The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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Ralston, Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Friday, March 8. 1918
Volume II Number 37
IN THE BACKWASH OF
GREAT WORLD WAR!
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r • x 17 f Mr Rridp | surgical work, but recently I
LtlCUcan IV1CDrldfs WftS vprv fortunate in havinor re-
Writes of England
and Its Customs.
^^ondcrful \^ork
of English Hospitals
Percentage of Deaths from
Wounds Is Very Smally
Owing to New Methods
American Red Cross Hospital,
Paignton, England Feb. 1, 1818
Dear Friends of Ralston:
I h a v e
received letters from several
friends, asking me about my ex
periencea. since arriving in Eng-
land, and as there are so many, I
will write them in general so that
all may read them. I will start
from the day I landed.
Landing at Liverpool on the
23rd of October, we took train
overland to London on the 25rh.
was very fortunate in having re-
ceived a special appointment to
the surgical staff of the Ameri-
can Red Cross Hospital n Paign-
ton, England, where I am at
present. However I am still at-
tached to the British army and
may expect orders to France most
any time.
German Planes. The rajs of
three or four of the powerful
search lights will converge to a
single point in the sky. By
watching closelv perhaps, a tiny
a miracle a few years ago Also
the improved modes of defense
and shelter at the front has
decreased the chances very much
of a man getting killed out-right.
objict cau be seen diifting with . In fact a great many of the men
the light. Suddenly a vigorous• who come in wounded have been
outburst of the guns begins andl>n the war since its beginning
the shells moan and shriek thiu and not been wounded before.
the air. In the sky can l e seen
the twinkling flashes of bursting
shells about th* focus of the rays
of light, while all about can be
heard the whizzing thru the air
and splattering on the street and
Needless to say I enjoyed my house tops, cf the fragments of
two months in the wonderfully
WHEAT HELDS
GREENING UP!
The chances are in favor of a
man not getting wounded at all.
Another thing which impresses
me very much is that the "tom-
mies” bear all their misfortunes
and pain with surprising cheer- weather the chance seems good
fulness, and most of them are for » fair crop, although it if. not
Spring Rains and Spring Sun
Make Prospect for Crop
Look Up.
The good rains, the past week,
which soaKed the ground so
thoroughly, and the warm sunny
days which followed have brought
the wheat out wonderfully in
this section and, with favor ible
anxious to return to the front
and public buildings cause one to
recall with much interest the
events of European histjory stud
ied in school cays. There are
structures in London built as far
back as 1000 A. D. The finest
cathedral in the city was built in
1500 A. D.
The House of Parliament, the
Thames river, and Westminster
Abbey are ail intensely interest-
ing.
But particularly interesting at
tha exploded shells. Then
historic old city of London' The gradually the firing dies down, .and get revenge on the Hun that
many ancient cathedrals-, towers and as the search light rays still “pipped” him him. The Ger
man may be well trained and
efficient in his work, but I don’t
believe he can have the patient
persevering endurance of the
English or the fearless courage
of the Canadian or American.
I could write much more and
tell you of the many interesting
stories told me by "tommies”
and Officers. Some have more
of the most miraculous escapes
and experiences. One of my
patients a Doctor of New Jersey
slowly sweeps, the sky, the
humming of the engines is aga:n
he : rd, and suddenly may be seen
a light like a star flash out, and
ihe distant rattle of a British
airman’s machine gun is heard.
This soon ceases and again the
guns begin to bark and roar. In
the midst of this perhaps, a
quaking and rattling of windows
is noticed and the next instant
o n e or more tremendous ex-
plosions occur. The Huns have
i done their dirty work and drop
It was a relief to ride overland 1 l!?e pr®®ent t,n'e’ however are j d their ,jea<||y bomhg and soon
It was a relief .to ride overland the evidences of the great war I the raid u over. The remarkable
again after tossing about on the
"Great Daep” for seventeen
days, fighting sea-sickr.ess the
first days of the voyage, and ex-
seen in London. About the first
thing one notices, of courgp, is
the rationed meals. While there
does not seem to be any particu-
piling a submarine to Bive us a ,ar la<;k of en(lu.,h eat, yet
eld plunge most any of the last there js a rationed ,imit t0 one.a
days out. We went out of our (or(ion At lhe prese„t time, of
course several times to avoid re- ^ there js , Rhortaee jn
ported submarines and were sue- but,er and , As one
cesnful. There are several in
tjresting things I would like to
tell > ou about the last days of the
trip but the censor would not
pass it, I’m afraid.
