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THE EVENING TELEGRAPH
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"HELL DEVIL OF THE MARINES"
'IT1HOMAS S. 1JUTLEK, senior nenubllcan
EW member of the Naal Affairs Commit-
Jt?!tj teo of tho liouso of Itcnrescntatles, be-
iongs 10 tuo urcca ot jigniin iuhki'i.
('Aft wnen tno republicans control the uouse
&V-m, Mr. Butler will becomn chairman of his
,l!fti onmmltfpo.
Ills son, Smedley D. Butler, has Inherited
thii flcrhtintr snlrlt nf hts nnnostors. He has
r4i? 1un In ITrotipo nnw jiltVi tlio tnarlnra nrnv.
WTSVW - '
lg(ft.that he has conscientious Fcruriles
5-. -w rtst not flirhMnB" th nbnmlnntlnn knnun
kiss !&- u: : ;,, i r . ----- -
vk pfiFZ 1 f russian militarism, anu no nas oeen
r .jr-flehtlnff to such cocl rjurnop that h has
m-S fien promoted to a colonelcy. He Is known
lw. s the "Hell devil of the marines " It waa
P.ifJ likclv. therefore, that It was the Germans
t fyho camo In contact with him and his men
. who named the marines devil hounds.
t K corps and deseres tho promotion uhlch
has come to him,
i-, AiidL trtitu. iuiL .uwjiiife am auuui nut-
Tllft TljatAf t A j-t T7 tlllvaw W1 r-tA4tl Tl l f
,jr1 am a ijik uiucii uuqk EeniH iu ime nau uiiio
j!t .j,i foundation In truth, after all. Tho names
r.. of tha Hun sea murderers are all lriterest-
CSjAh Ingly Inscribed therein
WORTH THINKING ABOUT
AS It occurred to any one that the
currency sjstem of the United States
'? i is on such a. sound basis that with all the
atoStUlflnitnMnir nf thft nnr Tihlph hn Vion nun.
$2fessary E'a haa not sone to a premium
fe&ljS&f This Is one of the astounding facts which
jfoVYcTrttl attract the attention of tho financial
.wnisionan ot tnis epocn. uur paper cur-
hii rency and our cold are. interchangeable.
jVjA' gold dollar wlU buy no more than a
mW i paoer dollar. It has not been necessary
SLif.vF i 4a nnan a r!ntil Ttnnm In ItTall ).( tnv
IfttJ'f, -transactions in the yellow metal. There
IwrJ" dally quotations of the fluctuations
pjWt- tinJiqe vaiue 01 paper currency as com
PWed with cold,
The reason for1 this lies In the fact that
tha financial resources h.in heen marie
tp' hioblle and that we aro on a gold standard,
iVw vmi;a iiicuiis iiiui. uiu creuii. oi me uov-
.'.r icrnmeni is Deninu every aoiiar or cur.
-JlWT ..... .... ...
X "ranw tailA1 nnrl nn nnn nnhia lin oln
rajs w"- - "- " " .-
iK'j hllltv of the Government or its credit.
A sympathetic tjpeetter might easily
TAJ 'make it the
Groan Trince."
THE CLUD CURFEW
AN ECONOMY In addition to coal savinc
;xXXwill necessarily result from the fuel
administration's order that Philadelphia's
wtiVt v. .:.;. j r " . .. ".p- '"
ry-v'10 w "o
conserved. And there is gas
V-nd gas.
KtMl Less because It is SDeclficaliv enomnus
jjivtban because Its peculiar persistence Is
'rm'vroot against any mask of een the
wearlest Indifference, the late-evenlns club
P&tiw l " oc"'
LJC,OU8lV deplored. According to the new deal.
' '-hortly t0 made effective, the bore who
sijinaiaiB on tuning one just wnat bach is
3.-T-4lal..1.,... nl.n.. 1 .1
yaJ. wmiinHB uuuui, nucru me American army
h 'Uj111 slnKe an1 whete tho ramifications of
Loathe German secret service extend, will be
S StAMrtM.aiA.1 in An . IU. . .1 ..
