Arizona republican., 1917-10-14

local exhibits at home. He 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
a harmless country boy (the one hun
bred 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 I'll never see Gods
! country any more and hit him good.
| I'm not the strongest man in the
world. nothing like that. I'll 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. Well
I'll have to beat it. I'm on water call
! tonight"
| A young marine of the Battalion cf
the - Marines is a professional
boxer, stripping at 1897 pounds. He
I is the son of horse breeding farmer
/ in Missouri, who bred EARLY Reaper,
2:09 flat the boy explained.
I've come four thousand miles to
get crack at the Germans" he
added.
These boys are red faced, young
| with drive. One meets many boys.
eighteen and nineteen years old, bnt
the average age is about twenty
| three. --.a-....
There's not a touch of 'blueness'
among them said j. II. Edwards,
secretary of the hut at
| They're just boys, fulgrown to be
sure, but boys
One man came into hut and asked
for a Spanish French grammar. 1t
turned out that this is his second en-
listment He first saw service in
| Porto Rico You will find new On I
again. a COMPANY of old t;mnrs nv
who have been in service fifteen to
twenty years. Sergeant Murphy, of
| the -- Infantry. has served for
] twenty-six years-Cuba. the Philip
pines. all our brushes. These old time
| sci geants are the key of the army.
They are on an equality with the men,
but they understand disciDline,,
Speaking for the few thousand men
whom | saw in this furthest advanced
| section of the army. the regulars
number about rs per cent, and the
other three-quarters are volunteers
who came in on the declaration of
war. The regulars, with their, ex-
perience, are well scattered among the
newcomers. so as to give foundation
on which to build morale. The police
sergeant of with three gold
! teeth in his front upper jaw, which
come out in a chilly smile, is another
old timer. 1t is his duty to make
the life of prisoners uncomfortable
\ with hard work. Otherwise the boys
! would break rules and stay out after
hours. He was speaking of the lum-
! Der shortage and the difficulty of
getting any pine boards for the huts.
I'm between fire and hot water
myself" he said
When the War Came to Texas
! A Texas man strolled into the hut
where | was spending the night and
began talking about his home and
| district. He lives thirty miles from
| Texarkana, and his hands were
bunged up from his army work as
| mule skinner" He told how the
circulation of the local newspapers
! Jumped as soon as war was declared.
The people thought they might as
well know about it as not" he ex-
| planned.
THE kaiser won't do was his
summary of Texas public opinion. and
he explained why his state felt that
way: IT'S busting international law
made our folks see the war-it was
shooting the steamers"
/ sat near a group of soldiers in the
| hut at They had come
| in for a cake of chocolate and Il
smoke. The talk ran on to the new
army life of the last six months.
/ I'D give 'em a hundred dollars to
send me back" said one.
Il don't want to go back till l see
something" replied the man across
the table.
It's nicer to be over where you
can savvy. where you can be with
your own people," put in third man.
"Over here you have to make all
kinds of movements to make them
cough up
Il came into the army to work." as
serted boy; 1T makes a man out
of you"
1T makes a growler out of most"
replied an older man.
! well, you've got to take it just as
it comes" advised the philosopher OF
4 the group. I'm getting all the money
+ need. Go back to the States anu
4 you'll not be satisfied I'll take an
other good taste of the army. I've got
a brother, getting on six years in the
l'l2th cavalry. says it's the incest life
he ever lived"
\ The American turn is in their
speech all the time-not only the
charming southern sl'r and the New
England twang, but the littlegsurprise
in the wording itself. L was sitting