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SURVIVORS OF ARGONNE ! A GIVE INTIMATE VIEWS e ii Doughboys Sit With Ward Greene a and Tell How the Boch Was c Driven From His Stronghold ^ I i u I will never forget a cold January s night in the little town of Larrette,j France. We had come in out of the' j. muggy, sloppy darkness and poked p up the fire in the decrepit stone grate j j. under the high French mantel. Some-, t body tosed some fresh faggots on the j, embers so that the flames leaped I ? high. Somebody else got real ex- a I travagant and bought a real bottle f of real champaigne. And then we sat there and toasted our toes and v sirroed our wine and talked. j n Or rather, the others talked. The { boys who had been with the All-Am-, erican division through the Argonne ? and Meuse, who had seen it all and ^ suffered it all and come through it $ all alive, began to tell of it. And as one reminiscence led to another, as"; their eyes sparkled at one incident ^ and their teeth set at the memory of f, another, those days were pictured as 0 never they could be on paper. * j It's a pity there wasn't a dicta- ^ phone handy to take a record of that 0 conversation, with all its "Do you re- tl member whens" and all its "When w we were at Sommerance", and the: rest. For it would come nearer be-j^ ing the real story of tne Argonne j than anything that could e written, i w It with other conversations fired by. i? memory, held in the long .winter J evenings throughout the division. j; Strange what things men remember: jr of a battle. In that one hour I heard j; Of how the fever gallops through | w tho fio>ht.pr's veins until his* hardships j hi are as nothing in that supreme mom- h, ent when the Boche breaks, the Boche flees, the Boche goes galloping across d< the land ahead like some grlat lum- jr bering bear; t( Of how a man, knocked silly by v< a shell, leaped from his litter as he g was being borne to the rear, simply tl because he dimly realized that a Ger- w man was near at hand; and of haw he set upon his prisbner, beating him m with his bare fists; la Of a Boche who let an American doctor dress his wounds and then, j as the latter turned, tnrew a nana grenade at him; 01 an Indian in the division who sat on the brink of the parapet when tc they machine gun bvUlets were whis- w tling by his head, sitting there, stoic, ai impurturbable, like all his race, gazing out across "No Man's Land". tc Of how the poles and the Italians, fc ,and the other men of foreign birth'P fought, with a ferocity and heroism li< that won the undying admiration of. fi their American buddies; j tc Of men who had not an atom of fear, leading charges against the j enemy with the gusto of the quarter-! back of a football eleven trotting on the field before the game; ?* Of other men who were scaerd til trembling down to their toes, yet!n< conquered their fear and fought on!*11 ?white-faced and tight-lipped?Ger-!a mans and themselves as well, a dou-j ^ ble battle; ' iSl Of men wounded who refused to! tc be taken to the rear; of men so hor- j UJ ribly nauseated from gas that; they were dizzy with vomiting, yetj fought the friends who would have|b< made them go back to the doctors, j ?< And these were only come of the jm stories. Some of them were grew-j^ some, too horrible to tell. Some were] Pi heroic. Most of them were funny, jtli for even in the blind heat of battle,:a things happen that send men into! convulsions of laughter, and some-1 a^ how, after it is all over, it is those!a things, the humorous things, which J tl men prefer to relate. J lo Mostly the things they remember-! " ed were little things, just glimses that1 Ui were impressed on their brains like' st the snapshot is caught on the cam- ol era's film. One had an indelible: - - - picture of a big German rising out of P a shell hole with his hands at the tl kamerad sign just as a little Italian jp drove him down with his bayonet. | 0 Another could only remember the, 0 severed leg of a German, just the d severed leg in its boot, standing up, Oi by the side of a road. Which brought o1 to his mind the memory of a German j sitting up-right by the roadside, dead, Oi for days, in his hand a letter from hisj al loved ones, which he was reading, w when he knew that death would soon I hi come from the gaping wound in his bi side. oi There were tales of how men dared 0< death for souvenirs. A little Italian w saw a German crawling across No is I lan's Land. The German had on an, xceptionally fine helmet. The Ital-1 in wiggled over the top of the trench j ,nd crawled, too. Pretty soon he ame back, wiping his bayonet. "See," e he called to his lieutenant, holding ip the helmet and grinning, "Bon ouvenir." "The machine guns were so thick hat I've heard one bullet whistle iast one ear and another bullet whisle past