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CHAPTER XIV. li
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The Croix de Guerre*. 91
When we had been on the shore 0j
for about three weeks we found our-' w
selves one morning somewhere near
Sedd-el-Ihihr under the heaviest Ore
I ever experienced; Our guns and the b,
Turks' were at It full Mast, and the gl
noise was worse than deafening.
A section of my company was lying ^
' out In a shell hole near the communication
trench with nothing to do
but wait for a shell to find them. We |{|
were stiff and thirsty and uucoinfort- |H
able, and had not slept for two niglit3. g(
Iu that time we bud been under constant
fire and had stood ofT several C(
raiding parties and small attacks frotn ni
enemy trenches. lr
We had no sooner got used to the si
sRell hole and were making ourselves si
as comlortable as possible In It when
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aionK mini- n miiimi 01 wnui must nave nj
been the Jack Johnson Rlze, and we ai
w< re Hwumped. We had to dig three c<
of the meh out, and though one of in
^ th< m was badly wounded we could not A
send hiip hack to the hospital. In w
fact, the shelling was so heavy that tc
none of us over expected to coine out si
of It alive. n<
So, It was like keeping your own 01
death watch, with the shells tuning hi
up for the dirge. It was Impossible to ai
listen to' the shells. If you kept your w
mind on the noise for any length of
time It' would spilt your eardrums, I ei
am sure. So nil wo could do was to w
lay low in the shell hole and wait for fr
something to happen. w
Then they began using shrapnel on w
us, and one of our mnchlne gunners, f<
who got up from his knees to change g<
Hit Head Taken Clean Off His Shoul- ?
dere.
position, hnd his head tuken clean off ^
his shoulders, and the rest of him ;
h landed near my feet and squirmed a ,
lit fie, like a chh ken that had Just been [
killed. It was awful to see the body
without any head move around that i
way, and we could hardly make our- I
selves touch It for some time. Then 3
wo rolled It to- the other e'.de of the I
hole. ^
Then, to one side of us, there was j
B more violent explosion than any yet. '
The earth spouted up and fell on us,
and big clouds of hlnek smoke, sliding
along the ground, covered our shell
hole and hung there for aome time.
One of our Bergennts, from the regular
French Infantry, said It was a shell A
from a Turkish 155-mm. howitzer.
That was only the first one. The
worst thing about them was the smoke
?people who think Pittsburgh Is j'1
Bmoky ought to see about fifty of those
big howitzer ahellH bursting, one after
another. . j*
We could not tell what the rest of
our lino was doing or how we were ^
standing the nwful fire, but we felt
sure they were not having any worse j
time than we were. In n few minutes ^
we heard the good old "75s" start
pounding, and It wan like hearing an ^
old friend's voice over the telephone, w
and everybody In our shell hole ^
cheered, though no one could hear us
and we could bnrely hear each other.
Still wo knew that If the "758" got J
going In their usual stylo-they would
do for an enemy battery or two, and
that looked good to us. The "75s" (
made tho noise worse, but It was al- l)(
ready about as bad as It could be^ n]
and a thousand guna more or less
would not have mado It any harder ,)(
to stand. f(
One of our men shouted In the sep* -jgeant's
ear that the men In line ahead B(
of us and to the right were trying to C(
give us a message of some kind. The ol
sergeant stuck his head above the ))(
parapet and had a look. But I stayed n,
where I was?the sergeant could see j,|
for himself and me, too, as far as I ?|
was concerned. I,(
He shouted at us that the men In ci
the other trench were trying to signal t)
something, but be could not make It tr
out because the clouds of smoke would \\
roll between them and break up the n<
words. So he laid down again in the vi
bottom of the hole. But after a while m
he looked over the porapet and saw tt
a man just leaving their trench, evl- w
dently with a message for us, and he w
had not gone five steps before he was s<
&I0W5 _to fiU^ sndL On lil. U
BUBKKf^ :7y,
awed him got his, too, so they stopped
rying then.
