The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-12-20
The
Red Cross Man
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ttfp 1<VVhtn
like "A six-cyiinder officer, but they
don't ride in no ~Hisycr.p
You are gltessin' close, Ireland.
Didn't YOU see the Red Cross on his
jitney? That's the Red Cr1's Man.
He's got a real handleSbut few knew
what it's like. Every jack from the
c. o. to the ducks IN the guardhouse
call him the Red Cross Man. Got 'em
i'll all the camps.,". -
81 didn't see none Mt Whceler's fed.
Is he what you cnll-not II %pr,acher-
but a"
"No, Mike, he ain't no chaplain. II
that's the handle you wuz huntin' fur.
The cross is a big red one. an the A..
Il. c. on his jacket don't siand for
aero reserve corps. but the Arnerican
Red Cross. l heard him the other
morning when he tried to start his
ilivver after the rain. Captain Welsch
said his language was biblical, but 1t
wuzn't orthodox, whatever that means.
1t sounded like good old United States
to me. No, he amt no preacher. hut l
reckon he knows how to talk turkey to
the boys all right. Corporal Murphy
hadn't been giving his folks a square
deal; never sent any money home,
a-soakin' his pay shootin' CRIBS two
hours after gettin' 1t. The corp. tOlc
Me the Red Cross Man-talked TO i'm
like a Dutch uncle, an when he got
through, the corp. had signctkp paper
, tcllin' Uncle Sam to take .Mirangle
hold on half his pay, an slip III to hi5'
mother. Take it from me, Uncle Sam
mic likes TO hear them sort of orders,
AN TO show how happy he WIZ to get
the corps message, he clluckcd in
twenty more plHnkcrs to The corps IF
teen an the mothers gctrin' thirty-fiye
per. Sure She amt happy less she's
WIa>lln with a w%ashboard every day,
but the corp. tole lac She wuZ only
a-tlkin' in five family washes now. ar'-
the kids WIZ goin' to school again.
When The Red Cross Man had a, fot.-'
hold pn the corp, herpersuaded him Ia
take 6ut lnsdiaacc, same a. the resi- of
Us hoy, au' tlen H. tole hilH he co1(l
gamble MIS- b%lo0uiiH' block eff with lie
TEST "l his gay. The cop. gets "a good
ui.lit'5 -i..p now on nav Luv cYi,.a
what, LEN of bi. ,iav only i.sts tin
abuul len tSirlv.n
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for-sure officer. Ualyp
Rank OF Officer.
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ia hnva him mans, H., ;o.1u,u .,
and thnv for..t tboy,r an ia ~
Suites stead in France where tb.v al
want to be. lie can deliver the mer-
clindiSe too. Last winter when Tom
Md>on's wife and four kids come down
here FROM Detroit AN got sick, the Rs!
Cross MHn gut Tom II leave an took
i'm to the burg III his fiyver. Then he
sent Toms wife Il doe, an some conl. ,
an some eats. Reckon he must a
helped Tom get ii discharge so lie
could support his fainily though no.
body knows noibin' for sure. Slim /
Dawson thought he did, though, an
asked The Red Cross Man 10 help him
get off Uncle SAINTS pay roll. The
Red Cross Man Nfoip snlnp InttnrS M,