? i ":ai . m iiiu v cry time mat
"-$ fcla gas works have been wont tn nm of
K ,j&rUU speed. The social charms of club life
hSH(ft0'yr t0 be abbreviated at tho shank of the
jgr "venlng, will be missed; but practical ad-
- 2rf Vintages of the new plan will naturally
. trnnlA rrtmnltnnA 11,Amn.ll. 1...1. . .
if rv ..r- w "v.smui toui painoiic
-yAnd cheerful. As for the elimination of
f j5r'aseouB babble, the foreshadowed release
.v ffwut command tho enthusiastic indorso-
mt of hitherto meok and helpless vlc-
P
1 'Hertllng says the KaUer's crown and
siy nave oetn statccd. HamburB-steaked.
M In extra email pieces, Is the prospect. If
mm 'us nis way,
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1 AID FROM THE ANDES
WHENCE that South American friend-
; map tor tno United States Is not merely
jca.1 or merary is constantly at hand.
latest practical display of this spirit
irom Peru, which has Just ratified
arceinent with the American Govern-
Mt permitting the use of the Interned
uan.shlpa In the harbor of Callao.
f L VrlfTan1v ttiAaA iu.,,1. HA it.. - -
aha T,ln. wblrh fnrmi"lw r,A,it t..
.fWIJTanclsco and Ilambure by way of
'v" ,ne WMt and cast coasts of South
ica. They art excellent ships, well
to either transport or cargo
Jfcirally. our country will be glad to
jlhUaft of them, but Americans have a
t'to satisfaction still more keen over
tnerous np!rlt of co-operation manl
J,the Andean republic. Tho sub-
support of tha Lima Government
r added to the benefits of which we
already been the recipient from Itio
i.'fontevldeo and La Pas. Jt Is
to reaiuto mat m pursuit or.
' k PsruvlaB bite Jb equally as
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THE NEW DRAFT
.lis Mran!n)t la the Country nnrl to the
Man IVt Tlilrlyono
TTSUALLY, when a man has passed
thirty-one, his roots arc sunk pretty
deep. His niche has just begun to wear
smooth. The tasks to which he gnvc him
self, his yeais nntl his enthusiasms aio
well under way, perhaps half completed.
His habits and associations arc fixed.
When such a man is turned off sud
denly nt right angles from all this nnd
shifted to a far and 'Unfamiliar plane of
existence ha is likely to experience n sort
of hardship that is unknown to those
who are subjected to a similar change
during tho period of happy irresponsi
bility that is the best of youth. The
further a mnn has progressed tovard
forty-five tho greater will bo his sacri
fice, therefore, when he is called to mili
tary service.
Many, favored by circumstance?, will
be able to join gladly in the big ad
venture. And many will feel that they
are at the end of their world forced to
leave tasks and ambitions unprotected
and unrealized, like a half built house,
open to wind nnd weather. In the lives
of a great many men more than thirty
one arc bubtle bonds that chain them to
the familiar existence ties that are
mighty because of the very tenderness
that the eais have given them. Tho
now draft lnw, which will become
effective with tho general registration on
Thuisday, involves for the diaft boards,
therofoic, an altogether new set of ic
sponsibilitics. And.it luings tho nation
close to the peak and climax of its spir
itual relation to the war.
Some consciousness of the subtle fac
tors that may be involved in the cases
of new eligibles doubtless prompted the
Wai Department to leave the way to' ex
emption open for those who can state
adequate reasons clearly. Wide discre
tion has been given the draft boards
probably for this same reason. The best
reasons for exemption aie not always the
obvious ones. It is to the everlasting
glory of innumerable young men and
innumerable young women that many
of the youthful soldiers who plunged into
tho war at the outset were newly mar
ried. They neither sought nor wished
exemption. But they had one advantage
over many of he men in the new draft.
