East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-30
HAVE
GOOD TIME At FRONT
SHEPHERD SAYS DON'T WoR-
RY" ABOUT NEWSPAPER
MEN-TREATED WELL.
(By William G.. Shepherd, United
Press staff Correspondent

Wy W lllldil ". SANHAtANt aNNN
Press staff Correspondent
BERNE, Switzerland. Oct. IA
BY Mail 10 New York)-Now that
there is no censor between me and
the United States, can write that
the allies are giving the newspaper
men all the best of 1t, except when
II comes to censoring cables. There
are strict rules, II is true, about keep
ing too close to the scene Of action
but the punishments are not severe
and any newspaperman who paints
them as such needs a sense of humor
or deliberately exaggerates.
81 was led into go. chained to a
German prisoner, with the crowd
hooting at me for a spy" one war
, correspondent told me. 1 suppose
that he published 1t that way too. II
Just happened that this occurred In
the town where I was being held my
self and I saw this young man led
in" AS a matter Of fact he passed
through the town to headquarters
walking beside a very courteous
French officer, who later requested
him to take his bicycle and leave the
place.
Now that I can slip it by the CEN
sor let me tip it off to Americas mil
lions. who. perhaps. are worrying
trifle about how terribly American
newspapermen are being treated:
Don't fret. Most Of us will get
through somehow, thank you!"
IF YOU. as an onlooker, want to get
out from behind one side in this con-
flict and get over behind the other
there's no use Of trying to break
through the lines. You've got to go
out Of bounds and olflow the sidelines
And this brings me to Switzerland
with a railroad ticket in my pocket Tor
Vienna. have swung around the
right end.
The last soldier I talked to wore
the uniform of France with black
little Senegalese who had a bullet In
his right lung and had been sent back
home. His jacket was still bloody
Two other wounded Senegalese were
with him. He was tough, and half
drunk. Though an Arab he spoke
Spanish and when he discovered that
7 spoke Spanish, too, he cut loose
against the French in the presence OF
a half dozen Frenchmen, who could
not understand
We've been treated like dogs ne
said "the food was scarce and alb
ominable. There was no Red Cross
to take care of us and we were all
suffering in the field from cold. That
man over there went crazy" he added
pointing to a comrade
The man made some very unusuai
sounds. afterwards, but perhaps ne
was only speaking Arabic.
This little ''last soldier of the al
lies" during our talk opened his shirt
with one hand and took off his fez
with the other. In one hand he held
out charm OF Christian creed. With
the other he grasped an odd little tuft |
Of hair on the back of his, otherwise,
well trimmed head.
MY father is a Mussulman." he
said. "and il / came home without |
his tuft Of hair he'd say, MY son
has gone back on his religion" And |
( l didn't wear this charm back my
mother would say, My son is no
onger a Christian So l wear them
10Th"
But what are you really?" I asked.
'Mussulman." he said 81 don't
Ike the way you Christians kill each
ther."
He tucked the charm away, flatten-
q out the tuft Of hair, put on his fez
aid 'adiose" which in his Arabic is
Ahmselhair," and got off to take
rain for Marseilles, whence a boat
'ould carry him to his peaceful AZ
ice where folks aren't civilized