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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-29

Of the steanl!ng sinking mess, while down.
right murder. and nothing else. cleaned IN
the eyes of other artillery huskies.
AS for me. wretch that was, I pounded
on the mess table and yelled: ....
Boys. this thing has gone far enough
I'm willing to die for my country on the field
of battle but I'll be blamed II any lump
headed. fumblinE jackass of a Niger cook
is going to shuttle me of with kettle fuil
Of ptomaine bugs"
An for Murder
If the lads had known that only ten min
utes before l had polished off a good square
meal in the .seclusion of the boiler-roonl, they
would have lynched me. But they didn't
know IT.
My words had an immediate effect. for
they were ripe for murder. pillage and every
thing else in the category OF lawlessness,
Right you are, Reddy,' yelled buddy
from Michigan. II move We hang that rot
ten cook to the yardarm. He's out to get
sea funeral for all of us, and he'll accomplish
his purpose If we don't get him first."
There amt any yardarm on this ship"
observed an old artilleryman, but. boys, we
can lift him to the crows nest ana drop MIN
of into the brine"
"To the crows nest with the black beg
gar" chorused the desperate crew, and the
rush was on into the galley s,a y
The big chap from Michigan led the band
He was ferocious- looking object as he jab-
bed viciously at the air with pair of table
forks r.a + ts4.ff
But the chef heard the uproary and the
rush of feet down the stairs. He must have
suspected that day of reckoning was COM
ing up cannon-ball express. for he scram-
bied up another companionway and gained
the deck. So great was his haste that he
took along with him a great wooden ladle
from which hung threads of dough.
The boys were hot on the trail and they
reached the deck just in time to see the
white coattails of the chef disappearing
around a corner of the charthouse. The chase
was now on in earnest, Up and down COM
panionways, through the main saloon, down
INTO the engine room and back up again to
the deck. the chef ran for his life with the
mack of enraged artllerymen at his heels.
Finally, exhausted, the terrified negro
plunged head first into the cabin Of the COM
n,anding officer. believing: y
save me. for de Lords sake, save me-"
what does this mean?" asked the col
onel sternly as he surveyed the painting. per-
spiring artillerymen gathered about his door.
~s The First Victory
"It means just this. colonel" spoke up a
gunner who had Just arrived from the ness
roorn- He stepped forward with bowl of
the stuff that had been served as stew.
Just take whim Of this. colonel" he
ssid tits the kind of chow that black ras-
csi has been serving up ever since we left
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CHAPTER ~
A ROYAL Welcome

TT was evident that our approach had been
i well heralded, for the docks were dense
with people, and on public buildings. dws,I-
ings and warehouses hundreds of American
and French flags We're swapping to the
breeze.
Quaint little French fishing boats ,u,a r,,,..,
about the transport, and the occupants Of
these craft were the first to greet us
These fishermen were very picturesoue IN
their rakish, red tam-o -shanters and -cor-
duroy trousers rolled up to the knee Thev
wore red scarf about the waist ana thsjr
looking men were. wreathed I'm. smiles: thev
jabhered and sesticulated after the manner
OF the French. shrieking questions al us
which we did not in the least understand.
One OF them became so excited that he
forgot to steer his boat and the craft RAM
med another and was upset. throwing the
fisherman into the water We threw q lima
to the capsized party and pulled him drip
port We gave him a hilarious reception.
slapping his damp back and shouting
rHowdy .French?" He replied with tor.
rent of enthusiasm In his own language ana
a wide smile unfoldsd under his queer little
eyebrow Of a rnustache when we hlled Ms
hand with American coins. He stayed an
the boat until we docked And did not, seer,
to worry In the least about. the fate Of his
smack. which he had left upset In the harb0r
( In the meantime the French aircraf N ma
wheeled about and were following the trans-
port. serving as a sort of-rearguard The
United States cruiser rode proudly ahead
and the destroyers steamed behind us
\. It sounded pleasant and swarlike to hear
the buzsing OF the motors aloft. We yelled
greetings To the airmsn, and they pesred
at. us through their goggles and waved in
reply. They were flying SO low that we
could almost talk to them. ~, =. q
Dense crowds were lined up on both banks
as we passed through the FIRST locks There
were quantity dressed peasant women who
made me think of the pictures of Puritan
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That rubberin' periscope." i thought; II
hope we make a direct hit" ''-
Then came the sickening reaction.
