New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13

Uncle Sans Find Road Too Hard:
Boy Scouts Roll Liberty Bali
Pad Guardians Give Up at Geneva and Young Patriots
through Snow, Wind and Mud Move Of With
Burden to Seneca Falls

picture, and now that they have been
ruoDed out the Liberty Ball is no less
thought and to bold deeds at the bank
Tor lack of them.
r, Now. one trouble with the tourist
Sans was that they didn't keep in their
parts. Soon after they left Buffalo they
lost their whiskers in a big wind That
was the explanation they gave, at any
rate; still, they were confessedly not
sorry to be without them. They were
afraid of being guyed. and no amount
OF lecturing by J. A. Ritchie, route
manager for beth the Liberty Ball and
the Liberty Coach, could make them
see that the Uncle, whom they were
costumed to represent was charac-
ter quite above the plane on which
mortals make merry at one another's
expense.
This does not mean, mind. that either
the Liberty Ball or the Liberty Coach
has been laughing stock. The fervor
of the receptions they have everywhere
encountered, the memory of the bells
and the whistles, the crowds and the
cheers and the universal boost that
the third loan has received wherever
they have been seen bounteously an
sWers the suggestion of that.
But just as there are yokels in
buffalo and yokels in New York there
are yokels along the roads between.
And mere and there the yokels have
emitted outlaws which have stabbed
under the tender skins of the Uncles.
who. like most movie folk, have the in
cllnatlon to take themselves rather Sc
riously
But never was there an advertising
stunt which brought such prodigiously
big returns at SO precious little ex
pense. And now that the Boy Scouts
have achieved their hearts desire and
have been put in charge of the Liberty
Ball the overhead is nothing. There
are no more salaries and no more ex
penses. nor professional Sans.
Uncles' Troubles Many
To revert to the Sans After they
had lost their whiskers one of them
wearing this made his head ache
Then, which wasn't exactly a fault Of
theirs, the Uncles took to wearing their
overcoats over the blue coats of their
costumes. They weren't overcoats of
the period in which the real Uncle Sam
was conceived. They were happer
coats, they had belts in back and snappy
lines, were form fitting at point. which
the women are at so much trouble in
COMPRISING, expanding and shaping,
and were cut to give one that military
look in multi
Safe to say that Uncle Sam, the
original, and the slightly conserva-
tive. would not have picked those
models for his own wear. Yet cos.
tuners don't figure on their Uncle
Sans being out in billiards.. The strip
lings VINO personitied him surely had a
right to be in overcoaus on such days
as they have been abroad. considering
the rest of their attire was cotton and
these were the only overcoats they had.
1t was necessary in way, but for all
that it would have been genuinely
mirth inspiring if so mighty a majority
of the people in the towns and farm
houses along the road had not been so
seriously impressed by the idea of the
ball
Aaother habit the Sans had was Of
lending their fuzzy hats to Boy Scouts.
who got immortal satisfaction out of
striding under them. At such times
they, would replace them with their
own little rn-drive, bow behind hats.
So altogether it must be admitted
that the sturdy Scouts, who started out
of Geneva at 8 o'clock this morning,
each holding one of the guiding bars
at which the Sans had formerly been
posted, made quite as satisfactory a
showing