They had the jcars on their side. They
didn't face the prospect of beginning life
all over again a little late. It must
seem, therefore, that men "touching
forty" will be justified if they feel less
reluctance in seeking exemption for
cause than men were accustomed to feel
in the early stages of the selective seiv
ice. The new man-power law is nothing
more or less than an imperative measure
of self-defense. It 'is wisely conceived
and it will be wisely administered. Re
garded without emotion, it may be said
to represent tho settled purpose of the
nation to assure its safety, now and in
the futuic, at any cost. Americans are
accustomed to the lealization that the
interests of the individual are, in the
present hour, secondary to the interests
of the republic. And it is worth remem
bering that no sacrifice that any man
may make now is comparable to the sac
rifices that would inevitably be imposed
upon him were the war to be lost to the
Allies.
It is by processes like those that will
begin on Thursday that we shall, one
day or another, realize something of the
cost of the war to those who have fought
it for U3 as well as. for themselves. In
England all men up to fifty-five have
been drafted. In France almost every
man, woman and child has worked some
how at the war for three years. So far,
in America, the war has been but an
incident to most persons. Now we are
making faster time than any of the
nations allied with us. And the unity of
America has been an inspiiation to the
world. We are actually beginning to be
unselfish. Here and there you will find
furtive profiteers. There are politicians
who still squabble and plot among them
selves for their own interests. They will
be dealt with later on. The rest of the
country is prepared to make sacrifices.
It rests with the diaft boards in the
present instance to make this general
task a shade easier for the individual. It
will be no easy thing for the boards to
pass wisely upon the claims for exemp
tion, which are sure to be numerous in
the cases of older men. Tho War De
partment has announced its own exemp
tions in classes of men considered indis
pensable to the nation's strength and its
interests. The draft boaids will have to
go deeper. They will be led, doubtless,
to a contemplation of many of the remote
and poignant concerns of life, to a judg
ment of potentialities, plans and ambi
tions. And if they have wisdom and dis
cernment the new draft law will be freed
of its only sting.
The average American father may take
comfort In tho fact that even the most over
zealous slacker hunters are barred from con
ducting a pa-fald.
PATIENCE
IT IS said that food will win the war.
Mr. Schwab says ships will win it.
Others hold that wool will win, some put
their fahh In money and a few believe
that guns are the Important thing. Now
and then you will meet .persons who stem
to be assured that victory will be won
by talk.
All of these factors are secondary. It
is patience the rarest and the most dim
cult of virtues that Is. winning and will
win tho war.
Kitchener was patient or England would
now be In ruins. At the beginning the
armchair population In England clamored
to have tho whole army- tent to France.
Kitchener refused. Disaster spread out
ward from Germany over Belgium and
down through France, and It rolled over
the small British forces placed (here and
yet Kitchener would not b shaken. The
crowd stripped him of all .lavowand.
!! .. .i . nw win .
he kept the British army In England. H
was driven Into solitude. And out of that
solltudo after a year rolled tho great army
of England, and the mob saw, after Kltch
oner was dend, that It was built upon the
essential foundation of tho small army
that they wanted sent to Trance.
"When roch was mndo generalissimo
everybody waited for him to do sensa
tional things. Tho Germans tried and
tiled again to tempt him. Hut( ho fell
back, took his punishment and kept quiet.
lomltm and I'arla grumbled sorao moro
nnd I'och lot his men fall back again.
Ho had the strength to wait a strength
far greater than tho strength that Is re
quired for action.
President Wilson wns patient. And his
patlcnco gave the causes to which wo are
pledged time to maturo and become visible
and commanding nnd fully understand
able. ,
All great men have been pitiont. They
have nlwns known that hasto doesn't
make for fpeed and that nothing violent
endures.
Some Hun lies are delicious. Such Is the
one whereby the word "flecl" Is applied to
the collection of stationary warships tied up
nt Kiel.
