Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, October 24, 1918, Image 2
BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA
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ASTRIDE PUNE UPSIDE
- DOWN; RIDES TO EARTH
• rKW'l'in. A British airman.
J ll.v r.<1 at n height <>f LG**;
• feet, hwLltic inil of his machine
J shot off by n direct liit fta :n a
• shell. Tin' machine tuntfej u,t
J side down iilid the .pilot »viis
• ijmivyri from his sent. hut* In*
• -mnnhgcd to clamber onto tin*
^Vork of S. 0. S. in France Ex
^ cels All History of Mil
itary Feats. 7 .
against the state, unless afforded tills
menus of sustaining themselves. , H
■Not the Feast s«>i ! Miiys of five problems
yonTronting the war department was
(Tie question of* distribution of sup-
p4es-4n France. A million men futfrJrt
lie landed In French ports, together
with the necessary efjjTlIpipent, lnii how
vimler tin* heavens whs this vast store
house to-he transported to the Interior
h in I ofi up to the‘lines, w it li the. umnl-
fohj exactions that Won hi have to he
met III doing it speislily and ortlefly
and with the French transjioi tatio.i
facilities, hlrendy groaniupi nnder the
hoitie load? The Herman staff agreed
lie remained astride. ^
Although the,.machine wii'i *
out of control, .he managed, hy •
moving forward and backward 1 J
to balance Lt ifnd i r hyia*,vE-1 « a• IiI> •
downward. ruder,/-4*7* sViong J
atili aircraft fire* he ..crossed the •
Herman lines -uyees-fully a few ;•
Jnipdrid feet from the ground. •
Ills niioliiue eaine down with i J
crush and lie received some in •
.ItTViW.- but. w'ill- recover. ?
Army Uses 1,500,000 Pounds of Refrig
crated and FreNh Beef Each Day'
—Immense Supplies Neede'd to
Feed Yanks—Works Like
- a Machine.
: By CHARLES N. WHEELER.
.(In the Ch-Pa-Ko Tt-C% 1
In tlie S. (). S. Sector, France.—The
matter of feeding; the army in France
Is an epic story. It is truly of heroic,
proportions.
Just now It requires about l.T.im.ooo
pounds -of refrigerated and fresh beef
to feed the army in Fra nee each day,
besides the hundreds' of thousands of
pounds .of bacon, mutton, ham. corned
beef, canned salmon, and dried and
pickled meats and fish. Mori* than 2(*V
V
000 enns of tomatoes, corn and peas
help'to itnike up one day's rations.
Something like 230,000 cans of Jam,
8,000 cans of peaches, 5,000 jars of
pickles, '3,000 bottles of catsup, car
loads of canned lobster and other sea
foods, more than 2,000 boxes of choco
late, fresli white bread made of Amer
ican flour apd all tlie hoys want- even
the good old corn bread served hot, be
sides the Immense quantities of pota-
/fiilruduyc Brig. Mon. Johnson* I I n good,
lie Is chief oX staff ofwtlio S. (X 8k
lie has serv«?d in the war department
with every chief of stall' of the army
since the general stair wtint"created hy
on.Mgre-s. He is a native 'of. South
Carolina, a nephew’ of the late Brig.
(Jen. Job them I lagood of the (’onfCdi-
elate aynty and one.time governor of
South'.Carolina, ,
The present chief of staff attended
the university of Ills home Ijllte Ifolil
ISSN to ffxrtt nnrf gTndTuited Iroin W<-tt
Point In 1800. He has served as per-'
sona! aide to Oenernls Bell a/id Wood.
(Tenoral JIagood is one of the young
er generals of the army. Ileus small
of stature, quick of action, and a hu
man dynamo. IJis mind works like
chain lightning*—,
“How did you do it?" I asked him.
