14
AMEN BRETHREN
ARRANGE PEACE
AT GAY DINNER
Only Discord Is When Presi
dent Sits on His Four
teen Points
Sic.T York.—President Wilson con
: eluded peace at the victory dinner of
the Brethren of the Amen Corner.
The President did more —he effected
tho organisation of the Beague of Na
tions and announced that he would re
turn from Europe the moment he and;
Col. House and George Creel could get
foreign service chevrons sewed upon
their sleeves.
Cheers arose from 760 diners at tha
Waldorf-Astoria when the President
took his seat at the peaco table—ln-|
• mediately beneath the pulpit at which j
sat Thomas F. Smith, president of the.
Corner. As a background for the.
President was a huge map of whatj
used to he the world, but which np-j
peered then under the new name, Wil-j
scnta.
Col. House had dusted off the peaco |
table, and George Creel had set up aj
motion picture camera when the Pros-j
ldent took his seat, only to arise wich
a scream, having failed to notice that
his fourteen points were on the chair.
"Creel, see that that portion of tho,
film is destroyed," said the President,
and the historic event proceeded:
House—"l have some Important
communications here."
Wilson—"What are they?"
House—"The first Is from Bloyd-
George. He appoints you his proxy
at the peace conference."
Wilson—"l accept. Go on.''
Acts For AH the Allies
House—"The second Is from Pro
filer Clemenceau, lla asks you to
accept his proxy and represent
France."
Wilson—"l accept. Go on."
House.—"The next Is from Orlando.
He asks that you honor Italy by ac
cepting his proxy."
Wilson—"l accept. Go on."
And Col. llouse went on, with prox- j
ies from Rumania, Greece and Serbia, j
When nothing appeared from Monte- j
negro, Portugal or Japan, the Presi
dent remarked:
"Bah! Burleson has boil monkey
ing with the malls aguin. Well,
what's the first order of business?"
Housi- J -"The election of a presiding,
officer."
Wilson —"I accept."
House—"lt seems to me this mat-j
lei of a league of nations should be|
disposed of."
Wilson—"Assuredly, gentlemen, wo J
will now take up tho formation of aj
league of nations. Has the represent- ,
ative of Great Britain anything toj
suggest?"
Wilson (as Bloyd George)—"l have.
3t is that we select a president of
the league."
Wilson —"Perhaps M. Clemenceau
will favor us with his views."
Wilson (as Clemenceau) —"I can but
echo the sentiments of M. Bloyd
Gee: ge."
Wilson —"Signer Orlando, may we
not hear from you?"
AVilson (as Orlando) "Whatever
the bunch does suits me."
Own \ lew* l'nnecC!*ory
Wilson—"Gentlemen, since you are
Ir. such thorough accord, it would be
fruitless for me to waste your time
by expressing my own views, even If
they differed from yours. Whom
shall we name as first president of
the Beague of Nations?"
President Smith—"Wilson!"
Wilson —"Thank you, Tom. That's
the only good turn Tammany ever did
me."
When Henry Morgenthau had ap
pealed for a free Ireland, and Jere
miah O'Beary for a free Palestine, the
peace conference ended, with the
President. Col. House and Creel de- j
parting for their chevrons.
The dinner's fun started with tlioj
appearance of the dog A 1 Smith
bad prophesied he would take into the j
Executive Mansion with him as Gov- 1
ernor. The dog turned out to be a j
tiger.- and Governor Whitman was I
moved by the sight to take farewell]
of his greatness in the words of I
Richelieu.
Then Mayor Hylan dropped in to]
make a speech, which he did with so;
much eloquence that several times he:
looked up from his manuscript.
"I can be with you hut a little
while," the Mayor said, "ns I have to
attend the motormen's annual hall.
You know, before I was Mayor I was
sale! to be the best motorman tho 15.
R. T. ever fired. There are a lot ofj
jieople in the city to-night who regret!
exceedingly that I was ever tired, but;
tio matter for that.
Never Such n Mayor
"Far be it froqi me to boast of my
exploits In the realms of statesman
ship, but a friend of mine was talk
ing to another great statesman from
Washington, and this great statesman
said he hud been all over the world!
end he could say conscientiously that
he never in his life saw a big city
•with such a mayor as Mayor Hylan."
Euther B. Blttle, of the Corner, took
advantage of a formal apology for the
failure to hold a dinner last year to
Indulge in comments upon a variety
of things.
"You noticed." remarked President
Smith, "that Mayor Hylan has ap
pointed Mr. Hearst to welcome the
soldiers hack."
"Oh. yes, but the>'ll have their gas
masks," replied Mr. I.lttie.
"What do you think Mr. Henrst will
any to them?" asked Mr. Smith.
"Bruce Blelaski tells me he'll prob
ably yell 'Kanterad!' " said Mr. Blt
tle.
Chairman Hays, of the Republican
National Committee, and Senator
Hodge had a spirit>d colloquy, which
ended with the former's Intimation
that In 1920 his party would run a
major general for President on a
Wood-alcoliol ticket. This paved the
•way for the appearance, a little later,
of the devil, who learned for the first
time of the coming of prohibition.
