Arizona republican., 1918-08-26
"The Martial Adventures of
 Henry And Me"

the Gilded Youth were wearing out the deck. Henry also added that her skipping was scheduled for that night
 Has her hair stopped over yet" This from me.
 'No." answered Henry. but it's get ting crinklier and crinklier and she looks pinker and pinker. and prettier and prettier, and you ought to see her in her new purple sweater. She sprang that on the boat this afternoon. Its laying 'em out in swaths." Henry's affinity was afraid to turn off his back But he turned a pale face to- ward his side-kick and whispered: Henry. you tell her. he gulped be- fore going on. that if she can't find anyone else to lap, there's a man down down here who can't fight back"
 The Boat Drill
 sense of security comes to one who churns along seven iys on calm sea on an eventless voyage And the French, by easy going ways stim- ulate that sense of security: we had heard weird stories of boat drills at daybreak, of midnight alarms and of passengers sleeping on deck in then life preServers. and we were prepared l Emporia expected us to have. They never came. One afternoon. seven or eight days out, we had notice at noon that we would try on our life preserv- CTS that afternoon. The life preserv- CTS were thrown on our beds by the stewards and at o'clock eaca pas senger appeared beside the life boat assigned to him, donned his life belt which gave him a ridiculously stuffed appearance answered to roll-call guyed those about him after the man. ner of old friends, and waited for something else It never came. The ships officers gradually faded from the decks and. the passengers, after standing around foolishily for a time, disappeared one by one into their cabins and bloomed out again with their life belts moulted, That was the last we heard of the boat drill Or the life belts. The French are just that casual.
 But one evening at late twilight. the ship went a-flutter over a grisly in cident that brought us close up to the war. We were gathered in the dusk lookin" at a sailing shin far over to the south-a mere speck on the hori- zon's edge. Signals began to twinkle from her and we felt our ship give a lurch and turn north zigzagging at full speed. The signals of the sailing ship were distress s1gnals, but we sped away from her as fast as our engines would take us. for. though her signals may have been @enuine. also they may have been U-Doat lure. Often the Germans have used the lure of dis tress signals on a sailing ship and when rescuer has appeared, the U-
 boat has sent 10 death the Good Sa-
 maritan of the sea, It is awful But the German has put mercy off the sea
 German and Wichita Ways
 Some way the average man goes
 back to his home environment for his
 moral standards. and that night as we
 walked the deck. Henry broke out
 with this: I've been thinking abou
 this U-boat business; how it would he : if we had the Germans job. I have !; been trying to think if there is any one in Wichita who could go out anc
 run a U-boat the way these Germans run U-boats, and I've been trying tt
 imagine him sitting on the front porcl ) of the Country club or down at tn, Elks' club talkin~ bout it; telling how he lured the captain of a ship by hi: l distress signal to come to the rescue of sinking ship and then destroyed | the rescuer. and I've been trying It ) figure out how the fellows sittin;
 around him would take it. They'd ge
 up and leave. He would be outcas as unspcakable and no brag or bluff or blare of victory would gloss ove his act. We simply do,'t think tn German way. We have a loyalty |. humanity deeper than our patriotism There are certain things self-respect ing men cant do and live in Wichita ] But there seem to be no restriction l in Germany. The U-boat captain usin 3 the diNtress signal as a lure probabl 1 holds about such a place in his hom town as Charley Carey, our banker ] or. Walter Innes, our dry goods mar a He is doubtless a leading citizen c e some German town: doubtless kin n father, good husband and maybe j. pillar of the church And 1 suppos e town and home and church will ap Il plaud him when he goes back to Ger e many to brag about his treachery. Wichita. town and home and churc c would be ashamed of Charley Care q and Walter Innes if they came bac Il to brag about killing men who wer e lured to death by responding to tn
 call of distress"
 No Sign of France
 y And so. having disposed of the psy . chology of the enemy, we turned in fc . the night. We were entering tf t danger zone and the night was hot . few passengers slept on deck: but mo.