New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-18
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go, the last Ueek the wrtter has been
NTH the American Army Vhere u Is
nearest the front. He has eaten meg,
matched the qas practice, and JenerdtB
| Hrcd NTH this section Of the army an
each one Of the UHlGges Vhere u IS o"-
! ieted)
The men who came first are now mere
we'll up toward tho front, doing their DIT III
learning how TO kill. 1t would be easy 70
write general talk about these many men OF
many nationalities from all the states one
would then say that unfatigued youth Is IN
their walk in their eyes, in their speech
They MI the villages with their slang and
swing They boost the prices till dinner IN
simple country village costs 81. tiny
room, two flights up, and over stable,
costs so cents. 4 pair Of leather CATERS,
worth from s. to 81, costs $14. But our
soldiers Shell out" good naturedly, play
baseball, throw hand grenades, sing Keep
the Home Fires Burning" and eat three
good meals, 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 uniform of the French Twen-
ty-ffth, is leader of the peasant children
who ring the mess around, and pick up, not
the crumbs, but the slices that fall from the
tins of our soldiers. Flaky, bilowy white
bread, what n comfort 70 the stomach that
has grown sour on the browns OF England
end Francel believe that this war will be
won by American white bread.
The Record of Minnesota Danes
But to come to cases. 1t is more convinc-
ing to tell of individual men have met in
this brave little advance army. have met
the eighteen year old boy whom we will call
Bernard Beck, private, a Dane. He comes
from Tyler, MINI. This is a village in Lin
coin County, in the southwest corner OF the
state. 1t has a population of 700, and on
the first call for volunteers (long before
conscrption) it responded with Al men, of
whom % are Danes.
"You Tyler people are good Americans"
said to Beck.
1--WE had one fellow" he answered, "who
talked up for the Germans, but he had to
leave town"
He pulled from his pocket list Of his
friends who had volunteered from the viii
lage. There were Joseph Vadheim and
Clinton Erksen, of Norwegian descent;
william Schnell and William Reitz, Ger
man; Charles Glynn and George Donovan,
Irish; Carl OLSON Swede; John Ferguson,
Scotch; and the rest all Danes Seventy per
cent Of the village is Of Danish descent, so
Beck told me, and all good Americans.
Then there is Private Daniel Sanders, from
Homestead Penn. His father was an Hun
garian.
"You don't find any holes in that arm, do
you?" ne asked, barring the forearm, bicep
and tricep.
| did not.
He asked for wooden plank, and wad-
ding his handkerchief into his fist, and grip
ping nail, he drove il through the board.
Then he drove two at once. When he is
feeling tit he goes through more than one
inch. He has offered to give "Y" exhibit
Tony is the army abbreviation for the
NJ. c. A. huts for soldiers-wth such
specialties as breaking a wagon axle over
his neck by letting eight men hang on the
axle, bending a gas pipe on his skull, lifting
a man in chair with two fingers, lifting
man and table with his teeth. drawing three
motor cars full Of people with his teeth, and
lifting man by steel comb in his hair
He has gone by the name Of the "lron-JaW
King" in local exhibits at home. He is