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(BY CARL SACK.)
In a small village in Pennsylvania lived
an old farmer and his wife, Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Dobson. Their only son, Robert.
L., Jr., was 21 years of age and his par
ents were wholly dependent on him for
support.
At the outbreak of the war with Ger
many Robert registered and was accepted
in the first draft.
“Although Robert is the whole support
of his mother and myself," said Mr. Dob
son, “we would not think of him claim
ing exemption on our account. I have a
small farm here and while I am not able
to work it myself, I can have someone
work It for me and we can divide the
crop; I think by doing this that I can
make a suitable living for Mrs. Dobson
and myself.”
Robert left his home on the 10th day of
October and arrived at his camp a few
days later. As he was strong and healthy
his work in camp was not as hard to him
as it was to some of the other boys in
camp who came from the larger cities.
Robert was not in camp but a short
< while before he made many friends;
among whom was a young man named
Titus Brown. Young Brown was the
same age of Robert and hailed from one
of the larger cities of the state of Penn
sylvania; he was as wild as could be and
ho either spent every cent of the S3O he
drew or lost it by shooting “crap.”
Robert was just the opposite; he did
not throw his money away foolishly and
sent $lO home to his mother and father
each month, and as he was paying $lO on
a Liberty Bond and $5 on life insurance
each month he did not have but $5 left
to spend for himself.
Robert attended the Y. M. C. A. regu
larly and every Thursday he went to the
citv and attended prayer meeting at one
of the churches.
One pay-day, just aft-.. Robert had re
ceived his pay, he decided he would take
a walk in the woods. He walked on for
about two miles when he came upon a
number of the fellows from camp who
were shooting “crap.” Just as he came
up he heard two of the fellows arguing
about some money. It seemed as if one
of the fellows had picked up $5 which
did not belong to him.
Robert was not close enough to dis
tinguish who the fellows were, but he
could hear every word they said:
“That is not your $5,” said one.
“Yes it is,” said the other.
Such words as these kept up for some
minutes, and one word a brought on an
other until finally they came to blows.
All at once, one of the fellows drew a
knife and made a slash at the other.
Robert made a dash towards them and as
he drew nearer he discovered that one of
the boys was Titus Brown. Robert made
one leap and grabbed at the rjnife, but *»
was too late; it had already penetrated
young Brown’s body. Ire •••eked Brown
up and examined him closely to see how
badly he was cut. He soon found that it
was only a flesh wound, but that it was
right over the heart. Brown was very
weak and nervous from'the loss of blood,
so Robert carried him until they came to
a spring. After he had bathed Brown’s
wound and given him a drink of water
he was able to walk back to camp.
-» “Who was that fellow that cut you?”
asked Robert.
“I don’t know,” replied Brown. “I had
lost all of my money and when I thought
of going until next pay-day without anv,
I determined that I would get some of mv
money back before I left that bunch, sb
when that fellow laid down a $5 bill I
waited until I thought he wasn’t looking
and picked it up. but just as I did so he
turned his head back and saw me pick it
up. I did not want him to know I was
trying to steal it. so I pretended as if I
had laid down a $5 bill also, and as he
did not Intend to be done out of his money
that easy, and as I didn’t want him to
know I was trying to steal it, we argued
and he struck me In the lace and cut me.”
“Titus,” said Robert, after a few min
utes’ silence. “Did you ever go to Sun
day School?”
“What do you want to know that for
and what has that to do with this affair,
anyway? Please don’t mention Sunday
School, Church oi»Y. M. C. A. to me again
as I have heard so much about religion
since I have been in camp that I am tired
of it.”
“Well,” said Robert, “I intended to ask
you if you ever studied the eighth com
mandment.”
“No; I never studied anv command
ments at all, why do you refer to the
eighth; what was it, anyway?”
“ ‘Thou shalt not steal,’ ” said Robert.
“ ‘Thou shalt not steal?’ ” asked Titus.
“Yes; ‘thou shalt not steal.’ don’t you
know that you broke the eighth com
mandment when you took that $5?”
“No, I didn’t know it,” said Titus.
There was a long silence and Robert
watched the expression on Titus’ face as
he sat there thinking over the command
ment.
After a few minutes Robert turned to
Titus and said:
“Titus, I am going to the Y. M. C A.
building tonight and hear Mr. Ell’s
speak, don’t you want to go along with
me?"
"I never have been inside a church or
Sunday School since I was a small boy,”
said Titus, "but as I haven't any monev
to spend I guess I will go just to pass
the time away and to see what these
meetings are like.”
They both left the tent and headed
for the Y. M. C. A. building. They walked
in and took seats in the rear near the
door.
Mr. Ellis was introduced to the men by
the Building Secretary, and after a few
remarks as to who Mr. Ellis was, he took
his seat at the side of the platform.
“The subject which I will speak on to
night," said Mr. Ellis, “will be the eighth
commandment, ’Thou Shalt Not Steal.’ ”
Titus Brown became nervous and be
gan twitching in his seat, but as Mr. Ellis
continued to speak he became so interest
ed in the subject that he -*as as still as a
mouse.
All the way back to the tent after the
meeting was over he did not say a word
to Robert. When they arrived at the
tent he went straight to bed and Robert
went to bed also. ■ Robert knew that the
talk had made a strong impression upon
Titus and he decided to let him be quiet
po ha could think over what Mr. Ellis had
said, as his talk was an extremely impres
sive one.
