Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-01
RED NECKED BOYS
OF AMERICA CHEER
HEARTS OF ALLIES

fashion. Yes, the solid rock tough
nuts with leather faces and shaved
lecks.
The ParlsianS, the soldiers and OIL
GERS OF all the nations of the earth.
yes, the agents of the enemy doubtless
out on the terraces OF the boulevard
cafes these evenings appraiSing the
Americans
The boulevards are as a stage ana
the doughboys who pass the actors
The audience, sitting at the terrace
tables slipping afterdinner coffee and
smoking cigars and cigarets finds
them good. They couldn't do other.
wise.
We can be proud of our American
lads. They come Of a fighting race.
and they show it as they swing along /
the bouleyards with a don't give
whoop in nell air. one hears the
Parisians whispering.
They say the Americans are OK |
pert when it comes to grenade throw
ing
Some one replies;
My cousin in the chasscurs Al |
pins tells me they fight like wild cats, |
that the boche call them boodmad |
savages and is desperately afraid OF
their night sorties."
Tonight there roared through the
boulesards the heart of Paris, before
hundreds of thousands of Parisiaas
and the soldiers of the allied nations.
a train of giant American trucks inter
spersed with Fords at the side OF
each of which were strapped the rifles
of the helmeted doughboys within.
There was slight interest exhibited
when the first trucks passed, but after
they had filed by in an unbroken
string for ten minutes the enthusi-
assn of the crowd was aroused.
One by one the tables were dese.f
ed. Soon the sidewalks were lined
from the Bastile to the Madelein
And then the crowd moved from the
curb to the street, while from he
other side of the way dense thrones
of promenaders braved the heavy
traffic and crowded the middle of the
thoroughfare.
Police Called Out.
At the end of half an hour special
squads OF police were called out and
the taxis and other vessels cruising
On the south side of the bouevards
were confined to narrow strip next
the curb. All traffic on the right i L.
was herded against the curb or forced
of irto the side streets while ne
Americans passed
And still they came. They come
roaring along at the same speed with
which they left the ports of France
They knew the way had been cleared
Tor them and how those trucks dld
thunder along. One hit a taxi in
fron; OF the Cafe Madrid A Grind
Inc rash and the taxi was on the side.
waik-'a wreck The truck Vas
block away few seconds later And
The crowds howled. They yelled they
cheered and they laughed till ears
came.
There's America for you they
shouted. That's the way they Il
smash the boche Look at EN- come
Moiee of them? Ooh, la, la. Those
An orleans They are demons"
Women waved their handkerchief
The che ulfeurs stared straight ahes l.
but the doughboys waved long leaves
CT French bread from their perches
and paved the air for roses that we're
thrown To them. Most OF them were
already decorated. hat, pockets and
shirt Huttonholes. with flowers that
were thrown at them in the VILLAGES
all the way from the coast to Paris
Worth Victory.
Thai dclile of camions Is worth a
victory So far as the morale of Paris
is concerned" erimly remarked d
French officer who stood WATCHING tie
enthusiasm Of tht crowd
He spoke he truth. The defile was
but IN incident. And yet ii was his.
toric came when Paris was down.
hearted 1t came when Pari. was
tacitu.n. duur. irritable aud silent
That mad rush Of Americans, tta5
Wild hulullSon of strident American
horns, that powerful throbbing of
American motors, those wild shoIts
frnnl usty American throats-lll had
Il historic significance. AMI The
crowd realized it. 1t brought home
to Paris that America in her might
was here That It had come for bust
ness bloody business. That the red
necked sons of Sam were here to lick
the boche, not argue with him
Yea, the police procession of technl
cal units. the Red Cross and Y, NJ. c.
A. secretaries and secretaryesscl, he
days of the college boy amhulaneiers
aud society women in pretty white
nursie outfits, of Lady Bountifuls on
missions of mercy (pictures in the
Sunday rotogravurc sections OF ,he
New York papers) all Is over. 'rnc
hard nuts are here, God bless EN-!
And, by the holy mackerel the word
will soon know it.