The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-08-23
War SIGHTSEERS NOT
WANTED lover" There
Soldiers Tired OF Rubber
neck Commissions
Visits.
Commercial Appeal.)

NOT De named, Drought MS nSt down
on the table. do they think in
the United States that this war is
some sort of a worlds fair or re-
ligious revival?
"1n the Civil War, Sherman on his
march through Georgia, and Lee at
Richmond didn't have a ragtag and
bobtail army piffling at their heels
trying to save the souls of their SOL
diers or engaged in war sightseeing.
why, then, in the name of (cen-
sored), are all these rubber neck
wagon commissioners from every
state Legislature in the country COM
ing over? Why is every religious
organization and fraternal society,
from the Shaking Quakers to the Red
Eagles, sending over joy ride par
ties?
Damn 1t, man, we're at war. Here
| read a cable from America to-day
that the Dancing Masters Assocfa-
nounced plans for sending over a
| dancing masters unit to instruct the
American soldiers in the trench trot,'
the 'camouflage waltz and the can
torment canter'
IF that unit ever gets to France
| it will be murdered in cold blood.
Don't think l am testing. l am
speaking Gods own truth. That
sort of thing is heart sickening. 1t
has the worst sort of effect on the
morale of our boys,
Another organization, not the
Red Cross, has had lecture on po-
litical economy over here. The press
department of the organization
makes proud mention of the fact.
What in blazes do our lads in the
trenches care about political econo-
my?
81 have heard our boys talking
about these things. Their disgust
knows no bounds. The privilege of
being at the front should be confined
to fighters, and to fighters only.
"These Cooks tourists, these joy
riding sightseers, these morbid SEN
Sc ton seekers should be canned, bot
tied and preserved and put in the
cellars in America. We don't want
them over here. The doughboys jeer
at these commissions in black clothes
and the embusques in khaki who nib
BILE around at their heels or endeavor
to patronize them when they come
on leave to Paris.
1.-THE generous American public is
wasting hundreds of thousands of
valuable dollars financing the trips
of the members of these fraternal
orders and religious organizations
and other long-haired souvenir hunt
ers.
This is not the time to satisfy
curiosity. We want no males over
here, whether they be Is or 20 years
old, unless they are in khaki. And
we don't want khaki slackers eth
err.
Eyes, and while I'm on the sub
ject, ! would like to repeat what
hard working Red Cross nurses think
of these wild women who are COM
ing over on every boat. How they
get here no one knows.
"Send us over freckle faced train
ed nurses who won't vomit at the
sight of blood, but for the love of
Mike deliver us from these eccentric
females who strut around Paris with
spiked trench canes, trench boots,
khaki skirts, Sam Browne belts and
other paraphernalia.
1.-THE doughboys cheer the girls
with the red lined capes, but what
they say about these wild women
who try to mother them wouldn't
bear repetition. / have it on the au-
thority of one of the best known
consular officers in France that an
American woman arrived within the
last six months and announced that
she had come. oven ito feed the
starving aviators." They ought to
make all these soul savers pass
through Ellis Island before they get
aboard ship.
Recently all Europe laughed at
the photograph, reproduced in the
press, of an American Congressman
in a special anti-submarine sure float
life saving suit. He had proudly
posed in a Paris photograph gallery
for the picture.
Keep these publicity seekers
away from us. The doughboy Is
proud to be at the front. That priv
ilege, for which he is willing to sac
rifice his life, shouldn't be cheaper
ed by allowing every Tom, Dick and
Katie to come over for few weeks,
then to go back to boast for the rest
of THAR natural lives about the ter