Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 129, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 31, 1918 Page: 4 of 10
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CHAPTER XII.
"Smokes."
Ol'K lvs I'licle Sam's lioys are
fighting in France.
'I hink it over.
Thry are not in camp (or ten Hays;
lliry are not on the Mexican border;
thry are not drilling in armories.
'I hry are fighting in the trenches.
Many of them will never again see
thrir home thii beautiful Hod's coun-
try of theirs anil ours. They will die
anl he littried thousands of miles
aw.n with a little- wooden cross at the
ii'.nl of a mound of dirt to mark
their fail In time the elements will
d r -1 1 i y this i mvi and perhaps a luirst-
rr shell iwll level that mound of dirt.
I hrv .ire dead. Are they forgntten
In de.illi '
Von Kii'nv thry ilird fur thrir he-
1. 1 M.itv and Stripes. Sacrificed
ail I' i'' tlieir flag and us. Yes gave
the t lues fur us wc who ate here at
lii .mi . tating our three squares a rt.iv
! -; 1 1 1 1 1; ill our i nmfortahle heds. Al-
though w are doing nr are trying to
do our hit. still we are not wet cold
au! niudd ; we ate not bleeding; we
an- i oiiiioi t.dile phvsimllv though our
he.irt .ire wrenched I lirse hoys of
ohm .ne inn oiuloi tahle ili sirallv and
tl.ete is aim a lugging at 'M ir larl-
siimev I Ijev are longing Jor niiUlirr.
f.t'liri lui.iher sister wile or sivret-
hc.m and perhaps tlieir little ones.
Send Smokes.
'I he ci v lings throughout the laud
"Ann in ans do your bit!" Send our
bo s ammunition lood guns havotictv
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and the things necessary to win this
war for us. .
(Juite riRht send them but what
about smokes?
We all know a soldier's work is to
destroy and kill so that we may live
I his work to linn is repulsive. He is
noi i niurdi lei ; lie does nut icm I in
hlooiiied He is human. He ilnrsu't
want to woik all the tune. He need-
play lecie.iiiou and minion ju-t as
we do
He wants a smoke - i- diing for one.
His o ei strained times .need one.
These are facts not theory. I know.
I have been in the trendies and craved
the comfort of a good delicious smoke
and didn't get it.
Perhaps you will say My boy h
over there and he doesn't smoke "
Don't fool yourself after he has
"sat it out" on the fire step of a front
line trench for a few days he will
smoke. He can't help it.
The public to be convinced must
have facts. Well here are some facts
actual happenings in the trenches of
I' ranee and in hospitals. These inci-
dents will show the crying need of the
soldjcrs fur smokes.
Are c going to send thrni some or
ate we going to let them krep on
longing.'
SMOKF.S?
Ererywhete In France.
A wounded Tommy Atkins is lying
on the ground the blood running from
a hole in his Un made by a bit oi
shrapnel; he is veiling for stretchrr-
hearers. Here thev come at the double.
I hry stop beside him place the stretch-
er on the gYonnd open it tip and one
of them unbuttons a little pouch r)r
is carrying. He stiiks in his hand
and pulls out 'no not a bandage but
a smoke. Hands it to the wounded
Tommy who is grinning. 'The grill
makes cracks in the diied mud on his
lace thru the following conversation
ensues :
Stretcher-bearer: "Want a smoke?
Where are you hit'r"
'lummy: "Yes. In the leg"
The stretcher hearer hull's the
sun ke. binds tip Tommy's wound and
placing bun on the stretcher the two
Ked Cross men start with him on their
wav to the nearest advanced dressing
station. Wending their wav througl
the tniiddv and tiairmv communication
treiu h the leadink streti her-bearer
stumbles our a tfti. h grid down In-goe-
.nicl '! . mm; i nearly (lumped
into the null!
He lets out a n il
'The offending -inl hei beam red
l.oed and a-h.inir c. Ins i aieles-ness
iti a nervous oiic impiors:
"Did 1 'urt your wound mate? I'm
sorry"
'I ommy answers: "TI! no!"
The stretcher-bearer indignantly:
"Well wot's all the bloody row
about?"
Tommy meekly t
"I dropped me smoke mate tip oi
another."
'The stretcher-bearers search their
pouches and pockets but find none.
He Wanted t Smoke.
The stretcher with its bleeding bur
neu resumes its winding course
through the trench its wake blue with
curses and sarca-tic remarks from
Tommy directed at the -Ik t. in r bear-
ci s.
If there had hern another smoke
Tommy would have been contented ami
happy hut as it was be was miserable
and complaining making it unpleasant
for everyone who handled him in bis
long trip to "mighty."
Hut such is the creed i f the trenches
krep our boys warm their bellies
chine was needed to keep count of
them.
1 bert were ten of us-a machine
gun a sergeant six Yickers machine
gunners and two company men de-
tailed trom the battalion for the pnr-
pe of biinging up "ammo" (anunti-
1 1 il 'on i
I ( till (Mil 11 '!n !' e an t c'
j "..1 1 .1 lh; - l"ll '.' i he lute" 1 1 m-i I'd in
'he opeiah. ii il a inai bine gun to
help break tin ihe counter att.iik. whiih
the ticrtnans would launch again-1 our
captured po-itiou.
hen the counter attack started it
was hut work licit after belt was ted
through the gun. The water in the
barrel casing was boiling. Shells
were commencing to drop around our
crater too close for comfort. The
(ierman artillery bad "taped" us and
we knew it would only be a short time
before a shell with our names and
numbers on it would come screeching
over but we had to bold our position.
Collins Had Only Pipe.
Our ammunition was getting low.
I he u rgeant detailed two men to go
b.n k for "amnio" a risky job under
thai tnten-e lnc 'I lie men yseir about
P -tart when one of the machine gun-
ners shouted into the ear of the ser-
geant ;
"Don't send Collins he's got the only
pipe in this bally crowd. Supposin' he
gets hit?"
The sergeant with a look of mortifi-
cation on his smutty face replied:
"Hlime me so he has. I'm a silly
ass to forget it. Wallace you go after
'ammo' and Collins yon get on the
Run."
Wallace started grousing hut went.
He got hit in the leg If he had had a
pipe he wouldn't have been sent. I ol-
1 ins staved with us he wasn't wound-
ed. During a lull in the firing we r.u h
took turns at the pipe Wc had our
smoke.
J id we w in ' -w ell. I think
Jiau't lightly remember but
rtn paiked up his artilluv
were sale but do oti know ?
tamly enjoyed that smoke.
Send them smokes.
(To He Continued.)
CARSICO?
Three Oklahomans
Win Commissions
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Achievement is the promi'i the Watf
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full give them plenty of stunk
thrv will plant the tl.u: in T. i lin
top tilling any one of the. tin re needs
-r-peciallv the "-tin ke-"--and. al
though the flag will evetituall
where H belongs it w ill take
longer.
Send them smokes I
hi another day :
We. had gone "over the top"
charge early that morning. It
tough sledding. We were "clicking"
casualties so fast that an adding ma-
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 129, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 31, 1918, newspaper, August 31, 1918; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc170814/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.