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THE WEST NEWS f
Cechoslovak Publishing Company
Publishers
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Published every Friday and enter- |
ed as second class mail matter at j
the post cftice at West, McLennan |
county, Texas.__|
War Memories
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
By a Wist Veteran
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Subscription—In Advance '* I
One year $1 50 Every boy that took part In the |
Six Months .90 World War, and gt into the A F.
Three Mmths -50 F. had experiences in every da>!
CSSs of thanksTndToUees"^- army Wp whlch i{ ,lhey C°uld be
Statement. where admits,on is written d wn properly would makr
charged are published at the rate Interesting reading We don't claim.
of 10c a line.
to be any exception, and don't;
_ ■ claim to be any writer either. Bui!
Any erroneous matter that is a re- n arp ^ trying to put in a
flection on the character or stand- readable way incidents that stand \
ing of any individual or firm, which Qut js our memory that happened
may appear in this paper will glad-
ly be corrected If brought to the
attention of the publishers_
two terrible!
to us during those
years.
The incidents that we recall and
are going to attempt to write
down, no doubt happened ta some
two miliion boys, or at least some-
thing similar did. back in 17 and
18. After a span of 20 years, pos-
sibly this will be a little Interest-
ing to some people. We know we
will get a kick out of recalling
thun, and will make an effort to
stay as close to the truth as pcs- _
sible In the telling. We might add j
. that we have been asked to write K°‘n* t
Knowledge may be a fine thing.! this stuff (Of course it took a uPjbnl
but most of us were happier when httle wrangling to get the invita- 01
we didn’t knew so much. | tlcn» *iere 8oe-v>
• i After some four months in the
{COft)
Poetry
Gdiled bu
f
©1937
WM.T.TARDY
Another fine safety precaution
would be to spend Sundays and
holidays in bed.
It is good strategy in closing a
business deal to let your prosper-,
tlve customer beat you at golf.
1—John L. Lewis, chief of the C I O , w'-o attacked William Green, president of the American Federa-
tion of Labor at the Milwaukee conven' o-i of the United Automobile Workers. 2—The American Dol-
lar liner, S. S President Hoover, bon t. d liv Cl u se planes in the Whangpoo river at Shanghai 3 - The
"Sawbwa of Hsipaw" and his tusle.. bao K; a Nyun, shown as they sailed from New York for their far
eastern kingdom of Burma.
? sle»p Tin was cleared1 st mach Including the lining, you had stolen his rifle, and as we
night for us when each I ire left very weak and can hardly were charged with those things
was is ucd a hammock t up. let alone stand upright, this boy was going to have to pay
N.i doubt, many . f you have slept I While the boys were In this stage for it If It wasn't found. The Cap-
In hammocks, but the kind you jot their sea-sickness a very funny lain heard
had the stick at the end toj hing happened, which
his complaint and
wasn't then asked him how long would he
This column consist* ot Southwestern poofry.
Contributions wslcomsd. Encloes rstum post-
age. Address. Wm. T. Tardy, publisher. Liberty
Bank Building. Dallas.
THE ANTE-BELLUM BELLE
Are you the Girl of Yesterday
Who couldn’t do a thing
But dance and flirt and sew a
seam;
Or sigh, or weep, or sing?
Fit alone for coquetry; for love and
fancied fears—
Coy In all your laughter; helpless
in your tears.
Just a bit of sweetness, so ft agile
and so fair—
i And useless as the perfume In yiur
dainty hair!
