The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-16
fame was when the Main street drug

store introduced the rather White
Wayish innovation Of milk shaker,
EARL was promoted to shake the
shaker. With this Job went GER.
tain distinction. And from n certain
fickleness, which has sometimes been
associated with fair ones of all
cllmes and countries, the Tanners,
vile girls "shook" the fountain for
the shaker. They went over in q
body to watch EARL shake the milk
shaker. Maybe EARL privately was
inclined to the opinion that the feml.
nine migration to his department Of
usefulness was a tribute to his per
sonal attractions, and maybe Earl
INDUCED In no nonsense Of the kind.
All we know about It is that the
Tn,es-Record says Of EARL that
there was only one occasion that
comes to mind on which he (EAM)
even dimly resembled a hero, and
that was when the first milk shake
came TO town, and the young girls
shamefully deserted the other soda
fountains and fooked to see Earl
mix the novel drink"
II the war had not come, just as
likely rs not EARL would have re.
mained to this day the milk shake
hero Of the Tannersville drug store
Opportunities for herolsm do not oc.
cur very often in Tannersville; yet
such as they we're, EARL seemed to
be of the mettle to take them. But
the war did come and EARL went
He went to France. Opportunities
for heroism were there thick enough
for anybody who was Of the stuff OF
which real heroes are made. And that
It seems. was the stuff Of which this
quiet young American boy was made.
He won first the Distinguished Ser
vice Ribbon Of Great Britain. Then
he won the Croix de Guerre Of Franco
Then he won the medal for Distin-
guished Bravery from his own coun
try. And he is still going. OF these
trlumphs and of EARL the Times
Record says: I'VE suddenly face
the fact that there must always have
been heroic sides to this good hu.
mored young drug clerk"
1t looks nightly like it. And this
Tannersville youth is but one of q
great many thousand quiet, good hu.
mored young Americans whom this
deadly ordeal in which mems souls
are subjected to the ultimate trial Is
daily revealing as heroes worthy OF
Americas highest traditions-boys
suddenly transformed to men; men to
heroes In the truest and noblest nc,
ceptance Of the word. They were
about us every day. these young 20.
tential heroes. We hardly glanced
Mt them in the humble humdrum OF
their occupations before the war. Yet
they were there, these Earls. these
Dukes, these Princes Of our splendid
old Yankee stock.
With oil its far flung pail Of mourn.
ing over the land, with all its cruel
sufferings, all its pains and sacrifices
this hideous Hun war brings home to
US once more consciousness Of the
latent worth in our American citi-
zenry such rs in less stern days was
only too lightly borne in mind. There
will be other offsetting by.products OF
great value from the war, but none
Of more worth than the knowledge
Of these thousands of modest, unas
Stunning Yankee Earls we have and
always shall have in these United
States of ours.
But why the deuce did not the
Times-Record tell us a little more
about who EARL Is? Just EARL
may do, Of course, for Tannersville
where everybody knew him, no doubt
But EARL is not the private property
Of Tannersvillc by deal. He be
longs to the whole United States
We want to know who he is and
where he is and all about him. We
need all our Earls. We want t
know where we can put our hands
on them all the time. We want
specifications about our Earls; moi
localized peneralities