A flicker of a smile flitted across the
V
face of the West Pointer,
"Well..we.hndr to ilu it—and .we did
5 .jC*w SV'S'i 1 -
d;tted into one, ami yoip-get an idea'
of what lt mean- when we sa'A a- depot
containing ninety days’ supply for
1iMKl.imhi 'I'lrtnk of a .cold., storage!
plant, w ImK’ L’O.otMl head nf t attle., or
—ST),opj> quarter-* of heel, can he pro-
1 Vicled for under one roof.
fr ■ S, *
“Of course, we only handle this etid
of It. Our Job irvyr’ here Is to act
the sluff off tile ships, get it on the
: trains, and pass-it on up tocthe fro.ut.
j If comes in a never-ending stream.
The prol*l<>m of the staff depart
ments Is divided into four fcfnnd groups
—transportation, construction, supply,
ami howfota | i r.ti tlon. *7—
"I taler transportation,” continued
i (General Ilagpod, "we group oc t ean
| transport mid. inland waterways. :ill
ra|lw:f\s, including standard gauge
and narrow gauge; all horse,and mule
transportation, including wagons and
pack animals, and all forms of motor
transportation. No possible form of
transportiltion lias beeii overlooked!
"Folder eonstrueiimi we havetoenti-
siller t I. ii i I ■ li i. t ,.f r t . i I pi i ■■!■■■ 'lie l'H..TT
tiofi and nssemhllng of ears and loco
motives. the building of wharves,
docks nn(T**stprehonshs; tlie cohstfuc-
tfon and repair of barges and other,
vessels for use on the canals and navi*
galde streams,-bridges, and, in fact
everything from the cutting of the tim
ber in t'he forests to Its' final assem
blage for practical use.
Their Own Manufacturers.
"Under supplies we include water,
food, clothing, fuel, notmals, forage,
guns and ammunition, airplanes, etc.*
W’e have taken over a grent many man
ufactures, \Ve make our own choco
late, and manufacture hard bread,
and a number of such commodities.
There Is one bakery in the center of
France fro-m which we send, out ev
ery day fresh bread for 500,0ni men.
"Under hospitalization we include
receiving and^carfhg for the sick and
wounded evacuated from the front.
“In order to decentralize this .Indus
trial Institution the zone of operations
is (Hvldedrinto nine sections flu* ad
vance-section In 4vhleh the armies are
netunllyVngaged, the Intermediate sec
tion, containing the great central por
tion of France and seven base sections
which itielude^tjye ports.
“Tin 1 whole thing Isilkr* a great net
work. CJeneral Pendiirtg has placed
tiie responsibility for^ its operation
upon (lem ral Harbnrd„ thp equunn'nd-
ing_gener;il of the S. (>. S.\Inin his
from hold of s!ti|
eoimilissipned a I
Itii'u-cvi‘lt in Fran
VIEW OF METZ,. WHICH THE AMERICANS ARE SHELLING
toes. Leans, ju - u)w‘«, vueffw, sugitr, milk
pepper, salt, vinegar, cinnamon, sirup,
and about everything found in a well-
stocked farmer's panfry In thy United
States are laid before the American
arrhy In France every day—and ft Is
all thieve rlglit on the dot.
Works Like a Machine.
1 It Is therein every (sect ion of France,
from SolssonsXand Tqul to Marseilles
and-from the Sw'ss border to tin* l’.ay
of Biscay. All Frhnee is a great in-
dusti i.il plifCe" amt tlH*r<* is hardly a
sp<»t- in the whole country, including
the sections tinder heavy shell" fire,
where tlie S. O. S-. Is not standing jit
attention when the dinnerJtell rings.
Meantime, men and munitions,Nind
nil manner of supplies are moving up
to the front continuously, and the
fighters are coining hack for a little
rest. The machinery works smoothly
—and efficiently. There are] side lines
of great Interest. One of these Is the
traveling bathroom. An outfit that re
quires ouly three trucks Is now sent up
to the lines to greet the'Tiovs as they
come out of .the trenches uml give
them a fine scrubbing. Each outfit
will wash .500 hoys an hour.
Meantime the S. O. S. is filling orders
from the front. It may be-n few-thou
sand Infantry, an artillery regiment
or nevern-1 such regiments, machine
gun companies, and so on through the
,It was a mere statement of fact.
There was no philosophy to It. Just
lin’d to he done, and was doie!
