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Protection.
"I sco they are repairing tho roof
of your bank."
"And a good Idea, forsooth. There's
where I keep my stuff for n rainy
day."
It sometimes happens that a foolish
unman mistakes her illvin.'1'ccahlc ills
position for ii proud spirit.
None Needed.
"What wnlk In life tlo you Intend to
select for your son?"
"Oh, we can nlTord to buy him an
automobile now."
Battle Lines
After Him Not Her.
"I'd go through lire ami water for
you'" rt'inaiketl the Uiitlsh tank to
the retreating limi.
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Daring American Line
men, Fresh from Civil
Life, Maintain Commun
ications Under Fire
111' two fjmit mollis of commu
nication on tin? modern buttle
Hold, tliu mciiiiM liy which kcii
cral liuiidiiiinrtors keeps In
touch with every sector of the
line mid by which the perfect
co-orilluatlon of nil In uncut!
of the service Is possible uro
the airplane und electricity.
The romiintlc appeal of the
nvlutlon service, the stirring
stories of lilf.h adventure that
have come out of the war have
mnile the work of the blrilnien,
the supersedere of cavalry as
the eyes of the commander, fa
people at home. On the ground
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miliar to the
charging lufiintrymcu
turc the imagination. ISut
the heroic labors of men
who keep open thu tele
graph and telephone Hues
which make co-operation
of Infantry nntl artillery
possible are almost un
known outside the serv
ice, savo, for Instance,
when ono reads of n
medal bestowed on a line
repairman for ningnlll-
cont disregard of danger.
For their losses and their
honors arc nllke grent.
They go over the top
with the troops, smoking
'their pipes, coolly string
ing Hues behind the ad
vancing first line so that
the gun crews may bo
kept Informed of the nd
vnnco or told to concen
trate their lire on n par
ticularly obnoxious ma
chine gun, says a writer
In the New York Sun
magazine section. They
clamber out of dugouts Into the slush and the
freezing wind of n winter night to feel their way
along a broken wire, bometlmes over the shell-pitted
open ground behind the trenches until they
find the break, then sitting in lco water finder Are
they repair It as carefully and skillfully as If they
were at work In the shop at home. It often takes
three or four men to repnlr ono of these breaks;
the first men sent out may never come back.
Itepalred at all costs the wire must be, and dan
ger does not excuso u slipshod bit of work. For
tho signal system of the army Is what the nerv
ous system Is to the human body.
Without It the modern army covering 100 miles
of front cannot see, feel or move. The army com
inandor wishing to move a portion of his line 50
miles away or to change the rapidity of his artil
lery flro or to receive Information of enemy move
lueuts Is as helpless without the slender threads of
copper as he would be If ho wished to move his
right arm and found the nerves parnlyzqd.
"There are still peoplp of Intelligence who think
that the transmission of military thought Is summed
up In the use of the notebook, tho orderly and his
horse," writes Brig. Ge. George P. Scrlven. "But
theeo are passing, and the trained soldier and the
educated volunteer understand the vital Impor
tance of Information.
"Hence the necessity for a signal corps or its
equivalent, for without Its aid modern armies can
no more bo controlled than can great railway eys
jtems; tho commander In tho field remains blind
and deaf to the events occurring around him, In
capablo of maintaining touch with conditions and
out of reach of his superiors or those under his au
thority upon whom ho depends for tho execution of
his plans. The brain lacks the power to control
bocauso the nerves aro lacking.
"Time Is tho main factor In war; to arrive first
with tho greatest number of men and with tho
clearest understanding of tho situation Is to suc
ceed. The last, and often tho first, of these condi
tions depends upon the lines of Information of tho
army."
And these lines In turn depend upon tho obscure
but daring work of tho repulrman, the grimy,
mucky, hard-fisted mechanic who crawls on his
belly through shell flro calculated to appall the
stoutest .heart and connects tho break botween tho
commander and tho point he wishes to reach.
