Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-05
. MEXICAN FIELD HEADQUAkTERS-It was
II up to the chauffeur to find the company we
uranted When he needed more information

n mn to the chauffeur to find the company we
wanted When he needed more information
he would stop the car at the nrst group OF
"Hey fellows." is the way he always began MS
question They might not be able to help
Them fellows up there might know, they
thought There was a fellow down from that COM
pany last night.
The machine gun driver had trouble with his
mule when the car stopped. He said he'd attend to
"you fellows" as soon as ne mad Attended u Inc
mule He had found the man who knew.
Take the first turn to the right, fellow, SAID
be Or maybe they say fellas." Not fellers, GER
tainly Felers only happen in magazine fiction
This isn't a suggestion for name for the new
army or the new soldier. Names are not conferred
that way 1t isn't possible to slap the army on the
back with a name. king does to baking pow
der magnate, and say, Rise up, Sir Sammy IL Is
merely a statement that when they talk 10 or OIL
each other they are apt to say Fellow or lei
lah." -.. .,o. ,ot
banaI of all names-the "Sammies." The neWspa-
nars have taken it up and they make it stick. II
all the newspapers in the world continue to speak
of the American soldier as Sammy other people
NAV eventually follow suit. All but the sololer
bimsaIf That Sammy" stigma is about the only
thing that gets his military goat He frotns ABOUT
Wherever l have gone in the American army
have asked the same question::
Ever hear any of the soldiers speak OF them
selves as 'Sammles Z! al, -.
terlv blame the newspapers for this outrage. They
wonder If they will be able to live it down Today
7 visited an infantry organization in company Win
one of the best known magazine writer's or the DAY
The first officer spoke to came right to the
point: "a. - .aon,.
YOU call us 'Sammies. ,.
The other officers nodded approvngly. This
10 matter that weighs upon them, too. Inc men
resent It as grievance, they said. Some OF them
are writing home about it,
France calls her soldiers 'poius." That means
hairy and is term of praise as we'll as endear-
mant Time was when the Frenchman's ch1ef glory
was his beard. The whiskerer he was the more
competent he felt to fill an echoing place IN the
world Friends who have lived in France for years
have told me of encountering bearded Frenchmen
in tramcars =. A..
The bearded ones would stare absently at the
hare American face. By and by, unconsciously, as
though following out a subterranean tram OF
thought they would begin stroking their moving
vanities Sometimes they foppish and often
sive persons, who would comb out their chin-locks
and pet them, while their eyes were fixed on the
naked unfortunate across the way.
''See what a whsker | have" they seemed 10
he saving to themselves. Don't you envy me?
Whiskers are no longer in favor with the rising
generation though the elder men still ambush
themselves behind jimhamlewis. But the old
name persists because whiskers once were the out
ward and visible sign OF strength. The hairy ones,
Of NapoIeon's time were strong men indeed. So
are those of Poincare's.
But the newspapers did not make the name