The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

A number of fine English soldiers have visited Birmingham since the war be- gan Most of them have been young men and they have been mighty clean looking chaps.
 I am getting so that civilian does not emotionalize me when he first gets up to speak. He has to work me up to sympathetic mood, but have arrived at that stage when I look into the face of man who has gazed into the inferno on the battle front I am in tune to hear his message.
 There have been many of them who have stood up to speak at our various the Rotary elmer on Wednesdays I see 8 man in uniform at the speakers table. and it ma etters not how distinguished any civilian may be who sits by his side, it's the mar who has been and done and seen that want to hear.
 Wednesday rosy checked English lieutenant vas sitting next to President Ed Andrews He introduced him. but it was a name could not catch, so after the meal was over and the gallant young Englishman had spoken I went up aud thanked him for the pleasure and in- struction which he had given me, and asked for his name.
 I noticed that he reached for his cara case, and that as he drew one out he | was laughlns as he said: q beg your pardon for offering this, but the news papers have made so many bulls of my name that when a reporter comes my way I give him the written eyidence,S so that he will have no excuse for messing it." Here it is, MT. A. Newberry Choyce
 the Leicestershire regiment, Hugglescote. l Leicestershlre.
 1 I am taking all this pains, for he is | a likabie fellow, and 1 want to put him l before my readers in the best light pos-
 sible, for he has come over to America
 to serve. He won our hearts by saying
 that when he was invalided on account
 
 he found that. his nerves were shattered,
 and so when the invitation came fos
 him to come to this country, his doctor gave his permission on the condition
 that he would not read or speak abou. l the war, anc asked him to promise that 1 he would live up to his requirement, but,
 said Lieutenant Choyee, T told him 1 would do no such thing, as that was ms.
 only excase for visiting the states" ! Now, he comes to. the district with a 1 very real and very definite message
 to those who labor. With him is Howard l I. Beal, Gistr,ct service manager, United ] corporation. It is the duty of these gen l tlemen to try and make the workers un- | derstand that they are on the firing line at home and are expected to stand be- hind the.r brothers who are on the lir- ing line at the front. This idea is to glad they are still here.
 1 Sure, he has the delightful accent or DrOgue, II Sucn a tHinS CaH De applied to
 an Englishman who speaks the language as she is spoken in the British Iales He i evidently is one BItisher who has 4 sense of humor, for he told in an inin,i- table way how a little American girl
 came up to him the other night after one
 of his addresses and naivelg said: T certainly do like to hea.r sou speak in your broken English"
 He brought q new story about the "cooties," or. as the English name them
 the 'chata." They are the undesirable
 vermin who are the pest of the boys as
 well as the officers in the trenches, for be it known, they are no respecter ol
 persons and will tackle a general as
 quick as a private. He said that he has
 learned that it didn't pay to destro,
 those who bit you by daylight. for d
 night all of their relatives would attacl
 you to avcnge the death of their kin. i
 But here is the story which shows ths
 eternal youth and sporting instinct 9