Evening star., 1918-04-12
THE OTHER. ANGLE;
Our Standing Army.

with OLD Roger Winter dying such
tough death and the jam at 18th street
nAd Pennsylvania avenue convalescent.
rs beginning to look rs II all the
fsvsl-edxed. self-cocking. parouet-
asored warriors are not being Matched
asssr on the western front. Washing
ysn has a standing army Of its own.
which has to fight Its way to and from
york each morning and night.
a :. A lot Of our most susceptible draftees
ees going to know more about this war
same when they take out their full
3henbership in the Army than the gov
Ssanent suspected And why shouldn't
= Any two-footed pro-American who
an stand on his launches days like
2uesdAy, "wednesday, yesterday ana
tea.y ana let ,old Roger Winter I'm 1ssrr aim
60r at his trench coat can't expect to
- embArgoed from military service on
The grounds Of hiccough or dropping
q the elbows.
A1nI to imagine winter was completely
&Aa1ed he occupied q fresh position
elong beside the aurora borealis and
Gkarted sniping at us from ambush.
93sct on us than on a mallard's fet-
books ana that we have been used to IL
egnce November once, he tried to shake
- to death by issuing us hand-en-
lraved sarthquake-but we wouldn't
Yesssrd2y he bombsrded us with a
4Arrsl OF trapped confetti, which may
- very stylish for April, but which
aon't blend with our Easter millinery.
= Anybody who can run that blockade
ot 18th street and Pennsylvania ave-
1ue when Secretary McAdoo dismisses
kchool. and the crowd gets through
Svying liberty bonds at Keith's The
nt0r, don't need to fret over that little
strip Of real estate--no mans land.
People who can successfully navigate
4imss Square. New York. and a Cabin
1ohn car on Sunday afternoon, have
x1ashsd In and lost where angels feared
- tread. at this intricate thoroughfare.
Many an allen enemy has been ap-
Drehended trying to thumbprint 9Th
AAd y streets when the patent office
1asts loose on the hypothesis that the
eams tactics used there by Americans
o4Sht to move Paris nearer those sew
enty-hve-mile German barking ma
chimes by about six barks.
lf We can keep from getting booted
84t deld goal or trlpped up by a
atvver at the 9Th and sector, there's
no use trying to keep us from trying
% -fnfsst the birthplace Of the pretzel
nor the eternal fountain of Pilsner.
A map OF fth and Pennsylvania ave-
niue in the paws of the enemy would
Vt4lniy EeNedt tne AnSlO-SaXOn rnethOu
ake .seventy-two-centimet traffic and
would enable Germany to rush troops
4cross the French terrain at the rate
OF about one a week. At certain hours
0fsthe day Tth and the Avenue is prac-
tically impregnable> and the boys who
expect to start to camp beginning April
az can get some good rehearsals down
there between I and o'clock. Which
SnAkes It q good place to spend that odd
hour Of daylight.
Some Of our other street corners are
A1@oss ~ hard boiled a. these and you
caa't win 4 skirmish with them any
more than you can win an argument
6kpm your fewer half, II you've got q
cigar and xenial smile you can gyrate
eaet some Of the trAfic administrators
tQt the wife 70 no fudge Of good 70.
1900 ana she knows every smile has
bDSwtss lining.
3urs. all the drafted boys from Wash.
SeGton will be adult lighters before
eAsy are Joined by the army, for haven't
they been elbowfng their way in and
out Of street cars ever since the wal
became chronic?
Easily.