The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-21
America in France!
"The Stars & Stripes"
Meaning An American Newspaper by
That Name Published at "General
Headquarters" "By and For the
Expsditi0nary FOrces.-

Stripes, which announces itself as
THE Official Newspaper of the A. E.
F., by and for the Soldiers Of the A.
E. F. The prospectus continues:
Authorized by the COMMANDMENTS
Chief and published every Friday
profits to accrue to Subscribers COM
pany fund. Fifty confines a copy;
subscription price to soldiers, francs
for three months; to civilians,
francs for three months"
OF course the Sammies would have
a newspaper You couldn't put five
hundred thousand Americans any
where in this world that they wouldn't
start newspaper; and they may do
it in the next. "The Stars and Stripes"
is an eight-page paper, finely made
up and printed and chock full of
pep as you might expect. Def
mite news from the fighting zone is.
of course, conspicuous by its abb
sence; but all kinds of patriotic, SEN
timental and humorous skits in both
prose and poetry do greatly abound.
From a wealth Of racy material, a
single excerpt is appended. 1t is en-
titled IAN Earful of Suggestions for
Boys Back Home" and runs as fol-
lows
DEAR FELLOW SCRAPPERS:
Some of us have been over here
good eight months and more. Most of
us have been over for at least half
that time. The rest of us have been
over here for varying amounts of
time, and all of us long enough to be
in position to hand you a little
friendly advice about how TO prepare
for the trip, what to expect over here.
and what not to expect. Here. then.
are a few lunches from some old
and seasoned campaigners
Throw away your "parley-voo"
books and forget all the French the Y.
M. has been teaching you in your
cantonment huts this winter. You
won't need it. We have got the ma
ttiyes so well acquainted with United
States now that they understand ev-
erything we say-even when we get
unduly accurate on one another's an
cestry. Even if you do get stuck
there's only one way to. learn French
that is to talk it, and make it up as
you go along. In the course of time
you'll get at least half of what yon
want
Begin to take baths right now. If
you've got about six weeks before sail
ing time, start in to take one bath
every day and two on SUNDAYS, and
manage to ring in four extra ones in
between times. That will euuip Won
with good So baths, giving you an
average of one week for year.
which is the minimum prescribed by
regulations. Baths in France are as
hard to find as celebrators of Yom
Ripper in an A. o. H. convention: so
battle while the bathing is good and
handy.
Write Those Letters Now
Another time-saving device. Start
in writing letters now-now, while
you've got time. Date them all we'll
ahead and pack them neatly in your
haversack. Then, when you get over
here, your correspondence won't in
terfere with your touring. Just reach
into your haversack and pick out one
when the date on it comes around;
shoot it in and have it censored, and
it's done. The descriptions of France,
and so forth, you can get out of any
OF our old letters, or out of the stuff
the war correspondents send over
Don't try to be original; people don't
like it. Besides, in the army individ-
uality is a sin.
Along the same line as letters:
Have your post card photos of your
self taken before you sail. You can
borrow the makeup-tin hat, gas
masks, and all the restroom the guy
in your regiment who's had them is
sued to him, or from cocktail time
ready to start the nights labors.
Have your feet, teeth, and eyes
thoroughly looked after before you
come over. If any of the three sets
is not satisfactory, don't bring it,
Turn it in to the quartermaster and
get a new one. This applies partic-
ularly to teeth.
See your last musical comedy, dance
your last dance and eat your last pie
and doughnuts. You won't run across
any of these commodities while you're
over here, and it may be pleasant to
look back on them. Enpoy them. then.
while you can; but enjoy them linger-
ingly, and wiring the last bit of pleas
ure out OF them. But don't when you
come over here, start to tell us
about them, or we will bean you'll
Don't Forget Playing Cards
Put one deck of cards in every pock-
ct you possess and one up each
sleeve. In that way you will be sure
to have at least one full deck to use
on the ride over. There is nothing
else to do, except stand ships guard
every other day and bob for whales.
Start in now to play three or four
James, picking them not for looks or
dancing, but for knitting capacity and
ability to direct parcels in neat,
clear round hand that can't be mis-
understood. In that way, and that
way only, can you be sure of sweaters,
socks, wristlets, mufflers and tummy
bands sufficient to last out the war.
Come on over: the going is finei