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Dec. 19,1917. “The Trail Os The Painted Posts” Bruce Barton, in Boston Transcript. The wounded who have lost an arm, or an eye, or part of the face, but are still able to struggle back from the front line trenches alone. Go with me for a moment to France: I want you to see what he saw. I want you to know the truth. It is the day before the big push. For weeks the army has known the exact hour and moment when the barrage would lift and the meh leap out ‘over the top.’ The enemy has known it, too; his prep arations are as great and as careful as ours. On the day before, the engineers plant a line of painted white posts a few yards apart, leading from the rear straight to the borders of No Man’s Land. Simple painted posts —what are they for? They are to guide the walking wound ed. Eyes blurred with blood and suffer ing that might lose the road can follow the trail of those painted posts: bodies too weak from shell-shock or gas to stand alone can find there a momentary sup port. The trail of the painted posts is the trail of the walking wounded; the trail of blood and misery and pain. Just before dawn the men file into the forward trenches. Singing? Not a bit Talking? Hardly a word? Only the si lent, heavy traffip of men who have writ ten their last letters home. Men with faces ca. ed out of stone. They pass out of camp: tney pass th base hospital; they pass the canteen. And just before they reach the front trench— at the very front, under the fire of the big guns themselves —each man pauses for just a second at a dugout. It is the front trench of the Y. M. C. A A Complete Line of Military Books at Dellquesfs New and Old Book Shops. HEADQUARTERS for MILITARY BOOKS. 213-215 Seventh Street. (Near Broad.) MOTHERS, SISTERS, SWEETHEARTS! GOLD EDGES- FITS THE GOLD LETTERS POCKET ... . ; ~ ■ - RICHL Y BOUND QUICKEST WA Y IN TEXTILE T 0 LE r A^ 1 LEATHER FRENCH> SPACES UNDATED AND MAILORDERS You may start this diary any day—it / gan. c Oil® CoUDOII Filled on terms explained in Coupon in | never can become out-of-date. Other diar- tdCQ TUF ROOK this paper on page | ies are useless after date specified. SECURES THE BUCK TRENCH AND CAMP From it a hand reaches out: in the hand a piece of chocolate for each man to be eaten in case he falls wounded in No Man’s Land. A ‘hearty ’Good luck and God bless you.’ It is with this, the voice of the Y. M. C. A. secretary, ringing in their ears, that men go ‘over the top.’ An hour passes; two hours. And slowly, painfully, draggingly, they come back. Bleeding, staggering men, following th* trail of the nainted posts. And they stop at the Y. M. C. A. dug out first. It lies nearest the guns. Near er than the doctor or hospital. There every man gets a cup of hot tea if he wants it; there two orderlies stand with hvpodermics in their hands. “Do you want it?’’ they demand of each man who passes through. And either he thrusts out his arm to receive the soothing potion, or he nods his head and passes on. On along the way of painted posts to the hospitals and to rest. Sometimes the dugout is shelled, and a Y. M. C. A. secretary loses his life; two went out together on one day recently. It is part of the game: they ask for m sympathy; they ask not even for pay; many of them are working for nothing at all.” CAMP LEE SECRETARY HERE. H. C. Bartholomew, general secre tary of the Y. M. C. A. at Brookville, Pa., was a visitor in Camp Hancack last Wednesday. Mr. Bartholomew s building secretary at Building No. 56 and serves the 320th Infantry. He has many soldier friends from Brookville in Camp Hancock and spent some time calling on them. BAKER DISCOURAGES CHRISTMASJURLOUGHS Secretary Baker denied that Christmas furloughs had been forbidden entirely by the war department, but said they were discouraged on account of transportation conditions and because training might be seriously affected if many men were ab sent. “You, the people of the nation, will bear this privation, I know,” said the sec retary, “in the same fine spirit which has characterized every previous re sponse, when it is understood that the re lieving of the railroads from this burden will enable them by so much to concen trate our energies and capacities for the transportation of our resources to the seaboard and to the battle front in France. The House of Dorr is for those who wish the better grades of things to wear. Trench Coats, IJain Coats, Jaeger Underwear, Sweaters, Hosiery, Etc. Officers’ Uniforms Made in Our Own Shop, $65.00 and $75.00. August Dorr’s Sons 724 Broad Street ALL THE COLONEL’S FAULT. (Everybody's Magazine.) The kaiser and the crown prince were sipping a cordial. “Father, who started the war?” quoth the crown prince, pulling on his cigar ette. “Why, we’ve proved it on England. France and Belgium, to say nothing of Russia," sharply answered the kaiser. “Yes, I know,” said the prince, “but who was really responsible?” "Well,” his father answered, “if you must know, it was like this: You remem ber when Roosevelt came back from Af rica? I gave him a good time. I showed him all around and I took him out and together we reviewed the army. When we got back to the palace, Teddy slapped me on the back and said: ‘Bill, you can lick the world!’ and, like a damned fool, I believed him.” Every soldier and sailor will! feel obliged to learn French. | Everybody connected with the | war should record events as they | occur. This need is best fulfilled | by the handsome Soldiers-Sailers Diary and English-French Dictionary ? 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