Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-08-25
Valuable Branch of Army In
strumental in Keeping the
Morale Perfect
ARE GIVING FINE SERVICE
These Boys, Unrecognized by
Own City, Believe Best Way
TO End War Is Fight.

'N GEORGE L. HYEl
AMERICAN PRESS HEAD.
gI NltrLRS BRITISH FRONT
Aug - Moral. It isn't always tho
regiment with the flossy name that
gets 'hu piums of war
A certain big city ~ the American
mUiN'Hi mad an organization known
ID" The Dandy y" Glorious ira.
dIN"uH were embroidered In the rcEi-
mruts history l' WAS even christ.
rn'd hy mo state as its Finest"
Ih" outstanding Dandics' reached
France uuuE with another regiment
from the snmr metropolis which
/ they surred us THE Scrubs
O scrubs" at Front.
/ This wholesome situation. from
mF personal observation, exists to-
. uHf The Scrubs have been on the
battle IU" nearly month They
smashed crack German units In the
. advance with the Australinna of the
Fourth Ut July They are holding
H u. Important line not is stu.
. dents boo practice but AS tried and
/ trusted Veterans They have TO wear
their Els masks under their chlns
( constantly Their bNouac Is the OBJ
lo't3Nr uf humbers and Eunners.
Their uniforms show the mud stains
~ the trenches and No Mans Land,
] with many rip and C4,ar from Ger
Wau blrhcd wire They have for
/ loru little cemetery, forlorn but rad
3 liant that tromblcs with the shock OF
batteries hy day ana night They
have been mentioned for rare gal
lauty by the commanders In chief
% H Er.tsh division, corps and army.
| ana even boy the commandment chief
of AN tho British armies In France.
/ General ldlg quite few OF them
viii De wearing British and Amcri-
can decorations In the next few days.
We'll, occasionally one of tho
/ Scrubs has the tremendous privilege
| OF making "a trip with a message
back, quite q way BACK 10 the camp
where the Dandies arc chafng' "
irestruint Here after splitting reuYr
| iniscently "A fcw times. he recounts
to the pandies his war experiences
lie tells them what barrgge is like
how IL makes the ground waltz
and dip Under your feet and how tho
earth ahead OF you seems To- be
million crazy mountains an hopping
around and humping into each other.
lie tells them Of the Fourth OF July
and the scrubs race with the Aus
tralians To be the first In the Ger
man lines, and how IL feels To stick
a Hcinie, and how the Hcinics
shout;
"Kamorad American mercy
souvenirs appealing TO comrade-
| ship. pity ana avarice all at the same
time. and how some officers yell the
same thing hut with their upllfted
hands continue TO fire with auto.
matte pistols AT the Yanks TO whom
! they plead. And what they do to
these officers. and 90 all suspected
OF treacliery And Of dropping
bombs into dugouts where captured
Germans said there were none hid
Ing, and then seeing fragments OF
German uniforms and arms and
heads come hurting out And Of the
dreadful appearances OF the dead,
"Dnndies" Are Enyious.
The Dandics, forRctful Of their
famous armory and their petilngs.
back home, listen with open mouth
TO the Scrubs. but one Ur more al
waNs demands finally;
How do you guys come 10 get
away with all this2' "C'est In
Cucrrc chuckle the Scrubs. who In
two months I'm France have quite
mastered the native language, OF
course.
heard an this AZ retreat at the
Scrubs biyouac last night, while the
air vibrated with shell explosions
would have heard lot more but for
the fact that the rcgimenthl band
had started TO play Now that II an
other remarkable thing. The Scrubs
band has become known Rll over
France Yesterday afternoon ! saw
two English captnins come 20 the
colonel TO invite the band 20 give "a
concert az corps headquarters on a
certain special day n has played
for an Australian athletic carnival
even for the Dandlos And the
bandmaster. Sergeant Cope Harvey,
showed me the fine gold medal given
the band hy the French General De
lgny at Rouen, inscribed, Offered
for Excellence"
They started last night in chute
thc-chu'cs melody called 'Jazzin
Around that made shoulders and
hIus tho most restless. uucontroll-
able things in the world Oh, that
hand' Then Trombone sally"
with tho solo part played by Scrub
named Czech. called Chick" who
is really a Czech by ancestry but
looks az much an American "a you
or He played less on his from
bone than on his hearers souls. Even
the pup tents. an about Us, seemed
% breathe with strange animation,
when Czech siid his magic pipes.
Variety Of Music
After trombone Sally we had
Echoes Unique whose composer
was an acadcmiclan Of a different
school ~ music from jazz However.
Sergeant Cope Harvey. celebrated at
home where modcrnlst groups as
semble. has reorchestrated Echoes
trnique." His version ~ much
uuiquer a Ia jazz, It would make a
diEn,fled assembly CULVER with costa
cv. what u does 10 orr sparkling
douEhboys you can guess yourself
After dinner We had an extended
concert by the band I'm honor OF the
relief battalion marching up TO the
trenches that night The boys
whistled and danced while they
hacked up their tents and equip
mcnt though they would be
away giving and taking death for
several days giving more freely
than receiving. Some British Tom
mics also moving up 10 the trenches
marched with alacriiy 20 the per