And all the. time the "75s" were
ending theirs to the Turks not far
>ver otlr heads to' 900 yards behind
is, and the howitzer* were dropping
heir 240-pound bits of iron in every
acant space and some that were not
aoant. It was Just one big roar and j
creech and growi all at once, like
urning the whole dog pound loose
n a piece of meat.
The concussions felt like one long
trlng of boxes on the ear, and our ,
hroats were so dry that it hurt to |
wallow, which always mnkes your i
ars feel better after a strong concus- I
Ion. One after unother of our boys
'us slipping to the ground and digging
is fists into his ears, and the rest of
lieni sat on the parapet fire step with
lielr heads between their knees and
heir arms wrapped around their
ends.
Our sergeant came to me after a
-bile and began acting Just like
eople 'Jo at a show, only he shouted
asteud >f whispered In uiy ear. When
pople are looking at one show they
[ways want to tell you how good some
ther show Is. and that was the wuy
1th the sergeant.
"You should see what they did to '
1 at St. BloJ," he said. "They Just
iptlzed us with the big fellows. They .
Id not know when to stop. When you :
?e shelling that Is shelling, you will
now It, my son."
"Well, If this Is not shelling, what '
te devil Is It? Are they trying to ,
Id us or are you, mon vlcux?" which
i a French expression that means
Dmclhlng like "old timer."
"My son, when you see dugouts
ived lu, roods pushed nil over the
inp, guns wrecked, bodies twisted tip
i knots and forty men killed by one
loll?then you will know you uro
elng shelling."
Then one of our men sat up straight
eralnst the parapet and stared at us
ad begun to shake all over, but we
Mild not get him to suy anything or
love. So we knew he had shell shock,
nd another man watched him for a
Idle, nnd then he began to shake,
>o. The sergeant said that If we
ayed there much longer we would
at be fit to repel an attack, so he
rdered us into the two dugouts we
ad made In the hole, and only himself
id another man stayed outsido on
ntch.
The men In the dugout kept asking
ich other when the bombardment
ould end, nnd why we were not reln>reed,
and what was happening, nnd
hether the Turks would attack us. It
as easy to see why we were not relntrced?no
body of men could have
it to us from the ^reserve trenches,
he communication trenches were
ilte n distance from us nnd were
ittered up at that. Some of the men
lid we had been forgotten and that
le rest of our troops had either rered
or advanced and that we nnd *i
?e men In the trench who had tried
> signal us were the only detachments
ft there. 1
Pretty soon nnother man nnd I
dleved the two men who were outdo
on watch, and as ho went down
ito the dugout the sergeant shouted
) us that he thought the Turks were
Trnld to attack, lie also ordered one
f us to keep a live eye toward our
}nr in cusc any of our troops should
y to signal us. When I looked
trough a little gully at the top of
io hole, toward the other trench, all 1
II I Could See Was Barbed Wire and
Smoke.
could soo was barbed wire and
uoko and two or threo corpses. I .
[?jrnn to shiver a little, and I was .
Frald I would get shell shock, too. :
f> I began to think about Murray and j
uw hu looked when they took him j
T the wull. But that did not stop the i
IdverlQK. ho I thouKht about my grand*1
other and how she looked the last
me I saw her. I was thinking about
er, I guess, und not keeping u very j
jod lookout, when a man rolled over
te edge and almost fell on me. JIu 1
?as from the other trenches. I carried !
Itn Intn fhn on/I *
Knln and stood my watch until the
'lief came. We were doing half-hour
lifts.