I And yet, you fired the hearts of
men
TUI steel struck steel -your lovers
died in 8urtrise Glen
Patriots were your sons—you toll-
ed for them;
Carded, wove and spun; sowed and
reaped; faced battle line
To save, to succor dying men—
sires, mates and sons of thine
Ito*“»«u*!”r..“f"„7SniiS <™,.Mitrzr*yo“
to pretest whet, our forefathers tensive drilling .......----- About nine feet 1 ng
away from t h e ■themselves in the city of New York, ; a00iu num ieei g
took America
Indians
had no stick j ay that the English are not gifted to stay "even". The boy smiled a
T 7 7 V* i *T’1 and gathered at the end with a' with any sense of humor, and we little and walked off. When the
being outfitted rtlhjteelbelme^ ^ *.>o;:f.d ^ thm t0 hangjhrarUly agreed with them at the bunch landed in England they say
in the wall of each* 'ime those English sailors pulled this same bey got off the boat wth
side of our stalls. This left them
i gas masks and heavy O. D. cloth- Iin8
A Wisconsin schocl will try the Us, getting ready for over-sea ser-1 on a li:ok
A fellow in Chicago stole
i we found later to
148 the docks proper, with our trans-
experment of doing away with 'ice The march to the docks was ‘ T s[ fo.t ln the
books If it works, the U S Trtas-1 made up alleys and down ^ tht^We H^ csme ho
iirv mtcht adoDt the idea i streets to a huge warehouse, which,,>lr r 'ne laD O , , , ,
ury might adopt tne iciea I . • • • * be situated on fu<1 a!1 of il carrlpd on ln total
i darkness, as we were not allowed
accordions Now if he will only P°rt alongside of it. In this ware- t0 have an-v Ught of any nature
throw them in the lake he may house some 15 hundred of us stay- nerformed by that
qualify as -lie Benefactor No. L ™ in
We read that scenario writers this building and we were marched| a"y \,f° Ringiing
are keenly on the alert for new thru this door Into what appeared “ ■ shame After we
ideas Possibly some day one of at first to be another warehouse. ■ s a pb down „ we couW
them may get an idea for a new The passway between these build-, ‘
•lot . , Ings was covered over, and all we ln t“ose tmnKs w‘, 01
* . * *T | knew was that we were going ln- fixing on including the life
Orover Cleveland once express- to another building This second! P™*1'61^ j^0:dlstand^umble of
ed the quaint idea that "public Place we went Into was about 31 nS' the b^tand
Officers are servants of the people " hundred feet long and xboutM eyJ ^ g duU thu„
What would he think of our pre- lo 75 feet wide. Along the walls
sent day bureaucrats? ! were stalls with a table running
_)0(__ the width of each stall. Into each
786 TEXANS DIE FROM ! of these stalls 16 men were placed
APPENDICITIS ATTACKS with their equipment I might as
_ i well tell you now that this last
AUSTIN Sept. 15—During the building turned out to be an Eng-
past year 786 persons died of ap- H*h cattle boat, and the stalls for-
pendlcitis in Texas, according to merly occupied by cows were to be
Vital Statistics compilations of the the home of 16 soldiers for 13 days
State Department of Health Many while crossing the Atlantic Ocean,
of those deaths might have bean: A^er an hour or so in our stalls.|
prevented had the patient been where we had been ordered toj
more aware of the disease and its 'tay. we felt this bui.ding move. 1
symptoms 1 urse we had suspicioned we wer i
There are two forms of append! on a boaf but until “ beEan 1,1
dtls. acute and chronic. The form movp we know for surp- 1,1
that appears suddenly, with great a l! ,lP while we were told
pain and sickness is acute Chronic cou!d 8° u' nn thp t0P deck- which j
appendicitis may r*ter,rt ever a wp d'd with lit delay. On reaching <
long period of time and consists 'b“ ?,1p dcck ,bp fir^! thill8 w.
which we knew to be a buddy fall-
ing out of his hammock and land-
ing atop his dining table. This
would be followed by seme cursing
in an undertone and lots of advice
from his neighbor. This was very
funny until we dosed off and at-
tempted to turn ever, then wlth-
cut further ado we were dumped
out headfirst on the dining table
Seme of the boys got real smart
and to k their hammocks down
ind Li ed them as a pillow to sleep
an the table, hut aftor one or two
>f them had b"en hit in the far
and on the stomache by ab ut
'wo hundred pnurds cf soldier and
hob-nail shoes, falling from three
above them they decided tc
abe the hwmrk Of course .after
of slight attacks at intervals but,
r sliced was that the famous New
at some time, there will usually ^otk skvbne was receding and wPj . .
