The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-10-19
AMERICAN VERSION
OF FRENCH LINES
Leader of Uncle Sans Soldiers
In France Amends PhiIos-
ophy Of PoiIus.
DON'T WORRY, IS THEME
Major General slbert Writes MESSAGE
Giving Cheer to Men Who Are to
Follow Him Across the
Atlantic Ocean.
BY EDWARD q. CLARK.

~ EbWAnD .. CLARK.
washington. - Official dispatche,
have let the public know that Mai
Gen. William L. Sibert has landed ir
France and Is in command of tn,
american camp. Proof that the wa,
department was right In Its officia,
statement has come to me in the form
or q personal letter from the general
written on the day that the convoyed
ships locked, and written also appar.
entiy at moment when the stationery
OF ordinary correspondence, official
ana non-ofiiclal, was not to be had
Tor the immediate asking. Also there
are evidences that the general NAV
nave written his message to his old
friend with an unplaned hardtack box
as a desk. However, the letter and its
contents were grateful.
1t Is not for me to tell what tho
general says In his letter, except to
say that he tells nothing which the
censor would not be willing to pass.
There is something connected with
tMs communication, however, which
one can make public probably without
running the risk Of bringing down
upon him the wrath of the war de-
partment.
Inc general In looking about for
some paper to write his message on
picked up sheet which In part al
ready had been used by an American
army officer who desired to cheer up
the men who are to follow him; his
general and his comrades in the way
across the ocean.
The French Version.
There is a suspicion that Captain
Sherman Of the Engineers corps was
the man who had written on the pa-
per, but General Slbert took 1t for his
own purposes. Sherman, or whoever
he was, has reproduced one version
of the well-known lines Concerning
a concern" at the front and which are
called or might be called. Don't
Worry" He has added something
of his own. This is the first YER
sion:
Two things are certain: Either YOU
are mobilized or you are not mobil.
ized.
II you are not modified, there Is
no need to worry; If your are mobil-
lied,
Two things are certain: Either you
are at the front or you are not at the
front.
II you are not at the front, there
is no need to worry; If you are at the
front,
Two things are certain: Either you
are In immediate danger or you are
not In immediate danger.
II you are not In immediate danger
there Is no need to worry; If you are
In immediate danger,
Two things are certain: Either
you are wounded or you are not
If you are not wounded, there is no
need to worry; If you are wounded,
Two things are certain: Either
you are seriously wounded or you are
not seriously wounded.
If you are not seriously wounded,
there is no need to worry; IL you are
seriously wounded,
Two things are certain: Either you
get well or you die.
If you get well there Is no need to
worry; If you die, you can't worry.
The American Version.
Here is the American officers adden-
DUN to the lines given above, and 1t
may be that 1t will make philosophical
the Regulars, the Guardsmen and the
new army men who are to go to
France:
Two things are certain: Either
you are ordered to France or you are
not ordered to France.
If you are not ordered to France,
there is no need to worry; IL you are
ordered to France,
Two things are certain: Either you
are summarized or you are not subma-
rined.
If you are not summarized, there Is
no need to worry; If you are subma-
rlned,
Two things are certain: Either you
are picked up or you are not picked
up.
If you are picked up, there is no
need to worry; II you are not picked
up,
Two things are certain: Either you
drown or you don't drown.
II you don't drown, there is no need
to worry, If you do drown, you can't
worry.
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