. 'viow, what In hell is a prohibition
bill?" he demanded.
"Why,'' said President Smith,
"that's a law that prevents any one
(getting a drink—lf any one else
knows It."
Devil Define* Prohibition
"Ho, ho, ho!" roared the devil
"What a cinch! That makes it easy."
"WhAt's the biff Idea?" asked the
chalrmpn. ,
"Why, If they send those Huns to
hell I'll move up here and bo among;
my friends. This will be a hell of a
place."
Then came the announcement that
Governor Smith had named his staff—
T. Fortescue Cod. for adjutant gen
eral; E. Stuyvesant Flounder, for mili
tary secretary, and so on do\<rn the
line. The staff Itself came In. wear
ing caps, sweaters and jumpers, car
rying; Jimmies and blackjacks, toj
lockstep all over the room, singing
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
one of the lyrics written for the din
ner by James A. Hagerty. It ran:
"Stand up erect and throw our yer
chests.
Brush back your hair and pull down
yer vests.
Bet Whitman see what a staff can be
When It comes direct from the Bow
wow-ry.
We're Generals now an' we mlist look
great,
For we're all employed by our beau
tiful state.
We're the pride and elite of old Oliver
street
And we'll never be poor any more.
"The Bowery, the Bowery,
Now Whitman knows how the big
vote goes
On the Bowery, the B®wery,
He'll never roast uj any more."
Murphy Gets In the l.lmcllglit
One more stunt marked the even
ing. This was a noisy quarrel be
tween Charles F. Murphy and one of
the waitresses, which purported to
start over her refusal to give him
some more sugar, but which was ex
plained by Murphy's confession that
he was afrnld he would be overlookel
in the festivities, and hnd "staked her
to $5 to start something, so he'd get
into a stunt."
If. A. Vivian plnyed President Wil
son; Charles S. Hand played Creel:
.Tomes A. Hagerty. Col. House; P. T.
Rellihan, Mayor Hylan: J. V. Owin,
Hays; C. O. Ilnmbrldge, Hodge; K. R.I
Buther, Murphy and Charles T.
White, Frank A. Tlerney. James P.
Gilroy, Harold Anderson, Charles i
=
Dives, Pomeroij & Stewart
The Annual Winter Sale of Apparel For Women and Children
Commences Tomorrow With Extraordinary Savings
p- — —~ ! °f fashionable apparel for women,
v miio establishes an
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Steckler and W1 Ham A. Brady, the
members of Governor Smith's staff.
Ross Jennings in Regiment
Cited For Bravery Under
Fire in Great Advance
Ross Jennings, son of William
Jennings, banker, is a member of
tho Eleventh Engineers, which regi
ment was decorated for gallantly
and efficiency in action.
The regiment was cited for serv
ives rendered during the St. Mthlel
otfensixe, and the offensivo between
the Meuso and Argonne Forest.
Colonel George S. Spaulding, chief
engineer of the First American
Army, commended tlib regiment us
follows:
"The chief engineer desires to ex
press his highest appreciation to you
and your resigent for the services
rendered by you to the First Army
in connection with the St. Mihiel
offensive, starting September 12, and
the offensivo botWeen the Mause and
the Argonne, starting September 26,
end the continuance of that offensive
November J. The success of these
offensives and supply of the Army
is largely due to the excellent work
performed by your regiment."
Young Jenningp enlisted May 28,
1917, at the age of nineteen. He
was a sophomore at Lehigh. He
went overseas In July, 1917, and was
among tho first 20,000 Americans
to go overseas. The regiment was
caught in shell holes during- Gen
BDLRRI3BTTRG TEEEGTOtPB!
eral Byng's famous Cambra! ad
vance, and won praise for Its gal
lantry under its baptism of lire -at
that time.
The regiment haa been working
with tho British army more than
the American, nnd has been in all
parts of the fighting zones.
Besides Ross, Mr. Jennings has
two other sons ,in the service, C. L.
Jennings, who is now forty miles
it i.th cf France, and'
William W. Jennings, who is con
nected with tho Ordnance Depart
ment, with tho Fiiat Army, In
Frajteo. These boys are aged 18
and 21, respectively.
Fleeing From Mouse
Woman Breaks Leg
Mercer, Pa. Mrs. Anna McEl
haney is suffering from a broken leg
and all on account of a little mouse.
The woman spied the in the
parlor and quickly mounted a piano
stool. The house cat was asleep be
hind the piano nnd in her endeavors
to awaken old Tom Mrs. McElhancy
fell from the stool.
WRONG TRUCK
Tt was Inadvertently stated In the
Telegraph that in sending contri
butions from Odd Fellows lodges
of the city to the Odd Fellows Or
phans' Homo of Central Pennsylva
nia, Bowman and Company's truck
was used. The phrase should have
read, "Brown and Company's truck."