. vuppa aMnallv nn nnr vuv tn Frorme « v
occur an attack worse than ary
before and the disease may then
become serious
“In the presence of abdominal
pain, give nothing by mouth.
Never give laxatives. Apply an ice
were actually on our way to France
and to an adventure that will al-
ways live ln our memory, although
some of these recollections are not
vei*’ pleasant.
ame out of a hatch-way onto the
deck and went strolling nonchal-
either below the deck cr on top^antly down the deck This within
Itself was alright, but tied onto
the belt of one of them was a piece
of raw greasy looking salt pork
and a little bell. Now you talk
about waving a piece of red cloth
at a bull The little bell would at-
tract the attention of the reclin-
ing soldiers on the deck, and the
°alt perk was something they didn’t
even want to think about much less
see. One look at that pork and the
poor sea-sick soldier would heave
up vitals he had eaten three mon-
ths before. You could tell just the
route the sailors took by going
ground by looking at the struggl-
ing soldiers, trying to act decent
with their vomiting We think
hose two sailors got accidentally
drowned on the way over. Anyway
~,ur boatload of soldiers wanted tc
’top in England on our way to
France and whip them out, this
we felt like we could do with dis-
aatch and a great deal cf joy
They say pickles are good for that
kind of sickness, and the boat
hfficers opened a fifty gallon bar-
tI of them which lasted about
fb-e minutes The pickles, vinegar
and all werg gone before yours
truly got to them. During this
sickness of the boys wej are sure
■•bat Uncle Sam’s grocery bill was
rut down, because we know of
some fifteen hundred mouths that
act a bit of food passed thru for
'his trl. k. or joke r.n us. because three rifles, four blankets, not to
at that time we didn’t see a bit | mention the extra socks and un-
of humor in it. A couple of them j dec wear.
on the third day of our voyage, The wise cracks those English
sailors pulled on we poor ignorant
sUdiers during our trip oversea
was a shame. We asked a sailor
one day how far it was to the
nearest land and he told us it was
five miles We, of course, started
looking In all directions, knowing
that If it was that dose we could
see it. When we looked back at the
sailor for further directions he
was pointing straight down. He was
right, the water was Just about
five miles deep. They had us be-
lieving that Sweden had the larg-
est Navy ln the world, because
every ship that passed us they
would identify It as a Swedish War
ship. They also took great joy in
telling us lots of hair-raising ex-
periences they had had with Ger-
man Subs in previous trips across.
We doubt very much that any of
the legend ring;
Lo! The girl of Yesterday who
couldn’t do a thing
- May Terry OUl, AWlene
POEMS
Poems, poems, bound in black —
Foolish poems with meaning
slack—
Perhaps the black Is ln good taste.
Showing I mourn for the time I
waste.
Perhaps It’s mourning the death
of rhythm
In addition to the waste of time.
Only read a verse and you will
see—
Black is used appropriately
—Harriet Dickinson, Canyon
WARNING
Words spoken play their part
In the orchestra of life and
Living.
But the Instruments—
Duty. Loyalty, Truth and Honor,
Determine the melody we’re
Giving
—Anne W Hooker, Carthage
-c p ai nights of this we all learn
>d how to stay in them with som
success.
The next morning for breakfast
our first m -al or board the boat.
were fed bread, coffee and aj ^roe or *our days
dark fibrous meat that tasted
In a very few minutes we passed j pk- c*d rubber and resembled
the Statue of Liberty, to which
pack. Call your familv physician , . , , . .