When I got into the dugout again
le man was coming to. lie was Just
bout as near shell shock as I had
t?en-?-by this time I was shivering j
nly once In a while, when I did not '
fttch myself. He sold four men hnd
pen sliced up trying to get to us he>re
he came; that they had lost
I men out of their 82, Including the
rgennt-major In command and two
irporals; that they'were almost out
f ammunition; that the trenches on
[)th sides of thein hnd been blown In
[id that they were likely to go to
leces at any moment. He said they
II thought the Turks would attack
hind their barrage, for he sqld the
jrtnln of fire did not extend more
tan a hundred yards In front of their
ench. What they wanted us to do
ns to relay n man buck with the
ews and either get the word to ndance
or retire or await relnforcelents,
they did not care which?only
be ordered to do something. There
ns not a commissioned officer left I
Ith either of the detachments, you
ie, and you might say we were up
k U>o air-only w were really m far
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in the ground a* we could geC"~"~
The man thought there were other
of our line* not far behind us, bnt we
knew better; so then he said he did
not see how any one could get back
from there to our nearest lines. I
did not see either. Then we ull figured
we were forgotten and would not
come out of there alive, and you can I
believe me or not, but I did uot much <
care. Anything would be better than |
'nst kcn.vlng there in that awful noise
with nothing to do, and no water.
Our sergeant said he would not ask
any man to attempt to carry the taessage,
because he said It was not only
ceriain deuth, but absolutely useless.
And he began to show that he was
near shell shock himself.
Then I began to shiver again, and I
thought to myself that anything would
be better Hian sitting in this hole waiting
to go "enfard," so I decided to volunteer.
I did not think there was any
chance to get through, but It seemed
as If 1 had to do something, no
mutter what. I had never felt that
way before, and had never been
anxious to "go west" with a shell for
company, but I h^ve felt thut way
since then several times, I can tell
you.
TJie man was telling us that some
time before they h?d seen the Turks 1
bringing up ammunition from some
storehouses, but they did not come
anywhere nenr. He said their sergeant
wanted our messenger to toll them
that, too. lie would say a few words
very fast, then he would shl'ver again,
and his Jaws would clip together and
he would try to ruise his liund, but
could not.
Then our sergeant asked the name
of the other sergeant, nfld when the
man told him he said the man was
senior to hlinse..' nnd therefore In
command and would have to be obeyed.
lie seemed tp cheer up a lot after
he said this nnd did not shiver nny
mare, so I i ......i-? ? ?*
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then, so I snid to him, "Well, mon
vleux, do you tliink we ure seeing real
shelling now?" And' then I was going
to say I would go, but he looked at
me in a funny way for a second and
then said, "Well, my son, suppose you
go and find out."
I thought he was kidding me at first,
hut then I saw he meant it. I thought
two things about It?one was that anything
was better thnn staying there,
and the other wus that the old dugout
was a pretty fair place nfter all. Ilut
I did not say anything to the sergeant
or the other men?Just went
out of the dugout. The sergeant nnd
another man went with me nnd boosted
me over the back wall of the hole.
I lay flat oil the ground for u minute to
get my bearings, und then started off.
I set my course for where I thought
the communication trenches were, to
the right, and I Just stood up and ran,
for I figured that as the shells were
falling so thick and it was open
ground I would not have uny better
chance If I crawled.
I tripped several times nnd went
down, and each time thought I was
hit, because when I got it in the thigh
nt Dixmude it felt a good deal as
though 1 hn^ tripped over a rope.
And one time when I f*U n shell exploded
near me and I began to sldver
again, nnd I could not go on for a
long time. All this time I did rot
think I would get through, but finally,
when I ronched what had been the
communication trench I felt I had
done the worst part of it, and I began
to wish very hard that I would get |
through?I was not at all crazy about
going west.