The English people have many
tning about these raids is that
most people take them so cooly.
Tnere is no panic and little
confusion. The warning usually
is given thirty ninutes before the
enemy reach the city, and people
move away in to places of shelter
and wait in calm silence for the
I
, guns to open their barrage.
The Hospitals and the care of
walks down a shopping street in
London, one sees a long line of . .
people standing in front of a the *ou.nde<l a"d s,ck “ a v<>rJ
butcher shop or dairy house interesting future of th.s war
waiting their turn at the counter! warfare pioduces wounds
. . where they hope to he able to get much different than were ever
customs different from ours, and tbejr 8Upp|,e9 Xh(>s), food queue9 Known before. It is no d.sgrace
becoming a very trying prob- to Set hit in the back in this
came over two months oefore I
did and was sent on over to
France. He was in his dressing
station, dressing the wounded,
when a shell hit the d -g o d,
killing all the wounded men in-
side, and blowing him out into
shell hole of mud. As he was
crawling out of it another shell
lit in this shell hole and buried
him. Some of his men saw it
and run to his assistance. When
they got him out he had marly
bled to death from three ugly
likely to be of the bumper class.
With a price of $2.00 per bushel
guaranted. almost, any kind of a
wheat crop will pay.
T'ie gro md is now in excellent
condition for spring sowing and
farmers are planning to put out
a large acreage of corn oats
cotton, broom corn and forage
crops. Tne fruit has been killed
only a few times, thus far, so the
chances for a g od crop are still
good. Wirh the high prices now
offered for the product of the
soil, if the season is at all favor-
able, the farmers in Oklahoma
should clean up some money this
year.
To Help in
Winning War
The movement to establish a
general Loyalty Bureau for Okla-
homa, with branches for every
county in the state, ia meeting
with a ready response. The work
is being undertaken under the
supervision of the Oklahoma
State Council of Defense. A
speakers bureau will be maintain-
ed i n connection with each
wounds of the hip and thigh.1 Loyalty Bureau.
The airmen tell some very The prupose of the Loyalty
at fiist th*ir manners and speech
seemed queer and, in fact, amus
i ig, however I have now become
better acquainted with them and
feel more at home. One of the
most noticeable features is that
English don’t believe in over
working. Shops are closed two
afternoons per week. They take, .
time to eat about five time, per! Perhaps the moat not.cable
day. no matter how much work evidence of the war lathe thronea
there ia to do; as one of the doc- uffl<'er3 and aoUller8 on tbe
tors said t h e other day. "The 3tre*t8: seme limping, many
Germans are Boing to break thru with 8rm8 in •l'"*8; ,hut a l ap;
to a victory some d.y while the P»ently in itood spirits and glad
are
lem to the authorities at present.
It is n-'t so much due to the
shortage of food as it is to the
tricks of the monopolizing mer-
chants. I hope Gates or Mc-
Spadden have no food queues
outside thsir shops as yet.
war, because when a shrapnel
shell explodes it sends its frag-
ments in^very direction. They
contain peices of steel, lead,
glass, nails or shot and produce
very ugly wounds. I often think
of the Dutchman and Irishman
at Ralston who had the shot gun
duel when I jet a patient in writh
thrilling stories, of their duels
with the Gotlias and their
Bureau is two-fold. It will stir
up latent patriotism and arouse
escapes. I have also come to^ public enthusiasm, as well as
believe that nearly all the blo.d|make this enthusiasm of more
curdling stones of German practical benefit to the Nation,
atrocities in Belgium and France
were true, because I have talked
to dozens of m n that have seen
the most hidious sights as ti e
results of these outrages.