Officer Geo. W Cox ' ^ Ume ,We haf.eve/ 36611 h6r’ but »
.rvh8‘ ? —- "urTvnaii
os append!- hProlc by then but that was
iL lir CPm Wbfn taken out of us soon afterwards
otnerwbe healthy peopre are
Operated upon soon after the be-
ginning of the
“pain in the stom-
ach" caused by appendicitis, little
danger Is experienced, but the
by the talk given us in regards to
the discipline and our actions in
case of an attack from an enemy
submarine. Warning us that an
ssnir-r? r*
s,,r lt r r,r:n's? ".’liis
Star* te M flv™ ’ ' V' ,h"' "
j?*jst
^Ton! a. y t Khealth the letter we were to be shot down
“ ^ y°ur! like cattle, our predecessors on the
^th. ycmr tonsils, any place where ^ No,, nati:rallv lhls klnd of
p 6nty! talk took some of the heroism out
of good food, plenty cf sleep, plen- of us
a th°rough That first night we were issued
medical examination at least once sma„ blbk and a m rver
f y6ar #?d,haT7®ur l<*\h 6Xam: After the talk by the officers cn
l««d and cleaned by a ^Lat „ we wre ta< and to
Boy when the old appetite did
come back, it came back with a
bang. Theie were fifteen hundred
eompletely emptied cavities that
It must have taken tons of horse
meat to flit. And did it taste good?
A nice three Inch broiled steak
never tasted better. One day that
none will forgpt, we eot beans for
dinner and again that night for
supper.
Now the kitchen where our food
was cooked was a shack built out
on the top deck Two men were
masticated a nice jaw full of this! anpointed Paeh day, out of the
meat and got It started down your j sixteen alloted to a stall, to take
throat, some darn fool across the! a large tin container up to the
table would holler ‘ whoa’’ and it | kitchen where they would be, given
would stop, not to start again un-! enough food for all men In their
till he yelled “glddap” then it would stall. After everyone had gotten
beef steak which we found, after
asking a lot cf questions, was
horse meat. One could get along
very nicely with this meat if he
didn’t try to chew it too fast,
if he did that his Jaws would get
to going like pistons because they
would fly back open after coming
down on It on account of its
elastic nature. Another little thing
that was a bother about It was
this, just about the time you and
then, had ever seen one. LOVE C AME LATE
Our convoy consisted of thirteen Love came
ships, one of which was a U. S I As summer fled.
Battle Cruiser that sailed In front; Vega glitered
of a V foi matlon formed by the Above My heart was stabbed
rest of the ships. This entire con-, with shafts of blue flame. Vega
voy would change their course Shine once more.
about every five minutes, that is, _ j0y H Michaux, Wichita Falls
where the old zlg- zag Joke start- j
.d This change was made to try < OTTON INSECT CONTROL
to fool the enemys torpedoes they METHODS PRO\E EFFECTIVE
might fire at us. Now the joke f (EN’IRAI. TEXAS MEN
would be on us If our ship would Farnwrs Cenlral ltaaa have
zag when it was supposed to zig. found tba( coiton insects can be
and run into the torpedo. The eontroHed effectively by the use of
Cruiser ahead of the convoy re- su,phur ,or cotlon tlea h,pper8i
minded one of an old hen protect- and eajcluro arseriate for boll
ing her chicks Every strange boat WMTiu and ,Paf worm# ai.cording
she saw she would stop her chicks
and chase off to find out Just who
and what they were, at the same
to reports of county agricultural
agents of that section.
“Dusting with sulphur to con-
time laying down a smoke screen cotton flea hoppm 8huw, a
to hide her brood. We will have to
give her credit, however, for get-
ting her brood over safely.
40 per cent Increase In cotton pro-
duction on the demonstration of
Oscar Johnson in the Rose Hill
We are going to add here that! communlt, ln county, • says
we had been traveling under the T H Royder Dn lhp dusted area
jinx number thirteen since leaving of i8 acrps lhprp WPre 7 fle(U, m
our training camp. Our troop train lw plants and on , 15 toot raw>
from the camp to New York City M grown were counted On
was made up of thirteen coaches. the undusted 5 acres ln fhe ,ame
We left camp on the thirteenth fleid [here were w neas per 100
day of the month^There were tter- pjgnta and jq grown boils an 18
teen ships Ui^cunvoy. We land- feet of tcw u WILS {>lynd thal tt
pd ln L^verf® fcKlarid on the waa necessity to put on at least
thirteenth day of the JoUtertng 12 poundg of sujphur psr Mrt du|#
ing a calm period of the day It
slide down very nice. You can call
this anything you want to. but the
fact was that you would nearly
choke in trying to swallow that
rtvff with someone yelling “whoa”
over their sea-sickness there was
never enough food for all, with the
results a raid was planned on the
kitchen the night after we had
had beans for supper Five of the
least once every six months. This
kind of watchfulness will not only
help you avoid appendicitis It will
help you to avoid many other Ill-
nesses as well.