“It would he impossible f»,r me to
tell you lu»w this plan hns-hee a worked
out,” Ik* added. ^'Moreover. I urn not
permitted to give out Interviews to
newspaper men. But In this ,*jise I
understand you Imre--been anTs/rrtzcd
hv tleiieral I’ersliing's Iieaduuurt^rs to
get an Interview from mo, - so { will
try to tell you something about If,
L
Undeceiving Themselves. '
“In. the first place It iv th(> IJggest
'mUltury undertaking in ihe h story
(»f the world. No military nut!g*r1ty
ever laid so liold a plan on this oirth;
Amt fling that Alexander the (,reat,
Juihis (’nesar or Napoleon ever
l»larmed compares with It in scofo or
daring. The (h*rninns laughed at us
when we proposed It, and even those
of us of tlie old army w ho sat around
the war college wondering what we
.would do In a great war, never
dreamed tlie. United States, the most
unmllitary nation on earth, could put
4,000.000 uien-ifti—T*r«nce. To supply
such'll body of men from a base 4,000
miles away, to organize them, to fight
’em, and to fight ’em ns well as the
best soldiers in Europe today—isKthe
greatest military accomplishment of
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View of the city of >fetz, which is now under fire of the American artillery. TUN i v the most powerfully fortl^ed
city in the world. * - . - - - - .
! “SAVE HER FROM THE HUN
TYPE OF SUBMARINE
llkt. they are delivered Immediately.
“So far as my end of it Is concerned
it is all a matter of team work. The
work is that of the bureau chief*.
You might compare me to the quarter
back of the team. T give the signals
and pass the hall, hut they really do
the work, and they have done if ex-
ceedlngkv-well. We are way ahead on
our program. We supply twice as
many men !q Frufice as the rnu-t
optimistic of us had expeided. A* d
at the present rate it will not lie lo*g
before we w ill he supplying In Fran j\
nif (trmy four times jis large as thnt-
r J'iie launching of the U. K-21
-• new era in the thf]'l»tiil(Hrtg prqgrain,
it Bridgeport, f’onn., recently marked
It is a submarine of the latest Tyiie.
YANKEE ^AUTO TRUCKS ARRIVE IN ITALY
WOUNDED BUT HAPPY B'JNCH OF SCOTS
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i'nmi a photograph posed for hy
Miss Frances Fairchild, a dehu*
(ante of New York, In bc\inlf of the
fourth Liberty Joan.
Foreign-Born Whites in America.
In' ltHO the foreign-lmrn wliites h,v
countries were: England, 870,455,'
Scotland, 20-1.034 ; Wales, 82,47!); Ire
land, 1.352.155; Germany; 2,501.181;
Norway, 40TK5S; "Sweden,. Otic, 183;
TAenniark. Ix 1.025 : Netjierlands, T20,-
5). >3j Belgium, 41Y,3i*7; Luxeinburg.
u.OOs; 'T ra.m e, 117,230; K\vitzerland,
T?i..%l; Portugal, 57.023; Spain, 2L-
077; Italy. 1,343,070; Bussin, 1,002,752;
Fj11fend, 128,000; Austria, y 1,174.024;
Hungary, 4^5,000; B.'umanla, 00,020;
Bulgaria. Serbia and Montenegro. 21,-
1 151; (irrece, 101,201; Turkey In Eu-
nqw, 32,221 ; Turkey ir, Asia. 50/702;
(’nnadn—Fremdr, 385,. >83; Ca ffifda—
-nther— urn l~ New rmm dlfir.d 81 OTTO;
Mexico. 210.802: Cuba and otliet West
Indies (-except Porto lllcoL 23,100;' all
other cotHitries, 50,701. t
Ear heat Mail Service.
. We nre told by historians that the
Persians under Cyrus had mail serv
ice In fhe sixth century before
•In this/one of the first pictures to-arm. m tills country of the uctmd
landing of Americaa itroops In Italy, is seen a long trsLuload oi automobile
trucks * longing to the American forces. »* ■
These wounded But -cheery Scots nre being transported 1 from the flrfbg
llat to the hospital by means of a light, railway.
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