the other ear so close that hey seemed like they pressed my iead together. When we'd dig in he bullets would churn up the ground 11 around us, throwing dirt into our aces. "And the smell?it was awful. It rakes me up in the middle of the ight sometimes, thinking about it? hat ghastly stench of the dead". "Once in the Argonne just before he zero hour, we were standing in he trench about to go over, just hen a rabbit jumped up from somewhere and beat it across the open.) That's a good omen', said the officer rho was with me. He was killed a ew minutes later when we jumped ff. , "We were so short of officers that le same lieutenants were going out n patrol every night, when ordinarily ieir turn would come only once a reek." "But the spiit of the American solier is wonderful. They threw away ieir raincoats and their ovecoats hen they went over the top, so that iter they had nothing at all to pro;ct them from the cold and the wet. hey went for days and days, sleepig in foxholes filled with ice water, ving on nothing but bully beef and ater, and then at the last to get mimed off. But never once did I ear a man whine". Thus it went, incident after indent, the real story of the Americans i the Argonne. I wish that I could ?U all of them, but it would take a Dlume vaster than the whole- Conressional Record, for every may in le army has a story and they ae all orth the telling. Of stories of heroism there are a mltitude.?Ward Greene, in the Atmta Journal. O SEEK APPROVAL FOR S-CENTS BREAD PLAN The "nickel loaf" may soon return > the market basket of the house ife, food administration officials mounced recently. They are working on a plan said ) be nearing completion and ready >r submission to Herbert Hoover and resident Wilson ti utilize the mil3n-dollar wheat price guarantee md for decreasing the price of flour > breadmakers and allow the world lortage and the great need of wheat > keep up its price of $2.26 for the inner. The tentative plan, according to ficials, embraces the taking over of le flour supply of the country at a jminal prifit to the millers and sellg it to the public at a loss of $2.00 barrel. They have no doubt that ie foreign demand for wheat will be ifficient to keep the wheat price up ? the government's guaranteed figre. Officials state that with wheat at 2.26 a bushel, the flour can be jught fairly by the government at 1 a barrel, after allowance has been ade for all the by-products saved i aking the flour and for a fair rofit. But to insure th? 5-cent loaf te flour must cost not more than $6 barrel to the bread-makers. The plan considers the government osorbing this loss of $2 a barrel at total cost of $500,000,000. Thus le consumer would ge tthe 5-cents >af, the farmer the $2.26 price and le government's appropriation be sed to decrease the bread price in;ead of boosting the wheat price, tficials point out. The food administration and deartment of agriculture in estimating lis year's stimulated wheat crop! lace the figure at about 1,200,000,00 bushels. Of this probably 650,00,000 bushels will be needed for omestic use, allowing about 550,00,000 bushels for export and carry irer. The world wheat reserve of _00,00,000 bushels which was unavailble because of shipping needs and hich has since been pouring into ungry Europe will be exhausted long efore the present crop is marketed, fflcials say. In addition about 300,00,000 bushels in various localities hich has been held as a carry over 1 already used up. Many of tha large wheat districts in Russia, Germany and parts of Italy and France this year will produce only a small portion of their normal nop, it is stated. S officials have no doubt that the American export suppty can be sold at any figure asked for it. Greal Britian is now buying some wheat at about $1.25, but this i?-on contract; which have been held up because oi lack of shipping. The Liverpool market cannot again control the world wheat price until there is a world surplus of wheat, officials lieve. COMING HOME. News has been received from here Lieut. Roddey Devlin that he hopes to arrive in America about the 20th of March. He has received his discharge and will be glad to get back to quiet old Abbeville and to see his friends in lively little Due West. i THE W( ANNE \ ?A.. Vju Direct From i Feminine Fonr "QUEEN OF Beaut F HERE'S THE I FIGUR Annette Kelle perfect figure p jj ing woman. Sh< ful form than h; |i| or any woman f< of life. Compare this man's lineamenl sors in history? VENUS c i Weight 130 lbs. I Height 5 ft. 4 in. j Neck 14.8 in. I Waist 31.2 in. Hips 40.8 in. Shoulders 41.1 in. Upper Arm 13.2 in. Forearm Cheat 34 in. Fool Length 10.4 in. iCOMING!!' i VVWVV www r< vwv THE ww ^ ! vwv ww 1 ww FIFTH WW ^ ' WW vwv ^ : vwv WAR WW > WW VWV VWV LOAN WW [ WW VWV ! 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