Somehow the lines are kept open all tho time or
are brokon for only short Intervals, and the con
stant tending of them has made possible In Franco
n system of wire communication that Is a marvel
of efficiency. Indeed so perfect is it that London
find I'nris are In direct connection with general
headquarters, on the British front, which in turn Is
In touch with every division and brigade staff on
tho line. A wire could be put straight through so
that Lloyd Georgo if ho wished could hear the
bursting of high explosives and bhrnpnel on tho
lAmleiifi front.
This tremendous use of the telephone and tele
graph In wnrfaro is partly the result of the Im
petus arising from the American application of
olcciricnl communication on a large scale In tho
Spanish war. The signal corps us It now exists Is
a comparatively recent evolution.
In the American army tho lden first arose In
tho mind of a young army surgeon, Albert Jnmcs
Myer. Tho offlco of signal olllcer of tho army was
created In June, 1800, the first of Its kind, and
Myer was appointed. lie was at once sent' with
an expedition ngalnst Navajo Indians In New Mex
ico, and his crude apparatus at once demon
strated Its worth.
When the Civil war began he wns ordered Kast
and opened n school for signalers, and In that -as
tho definite beginning of the present slxruil ctrtps.
Wires were carried on horse or muleback then, the
instruments wero Imperfect and telegraphic com
munication was a raro nnd precious thing. Tho
service took on tremendous Importance in tho
Spanish war and followed the troops through Cuba
,und the Philippines, nnd In China was tho only
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king and the rest of the world.
But the tasks that coniionted our signal men
In these wars wero play compared to the work
that Is being done every day on the western trout.
Our signal men there have an area to cover about
the size of Pennsylvania and they have gone at It
with a Igor and elllclency that spell volumes for
the superiority of Americans in this particular lino
of work.
Tho hardy linemen who have strung lines and
repaired breaks on the Western plains or buttled
with great floods und storms lit the Uocky moun
tains have taken to this new work with a zest
which is Inspiring. On the foundation of the
French system they aro building a signal system
that will be a model of Its kind.
Up to within four miles of the front construc
tion Is not different from what It Is here nt home.
The wires aro strung on poles und most of the
poles have been planted by tho French. But when
one gets Inside tho shell-torn section that stretches
at least four miles from tho front wires have to
be protected by being burled from six to eight feet
deep, so that only a direct hit by a large shell will
disturb them.
Within half n mllo of the front not even this
protection is sulllcient, as the shells churn and re
churn the ground. Therefore all wires In this zono
are duplicated and are strung along both sides of
tho trenches. Sometimes a trench wall Is covered
with wires.
In the battalion headquarters signal ofilce, where
the hundreds of wires from the trendies and ob
servation posts centtr and where the receivers
hum with the constunt tremors of a world under
fire, plain BUI Smith lounges In a corner rolling a
cigarette and occupied in his own particular
'thoughts. It Is a dugout, this heudquarters, and
the air is vile, but BUI got used to that long ago.
"The wire to A bnttery is down," Smith's su
perior olllcer says, turning to him.
"All right, sir," is the answer. And Bill climbs
out of tho dugout, repair kit over his arm and tin
hut on his head.
In the trench he finds the wire that is broken
and begins to follow It along. It is hot work In
tho trench, shells are dropping thickly, but Smith
doesn't mind much. He follows the wire down
n communication trench and then after u long time
out Into the open, where he has to cruwi along
looking for the hole that will mark the place where
tho line has been broken.
Ho gets nearly there when a shell lands near
him and Bill Smith, his face toward the break,
goes went. After u time, back In the dugout, an
other repairman Is sent out and perhaps he Is
luckier than Bill and finds the break.
Then he has to sit down In the shell crater, tlio
smash of bursting shells so close that sometime:!
ho Is half burled In dirt, calmly making the con
nection that will enable the observation olllcer up
front to get In touch with his battery again. If ho
gets bnck to the dugout ho will bo sent out again
and yet again If the bombardment Is heavy, and
often for days and nights at n time these men are
under lire, snatching a nnp now and then In the
dugout between breaks. But they keep the lines
open.
