The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17
Tired of "Rubber-
Neck Delegates" to France.
Disguised, Too, With Eccentric
Women ON Welfare Mission.
/, GIVE US MEN AND WOMEN
They Want Freckle Face, I'm
afraid Girls as Real Nurses.
And There's No Place for Men
Who Don't Wear Uniform.

Paris-(by mail) Ut should be
stopped at once" The American Off
GER who obviously cannot be named
brought his fist down on the table.
do they think in the United States
that this war is some sort Of a world s
fair or religious revival?
In the Civil war, Sherman on his
march thru Georgia and Lee at
Richmond didn't have rag tag and
bobtail army piffliag at their heels
trying to save the souls of their SOL
diers or engaged in war sightseeing.
why, then, in the name of (cen-
sored), are all these rubber-neck wag-
on commissions from every state leg
Why is every religious organization
and fraternal society, from the Shak-
ing Quakers to the Red Eagles, send
ing over joy-ride parties?
Damn it, man, we're at war. Here
I read cable from America today
at its Chicago convention announced
plans for sending over dancing mas
ters' unit to instruct the American
soldiers in the trench trot.' the cam
outage waltz and the 'cantonment
canter.'
Murder Dancing Master Unit.
eff that unit ever gets to France
it will be murdered in cold blood.
Don't think I am jestiRg. I am speak
ing Gods own truth. That sort of thing
Is notwithstanding. 1t has the worst
sort of effect on the morale of our
boys
Another organization, not the Red
Cross, has had a lecturer on political
economy over here. The press de-
partment of the organization makes
proud mention of the fact. What in
blazes do our lads in the trenches care
about political economy?
ST have heard our boys talking
about these things. Their disgust
knows no bounds. The privilege of
to fighters and to fighters only.
These Cooks tourists. these JOY
riding sightseers, these morbid SEN
sation seekers should be canned. bot
tied and preserved and put in the eel
lars in America. We don't want them
over here. The doughboys jeer at
these commissions in black clothes
and the embusques in khaki who nib
BILE around at their heels or endeavor
to patronize them when they come
on leave to Paris.
Wasting Too Much Money.
'oThe generous American public is
wasting hundreds of thousands of val
the members Of these fraternal or
ders and religious organizations and
other long-haired souvenir hunters.
t"This is not the time to satisfy cur
iosity. We want no males over here.
whether they be Is or 70 years old.
don't want khaki slackers. either.
Yes, and while I'm on the subject,
would like to repeat what hard
working Red Cross nurses think of
these wild women who are coming
over on every boat. How they get
hara-0n ODe knows
Send US over freckle-faced trained
nurses who won't vomit at the sight
OF blood. but for the love of Mike
deliver us from these eccentric fe-
spiked trench canes, trench boots.
khaki skirts. Sam Browne belts and
other paraphernalia.
Cheer the Real Girls.
1.-The doughboys cheer the girls with
| the red-lined capes, but what they say
about these wild women who try to
mother them wouldn't bear repetition.
1 have it on the authority of one of
| the best known consular officers in
| France that an American woman ar
| rived within the last six months and
| announced that she had come over to
| feed the starving aviators-' They
| ought to make all these soul savers
pass thru Ellis Island before they get
aboard ship.
Recently all Europe laughed at the
| photograph. reproduced in the press
| of an American congressman in spe-
cial anti-submarine sure-float life
saving suit. He had proudly posed in
Paris photograph gallery for the
| picture.
Keep these publicity seekers away
1 from us. The doughboy is proud to
| be at the 'front.' That privilege, for
which he is willing to sacrifice his life,
shouldn't be cheapened by allowing
every Tom, Dick and Katie to come
over for few weeks. then to go back
| to boast for the rest of their natural
| lives about the terrible things they
| saw in the war zone.
men"