The mouth of the communication 1
trench had boon battered in and the ,
trenches it joined with were all filled
up. There were rifles sticking out
of them in several places, and I
thought probably the men had been
lurried alive In them. Rut It was too
late then, If they had been caught, so
I climbed over the blocked entrance to
the communication trench and stnrted
hack along It. It led up through a sort
of gully, and I thought It was a had
place to dig a communication trench '
In, because It gave the Turks something
like the side of a hill to shoot at. 1
Every once In a while I would have
to cllnih In and out of a shell hole,
and parts of them were blocked where
n shell had caved In the walls. In one
place I saw corpses all torn to pieces,
so I knew the Turks had found the
range and had got to this trench la
great shape. At another place I found
lots of blood ami equipment but no
bodies, and I figured that reinforcements
had been caught ut this spot
and that they had retired, taking their
casualties with them.
The Turks still had the range, and
they were sending u shell Into the
trench every once In a while, and I
was knocked down again, though the
shell was so far away that It knocked (
me down with force of habit more
than anything else, I felt dizzy and
shivered a lot, and kept trying to think
of Mu. ray or unything else hut myself.
80 finally I got to the top of the
little hill over which the gully ran,
and on the other side I felt almost
safe. Just dowu from the crest of the
hill was one of onr artljlery positions,
with the good old "7.r?s" giving It to the
Turks u" fast as they could. I told
the urtlllery officers what had happened,
had a drink of water and
thought I would take a nap. Hut when
they telephoned the hn<-tf ?r?
division headquarters the limn at th?
receiver said something to the olhccr
and he told me to stay there and he
ready. I thought ?ure he would send
me hack to where I came from and
I knew I never could make It again,
but I did not Hay anything.
When I looked around I Haw that
our real position was to the right of
where the artillery was, and that there
were three lines of trenches with
French .Infantry In them. Bo the
trenches I had come from were more
like outposts than anything else, and
were cut off. I felt pretty sure, then,
that the hoys In them would never
come back alive, because as soon as
their lire let up the TurkH would advance,
and to keep them buck our guns
would have to wipe out our men, and
if they did not. the Turks would. At
first I was glad 1 had come out, hut
then I remembered what the artillery
Lincoln and Franklin didn't read
many books, but they digested what
they read.
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officer had snhl and I figured I vnnlfl
have to go brick and *t0y with them
or bring them hack. Wither way there
was not one elmnco in n hundred that
any of lis wtmhi make it. Because
When I got thro- gli It was really Just
a miracle and aobody would have
thought It could happen.
Then the ofliccr told me to go hnck
to the beach, where our naval guns
were, and that I was detailed to them.
Maybe you do not think I was glad?
Hut there was rough work still ahead
of ine, because when I got behind the
third line I saw a wide open held that
was light gray from the shell smoke
hanging over It, and I could see the
Hashes where the big ones were doing
their work, and I had to go through
that field.
I fell time and again, sometimes
when I thought u shell was near, and
sometimes when I had no reason for
It?only I was thirsty again, ami was
shivering all the time, and was so
weak I could not huve choked a goldfish.
I do not remember hardly anything
about going through that field,
and you might say the next thing I
knew was when I was overtaken by
u dispatch runner, and got In a tin
tub at the side of a motorcycle atid
was taken to the guns.
I felt ready for a Rip Van Winkle
nap then, but the officer In command
would not let me. He said they were
short of gunners?the terrific shelling
had killed off dozens of them?and as
he knew I eould point a gun he hud
ordered them over the telephone to
get me to the beach as fast us possible.
lie spottud the two warehouses
I have spoken of for rae ami said it
was up to us to put them out of commission.
The gun was u 14-inch naval,
and that looked Rood to me, so I
bucked up a lot. The warehouses were
about 10 or 11 miles owuy, I should
judge, and about 30 or 40 yards apart.
I felt very weuk, as I have said,
and shivered every once In u while,
so 1 did not think I could do much
gtlnnlng worth whistling at. Hut they
loaded the old 14-ineh and made ready,
and we got the range and ull was set
The officer told me to let her ride.
So I snid to myself, "This Is one for
you, Murray, old boy. Let's go from
here."