NOTHING COULD
STOP IRON MEN
Flower of German Army Is
Crushed by Advance of
*2Bth Division
An Interesting story of a base
ball game in France In which "Ike"
Strominger, of Mechunlcsburg par
ticipated, is recounted in a letter
from Corporal Mark S. Phillips,
Company A, 103 rd Supply Train,
i Writing In a "Dad's Christinas Let
! tor" to liis father, P. L. Phillips,
: 183 3 arket street, he says: •
'M'As the censorship has been cut
I out to a certain extent 1 thought I
I would write and toll you what wc
| havo been'doing and where I have
I been.
! "As present wo are located in a
: woods übout soyen miles (11 kllo
: meters) northeast of St. Mihiel. This
; Is ground that the Yanks captured In
August. Previous to this tho Ger
i mans had held sv'ctor for four
years. And they liav a all kinds
of shacks built here. We are liv
ing in one of these shacks. It has a
ctmcnt floor, seven bunks, a table,
two benches and a stove, plenty of
eootlcs and rats but at that It Is a
very comfortable home.
Now for going back to Camp Mills
and I will toll you of events and
dates ns near as poi.aibie. We left
Camp Mills on May 26, going to
Bong Island City where we ferried
to a dock at the foot of Forty-Second
street, New York City, and loaded
on to the steamship "Kllwa." This
boat was previously a British mall
boat, running between London nnd
Calcutta, - India. This was Its llrst
trip with American troops. The next
morning we steamed out about 8
o'flock. There wero about 1,800
soldiers on tho boat und there wore
thirteen shjps In the convoy. We
were convoyed by an American bat
tle cruiser for ten days and the
tenth day we met a flotilla of Amer
ican destroyers and tlioy convoyed
us Into Liverpool, England. Wc did
not see a U-boat on the entire trip,
nqd every ship docked • safely ut
Liverpool on June 7.
"Tno next morning we landed and
marched through the streets of Liv
erpool to the truin. We entrained
nnd arrived at Winchester, England,
thnt evening and hiked up a long
lilll to Morn Bill Camp, an English
rest camp. We stayed there the
following (jay and entrained, leaving
Winchester about 9 a. m. June 10,
arrived at South Hampton about 1
p. m. We loaded on a chnnnel boat
and tho next morning woke up in
Havre. France. We hiked to a camp
about flvc miles. Tho next day we
hiked up a long bill nnd were Is
sued steel helmets and gas masks.
The following day we left L'Huvre
for a point twelve miles south of
aris. We arrived there about noon
on June 13. That evening wo were
JANUARY I, 1919.
Issued trucks and drove them out at
9 p. m. We drove through Paris
eurly the next morning. And by that
afternoon we wero under the ob
servation bnloons on the Somme
front near Montdidler. We hauled
ammunition from the First Division
Ammunition. Dump to the Marines
whe were in line near Chuteau-
Thlerry. This was oiir llrst experi
ence under shell fire und from this
time on things were very lovely."
Too Much to Write
"After delivering the ammunition
we drove hack to Gonesse. about ten
miles north of Paris, where we met
tho division. From here wo moved
up into the line on July 3. The
division went Into line directly back
of Chateau Thierry. 1 suppose you
have read of what happened there.
From July 3 to 14 the Germans
stnrtod the drive on -Parl3. You
know the results. Three days later,
the Americans counter-ittneked and
drove the Germans to the -Vesle
river. What happened during this
time it Is impossible to write as it
Would take'too long to tell you.
It was here around Fismo that
the 28th Division wo"n its spurs. "CTie
Germans used their best divisions
and many of them. Hut the enn
sylvania boys licked them all. It
was about n mile from Fisme where
I was wounded by a shell. I will
tell you the circumstances later. 1
walked to a field battery and there
a medical man wrapped up my arm
and about fifteen minutes later I
got an ambulance and rode to a
first aid station. I was given the
1 "A. T. L." there. That is an in
jectlon to prevent tetanus and lock,
jaw. Got on another ambulance and
rode to a field hospital near Fer-en.
Tardenois. Changed ambulance)
and rode to an evacuation hospital
near Chateau Thierry. X was op
erated on that night and at noon of
August 9 1 was put on a hospital
train at Chateau Thierry and ailtp.
ped to Vlttel to Bnse Hospital No.
23. 1 was there ten days an I'was
shipped to Base Hospital 48, near
Nlevre In Central France. I was.ct
this hospltul for almost two months.
I was shipped to a casual camp and
from there back to Company A
They were at Monancourt near ToJl|
when I got there. I sure was gladl
to sue the boys again. X was 1J
Paris and Toul the other day. \vJ
have not moved from wbpjre uJ
were when the armistice wai SIMS
cd. We will probably know whM
Is going to happen to us after tho
peace terms are signed.
"I started this letter this after
noon but I went up to see the foot
ball game. The 103 rd Supply Train
played the 112 th Infantry. Wo won,
6-0. It was somo game. The play
ers were mud from head to foot.
Ike Stromlnger was In the game aJ
usual. The mud was caked on hi#
face so thick that you could not seo
his moustache.
"After the game I came down to
the bunk. We had a good supper
and. were issued candy and cigarets
as this Is Thanksgiving Day.
"And I assure you that we have
something to be thankful for, and
that Is getting out of this affair with
our hides."