LABOR'S WAR PROFITS
SOME Sonntors aio beginning to study
the now revenue bill to discover
whether it makes a proper levy on the
war profits of labor as well as on thoso
of capltnl.
No one In tills pait ot the country
doubts that labor Is innkliig war profits.
Workmen arc iccclvinir $S, $10 and $20 a
tin, according to common report. Bos
rc getting n man's pnj. Gills nro receiv
ing foi clerical work as much money as
used lo be paid to heads of departments
Such rates of pay have seemed to be
necessary in order lo get tho work done
that has been done. Those who have left
permanent employment to accept positions
that from the very nature of the case
must be temporary aro taking risks in
serving their country
To assumo that they will not continue
to fcerve If by pijlng their proper sharo
of tho war ta to which they aro liable
is a gratuitous Insult. The unmarried
man or unmarried woman with no de
pendents who receives $2500 a year Is
liable to an income tax of $90. And tho
managers of the wni industries who aro
receiving $1000 and $5000 a jear or more
are liable to a ta in proportion.
They nre going to make out their in
como tax report as carefully and as hon
estly as any person not engaged In war
work. And if wo mistake not they will
pay the tax much more cheerfully than it
will bo paid hi the men whoso incomes
havo not been Increased by the abnormal
industrial conditions that have brought
sudden prosperity to a large group of wor
thy citizens.
Judging from the prevailing reports from
Washington, the "perfect thirty sixes" are too
precious to be taken first. Thirty-five and a
fraction, however, means imminent army
sen ice.
FOCH REVEALS HIS PURPOSE
rpHE need for "expert" interpretation ot
-- Terdlnand Foch's war plans bcems
hardly urgent at this moment. Tho great
marshal himself has revealed his major
design In a characteristically compact and
luminous sentence.
"We shall continue." ho Informs the
Tarls Municipal Council, "to pursue tho
enemy implacably."
Here is a flash of frankness sufficient to
embarrass the most pedantic mystery mon
ger. Some of these. It may be noted, are
in Germany, and they havo fretted pain
fully In their efforts to discover the foe's
intent. While It can lnrdly be conceived
that Foch's disclosure will soothe the feel
ings of a Ludendorff or a Hlndenburg, it
is at least emphatic enough to relieve their
cutioslty.
In its large aspect the generalissimo's
plan is one of transparent simplicity. Its
authenticity Is dally supported by the irre
futable argument of the imp. The latest
ono reveals the armies of freedom eleven
miles from Lille. Pursuit Is unmistakably
as continuous as it is "Implacable."
Terryltes taking
We Could Do passage across tho
With One Delaware at Market
street may be exon
erated of disloyalty if they render wistfully
and even enviously over the speed with which
the Germans aro sahioto have thrown 000
bridges over the AtsffHT
'
War correspondents
Iln, Hal who have been ob
serving the gradual
break-up of the Hun lines say the German
army commanders are all nt sea. That Is
moro than jou can say for the officers of
the KaUer's navy.
"Permanent waves"
are more fashionable
than over. Tho Foch
Hut the 1-acta Aro
llald
variety is especially
popular just now. Some persons consider it
even moro effectlvo than a "switch"
About this time of
It Is I J ear, when a man's
vacation is over and
done with and ho stops in front of the
window of a sporting goods store and looks
at the, winged wobblers and the crab wlgglera
and the rods and reels and mees kits and
enameled waterproof fly-casting lines, and
thinks that It's fifty weeks to the next vaca
tion Oh, ain't It a sad and Inglorious feeling!
Captain Steffanssoneays a submarine
could travel under the lea to the North Pole.
The observation should be suggestive to
those wondering where to put the KaUer and
how to get him there
It takes a keen Phlladelphlan to detect
any perceptible change In transit conditions
on the streets on which the P. It. T. has
abandoned the phantom trolley service,, once
supposedly conducted there.
The report that Berllnera caught clrculat.
