The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-06
The Men Who Came First
M .t the A"ercansin
w. Young he .
ny Arthur Gl@son.

lie has eaten mess. whtched th' s"H
,,,,c,Ioe. and generally lived with this
..etlon of the army In each one OF the
VILLAGES where Il is bIlletcdJ
The men who came first are nov here
well an toward the front. doing their
al. 4, learning how to XIII. Il would
be easy to write general TAIN a"o"'
thcse many men OF many nationaiie'''H
from all the states. One would theh say
that unfatlgucd youth Is in their walk.
in their eyes In their speech. They MI
the villages with their slang and swing.
Thev boost the prices tlll dinner IN
n simple country village costs ~
,irv room. two flights up and over n
.foble costs so cents. pair OF leather
y,iters. worth from 50 TO 81, costs sl4.
am our soldiers "sholl out" good ma
tu,ellv. MAY baseball. throw hand gren'
,d.s sing keep the Home Fires Burn
ing" ard eat three good meats 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 wears old. dressed In the uniform
81 the peasant children VINO bring the
mess around. and pick up. not the
c-unnl,. but the slices that fan from
the tins Of our soldiers. Fiaky' bhlowy
white bread. what a comfort 10 the
stomach that has grown sour on the
browns Of England ana France' he
lleve that this war will be won by
american white bread
Record OF Minnesota Danes.
Ru. TO come TO cases. IL Is more con
yinang TO tell OF Individual men I have
met In this brave little advance army.
have met the eighteen year old boy,
whom we will call Bernard Beck. pri-
yate. a Dane He comes from Tyler
Aiinn This is a village in Lincoln
County. in the southwest corner of the
state II has a population OF 700.
and on the first call for volunteers
dong before conscription) IT responded
with Al men. OF whom 22 are Danes.
You Tyler people are good Ameri-
cans" said to Beck.
I'VE had one fellow he answered.
who talked up for the Germans, but
he had Ia leave town"
lie pulled from his pocket a list of
his friends who had volunteered from
the village. There were Joseph Vad-
helm and Clinton Eriksen. of Norwe-
eian descent; William Schnell and VIII
liam Reitz. German: 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
Hungarian.
You don't find any holes in that arm.
90 your" he asked. barring the forearm
bicep and tricep.
did not
lie asked for "a wooden plank. and
wsldding his handkerchief into his fist,
and gripping n nail. he drove it through
the board Then he drove two at once.
When he is feeling fit he goes through
more than one inch. He has offered
10 give a ''Y'' exhibition-"Y" is the
amy abbreviation for the Y M. G. A.
huts and soldiers-with such special
ties as breaking a wagon axle over his
neck by letting eight men hang on the
axle. bending gas pipe on his skull,
lifting a man in a chair with his teeth
drawing three motor cars full of people
with his teeth. and lifting a man by n
steel comb in his hair He has gone
by the name of Iron jaw King" in
ocai exhibits at home. lie is twenty.
two years old and enlisted for the war
with Mexico.
Just as Sanders was sailing for
France a New York tough saw him in
The street and thought he had met n
harmless country boy (he one hundred |
and eighty pounds of fighting muscle |
are hidden in "cit's clothes') |
1T was our last day in the United \
states" says Sanders, reminiscently. Il
was thinking of something else and hit |
him good. I'm not the strongest man
IN the world. nothing like that. ri just |,
do the show for the soldiers, so they |
can have something new every once in
"A while We used to loaf together !
Now we're at war together. Wen, III |
have to beat II. I'm on water call to-
night"
A young marine is a professional |
boxer, stripping at 149 1-2. He is the |
son of horse breeding farmer in Mis-
souri, who bred EARLY Reaper. 209 |
Cat" the boy explained.
I've come four thousand miles TO
get A crack at the Germans" he added |
These boys are red faced. young. with |
,rive. One meets many boys. eighteen
and nineteen years old. but the aver.
age age is about twenty-three.
There's not a touch of 'bueness
among them" said J. II. Edwards, secre.
tary of the hut They're just boys,
full-grown to be sure. but boys"
One man came into a hut and asked
fnr a Spanish-French grammar. 1t
turned out that this is his second en-
.istmont He first saw service in Porto
Rico You viii find. now and again.
A company of old timers. men who have
been IN service fifteen TO twenty years.
Murphy has served for twen-
ty-six years-Cuba. the Philippines. all
our brushes These old time sergeants
are the key of the army. They are
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