Page 14
“THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.”
(A Story of Some of the Good Work Being Done by the Y. M. C. A.
TRENCH AND CAMP
Robert was just beginning to doze off
to sleep when he heard a moan come
from Titus’ bed.
“What is the trouble Titus?" he asked.
Titus arose from the bed and walked
over to Robert’s bed and putting his hand
on Robert’s shoulder he replied:
“Oh, Robert, you do know how glad I
am that I went with you tonight.
My eyes have been opened and I
at lats „ see the light; I know that
I have been a sinner, but from this
day on I shall try to live a better life,
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
AGO TODAY
Ladies wore bustles.
Operations were rare.
Nobody swatted the fly.
Nobody had seen a silo.
Nobody had appendicitis.
Nobody wore white shoes.
Nobody sprayed orchards.
Cream was five cents a pint.
Most young men had “livery, bills.”
Cantaloupes were muskmelons.
You never heard of a “tin Lizzie.”
Doctors wanted to see your tongue.
Milk shake was a favorite drink.
Advertisers did not tell the truth.
Nobody cared for the price of gasoline.
Farmers came to town for their mail.
The hired girl drew one-fifty a week.
The butcher “threw in” a chunk of
liver.
Folks said pneumatic tires were a joke.
Nobody “listened in”’ on a telephone.
There were no sane Fourths nor elec
tric meters.
Strawstacks were burned instead of
baled.
People thought English sparrows were
“birds.”
Jules Verne was the only convert to
the submarine.
Street car fares were five cents.
UNITED STATES ENGINEER
TROOPS IN FRANCE
(Continued from Page 12)
used to say that the only sure was to
win a battle was to “get there firstest
with the mostest.” It was bad grammar
but sound doctrine. We have to get the
most men there in the quickest time and
have men with brains to win this war.
Everything else is an auxiliary. The
cost is terrific.
I have carefully avoided telling you
anything of*the wreckage 1 saw. I am
only going to tell one little incident
While 'coming in from the battle of
Chemin des Dames, at a little station on
the road a doctor rushed out and waved
to the car to stop and then hesitated
because he saw a general in it, and I
asked, "What do you want?” or rather
I had somebody say it in French. He
replied that he had an officer who had |
been badly wounded and he wanted tc i
have him taken back to a hospital. Th*
trip was about seven miles. We took
the officer in the car, and as we did 3b
he was about to faint. When he saw
who was holding him he said, “This
won’t do; a first lieutenant cannot be
held by a general.”. I said, “Don't worry I
about that. Tell us how it happened.” '
He said, "Well, we went up over the top, ■
and there was just one roll on the ma- :
chine gun and the captain was dead.” ,
He began crying. He said, “I am not I
crying for myself, but for the captain; I
he left a wife and three children.” Hr ,
continued, “This is the fourth time T j
have been wounded. I will be back ir '
the spring.” But I could read the tag ;
and I knew he will not be back, because :
he will have to sacrifice o ne arm.
Incidentally we wont through and
looked at the wreckage. The fight had
not been over more than two hours and
there were over a thousand men back at
that hospital several miles from the
front, under the care of surgeons. Many
of them were Americans. Word went
forth that an American general was go
ing through, and one doctor from Amer
ica came back to speak to me. He said,
“I am operating on an abdominal case.
I must talk to you. I want you to carry
the message back over to America that
we are not getting operating garments
enough. We have used fifty-four today
and it is only noon and from now on we
will have to use bloody ones,” and, he
said, “you know all the dangers from
that." I say that the message Is that
the Red Cross cannot work too hard and
too zealously. Make up your minds that
your American boys over there are going
to be well looked after. There is abso
lutely no excuse for venereal troubles;
that is all bosh; a carefully handled di
vision will not have it. It is the com
manding officer's duty to see that his
men are healthy, and that is being met
splendidly across the water. Trust your
boy there, if you have one; if not, tel!
your neighbor to trust his boy over there.
He can be made safe against venereal
disease. He cannot be made safe
against bullets; that is a risk of the
gun. Pneumonia and the bullet are the
only two things you need to fear. Pneu
monia in that country, I am afraid, is
not a preventable disease. It can be
reduced very much if we properly equip
and protect our men; but we must ket
them there, my friends, and with a con
sciousness of the engineering art and
science as evidenced by the military en
gineers of the French and British armies
they will pave the way to ultimate suc
cess. Anyone who has studied the fight
of Passchendaele Ridge and saw those
Australians- deliberately climb to that
siimmit in order that they might sleep
somewhere where the mud was not deep
enough to bury them realized the courage
back of that movement. Anyone could
admire the French general who carried
them to victory at Chemin des Dames
when he said to the army commander
“This f.'ght cannot come off on the 22d
of October; there is still danger ahead of
destroying our men; we must have an
other day;” that showed the care that
the general was taking of his eplisted
men.
May I say that the best meal I ate in
France was cooked forty feet under
ground, in the home of this general,
living there, figuring on what was to
come to France after the war was over,
considering all the social dangers through
which they would have to go, and accu
mulating a fund from his rich friends in
France, that each man that went back
might have a handsome sum of money
to help him and his family; he mapped
out a fight that was absolutely success
ful. Before every fight the whole plan is
carefully gone over with some repre-
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