Ing the- dismal truth about their conduct of
the war will bo punished suggests that the
police In tho Hun capital need entertain few
fears ot oerwork.
A. Mitchell Palmer's request for "a real
Democrat" In Pennsylvania betrays a pathetic
confidence in a book called "Tho Age of
Fable."
Hlndenburg U begging the Oermana to
besalm. There Is no impossible task that
tha Hun Government vsa nor. wtHtMnto im-
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THE CHAFFING DISH
' What We Are Fighting
FRANCIS CABLIN, tho Now York poet,
tolls us that the following quotation1 has
been faithfully copied from a, letter writ
ten by a sergeant of Company. A 120th
M G. B'n, N. Y.:
We havo seen another bit of German
Kulltir whllo wo wero in the trenches.
When two lieutenants were captured by
I ho Germans ono of them was murdered,
and his legs were doubled up and tied to
his nock and his arm's were tied to 'Ms
body In such a way that wh$n our men
camo to talto him away and saw the way
he was tied they would cut tho rope around
his neck and explode the bombs that had
licen placed tinder his armpits and knee
caps and kill the whole hunch of them;
''but a Trench soldier who was with them
saw tho way ho was tied and went ahead
ijnd cut the ropo 'In such a war that the
bombs did not explode, thus saving them
from being blown to pieces.
Tho new chief of the German naval
staff, Captain I.cvetzow, has been ap
pointed on the strength of his victorious
operations against Ocsel Island. It must
be a sad blow lo tho captain to learn that
his victory was so poorly press-agented
that moSt ot us didn't even know It had
happened.
It pleaes us very much to see our fel
low etcnlng paper, La Rnon (Itcason), of
Buenos Aires, inserting adveitlsements
In United Stales pipers. Somo of us aie
beginning to rcslbo that North and South
America nrp going to be very much close
friends In future, nnd tho moro wo can
learn nbout each other tho better. When
we get to Buenos Aires (wo shall, somo
da) wo will know what paper to buy.
We notlco In tho window of a Chestnut
street grogshop tho following idgns dls
placd: Alt Pilicncr nnd Bat'orlmt Jfnrch
J?rrt( They don't seem to glvo nny one
a qualm, but It seems t(nfalr to poor old
.sourkraut, that had to change Its namo to
Liberty cabbage
Now that the Rhine cities aro protest
ing against air raids, many people are
remarking that Rhino whine was always
j ellow.
A Threat
When a haircut Is a dollar and a shave Is
fifty cents
In all tho barber shops around the town,
I'll become a Bolshevik or patWrn after
Hindoo gents,
Who bind a gaudy turban "round their
crown.
My autoscrape wll help me to remove the
downy growth
Which at Intervals appears upon my
chin; '
But for cutting oft my tresses, I will take
a mighty oath
That the barber will get little of my tin.
Tor developing a bald spot, I might kneel
me down and pray
For the time when It's ,too late for
herplclde;
Or I could purchase hairpins and then
Imitate the way
That the ladles make a bun upon each
side.
If I could muster courage up, I'd shave
my wool all off.
And my dome just like a billiard ball
would be;
But probably In winter I would generate
a cough,
Then a doctor'd take my coin away
from me.
t
, v
But of this I'm mighty certain? that no
barber will get fat.
If It costs a bono to hear him bellow
"next"
I would rather let It grow and hide it
underneath my hat, '
For a dollar Is a dollar, that's my textl
H. E. R. SOOT.
Meet Mr. EiUhemius!
One of the things that keep Phlladel
phlans humble in the presence of New
Yorkers Is that we havo no Louis M. Ells
hemius. V
This engaging gentleman, who keeps his
name before tho public in the correspond
ence columns of the New York Sun, signs
himself "Supremo Spirit of the Spheres,"
and It seems to us that In that capacity
he ought to be moro widely Known. In
case these words ever meet his piercing
eye In its earthward declension we Would
be glad to tell him that the narrow alley
of the Chaffing Dish Is always at his dis
posal. Surely a Supreme Spirit of the
Spheres should not be parochial; we
humblo ones of Philadelphia may be un
winnowed chaff, but we would be glad to
feel the whirlwind of his mighty vans.