False alarm; nothing but one of those
d--n porpoises," cried the lookout, lower
ing his glasses -, ... e.. r- are ,.
A Eroan of disgust ran through the ship.
Wouldn't it make you sick?' observed a
Californian. Here we were all primed for
the best movie of our lives. and the lights
go out and the screen goes on the blink. I'd
like to skin that hell of a porpoise."
AS for me- was as mad as devil for
felt that our trip across would not be COM
plete without good warm argument with
one of Germanys U-boats.
Anyway, that was our introduction to the
much-talked-of submarine zone
Taking No Chances
porpoise at distance does look very
much like spying periscope and the pesky
mammals fooled our lookouts several times
before reached France. But then these
instances only showed that our men were
ever on the alert for the KaIser's under-the-
sea dogs.
Our officers took no chances while we were
passing through the territory of the U-boss.
For three nights the transport Travelled with
out lights. and our guardians, the cruiser
and the destroyers redoubled their vigilance.
We were routed out Of our hunks at 8 a. m.
on each of those three days, and were COM
pelled to remain on deck until Z a. m. with
our life preservers buckled on and our shoes
ana trousers unlaced. The favorite time for
the average submarine to attack is around
dawn. -r =.,,-
We didn't sight single U-boat all the way
over. but we had a lot of fun al the expense
Of these sneaking craft. Naturally we were
| all thinking about subs when we entered the
zone. and hardly an hour would pass but that
| some jokester would yell 49,
Hey, boys, there's sub"
Then We fall guys would crowd to the
rail and put our eyes out looking for peri
scopes. -.t- -t,-. =,
! was taking my turn at poker one day
| around noon when the submarine chestnut
| came along and caught me an awful wailop
| My hand was pretty good one--well 1t
! was nothing less than royal hush, some-
| thing which had never before rubbed. ac-
| quaintance with me during my brief exieri-
| enee as poker player.
] l was about to proceed with this poker
knockout when voice screeched at my
| elbow:
| Holy smoke. lads, here comes a torpedo
| going to hit US midships'"
| Zowie / was on my feet In an instant
dashng my cards on the table. The other
| players followed suit ~
| We did our little marathon to the rstl only
to hnd that we had been properly guyed
| again. e.s. e. l,-s. - ~ -
When we returned to the table. of course
| we found the cards all mixed up and had
u make . new deal Ispent - hour looEiAG
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The colonel did take whif, and he drew
back with an expression Of disgust. 7.
We'll, I should say So" he observed. Then
he turned to the chef and said angrily:
didn't get us all.
That's not At to feed to pigs; you are
suspended until have a chance to investi-
gate" s,-
The colonel did investigate, and he found
that the men in the culinary quarters never
washed the kettles Bits Of food were allowed
to lay In the bottom Of the pots and decom-
pose. Fresh food was put right In on top
Of this mess. cooked and served up to the
boys It's wonder that the ptomaine bugs
The chef was laid of the Job for the rest
Of the voyage. and we had no further trouble
with the chow. However. the sergeant and
I continued to get our private stock from the
boierroom cache. u.
The day after the chef was fired out Of the
galley in high disgrace, a shrill call rang out
from one of the lookouts of the transport!'
"Periscope on the port bow"
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buddies rushed into my tent one night, and
said excitedly: .....t.
"Reddy. we're off for France tomorrow"
l thought he was kidding me, but no. the
news was buzzing all over the camp. and the
next morning we "entra ined for parts un-
known" b.. .s.
