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THE MARTIAN

Hommes - 36-40

Chevaux - 8

Vol. 1 - No. 32.   SUNDAY, March 30, 1919.   Price: 30 centimes

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MOTORS OF MARS

AND THOSE WHO RUN THEM

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As the result of infinite uses in war and peace, the epic of the motor car is in a fair way toward being written. The ambulance driver, the motorcycle courier, the men of the ammunition convoys, operating under shellfire and over pitted roads, are having fame thrust upon them. All is deserved, - for the mysterious combination of brains, steel and the colorless force stored up by nature and prosily termed gasoline which we have named "motor car," played as important a part in the war as the "75."

  But in the more humble and less adventurous regions that lie between the lines and the base ports, are thousands of drivers and cars, whose praises are never sung. You pass them on the roads every day, leather coated and hooded chaps driving every sort of conveyance from miniature camionettes to five ton trucks, going everywhere, to every corner of France. They are the veins that supply the lifeblood to every part of the American Expeditionary forces. In our Hospital Center alone, for example, fully 100 gasoline driven vehicles and a corps of men numbering 110, are required for this essential transportation. Yet it is taken as a matter of course without a thought for the remarkable organization that maintains it.

  Into the life of this new knight of the road is mixed an abundant quantity of that usual ingredient of army life, - hard work - but it has compensations. Though heavy supplies must be hauled from all points of the compass and over long distances, there is France to be seen, - the France away from the railroad lines and seldom visited by the tourist. It is a free life, immune to the many vexatious trifles and the restraints of the ordinary soldier together with a certain gipsy-like joy. There is nothing else like it in the service, excepting perhaps airplane flying, and because, no doubt, driving requires a similar strength of nerve fiber every man wishes for only one change in his lot and that is to the more adventurous realms of the air. He goes everywhere, into the great American depots, French villages, whose existence the worlds scarcely notes, and the chateaux and castles of renowned families. In our Center, the growth of our transportation service is of the same essence as the expansion of the hospital activities. At first, there were only a few trucks and an ambulance or two. The arrival of the various base

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THE MARTIAN

Hommes - 36-40

Chevaux - 8

Vol. 1 - No. 32.   SUNDAY, March 30, 1919.   Price: 30 centimes

----

MOTORS OF MARS

AND THOSE WHO RUN THEM

----

As the result of infinite uses in war and peace, the epic of the motor car is in a fair way toward being written. The ambulance driver, the motorcycle courier, the men of the ammunition convoys, operating under shellfire and over pitted roads, are having fame thrust upon them. All is deserved, - for the mysterious combination of brains, steel and the colorless force stored up by nature and prosily termed gasoline which we have named "motor car," played as important a part in the war as the "75."

  But in the more humble and less adventurous regions that lie between the lines and the base ports, are thousands of drivers and cars, whose praises are never sung. You pass them on the roads every day, leather coated and hooded chaps driving every sort of conveyance from miniature camionettes to five ton trucks, going everywhere, to every corner of France. They are the veins that supply the lifeblood to every part of the American Expeditionary forces. In our Hospital Center alone, for example, fully 100 gasoline driven vehicles and a corps of men numbering 110, are required for this essential transportation. Yet it is taken as a matter of course without a thought for the remarkable organization that maintains it.

  Into the life of this new knight of the road is mixed an abundant quantity of that usual ingredient of army life, - hard work - but it has compensations. Though heavy supplies must be hauled from all points of the compass and over long distances, there is France to be seen, - the France away from the railroad lines and seldom visited by the tourist. It is a free life, immune to the many vexatious trifles and the restraints of the ordinary soldier together with a certain gipsy-like joy. There is nothing else like it in the service, excepting perhaps airplane flying, and because, no doubt, driving requires a similar strength of nerve fiber every man wishes for only one change in his lot and that is to the more adventurous realms of the air. He goes everywhere, into the great American depots, French villages, whose existence the worlds scarcely notes, and the chateaux and castles of renowned families. In our Center, the growth of our transportation service is of the same essence as the expansion of the hospital activities. At first, there were only a few trucks and an ambulance or two. The arrival of the various base