So I sent that one along and she
luudcd direct and the warehouse went
8o I Sent That One Along, and She
Landed Direct.
np In fire and smoke. I felt good then,
ami I laid the wires on the other warehouse
and let her go. Hut she was too
high and I made a clcun miss. Then
I was mad, because 1 had sent that
one over for myself. So I got the cross
wires on the warehouse again and,
I said to myself, "This Is not for anybody,
just for luck, because I sure
have had plenty of It toduy."
, Then the Juico cainb through the
wires and Into the charge, und away
she went, and up went the second
warehouse. That made two directs out
of three, and I guess It hurt the Turks
some to lose all their aiiiinunltlon.
The officer kissed ine before I could
(lurk and slapped me on the hack and
I keeled over. 1 was Just all In.
They brought me to with ruin, and
they said I was singing when I come
to. When they tried to sing, to show
ine what song it was, I figured It was
"Sweet Adeline" they meant. Hut I
do not believe I came to, singing, because
I never sang "Sweet Adeline"
before, that I know of, or any other
song when anybody was In range. Rut
I heard it lots of times, so maybe I
did sing It ut that. '
Then I went to sleep feeling fine.
The next morning the detachment
from the fossard wns withdrawn, and
I saw some of the men who had been
In the two trenches, but I was not
near enough to speak to them. So 1
do not know how they got out.
You never saw a happier bunch In
your life than we were when we piled
Into the lifeboats and started for the
fossard. The old ship looked pretty
good to us, you can bet, and we said
If we never put our hoofs on that place
again It would be soon enough. i
We were shelled on our way out to ^
tho Cassurd, and one boat was overturned,
but the men were rescued. I
Two men In the launch I was hi were
wounded. Rut wo did not pay any
attention to that shelling?the Turks
111111 jusi us wpii nave neen Wowing
peas at us through u soda straw for
all we eared.
I noticed that when we came near
the Cassard the other boats held up
and let cur launch got Into the lend,
and that we circled around the Ca?uurd's
bowa and caine up on the starhoard
aide, which was unusual. Rut
I did not think anything of It until I
came over the side. There were the
side hoyn lined up, and the Old Man
was there, with the ship's steward
beside him.
He took the log bonk from the steward
and showed It tc me, and there
was my name on It. Now when you
are punished for anything you are
logged, hut I could not figure out what
I had done to get punished for, so I
wns very much surprised. Rut the
Old Man slapped me on the hnok and
everybody cheered, and then I saw it
was not punishment, but Just the opooBlte.
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When people ask roe what I have j
rtyelved my decoration for (Croix de j
Guerre), I -tell them I do not rightly
know, and that Is a fact. I do not
know whether it was for going back
from those trenches or for destroying
the storehouses. So I alwuys tell them |
I got It for working overtime. That j
Is whut the Limeys say, or If they
have the Victoria cross they say they
got It for being very careless. Ask
one of them nnd see.
All of us were certainly glad to be
aboard the Cassard again, and If any
place ever looked like home to me It
was the old ship. Our casualties were
very high and we were therefore ordered
to put hack to Brest. We had
a great little culebrutlon that night,
and next morning weighed anchor and
started buck, ufter clearing for action.
I was still pretty blue about Murray,
but very much relieved as to the
safety of my own skin, and I figured
that after the Dardanelles and my last
duy there they had not mude the right
bullet for me yet. The rest of us felt
about tho same way and we were singlug
all the time.
(To Be Continued)
THE ILLITERACY COMMISSION
The South Carolina Illiteracy Commission
has taken up its headquarters
at the University of South Caro- I
lina, which is appropriate both on I
account of the educational nature
of this work and also that it may he
in close touch with the chairman,
Professor I'attersoii Wurdlaw. Other
members of the Commission are
J. E. Swearingen, Mrs. J. L. Coker,
Miss Mabel Montgomery, George I).
Brown, S. II. Edmunds, ami C. E. 1
Burts with Miss Wil Lou Gray as the
efficient field worker.
