Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-10-04

ttOr the last week tne WrlleE mas
been with the American Army where
II is nearest the front. He has eaten
mess, watched the gas practice, and
generally lived with this section OF the
army in each one of the villages where
II is billeted.l
The men who came first are now
here, well up toward the front, doing
their bit in learning how to kill. II
would be easy to write general talk
about these many men OF many ma
tionalities from all. the states. One
would then say that unfatigued youth
is in their walk, in their eyes, in their
speech. They fill the villages with
their slang and swing. They boost
the prices till dinner in a simple coun-
try village costs 81. A tiny room, two
flights up and cover a stable, costs
so cents. A pair of leather CATERS,
worth from So to 81, costs $li. But
our soldiers shell out" good natured-
", play baseball, throw hand gren.
AIDES, sing Keep the Home Fires Barn
ing" and eat three good meals day
with delicious white bread on the
side.
The trail of white bread left by our
army is the outstanding feature OF the
American invasion. Little Chariot,
twelve years old, dressed in the uni
form OF the French Twenty-hfth, is
leader OF the peasant children who
bring the mess around, and pick up
not the crumbs, but the slices that
fall from the tins of our soldiers
Flaky, billowy white bread. what {
comfort to the stomach that has
grown sour on the browns Of England
and France! | believe that this wal
will be won by American white bread
The Record of Minnesota Danes
But to come to cases. It is more
convincing to tell of individual men
have met in this brave little advance
army. have met the eightecn.ycar
old boy, whom we will call Bernard
Beck, private, a Dane. He come'
from Tyler. MINI. This is a village
in Lincoln county, in the southwes
corner of the state. II has popula
ton OF 700, and on the first call 70
volunteers Qong before CONSUMPTION,
1t responded with Al men, of whom q
are Danes.
"You Tyler people are good Ameri
cans" said to Beck.
"We had one fellow" he answered
who talked up for The Germans, bu
he had to leave town"
He pulled from his pocket a list o
his friends who had volunteered iron
the village. There were Joseph Vac
helm and Clinton Eriksen, of Norw'
gian descent; William SChnell an
William Reitz, German: Charles Giyn
and George Donovan. Irish; Carl ~
son, Swede; John Ferguson, Scotch
and the rest all Danes, Seventy pr
cent OF the village Is OF Danish az
scent. so Beck told me, and all goo
Americans.
Then there Is Private Daniel Sa,
doris, from Homestead, Penn. Hj
father was a Hungarian.
"You don't find any holes in thl
arm. do your" he asked. barring q,
forearm, bicep and tricep.
did not.
He asked for wooden plank. ~
wadding his handkerchief into his a.
and gripping q nail. he drove
through the board. Then he drove tv'
ut once. When he is feeling III h
goes through more than one invh II
las offered to give a "Y" exhibition
"Y" is the army abbreyiation for th
Y. NJ. G. A. huts for soldiers wit
such specialties as breaking a WACO
axle over his neck by letting cigh
men hang on the axle. bending "a
pipe on his skull, lifting n man an
table with his teeth. drawing tire
motor cars full of people with hi
teeth, and lifting man by a stec
comb in his hair. He has gone by th
name OF the "IronJaw king" In loca
exhibits at home. lie is twcnty.tw,
years old and enlisted for the Wa
with Mexico
Just as Sanders was sailing foj
France New York tough saw hin
In the street and thought he had met
a harmless country boy tthe one hun
dred and eighty pounds OF nghtine
muscle are hidden in "oit's clothes'D
at waS our last day in the United
States" says Sanders, reminiscently.
II was thinking I'll never see GUd's
country any more. was thinking NJ
else and hit him good. I'm
ipt the strongest man in the world,