We all knew what that meant-we were
going to France, going overseas to put the
Yankee punch into the fight against the Hun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
After Thanksgiving What?

the
 
 shdowed that first when the olonts together to thank God for relief the nation spoke it's gratitude for after &s It interesting significant that just before rested victorious world conquered the underworld Hlstor- rather than the desnes world Such has In A. D. Arnus stopped westward At Chaon Tn A. D. 451 the original Ala turned back with hs hordes 732 and Christianity of Mohmmedanism claimed the world The the Spanish armada l5Ss and saveo Saratoga turned the uoe Gettysburg American union battle of the alles srecnng intervals all the the North Mesopoma was greater those that have before
 The thankful But after the cannon are thanksgiving sad we What then? Are be any the thrill obligation with us? Will our ves pc
 
 think fairly that country has been saved rom rate fairly aso that in the prov food its Red Cross and r. M A. it's ships and it's turned the tide of battle we are country Will loyalty mean Patriotism? Will fishn be meaner and uger! thankful that boys coming home knel remembered them We'll are study children who did not go! Are crcumspec guide them more pa iently for them devoutly?
 the things been l91s glorious but meaningless guiding hand controlling voice. thanks giving a dedication forever? ..as.a
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NED BRACE TALKS OF DASH AND RECKLESS GAlLANTRY
 OF THE AMERICAN BOYS AND HEARS GEN. R. GSON
 SOUND PRAISES FOR TFlEIR WORK ON HEEDENBURCS LINE

they stop complete victory the world has known
 Only Rawson command Fourth army, trench dugou overlooking destroyed village of Bony
 through which the canal unneed under ground for series of deep trenches and dugoh with high andth continuous entanglements.
 Threth American divisions with us here said General Rawinson The th pointing ground under which canal tunnel Facing about and pointing the "he The Americans the center be- hnd that hill directly to where stand They be slow about and careful of advance while the Australians stopping terrific machine fire they those trenches Unfortunately for them the Boches they didn't kill went the dugouts took machine with them In the meantime nnS here Ths fi1d ~ ~ I ph @ h ph @ f M dnsots As vonr turned machine them For the slaughter be but those splendid Americans Roche the last
 Just where Rawn pointing be- low the joining of three trenches the opening of framed wood boys and 27 of them We only moved the this hour the body of the last German officer There his helmet You might want souvenir" pointing the helmet lying the s
 did, and have and the sons o old south friends whom knew well years ago the staff of the Charleston News and Courier
 h % + 1a The Brisber would have been @ s1o w careful He would tricks of these fellows fighting will learn their
 But cannot say fighters is splendid enthusiastic, gallant fellows
 going and tangled He active boy his words though talking He interested himse he had command the greatest Eng lands four and in na @ 0qea M hh m a ss @
 line and captured 4ooo troops concentrated in the canal tunnel behind Bony
 English general victories duties done There is him. passed and to him is what next? From the Tommy the general there is modesy which almost 70 Americ N
 British soldier refer to getting Boch himself He
 his bayonet through he may have shot them but he won't tellt ->< {
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1 } 1. LIT HERE Chaumon Il the Mihiel for three has what accomplished through like true the boys went in take this sector and to drive Mezieres and sedan and they did it. thick South Alabama through the hknesses Boch machine talked them and charged them 1t was dian warfare But they took @ % T w @ 'na hd @ wherein the Germans had thrown up their crying d grenade into the ranks of their captors. esv 4a5sav@@
 fight and in the St Mh sector estned the meaning and purpose of the Yankee soldier ana IL paea h very ~ with German
 boys felt much like the told them into wood and clean 1t out if there Boches in it. :, N responded Bohes in there Co n
 How know? nterected the black private spokesman the squad, you're ngger, are
 confidence officers and as rule are non
  officers difficult handle them in engagements of modern warfare the gff of such fighting methods fight being night beside In warfare their confidence they vetabe hell hounds soldiers have been failure and the great labor battans There are exceptions or course only speak of the average
 eated all along the lines before the new blood and wild They apparently compared and rnshes the out and tusses they British French The Boch could up dg daredevil Americans who hesad at ng they and reread until boys had gone into Sedan and the war was ended
 But this German the retreat of trained army numbers ashey went forward after The casualties were very very Everyone the fahes and bring fighter would dare Many there always another and There were no stopping avery sides and the baynet evidence everywhere with and they went through those Gma nan mes % @ ana boys have proven themselves to bel r have had no aon of rum but plenty strong They didn't ned the rum They youngsters cay they ripe of responsive training They had been fed went to the horse before the starter And
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

Fashion makes fools out of few women and it makes monkeys out of the rest of them.