Mr. Eilshemlus Is more than a Supreme
Spirit. He is a poet, by his own confes
sion; and a singularly sage poet In that
(so far as we know) he never admits the
public to the perusal of nny of his rhythms.
Ho is an artist, an Inventor, and he freely
admits that about tho year 186S he wrote
a flf(ecn-pago poem on the ocarjna, long
vanished Instrument, which, like all his
other compositions, has never been ap
proached. "The poem has no equal," says
Louts, "in any works of our poets or those
of the English. They cannot reach the
supreme quality In It."
We are a little touchy for the reputa
tion of our own Dove Dulcet, of Obesity,
N, J., the home of the mosquito muzzle;
and that Is why we would welcome a
showdown on the part of the Supreme
Spirit. If bis stuff is really better than
Dove's, of course there will be nothing to
do but hand Mr. Dulcet his passports; his
humiliation will (in diplomatic language)
have assumed the character of an accom
plished fact; but until we have 'tangibly
examined some of the output of Mr. Eils
hemlus we must reserve our judgment.
' There is one thing that bothers us about
Mr. Eilshemlus, however, and we may as
well say It. Does he come'under the pro
visions of the new draft and what chance
does he stand of being called to mortal
colors? He speaks glibly of the year 188S.
when he was already writing poems. But
a Supreme Spherical Spirit might begin
very young. Frankly, now, is he under
forty-five, and has he dependents, other
than hia poems?
It Mr. Eilshemlus considers that his
supremacy extends as far as this we
should be very glad to have the 'Issue
between Mmself and "Mr. Dulcet aettled by.
honorftMb iWttMi coiawni
v fA-
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"YUST YOU DARE TELL ME YOU PLANNED THIS TdO!"
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SOLDIER JOURNALISM
To the Reporters in Khaki the Hun Continues to Be a Merely
Humorous Phenomenon
IV YOUR adversary continues to laugh
at you In a fight It Is the part of wis
dom to wigwag for the lodgo brothers or
jour next of kin. Some of the dismay that
Is spreading like an epidemic In Germany
may be explainable by this axiom. It may
bo that the bocho has been reading the
newspapers and periodicals issued regu
larly by our soldiers in Franco. Blithe
contempt fo.- tho enemy, gay good humor
and a disdain of any passion so common
place as bitterness characterize the Jour
nalism of the American expeditionary
force. And some of the best humor of
the war was written by reporters in khaki
who functioned light-heartedly amid the
fire hnd smoke of the recent Ithelms
Soissons advance for the Stars and Stripes,
the official Journal of the 1,500,000 soldiers
now abroad.
THE Stars nnd Stripes, with a staff that
works for the most part In or Imme
diately behind the lines, is without ques
tion one of the best edited newspapers In
the English language. The men who write
for it write with ease. They have none
of tho ponderous mannerisms which some
newspapers still cherish ras. Inheritances
from the sixties, when an editorial article
was deemed unworthy unless it resounded
1 like a speech. In the Stars and Stripes
not long ago the editors announced that
the big-lcaguo baseball scores would no
longer be printed. This t was at the time
when tjio men abroad were disgusted with
tho evasions otisome of the players on this
side, who were seemingly afraid of mllW
tary service. Tho soldier-editors' para
graph wasn't abusive. It was quietly In
sulting. It had all the effect of a cigarette
butt flipped Into a man's face.
THE account In the Stars nnd Stripes
of the part plajcd by tho American
troops in the recent drive Is gayly written.
It reveals an unbcllevablo panorama of
guns and smoke and moving cannon and
soldiers and a glittering welter of Huns
privates, colonels, majors, counts moving
nlwavs backward to the prisoners' cages.