I am hoping as we all are that
the war will soon be over but I
about 30 slight shrapnel wounds. ;a.u much afraid it has only just 10r else they do not care for it.
begun as far as America is coi - in either case it is useless for us
Soldiers Papers
Discontinued
As we have not heard from
any of the soldier and sailors, it
seems apparent that either the
boys are not receiving the paper
English are taking tea!”
The Englishman never fails to
have his afternoon tea, which
to be in "Blighty”. Seldom a
young man is seen in civilian
clothes here. Women are doing
consists of strong tea and cakes wor^ everywhere and doing
and sandwiches; neither does he I** we**- When ihe street car lady
fail to have jam or marmalade conductor commands, step l.ve-
for breakfast, and cheese with
his lunch. They never drink
water with their meals; it is al-
ways beer or wine. Eveiy one
even women and ministers smoke
cigarettes and think no more of
it than we do of drinking coffee.
When we arrived in London
ly” it has the desired e ffect, and
when the lady ambulance driver
Rounds her motor siren warning,
the traffic gives her the right-of
way without the slightest hesita
tion.
By far the most realistic
evidence inLondon, that a war i*
The big majority of all wounds
are slight and are healed within
a few weeks. We have a re-
markable antiseptic called the
Carrel Dakin Solution, which is
one of the greatest blessings to
the wounded soldier. Rubber
tubes are inserted into the
sloughing wound which is badlv
infected and full of pus, and in-
side of two or three weeks the
wound is clean and sterile. The
old scar is then excised and the
tissues stitched together, a thing
which was never possible two
years ago, and the healed wound
leaves very little scar, resembling
cerned and we will all have to
lend our utmost effort to help
bring it to a glorious victory for
our country.
Hoping that I may hear from
more of you people at Ralston,
I am. Sincerely yours,
Lt. Earl P. McBride M.O.R C.
to bother to mail The Tribune to
them. Friends of soldiers who
wish them to receive any certain
copy of The Tribune should mail
it to them under letter postage.
nyWar
Saving
Stamm
or to our arrival, and as there affair. One can easily imagine
have been few great battles since himself in a big battle, or the
we have not as yet had to go I booming and roaring of the anti-
there, at least not all of us. ; aircraft guns begin their barrage
There aie about 1300 Amirici n from every direction at the
doctors attached to the English invaders. The raids are in
army at the present time. Most
of them are serving in hospitals
in France or England: many are
with regiments or fhild ambu
lances. Until January 12th I was
at the Prince of Wales Hospital
for Officers, in London, doing
teresting to witness, providing
of course one is near the ground
floor of the building and well
sheltered from the falling
fragments from the shells of the
guns. During a lull in the gun-
fire can be heard the hum of the
of lives.
There is one fact that has im-
pressed me during my association
with the wounded, and it ought
to be a comfort to those who
have relatives enlisted. Most of
the wounded men have only
slight wounds, and are soon out
A Thrift Stamp costs 25 err's
Sixteen Thrift Stamps and 13
cents or (4.13 this month buys a
War Savings Stamp.
The government redeems the
War Savings Stamp at $5 January
1, 1923.
Your profit is 87 cents, or four
ner cent interest compounded
quarterly.
Buy Stamps at postoffices,
We Sell
Corn Chops at____$3.25 per 100
Kaffir Corn Chops...3.00 Per 100
Corn Bran, the feed
for milk cows.......2 00 per 100
Corn Meal at.....4£c per pound
Good second hand sacks wanted.
-V. D. Eberwein.
. \. J __ banks and patriotic stores
of the hospital. The more severe1
wounds are so well tak'n care of
by scientific and surgical
methods, that recoveries take
place which vould have seemed
You are saving money for the
future, snd helping the govern-
ment win the war.
Begin buying today.
Recovering from
Diphtheria
Ruth Barber, eldest daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Barber,
has been quite sick with dipthe-
ria, but is reported rapidly re-
covering-
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Mrs. Amos Teter has been
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Browning, Orrin L. The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1918, newspaper, March 8, 1918; Ralston, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc907519/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.