the British army: ftl?r Itrniflntr thn f "OA o rwl v.?*r .uov ?...?? "< l"l ^ irowlng the jam-tin bomb, count lowly one! two! three!" This In order to give the fuse time novgh to burn down, so that tbe bomb ould explode before the Germans mild throw It hack. Tommy read the order?he reads lem all, but after he ignited the fuse ml It began to smoke?orders were irgotten. and away she went In record me and back she came to the further ^comfort of the thrower. ^ Then another order was Issued to mint, "one hundred! two hundred I iree htv.dred I" But Tommy didn't ire If the order read to count up to lhrtllUfinH hv rill,,pfore ho V, ..s " "" ?? "? null extends half wny around the reuinference and is held In place at le bottom by a fixing pin. In this pin lere is a small metal ring, for the irpose of extracting the pin when >ady to throw. You do not throw a bomb the wny a nsehall is thrown, because, when in narrow trench, your hand is liable i strike ngninst the parados, traverse pnrnpet, and then down goes the *mb. and, in a couple of seconds or >. up goes Tommy. In throwing, the bomb and lever are asped Ih the right hand, the left foot advanced, knee stiff, about one and half its length to the front, while le right leg. knee hent, is carried Ightly to the right. The left arm Is ctended at an angle of 45 degrees, tinting Ih the direction the bomb is to > thrown. This position is similar i that of shot putting, only that the pht arm Is extended downward. Then tu hurl the bomb from you with an rerhead bowling motion, tjie same as i cricket, throwing it fairly high In ie iiir, tnis in order to give the fuse chance to burn down so that when ie bomb lands. It Immediately exodes and gives the Germans no time ? scamper out of Its range or to reirn it. As the bomb leaves your hand, the ver, by means of a spring. Is projected to the air and falls harmlessly to ie ground a few feet In front of the nnher. When the lever (lies off it releases strong spring, which forces the tiring n Into a percussion cap. This ignMcs ie fuse, which hums down and sets Y the detonator, charged with fulmlite of mercury, which explodes the ain chnrge of ammonal. The average British soldier Is not an tpert at throwing; it is a yew game t him, therefore the Canadians and .... I < mm imvf piayeu nusetmll om the kindergarten up, take nntuilly to bomh ttirowing and excel In lis act. A six-foot English bomber ill stand In awed silence when he *es a little flve-foot-nothing Canadian utdistanee his throw by several yards, have read a few war stories of boinbig, where baseball pitchers curved iclr bombs when throwing them, but pitcher who can do this would make "hristy" Mathewson look lfke a piker, rul Is losing valuable time playing In le European War bush league, when e would be able to set ttoe "big ague" on Are. We had a cushy time while at this hool. In fact, to us it was a regular ucatlon, and we were very sorry when ne morning the adjutant ordered us ? report at headquarters for transartntlon and rations to return to our nits up the line. Arriving at out section, the boys nee again tendered us the glad mitt, ut looked askance at us out of the irners of their eyes. They could not mcelve, as they expressed It, how a ion could he such a blinking Idiot an > Join the Hulclde club. I was beglnIng to feel sorry that I had become member of said club, and my life to le appeared doubly precious. Now that I was a sure-enough omber I was praying for peace and oping that my services as such would ot be required. (To be Continued.) fwSSI I I vusfnNoaiuiffi I 1 Miwisrm 1 ( I UNITED STATES | 0OV1EMMXMT TU A 1 L?U) 111C1I1 AI1U Help Win The War I rOR SALE EVERYWHERE 1 Not for Him. "Does the evening hoar 'ring with t a feeling of peace and tranquility?" sked the poetic person. "No," an- ig wered the practical man. "I operate m Jitney bus. That's my busiest tlmo." : /