The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-27
VETERANS TO UNITE
IN BONE DRY FIGHT
Pershing's Men Assert French
Way Of Regulating Liquor
Question Is the Best.
ORGANIZATION PLANNED
Heroes, After Battling for Lib
erty, Say They Object to
It's Loss at Home.


1nasmuch as Edwin Harold Casey.
! late a bookkeeper of 81 Chandler
street, Boston, and later a WAGNER OF
the 1o1st Infantry. A. E. F., is going
back overseas as soon as he gets the
feel of his new artificial leg to go
into the cCoperage business in Rock
street. Tralee. Ireland. with the father
/ of n young lady he's non-committal
about the gang at Debarkation Hospi-
tai No. 3. Sixth avenue and Eighteenth
| street, were willing yesterday TO accept
Edwin's views touching upon certain
| probable political developments in this
republic as disiHterested as we'll as
| representative.
Edwin Harold was specializing on
the organiZa ton Of a great body W
former soldiery such as the G. A. r.
and. the effect such an organization
would have on the nations politics and
policies.
l Organization or no organization,
III tell you one thing" said Edwin
Harold, there are some birds on the
top of the heap now that are goin' to
be treated awful rough when Wilson's
two million get back into civilian
clothes. There's lot Of Representa-
tives in Congress that are goin' to rep
resent somebdy besides the national
associa tons OF old ladies, male and fe-
male, or else they're goin' to work at
some other Job.
All the Orders From One side.
They've been taking all their or
, ders from one side of every question
simply because the other side were
boobs who didn't know how to get to-
gether. Watch 'em prick up their
ears. lay down ard roll over and sit up
and beg when a couple of million men
, that's been abroad learnin' what team
work means come back and start
havin' their say about how they're GO
, ing to be governed.
Every one of the 100000 will be a
man who for the last year or two has
had to go to bed, set up. eat, drink
walk and even breathe just as he was
told to do. They've had just abou,
enough Of that kind of stun
Get me right, now; | amt kickin
because ] had to do it, l never kicked
over the traces or felt like 1t but once
That was one day when | read in q
, paper that a minister up in Toronto
, had ripped open a lot of comfort boxe:
, his parishioners had Clipped in for us
and took out and destroyed all the Gig
arettes they'd put in. When | read 4
=, Ava nod forl,r rot ~
n for two days II that minister coult
, have heard what the gang had to saI
@ when I read the piece to them it's Z
. cinch he'd drop dead of horror,
, I'm not sayin' that this minister
q didn't mean all right / saw more thai
. one of his kind come over to France
. bent on raisin' he'll with us and re
h main to contract the habit Of chewin
tobacco and playin' ball Sunday after
. moons You see the life broadene,
en- Those OF this kind who staye'
home didn't have chance TO b.
broadened. but they will when all tn
q boys get home whether they want L
- or not.
Bone Drys to Re disappointed.
- Some OF these sky pilots who thin
:, the bone dry proposition is settled ar
! goin to be disappointed. We have seel
g the way booze is handled in Franc
:. and Belgium and know that II can b
handled the same way here. Tn
French think any man who would tr
to deprive them of their beer and win
=, is crazy. and they treat him accord
; ingly. I agree with them.
N n fhi
=, country bone dry. il they succeed JUS
=. as sure as hell will try to make smok
:, ing n crime and regulate everything
:, man docs Well. there's about 1000
=, 600 men coming around bye and by
who have had all they wanted Of to
% sergeants. in uniform or out"
Sergeant F. S. Morey OF the Machin
Gun Company 1G5th Infantry. for
:, merly the Slxty-ninth, agreed wit
a Wagner Casey.
.s I've heard a lot of soldiers owe
70 there talk this thing over and ! neve
. saw any one yet who didn't think tn
French had the right idea" sal
n Morey. "Over there everybody drink
his wine or beer just like we drin
n, tea or coffee, and nobody seems III
: worse for It. Anybody that tries
- persuade me that the law ought
n prevent a man who wants one fror
40 taking "A glass Of beer with his Dime
= Is going to waste his time"
ia say that about ninety-flve sol
IA diers out of every hundred will l
10 against national bone dry prohibition,
I'd said Sergeant Lawrence kerriean {
10 the same outfit. Although I don't n
y member seeing any of the fives Nv
ID allowed for in any Of the hundreds ~
f. seen. We had no trouble getting bee
or wine over there and / never -sa'
any abAse OF the privilege. l think III
!. bunch is going to sit on the fanatic
q. on this side who think it's a mortal 81
In to drink n glass of beer"
q, Marion Gage of Headquarters Con
nj pary, ll9th Infantry, whose home
re- IN Sweet Water. Tenn, never took
pr drink in his life, he said, hut he d
NJ clared himself against the hone dry
% proposition "as a matter of principle
~ Soldiers Against Prohibitions.
cd 81 believe whiskey is bad stuff" sal
I'd Gage, but beer and wine the way II
rs French drink II wouldn't harm an!
lG body, in my opinion. | predict Il
soldier vote will be almost solid
rs against prohibition"
~ Private James G.. Oliver Of the 109t
D. Infantry, whose home is on Sylvest,
avenue, Jamaica, and Benjamin Holl
,