j it all off. some darn fool in our
outfit figured out that only one
j cf us out of fourteen would ever
see the U S again, those little
_, j bibles were read very extensively
The world’s most consistent day- that first night. The life preserv-
llght saver* are the Artie terns, -r was a cork affair that fit us
those graceful birds which breed !U» a vest only It was about 4
near the North Pole and spend inches thick Thia we wore day and
their southern winters In the An- night for 13 days, and maybe you
artic regions, thus having Marly think those things didn’t get good
Mx months of day light at each and messy before we landed
worried consider-
tc y u. We got fed this horse boy* in one stall drew straws to
see which two would take the con-
tainer, break into the kitchen and
steal whatever food might have
been left over from supper, but
more especially were they Instruct-
ed to look for more beans This
raid was cairted out very success
fully, the boys returning with
meat off and on all the way across.
On the morning of our second
day at sea a few of the boys be-
came troubled with thetr stomachs
This they alluded to the horse meat
diet we were on, but as the day
advanced so did the sickness, until
along ln the afternoon three-
feurths of the boys on board the enough beans that normally would
boat were lined up at the rail have fed sixteen men, but that
heaving the horse meat to the night down below decks ln total
sharks Now those of you who have darkness five boys had a feast that
never been sea sick have no con- was fit for a king. Our own mother
ceptlon of how sick a man can! never cooked any better beans,
really get and live. One boy ex- You see In civilian life it is a crime
pressed it this way; he said the to steal but ln the army it
first day he got sick he was scared well we will skip that,
he was going to die and the second, Talking about stealing. After we
day he was scared he wouldn’t die. had been on the boat five or six
monUj aiter leaving camp And tt
tooklK fust thirteen day* to cross also VcuMI UMt the fW W
the Alantic Figur# ail that «P ^ dld not w up durlng hot w^-
we all figured We.were in tor a lhpf bul )n that part,cular
section throughout the hottest
weather 4
More than 90 tons of calcium
arsenate for * the control of boll
weevil and leaf worms, and 16
tons of dusting sulphur for the
in for a
hot time on the battle fields of
France, when we did get there.
Interesting Notes
By a new rule, thl Hungarian
parliament requires thatervery de-^f*
h“'* finished the same ba
bate 9k
started.
rrond^ top cows lame 22TW) ablTew^hw*" boarding the boat. After a full day and night spent days a boy went to our Captain a small take to a Mg field, and is balls where dusted ths
V as to Just where and how we were to her vtag everything out of your with the complaint that someone! estimated to be 413 miles tong. had not been dusted.
ve been used on Calhoun county
farms this season. Insect infesta-
tion has not been as severe this
In Mammoth Cave, Ky., one can *paso?* M tbe las* lwo' and tbat
walk underground for a distance °f ypar h“ k«* weU
of eight miles beneath two coun-: “nd« '«***■ Mc8t 01 lhe liama«®
tles has been done to the late cotton.
• . At two cotton Insect control
A church to Haines City, na , I demonstrations tn Eastland coun-
ts using rocking chairs Instead of ty’ the «>unty <terfcuit!iral agent
the regulation pews to seat the demonstrated dusting with finely
worshippers in comfort. powdered sulphur to control cot-
. , ton flea hoppers and with calcium
What is undoubtedly the world’s arsenate to control boll wee Vila
longest row of cotton grows on the F. 8. Boland, demonstrator at
farm of M. T. Daniel of Wofforth. Scranton, showed the agent a plot
Tex It Is planted tn a spiral around of cotton that had 26 per cent more
a small lake to a Mg field, and Is balls where dusted than that which
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