Evening journal., 1918-10-18

Reported Especially for The Evening
Journal
Worlds Youngest War Corresnond.n,
WITH THE ARMY OF A,lrptC,N,
BOYS, SAN FRANCISCO SECTOR Oct
is.-I betcha this viii make a fno s,ory
It's all about the army OF ms Amer
ran kids that's been fighting and lick
ng everything in sight. and now we
lmost got the war finished rigbt po,,,
We got it nearly finished because
none Of the kids want 90 be ibe Esiser
glymOre-nOt even Old man pauer,s
how. And the littlest kil In our sector
said we could run him homo If we
wanted to, but ne wouldn't bc old Hin
slenburg anymore. And 50 we chased
lim clear across Belgium" INTO his
sck yard and he baNlcd Ike every
hing.
There's nothing We can't do when
Ne get started.
wish somebody would write N Cen
cral Pershng about us. ] bcfcba old
sslack Jack" would liko to see MS in
sction. Bet / know what he'd savl
I'm one Of the best soldiers we rol
h5re-and you ought 90 see our trenches
md dugouts and she. holes and hos
biials and everything I guess there
must be about a quadriuon of us bows
around here If you count i'm The Chin
tse boys and everybody.
I wasn't going 90 write this up at
FIRST, but nobody ever writes about MS.
sqd our gencral-he's "a and awful
smart-ho said it's O. shame. And I
lold him I guess TIT write 10 for the
napers and he said. AW, bet YOU don't
bit II YOU do why 90 ahead 50 / am.
Our general is a French boy by the
..ame Of Jean and all One BOYS mind him
fine. some other kids wanted 10 be
general but Jean said amt Foch a
,enchman and ain't he the leader Of
BIi? And we said yes. and that set
lied it. Anyway he', awful strong and
IN lick anybody his axe.
Some Of the BOYS bad trouble with
their mothers. They grabbed because
Ire kids got their cl0the, dirty and
shoes scuffed nd buttons lost i'm mop
ping up No Mans Land But my ma
sfe's an awful good ,p0rt-shc said
mothers got TO realize That war is tough
"a women folks and they got to bear
up brave. That's what Pa said too
hlfore he went 90 France.
But things Is better now. We got
N'kia i'm our sector for Red Cross girl
Gid we let her sew 0n buttons some.
times when they get torn off,
But that amt an One trouble we had
4 should say not.
The man that owns iho DOT where our
trenches are is an old crouch. lie said
you boys have spoiled my lot and
marked up my sign for sale. Well. We
uAly got five trenches on his old lot
and he was lust sore because ne tripped
and fell into one OF our dugouts chasin
b kid one boy got caught and
sIapp6S but he couldn't baWl because
De was a hero the day before, but he
sud Ct hurt somethin awful.
Muffed Drums.
one boy in our town gol really Killed
in the trenches. lIo was digging a sap
IN the sand hank with some other kids
md 90 caved IN and buried him and
when they dug him out he was dead
our Boy scout master said he surely
died his country. MeIia, our Red
Gross girl, knows him and she cried
and ve told her 60 20 away so we
wouldn't and our general said let's
muf1er the drum and VO did,
We got the best grub iu OUR camp!
10u oughia sec, When Jean isn't 1he
general he's The cook. lle can bake
potatoes fine. Sknney's dad brought
'em. Skinneys dad Is onl Of our best
friends. We call him general but he
amt The other day he came out and
said hello boys. God bless YOU, what
are you doing? And we said pretty
Inc thank YOU. nd DE said just go
ahead and play lots because it's giving