And to the waters the boche, even "the
bocho in a colonel's uniform, before whom
the ordinary Hun soldier would Instantly
goose-step or click his heels, Is never any.
thing but funny.
TOWARD the end of the vivid narrative
tho unnamed soldier reporter writes:
You can never make a safe Judgment
as to the morale of nn army from the
morale of prisoners, for when any man
falls Into the hands of an enemy he feels
as though the world were coming to an
end.' So It Is quite humanly comprehensi
ble that when the mighty Count von
Wendel gave stately recognition ot the
fact that those Americans had surrounded
him he radiated the Impression that the
Will mu ctuicr UUIIIQ IU ll .u ...wyw f
might as well Btop gracefully Instead of
petering out. i v '
The Count, who was 'formerly aide-decamp
of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Ba
varia, and whom we found as a lieutenant
colonel commanding the Third Bavarian
lnfant.ry had taken refuge in a quarry
along with 200 Germans of various ranks.
His cave was surrounded . early In the
day and the unswerving Yankeo Infantry
passed by, leaving only enough to guard
the entrances to the quarry and take oc
casional pot shots Into It. '.All day the In
vested 200 held out, and then toward sun
down they surrendered. The did not
shout "Kamerad 1 Kamerad !' not they.
They surrendered In the good' old-fash-lonsd
way, following a fashion almost for-
a-nt In Ihla death ne vlnrv war "
xs. For. at auadowji the Count 'aentoutl A
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emerged, followed by an Imposing com
pany. . ,t
He seemed a little offended at some
thing. Possibly he was faintly surprised
not to find General Pershing waiting out
side on n milk white charger. Certainly
he was vocal with Indignation because no
motorcar awaited him
The American officers expressed the!r ro
gret nay, their grief that none was
available, and tho last seen in that neigh
borhood of the former aide of tho Crown
Prince Rupprecht he was hiking with the
rest of the 200 hiking fifteen kilometers,
to the rear.
F:
URTHER along the report continues: '
One burly and brlBtllng exemplar of
German militarism with captain s knots on
his shoulders and an Iron Cross on his
chest was Included In a recent bag of
prisoners. He was Indignant, to say the
least,-at the time of his capture, and tho
mood Intensified as he was marched back
to tho Intelligence officer.
Ho hadn't heard the questioning officer
speak more than five words of German
before he burst Into the conversation
"Do jou allow privates to call officers by
their first names in this array?" he de
manded withering!-.
"Why?" asked the officer.
"Well, this pig," said the boche, "called
me Heinle every time he addressed me."
A lanky private was called to take a
captured German artillery officer to regi
mental headquarters. He had progressed
about half a mile when the American no
ticed that his charge was tearing up some
papers he evidently didn't want to get Into
American hands and scattering the pieces
along tbo road
"Ain't jou the cute cuss," said tho
American. "Now jou just go back and
pick them all up."
The officer may not have understood the
instructions, but he did the gestures which
accompanied them. He spent the next half
hour painstakingly gathering the frag
ments of a map, which when pasted to
, gether showed all the boche artillery posi
tions In his sector.
An American medical Officer, up to his
neck In work, was imnresslnir all avall-
abfo men Into service to carry wounded
YankeeH to a dressing station. German
prisoners were used for this work. One
man In tho' Hun uniform rebelled
"I am an officer," said he coldly.
"Officer hell!" said the American, dou
bling his fist.
The German helped to carry the litter.
milE Stars and Stripes and the other
ably written soldier publications that
keep up the community spirit among our
soldiers in France are not .clover by acci
dent. Some of the cleverest men who left
newspaper work In America for the serv
ice are on the different staffs.
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The Yankee Spirit
From a boy's letter: "Believe me, mother,
a great battle is a wonderful thing. Whens
I got started I was In the first wave I
only thought of one thing, that we had 'to go
to a certain point, and that It certain figures
In familiar gray-green uniforms'' got In aur
way we had to kill them,. Bullets and shells
did not worry me at all.," Gorgeous picture
of the will In action, of the, man oblivious to
everything on earth but his own goal, ot
the soldier's pride or craftsmanship I Bul
lets .were nothing. 1 tuns w ere almost noth
ingmerely things that got In the way.
