Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-04-26
SOLDIER Who HAS seen
has had TWELVE YEARS At SEA
North Carolina Man Now In The Army
Familiar With Things In Europe and
Says The American Soldier Is The
Best In The World.
Cpassed hy the CrnsorO

Best In The World.
| Qpassed by the Ccnsor)
Camp SEWER. =. e.. April l9.--lf one
takes the trouble to look around for
them, he will run across many soldiers
al Camp Sewer who will not he cross
| ing the pond for the first time when
the Old Hickory Division goes over Ia
take a hand In the big scrap some
time this year. Especially among Ma
tional Guardsmen here are many fel-
| lows who have been soldiers Of for
tune for Years and who haN" crossed
the Atlantic and wandered over Europ"
scores and scores oi times. Take
dutch" Tilton. for instance. Dutch
| is now Il soldier Of the line In an IN
fantry regiment and. 10y the way. he's
| a good soldier. too. Up 10 the TIM"
| lnrlr sam got into this war OF rTith'I
| lust a little while before. "Dutch was
| a sailor on a Danish mrrchantnan.
He has had bcrths on English. French.
German, Swedish and Spanish vessels.
Ia fact, about twelve oi ms thirlE
years OF life have been spent on IN"
sea and in hoboing In every country oi
| the world. Pronunciation Of IN" names
| of the places where history is now he
| ing made i'm connection with the great
| war doesn't worry 9TH" Dutch" at all.
He is authority ON European geography
| in his company ana II iS an every daS
occurrence for puzzled soldiers To come
| Ia the Dutch" with their newspapers
| for information. And he rattlcs OH
French names and German names ana
names OF Belgium and those ltallah
and those Russian, just like one OF
these new browning guns shoot steer
bullets.
"'rhu Dutch" was never inside oil a
school house in his life except FOR IN"
purpose. as he says, "oi attrndin some
little old concert or other laugh pro.
ducer that my best girl had hand
| in" His lack Of regular schooling
however, cuts no figure. He has gotten
| his from knocking around the world
land his education has been quite
Thorough.
He has seen the kaiser number oi
times he says, and none OF his COM
radrs have reason 10 doubt II. because
nobody has ever caught the Dutch
| lying yet, and H. has done powerluI
lot of talking. He has looked IN"
crown prince over on one OF TWO ot
casions and hr has also CHANGED To
L
France, the queen OF Holland, the KING
of England and the former cZlr of th'
Russians happened to be passing by.
| "Thrrc amt nothin' rcmarkabl'
about any OF 'em aS | was able 10 SEE
from the long ranges ! have had al
EN-" hc said one day 10 bunch oi
us who were gathered around him try
| ing to get a little dope" about Inc
country where the present great struS-
gle is going on, az well rs Information
about things European. grnriiiliy.
They are just folks though all oil thrIh
are better looking than | am uhr
| Dutch has a long. hawk nose ana MS
/ legs are bowed, while he IL tattoocd
from head to foot) and their ribbons
land halges and -0ne- thing ppolher
helps their looks. The German Kaiser
looks like the pictures you see or him
i'm the newspapers. He's pompous'
hard looking guy, and honest. those
cartoons that depict him M the dcVii.
look most like him. Tho president oi
France Is Il little bit Of n fellow not
much taller than |. The king OF Brh-
ain looks a lot like the fellow that
used TO boss Russia you nave
seen both their pictures. The best
looking one OF all the crowned heads
who are now especially on the biil-
DOHIuS VI ill' ""'1 ~ Wv
queen OF Holland. II she wasn't
nicen and # | wasn't soldier. and
happened to be In Holland and had a
chance, why might set up 10 her.
THE Dutch" never talks much about
the German army. Maybe II IN De
cause he doesn't know much or even
anything about II, and maybe IL Us Dr-
cause he feels that he shouldn't say
lanything on the subject. He has great
respect for the British az fighters. cs-
pccially their navy: hut ne believes
that when II comes TO soldiers OF the
| line, France has all OF them In Europ"
| beat to q fraZZlc. and none ot thein
are equal to the Americans AZ lighters
from an individual standpoint. though
M TO the time our country went into
| this war, eve didn't have no army ana
no military worth speakin' about h"
says.
| The Dutch Is just as confident as
can he that the Allies are going 10
win this war now since America mas
/ come into II. still, he IL looking for
4 lot Of pretty fighting yet. and he ar
CUES that there Is going TO ir n lot oI
weeping in every little town and com
munity in the United States almost,
before the wind-up.
He IL thoroughly American anu
thoroughly patriotic. His pay IL s3o
a month. SIS OF which he allOts for the
support of his mother, SO IL devoted
Ito monthly payments on two Second
Liberty Loan bonds and 81 goes each
month In payment OF the premium on
SlO.O 900 insurance on the Dutch's surety
against EritZ's bullets. He blows him.
| self to a good time with the other S3
each pay day.
| rye often wondered why he Is nick
named Dutch. He IL native OF wayne
county. North Carolina and there ~ no
Dutch blood in him. | asked him on"
day why the monackcr. and ne ex-
plained: well, buddy, you know thht
no matter in what outfit you get IN
this army or any other army. here Is
laIways some smart fool who amt
satisfied with your name what your
mother gave you and wants 10 give
YOU another. One day guy calls me-
Dutch and every other gink has been
lcalling me Dutch ever since. II don't
worry me none much. though II Is a
LITTLE trouble some time. Ny right
name is Edward Lee Tilton. ! get
lcalled Dutch so much that some tim"
| almost sign my name Dutch. on the
payroll before | rccollect II amt so.
ird hate it II I made a mistake on that
payroll some day and not draw
my So ..,
| / have run across n good many SOL
diers at Sewer who could he made the
subjects OF stories like this sketch OF
1.-The Dutch" While ninety per cent
practically OF the soldiers here ar. nd :
live North and South Carolinians and
lTennesseeans. many OF them have al
ready been everywhere, and crossing
THE Atlantic will be no new experience
to them. J..
But to the great majority OF us 1t
will be a new and most wonderful ex-
perience, and one that Is looked for
ward to with the greatest interest.
Jas. d. Grist.