 When they are first married he proudly refers to her as my wife . But later on he oarelessly refers to her as ''the old lady"
 What has become of the O. f. man who used to wear a moustache like that worn by the Kaiser?
 A woman has more sense than a man. She dresses for an auto accident when she joy rides and she dresses for a train wreck when she travels. No matter how much a man knows about himself, he never knows half as much as his wife believes she will be able to find out about him. One of the pleasant moments in life is when you have to introduce an ac- gotten to man you have just met and l whose name you didn't get. l It often happens that when a youns fellow sows wild oats he raises checks
 And what has become of the 0. f woman who used to have to raise her
 skirt when she crossed the street? Now that the war is over, Congress can devote all of its time to enactins
 laws to prohibit some one from doing something 1 '-he safest way to cuss man is tu
 cuss him behind his back. But if you have anything to Say to a mule. say
 lit his face.
 | There was a time when woms | hated to pay a dollar for pair, oi sto kings, because nobody could ses tha she was wearing them But it il diff rent nowadaya. -
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as long as it remains conquer1ng dynasty. Let us hope that the same will apply to the Hohenzollern dynasty, and now that the Kaiser has led them to a humiliating surrender. that the Germans will cast them out root ana branch having learned>that war waged for conquest is out of date in the twentieth century.
 It was with Othman's son, Orkan, that the Ottoman empire really began; let us pray that the Hohenzollern dynasty will end with William II. It was Or kan who did one thing to firmly es- tablish the ottoman power This was the institution of the tribute of chill dren By the law of Mahomet. the un- believer is allowed to purchase life, property. and the exercise of his re- ligion. by paying tribute.
 Freeman tells us that the deepest wrongs. that which other tyrants did as an occasional outrage,-thus became under OrkanA the settled law of the Ottomans A fixed proportion of the strongest and most promising boys among the conquered Christian nations were carried off for the services ol the Ottoman princes. They were brought up in the Mahometan tairn' and were employed in civil or mil itary functions. according to their ca
 pacity.
 Out of, them was formed the famous force of the Janizary. the new sol diers. who, for three centuries, as long as they were levied in thiss way tformed the strength of the Ottoman armies. These children. torn from their homes and cut off from every domestic and national tie, knew only the ere- 1 ligion and the service into which they were forced, and formed body of ] troops such as no other power could commend.
 1 Ihave listened with dry eyes to the Itales of where Belgian children have !been butchered, but somehow, when ] read the stories of how 1t was a policy of the Germans to take the boys from l the struggling arms of mothers oi France to be carried to Germany to be made into German citizens, somehow II could not keep back the tears, Il seems impossible that in the year oi our Lord 1918. nation calling it.
 'hristian would initiate a Ma
 a an one in demanding tribute oi
 sa eren
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By persuading the British and French governments to remove all restric- tions on news from Versailles, Presi- dent Wilson has made the freedom of the press" a reality in Europe. These governments could not have done otherwise, in view of the stand taken by the American government in giving correspondents access to all news emanating from the conference.
 For the first time in history diplo- matists will have their actions passed on by, the people they represent, not months and years afterward, but from day to day, as the negotiations pro- ceed. This fact in itself will help to Smooth out the wrinkles" and pre- vent friction.
