The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-07-04
THE SOLDIERS own
NEWSPAPER
Interesting Extracts from the
"Stars and Stripes" Pub
Iished in France

Forces.
"The A. E. F. is more than an infan
affecting ready to celebrate the first an
Anniversary of its birth as an alliet
ffHghting machine" says Stars ano
~ Stripes of May 81. at is mighty
11husky infant. It's own family doctor
d1and wet nurse, the Medical Depart
f5ment, says so. Excellent is the Medi-
filcal Departments pronunciamento on
4ithis same infants general health.
lahore than that, the non-effective
Pirate in the A. E. F.-and that means
ddare unable to perform their duties
1dqsecause of sickness-has since the
dfaecond week in February been smaller
fiahan it has been among American
fttroops in the United States. With the
fexception Of one week the venereal
" rate has also been smaller in the A. f..
y p. since January l than among troops
/ Still at home"
| r This is gratifying news to all who
flare at home.
"a An article on army clothing reports
1fthat the quartermaster general is in
INTRODUCING continual changes in raj
tfment, as experience suggests. "Your
w tailor, otherwise the O. M, has got a
i ffine, not of talk, but of wearables that
y ii the result of several months expert
offence, showing just what happens to
jtlarmy clothes in the trenches behind
'f1fthe lines and in the wear and tear OF
b'toil in the bases"
, ItThe army shoe has stood up well
+ lienough, Stars and Stripes reports, IN
fiisham battles in the states, "but over
NJ here it is different. Briefly, the new
fkshoe's service record is this: wider
tflast, higher instep, more toe room, al
ftl6wing the wearing of additional
tfsocks," etc. "The new boot will be
waterproof inside and out"
1arThe most radical change is in the new
bibreeches The funny thing is that
l}they are not breeches. They're
fftrousers- plain, ordinary, common
ltiong trousers, almost. The new trous-
fhefs will obviate all the defects of their
n predecessors-tig lacing, impaired
liberalization, easily chilled feet"
"a A hint to Red Cross workers is in
This item: "The wooden gloves you
'fwear next winter will have such long
wrists that the wristlets being knitted
otfSr you at home better be handed over
\ to father"
S'sStars and Stripes obliges with much
iadvice to the boys, such as: of you
fare invited to take in raid, ac-
kept at once. Raids are often as in
ftefesting as surprise parties used to be
fSback in the states-with the exception
ethat they play kissing games after
wards when they hand out the cross de
IRuerre."
Pr This being a scientific war. "even
ethe cootie is doomed, says Stars and
FStripes. The crusade is "in charge of
an officer to be designated as cote
ihant." Also doomed is the rat A /,
biological surveyor "who had great I
Success in DISCRIMINATING the prairie l
siogs in Kansas and Colorado" was en-
gagged to make rat survey, the re-
suit being that "a successful barrage
the rat has been laid down.
n War poetry as we'll as cartoons from v
the best talent makes up good part II
of Stars and Stripes. The first stanza q
of poem begins: v
J Dear Madge: q
While at home was no zest o
d In my heart for the dainty called n
spinach, o
Yet now have learned to disgest p
1t innich by innich. q, q
They know how to cook spinach, it !"
seems, over there: al
And, 0, they are onto their biz, al
And that, little girl, is cinich-- CT
Tho don't know just what it is pi
That they do to fistful of spinach. Ii,
When he gets home. he tells Madge
he must find somebody who can cook
spinach in the French manner.
If cannot find one, fear !"
That never again may We cinich. ~
Because, tho I'll do without beer. q
can't live a week without spinach. hi
IL is lucky Stars and Stripes is u
not copyrighted, since most of it is "
good quotable stuff. besides giving US ~
IN idea of the spirit that prevails
among the boys at the front. A base
pail game between the Blanks and the ar
Blighters is reported, the Blank pitch or
r being "Hank, who was once as Brave GO
is he now is brave" suggestive of Ut
Hank Gowdy of the Boston Braves.
Hank struck out the first three
3lighters who faced him-all with his
,as mask on" Some stunt, since the a.,
eport says that che couldn't spit on So
he ball; Just took it out going up