New York Tribune. ,
A Cyclone on the Way
The attention ot the German great general
staff is once more to bo called to the ex
prefslve lines that Ian Hay quoted as sung
by the attacking British a couple of years
ago;
We licked you on the Marne,
We licked yeu on the AUne ; '
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To a Soldier in a Hospital
lOURAGE came to you with your boy- jl
J hood's grace F - I
ur anient lire and llmo. i
Each day new dangers steeled you to the teat, A
AU i iutr, iu i;uuiu, 10 uvviiii.
VWlth every breath. . .., J. l
So when you went to play another, game
You could not but bo, bravo; , .
An Empire's team, a rougher football field.
The end perhaps your grave.
What matter? On the winning of a goat
You staked jour soul
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xes, jou wore courage as j'ou wore your ,1
youtn,
With, carelessness and Joy, "
But In what Spartan school of discipline
Did you get patience, boy? . ., .
How did you learn to bear this long-drawn
pain
And not complain? "
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Restless w Ith throbbing hopes, with thwarted
alms. . . ,
Impulsive as a colt.
How do you lie here month by weary month ,.l
Helpless and not reolt7
What joy can these monotonous days afford J
ncre in a wara; r
Yet you arc merry as the birds In spring.
Or feign the gaycty.
Lest those who dress and tend your wound
each day v
Should guess the agony. ,. ,, ,
Lest they should suffer this the only .fear
you let araw near. , g. I
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VIIOJUV.OIU jmiuoui;iij aio.0 miUK,uv 411 uuwn '
And argument this trufh. Jf 1 ?1
That man In greater than his pain, but yonf':
Have learnt it in your youth, , . e
You know the wisdom taught 'by Calvary1' "
At twentj'-three. ' ' J,
Death would have found you brave, but -
braver still u i
Your face each lagging day, v . $
A merrj' stoic, patient, chivalrous, ' A,
Divinely kind an1 gay. '. '
Tou bear vour knowledge llrhtlv. arraduata
Of unkind fate. - j . &
Tho latest to complain, '" ,TJIJ
Unmindful that j-ou teach, you 'taught Tnea1
this' ' 1 ii ? Vff
In jour'long'flght with pain: s tA "J!
Since God made, man so good here standa.i
my creed
God's good Indeed .W
y, W.fM. LETTS. J
A' Later Paris Fashion Note V?
From this time on the Germans wllb-riet"?
h narmlttefl tn hmA nnrlrftta nn their f f-Anc V4 I
In France.' Houston Post. j ji
What Do You Know?
v.1
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Uhat well-known fabrlo derives If a
from the town of Cambral. In he
nha I. Tiller Juatlra of tha United St.tM - J
What la Neapolitan ire cream? ,
What la a neap tide?
Who was fsancho rnu?
What la Jhe meaolns of ''a la carta"?
Who wrote "Gulllrer'a Traiels"?
What la the real name ef Ana tola Fl
the noted French wnterT
Who Is the present British Ambassador
' tha United rilatesT ' i
Hew many full moons are there In s ttKtJi j.
Answers to Yeiterrlav'a Onlz -jS
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l'pnaa;nea is to principal lanaaasa at 4
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Tho birthday of Ijlfaretle. hern an..S!
ber 6. f 157, was celebrated In America
teroar. 1
Senator Sherman la from Illlnals. 1j
Illdaln. meaning- a Spanish asntlemaa.B)
compression of the two words 'hUe
mav vi vimwu,!
Sir John
n Waneli eAtnmandeH tha
troopw
la the first battle ot the Man.
Irishmen are called Milesians afteriMUeatasui
a, raouioua npanisn amr. wnsits aesaa jsay
said to hate conquered the Jeofail IB,
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