In un attack the signal men go over tho top with
the Infantry, generally with the second wave, In
chnrgo of the observing olllcer. They maku'for a
point where they enn estnbllsh an observation
post, anjl ns thoy pass on and through the enemy's
barrago they unroll their lino and one of them car
ries a field telephone, through which they somehow
manage In the din of battle to mako themselves
heard.
That telephone Is like a battle flag, and many a
man goes down with It, only to hnve It picked up
and carried forward by another of these noncom
batant troops. Their business Is only to serve, not
to light, nnd they do it with n cool' daring which
Is not surpassed In any branch of tho service.
They are In the forefront of every advance nnd
In tho retreut are sometimes the last to lcavo tho
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front line, heiv they stick to tho end of their
wires under terrific shell lire until ordered to re
join their commands If they can get through allva,
"An experience of this kind happened to me 4
short time (1go In a lonely chateau of the Yprev
Menln road," an English olllcer wrote home. "Tb
chateau was the center of a perfect hell of Jci
mnii shrapnel for nearly a week, until It becaw
almost untennblM and was abandoned by tho heal
quarters staff.
"The general gave instructions that a telegraph
1st was to remain behind to transmit Important
messages from the brigades, and '1 wns left la
chnrgo of tho Instruments In this shell-swepv
chateau for n dny and n night.
"On the second day the Germnns broke through
our trenches nnd the wires were cut by the shell
fire. I wns given orders to evacuate the building
and smah up my Instruments. These I snvod by
burying In n shellproof trench, und then I had to
escape between our own Are nnd that of tht
enemy's ncross a field under a terrible tornndo of
shrapnel.
"On the early morning of the same dny, ono of
our cnble detachments was cut up and another
captured by the Germnns, only to be retaken by
our snppers nnd drivers after a desperate nnd
glorious fight."
The linemen nlso havo regular patrols, stretches
of line which have to be constantly examined not
only for breaks but nlso to make sure that they
have not been tnpped by enemy spies in such a
way thnt every bit of Information sent over them
finds Its way to tho Germnns. In the Alsno once,
where tho hill country offered good cover to spies,
the wires were constantly being tapped.
One dny a lineman passing along the rond no
ticed n lot of cable lying nt one side. Ho stnrted
to coll It up and found that a piece of wire had
been tied to tho main line. When he traced It ho
found that It ran to a haystack. He went on,
tapped the lino and sent In word to headquarters
and an armed escort found a spy hidden In the hay
with sccriil days' supply of food.
They are autocrats In their wny, these wlro ro
pulrmen, and no one Is permitted to Interfere wltti
the swift execution of their work. Word coming
over the Hue that the wire to a battery was re
paired I- nften tho sweetest sound In tho world to
nn observation olllcer up front, even if It comes in
a rough brogue which French weather has not Im
proved. So wlmi anybody else breaks In on the line and
Interferes with tho repairman he gets rolled, es
pecially if he bus been sitting for several hours In
a shell Ii"'" with an Icy ruin dripping down his
buck. At. I'ngllsh olllcer told of wbnt happened
to a gnu rul who broke In onco.
"A gen. nil came In the hut and told me '1 rang
up the ( phono Just now and said, "Give me thu
bni-i'le, please," but some one with a loud
voice n ! "I deliberately and distinctly: "(Jot off
the blltn lug line." I got off remarking that as
soon u 'onvenletit 1 should like to speak. I
apologli l nntl explained that tho line hat! been
down nnd wus being repnlretl. Ho went off with
a morr 1 Inkle In his eye."
As tin ' umber of men In the American nrmy
abroad grows with tho weeks, the number of line
men, those who mako possible all that tho artil
lery and Infantry together accomplish, will stead
ily lncriasi' until they nro n sinall army In them
selves. And probably It will not bo long before an
nouncement will be mnde that some plain Bill
Smith, wire repairman, 1ms been given a medal for
bravery under fire, which attracted attention even
among the hundreds of brave acts which theso
men perform every duy.
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