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  • November 23, 2017 04:44:36 Thomas A. Lingner

    THE MARTIAN

    Hommes - 36-40

    Chevaux - 8

    Vol. 1 - No. 32.   SUNDAY, March 30, 1919.   Price: 30 centimes

    ----

    MOTORS OF MARS

    AND THOSE WHO RUN THEM

    ----

    As the result of infinite uses in war and peace, the epic of the motor car is in a fair way toward being written. The ambulance driver, the motorcycle courier, the men of the ammunition convoys, operating under shellfire and over pitted roads, are having fame thrust upon them. All is deserved, - for the mysterious combination of brains, steel and the colorless force stored up by nature and prosily termed gasoline which we have named "motor car," played as important a part in the war as the "75."

      But in the more humble and less adventurous regions that lie between the lines and the base ports, are thousands of drivers and cars, whose praises are never sung. You pass them on the roads every day, leather coated and hooded chaps driving every sort of conveyance from miniature camionettes to five ton trucks, going everywhere, to every corner of France. They are the veins that supply the lifeblood to every part of the American Expeditionary forces. In our Hospital Center alone, for example, fully 100 gasoline driven vehicles and a corps of men numbering 110, are required for this essential transportation. Yet it is taken as a matter of course without a thought for the remarkable organization that maintains it.

      Into the life of this new knight of the road is mixed an abundant quantity of that usual ingredient of army life, - hard work - but it has compensations. Though heavy supplies must be hauled from all points of the compass and over long distances, there is France to be seen, - the France away from the railroad lines and seldom visited by the tourist. It is a free life, immune to the many vexatious trifles and the restraints of the ordinary soldier together with a certain gipsy-like joy. There is nothing else like it in the service, excepting perhaps airplane flying, and because, no doubt, driving requires a similar strength of nerve fiber every man wishes for only one change in his lot and that is to the more adventurous realms of the air. He goes everywhere, into the great American depots, French villages, whose existence the worlds scarcely notes, and the chateaux and castles of renowned families. In our Center, the growth of our transportation service is of the same essence as the expansion of the hospital activities. At first, there were only a few trucks and an ambulance or two. The arrival of the various base

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  • November 23, 2017 04:40:53 Thomas A. Lingner

    THE MARTIAN

    Hommes - 36-40

    Chevaux - 8

    Vol. 1 - No. 32.   SUNDAY, March 30, 1919.   Price: 30 centimes

    ----

    MOTORS OF MARS

    AND THOSE WHO RUN THEM

    ----

    As the result of infinite uses in war and peace, the epic of the motor car is in a fair way toward being written. The ambulance driver, the motorcycle courier, the men of the ammunition convoys, operating under shellfire and over pitted roads, are having fame thrust upon them. All is deserved, - for the mysterious combination of brains, steel and the colorless force stored up by nature and prosily termed gasoline which we have named "motor car," played as important a part in the war as the "75."

      But in the more humble and less adventurous regions that lie between the lines and the base ports, are thousands of drivers and cars, whose praises are never sung. You pass them on the roads every day, leather coated and hooded chaps driving every sort of conveyance from miniature camionettes to five ton trucks, going everywhere, to every corner of France. They are the veins that supply the lifeblood to every part of the American Expeditionary forces. In our Hospital Center alone, for example, fully 100 gasoline driven vehicles and a corps of men numbering 110, are required for this essential transportation. Yet it is taken as a matter of course without a thought for the remarkable organization that maintains it.

      Into the life of this new knight of the road is mixed an abundant quantity of that usual ingredient of army life, - hard work - but it has compensations. Though heavy supplies must be hauled from all points of the compass and over long distances, there is France to be seen, - the France away from the railroad lines and seldom visited by the tourist. It is a free life, immune to the many vexations


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