Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-06-25
GREAT STUFF, THIS
WAR WRITING GAME
Colonel Whitehead I'm
bosoms Himself on the
Military Dope.
LOVE THE UNIFORM
BOYS From Clinton and Du-
rant Left Several Girls
Behind.
BY COL. BEN G. WHITEHEAD.
(Staff Correspondent

OKLAHOMA CITY. June "a
When General Sherman used to tell
what war is they used to swear. Now
the competent authorities merely
"blow up" Since Billy Sunday came
to town the polite society uses tho
word hell" with less hesitation than
it would adopt in saying mo trump.
And in military life you always flnd
polite society. The newsboy, unused To
the reserved expressions of those who
eat pie with spoon, Will become IA
Chesterfield over night and remain
such as long as he wears the olive
drab The farmer boy, accustomed To
stepping high to get well over the fur
rows and the rattlesnakes, glides
easily along with a grace that is fine.
Standing attention becomes a fixed
habit with the younger set
1t is wonderful thing to be war
correspondent. | can speak advisedly,
for J have been working at II regularly
for three days and a little more. My
military experience has been very
wide As a member of a governors
staff up in North Dakota | Will never
forget, as fat as | am, how wide that
steed was that prancing, charging
sorrel that | rode up the avenue and
out into the country over fences ana
through brush until | was miles from
talcum powder and prespiring freely.
And they all laughed at me, it semed.
And iust imagine how a suffering man
feels when the ignorant bystanders
laugh and laugh at him. So. my only
military experience has been as u sun
burst colonel and the only powder |
ever smclled was talcum. But l am
getting calloused to the war game,
and am willing to bleed once more for
my country's cause, but not astride
wide horse. Yet l will never be able
TO live down that title of Colonel"
1t was first given to me as private
citizen when l merely had boil on
my nose. No Judge in oklahoma
ever survives it, and no Colonel
seems to climb up 10 private citizen
ship again. You know that Max
O'Rell said there are slXty-five mill
lion people in America mostly colo
onels."
| have been devotee of head
quarters since l Joined the throwing
staff of The World, and l have noticed
in particular that none of those fel-
lows who thirsted for blood two or
three weeks ago are absent now. The
fellows who wanted to go down and
choke CarranZa to death, single
handed, have gone to Gushing or
Tishominga or some other seaport
city. And when | look at the enlist
ment rolls i find that not one of those
fire. eaters has found time to come.
1t has been the history of all wars that
the town bully didn't make much of
soldier 1t has been the quiet fell
low who has led the charges, who has
worn the scars. The Hot Stove league
has seldom contributed much to the
country's cause in warfare. II is the
young fellow the quick thinking, am
bilious citizen around the early twen-
ties who carry the muskets and who
fill the officers lists.
The Passing Show.
II did me a world of good that first
Monday morning when the truth was
forced upon us that II was to be a
case Of fight. / was at the office of
Captain Lee of NJ company, Oklahoma
City, early in the morning. Within