The Illiteracy Commission is preparing
to wage a campaign for the 1
I establishment of adult schools in every
county of the State. In order
that the work may be effectively done 1
it is necessary that the Legislature
appropriate funds and that the teachers
of the State be trained in this
work. The Legislature will be asked
to appropriate $25,000.00 for the
work of establishing and maintaining
these adult schools. Such facts
as the following prove the wisdom of
this expenditure:
Massachusetts gave her citizens j
7.4 years schooling.
The United States averages 5.23 l
year schooling.
While South Carolina gives her j
citizens 3.18 years schooling.
Of ail the States in thc Union j
South Carolina ranks: 1
1. Lowest in expenditure per
capita for education.
2. 25 per cent, of population illiterate?next
to the worst in the whole
n..tion.
In order that the teachers may be |,
trained in this work a special Institute
was held in Columbia December
13 and* 14. The program consisted
of round table discussions of adult n
school problems, demonstration work, '
and inspirational addresses. There i
was present at the Institute not only (
teachers appointed as County Lead- 1
ers hut many mills sent representatives
in order that those teachers
a ho have night work in their charge
may be more efficiently equipped for
their work.
A BIG JOB FOR HOOVER '
As Mr. Hoover did such wonders
.n enabling America to save food,
prevent hoarding and to supply the
Allies with food, saving lht. very lif"
?f HoL-ilim ;.n.l i? 1.
France, he has been requested to j
'ake churgo of the food situation in j
Europe. This is a pretty big coin- | ,
tract. Again thu comparison of J??- j
teph of old comes to mind. Joseph
was the first food conservation expert
in the world's history. 15ut Jo- (
seph had seven years of plenty in \
vhich to save up for seven years of '
famine, where as Hoover '. ill he expected
to go into those countries
that the robher and murderer has left
bare, where famine has stalked for j
four years, and so apportion the food
supply that all those millions will
have enough. Some job! The spirit
| of Joseph be with thee, Herbert!
Don't demobilise your patriotism
yet?continue to buy W.S.S.. The j
government needs the money.
Help furnish th money to bring '
he boys back?buy all the W.S.S.you :
can.
TRY IT SUBSTITUTE
FOR NASTY CALOMEL
Start* your liver without making you
ick and cannot salivate
Every " druggist in town?yoor ,
druggist and everybody's druggist
has noticed a great falling ofT in the
J sale of calomel. They all give the
same reason. Dodson's Liver Tono
is taking its place.
"Calomel is danjferous and people
;nnw it, while Dodson's Liver Tone
it perfectly safe and give better re- j
suits," said a prominent local druggist.
Dodson's Liver Tone is personally
guaranteed by every druggist
who sells it. A large bottle costs but
a few cents, ami if it fails to give
easy relief in every case of liver sluggishness
and constipation, you huve
only to ask for your money back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasanttasting,
purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults.
Take a spoonful at night and wuke up
feeling fine; no biliousness, sick headache,
acid stomach or constipated
bowels. It doesn't gripe or cause inconvenience
all the next day like violent
calomel. Take a dose of calomel
today and tomorrow you will :
feel weak, sick and nauseated. Don't j
lose a day's work! Take Dodson's
Liver Tone instead and feel fine, full
of vigor and ambition. Adv. 6.
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j Shotguns
And in fact almost anything carr
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R. E. Rivers, President.
M. J. Hough, Vice-President.
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these oq hand. See mO'for pricss.
J. AARON SELLERS.
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problem* of war?and perkapa prob?t
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lia buaineaa more cloaely than aaar.
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bank, and you can be certain tkat
elop, you can rely upon prompt and
Furthermore, our officer* will kelp
your buaineaa the atrongeat poaaible
kia worth conaidering?
ERS BANK
1 CAROLINA
WSOM M. L. RALEY,
-Preaident Caahier.
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r at the death of the Insured,
ing made for the disability
Insured's Lifetime.
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