Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09

learning to fight the kaisers fat
heads"
That was yesterday, the chewing
gum salesman's first day, remember.
saw him again tonight. when he
shambled wearily up TO the cores
pondents' hotel, the one lively ching
about him being an irrepressibie
Manhattan trench coat" an overcoat
OF fighting stripes. considerably belt
ed, a coat that would do very well in
the trenches-as camouflage for q
chicken coop.
We'll" he began. II see where I
could use couple OF nice fat Zeppe-
Inns. Fine Job ahead of me. Good
night, I'm as tired as an old barn.
! came here with well-memorized
little piece about my gum all In
French. ! expected to have TO sing
II to couple convenient TOBACCO and
candy madames and monseers and
come away with some small orders,
cause I'm only trying to introduce
o,lr goods and get our window cards
up so our Americans won't forget us.
Then the big orders will come OF
themselves. BHt no easy p.ckings for
your little friend. | got n good thou
sand miles of hoofing on my calen-
dar. l walked clear to Z and
back today. No taxis. No street
cars. No cabs. No wagons. No moth
ing. j got to try to get that old es-
taminet guy on the corner TO ferry
me around in his wheelbarrow. Good
night. War is nothin to this.
They Were Everywhere.
What? Why did go TO =?
Why have ] got to go over the whole
jollie French map? My orders says
20 get our gum before our boys, and
man alive--they're in funny little
parties stretched all over this parley
VOC panorama. ] saw 'em all the way
10 z. and they tell me it's the
same on all sides. One guy told me
that an aviator told him that when
you're flying over France and you see
dandelions growing everywhere. that
in uniforms.
why, | had an idea that the way
they trained an army was TO line up
the whole bunch, with one guy with
megaphone out In front and bunch
Of lip-yippers along with the men to
repeat the orders. Then i thot this
leading guy would say, You hold the
bayonet so and stick It in So show
ing 'em where the jugular vein was
in a man. Then ! thot he'd say, Now
up bayonet, spear EN-, and out,-one,
good night they don't pull that stuff
a-tall.
First they chops up the whole
array into these little chunks-little
classes, you know. See? Some of
whose classes have only about ten
guys in 'em. and with a separate In
structor. Each class has its own
little playground. / saw dozens of 'em
from here TO T.. First they
sit down on the ground In a nice
picnic circle. When | saw 'en sit
| ting around so nice and serious as
II they we're hearing n bedtime story,
| expected one of 'em to jump up any
minute and cry out, oh, goodness!
Those nasty ants!'
Yes, They're Busy.
"Rut there's not much sitting down
those boys get, take II from me. In
n couple jiffies they're up with their
guns-say, did you ever lift one
their guns and gouging out the
stuffings of some Germans filled with
hay instead of beer. And when they
have had an hour of that, they play
| athletic games-to rest, mind you.
And pretty soon they're drilling or
bomb throwing.
And this is going on not only
from here to =, but all over
France! It's a pretty big thing, isn't
it now? There'd be fine chance for
a lot Of grandstanding, but they seem