 The Italian ambassador at Wash ington is quoted as saying to we'll known American newspaper man two years ago: "The allies will know how to agree among themselves. Did we Igo through all this suffering and unity of action in war not to know how to keep it at the peace confer ;ence7" While it is true that these words were spoken before American idealism had won place at the peace table and dominant voice in the pro- ceedings there, they were prophetic. With so much at stake, and with the whole world informed accurately of what is going on, serious Gssension will be kept down.
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When few years back the Kaiser began to flirt with the Sultan of Tur- key, there were some superficial pub licists who set it down to his love Of show; and explained his visit and tours through the Holy Land as merely a bit of theoreticality to satisfy his own love of the spectacular and to impress the Turks.
 But the more I studied it, the more I was convinced that it boded i'll for the peace, of Europe, and that underlying his fondness for posterity andrpageant- ry, there was deep-laid scheme to upset the English supremacy and later detach India after he had made him. poured into the railroad projects was not merely for trade, but for the war that was being covertly planned all the while. only waiting on "the day. to begin it.
 l I am not going to make the follow I ing statement merely to be sensational
 
 man who is down and out, but after study and sober thought. b believe it to be true1,and that is, the Kaiser caused more bloodshed and brought more misery on noncombatantA than did Abdul Hamid the damned" known as the butcher of Europe," in all of his 33 years of massacre. " | 4. ! themselves worthy followers of At tila, but the underlying teachings of kultur were steeped in cruelty. Deeds were not done by men hot with the grime of battle. but they were thought I outin universities. conferences of>bus- mess men. and members of the learned professions This is the thing which will long damn Germany in the eyes of impartial historians.
 k There is striking likeness betw eef the Ottoman Turks and the moderi Jwar-like Prussians. as there Is re. lsemblance between the leading Sultan! 4 and the Hohenzollern rulers, The Ot' 4 tomansS began as band of robbers and So did the dynasty which Erippet {, Prussia and later the German empire An eastern dynasty. above all . q E
 honetan dynasty. is great and gl so ous. according to ssn eastern stand dxee
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Joined with a large measure of ex- perience and common sense. Many army officers on reaching the statutory retirement age-slXty- four actually give up all wofk. Few of them get into harness that lpresupposes arduous strain. But Gen. eral Gorgas, retired, is as wrile as he was when adding to his fame by mak- ing the building Of the great canal possible. He is not only physically strong, but he is as keen as ever for philanthropic achievement. If his health is spared five years longer he will accomplish all that is expected of him-world-wide eradica- tion of yellow fever. In addition to enjoying salubrious climate, Californians may stroll down | to the beach--those who are within strolling distance-and watch the mo tion picture beauties in bathing suits go ] through their paces while vigilant cameraman catches every curve. < * # 44 {, Why shouldn't China celebrate the ending of the war? The embattled "Chink" put in many a good days work on the roads of France T * F I No more appropriate vessel could be found for President Wilson's trir abroad than one bearing the name oi George Washington; < E < l London conductorettes are graciously giving up their places to returning sol diers Single men can do no less thar propose marriage.
 1 * Y * I Wilhelm is regarded by Holland as being definitely out of the running. Tn, J1AiiSa, hOWoNci, uO uol ohdic IlollduQ optimistic belief
 l # a as 1 Another rise- in the price of coal i. lpredicted. Nobody seems to pay any at tsntion to the walls of the ultimat, consumer.
 # #
 Removal of the service star from : window is a strictly private ceremony in which she and he only should talk fpart.
 * * *
 About the only point in von Luden dorff's favor yet brought out is the fac that he has sense of humor. * E # 1 Old General Flu" has neither short ened his lines nor retired to previous fly prepared position.
 | * * # It looks as if Mir. Ford were goin, to worry along without sporting edi tor for his weekly
 < < * :. X
 The ex-Kaiser's voluminous mail con ltains brickbats as well as bouquets.