Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25
"SAMNlEE" GETS NEWS,
DESPITE CENSORSHIP
Behind the Lines and in the
Trenches the Tripod Culls
Live Happenings
APPEARS SEMIWEEKLY
Provides Variety and Interesting
Reading for American
Soldiers i'm France
BY HENRI BAZIN
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two front legs and one rear leg. brings
its right Sind smartly opposite its right
eyebrow. nNgcrs extended. and salutes."
So il announces itself I'm its initial num-
her, for be 1t known the Tripod is the
"onlyest" and original trench newspaper
published in the American army. ! wish
/ could say which outfit among these
Sammoc boys is responsible but the
ever-prescnt censor looms up with q
great big red, or great bis blue pencil.
or a mercilcss pair or shears--so what's
the use?
But bc it known that the Tripod is
some newspaper not hahdwrtten if you
please, but regularly printed on regu-
lar press, i'm sixteen pages. each IL by
inches; that its unknown editor is some
editor with a knowledge Of the game,
who announces a srmiweelSly appear
ance Of his sheet as published by and for
the members "of the ---th Machine
Gun Battalion and troops adjacent to
Nevermindwhcrc France that II is on
tered at the postoficc at Jcncsaispas
France. as buck or second class mat
ter, aud that It's circulation OF so many
shots n minute has been delcted 10y the
censor. In small. isolated and therefore
inconspCuous type upon the first page Il
announces thusly: First copy, YOU will
note, gentle reader, is issued just after
nay day."
The trench paper is as old as the
war or almost. In the French army
there are between 500 and 900 But
none among them like the Tripod, that
stands alone upon its three legs, steady
as the gun its metal Confrerc holds. That
first issue was sold out =. -. @, and
IL would take moro than the fifty-Ccn-
oil ,pfg In N t1,iu
camp today.
Its varied news is varied indeed II
deals with politics, whether the chap
Who said France was sunny was a joker
or not contains an editorial upon the
horse clipper haircut" prevalent among
Sammces, a list Of Americans among the
khaii-clad, including Morarty Witzel-
stein. PnshgtuffskuiCki, NOndcrstcgen,
Frascati, Smith and a few others, prov
ing conclusively every man jack came
over before the Maynowcr was launched
Cin the form of ancestor, Of course) ana
gleefully points out that a guy wearing
shoulder straps. named Moses Cohen,
Is not an American jew. but natural
ICED Irish Episcopalan,'
NUMEROUS SPECIAL FEATURES
II has heart-poured article upon vim
rouge and win blanc, and asks why they
are both called vim ordnairc. and 1t be-
walls the absence Of real lager beer,
which ComCth not TO France during
these days OF war The editor or con-
tributor, | don't know which. Of this
article, after a column Of literature
asking why, when and how, breaks into
poetry,.thus:
III ever I get back to what is known
as Gods own region,
TIL HE me 20 a quenchery and order
schooners legion
OF MIR. Busch's amber brew or Mr..
Schltz's kind
And put that awful French beer drink
forever from my mind.
And when We down the Ilaiser-as in
Heavens time we will,
| wouldn't vote to feed the boke a
prussic-acid pill;
Id holler for indemnity and have him
pay each year
One hundred trilliOn nckels in the form
of German beer
Its best article (and have a reason
for so considcrinG) is entitled What il
your girl. too, had her letters censored"
In part il reads:
Dearest -; Back home here it's
awfully lonesome without you. Last
week the ---- club gave its annual
'ollN' anu Nllelt Ntlt blllN l4itll
there, were on furlough from
Camp --- and --- had just been
accepted in the ------th Aviation Corps,
had ------ numbers on my program
TO sit out, and in one case - men
by mistake had put themselves down
for the same dance and there were ---
arguments about it. It's only the ---.
time have gone to a dance without you
and | know you won't care. Last week
as | was walking home from ---- /
met George ----. who told me -------.
Isn't it dreadful? | tried to make a pan
Of ------- the other night, and some
mean, bad boy stole it after | had placed
it on the window sill to cool You know
how / like ---. don't you, dearie?
Wasn't it awful? | must close now as
] have to go down to ---- and match
some for Then | am
going TO see Charlie ---- in his fun
niest ever, The ----- of ---. I am
awfully lonely without you. | wish you
were here to go along, for | know you
would enjoy il terribly I send YOU a
million -s and lots Of ---,
Yours, -"
"P. s. think it horrld not to know
your street address, and | am sending
this care General Pershing marked
please forward TO -"
IT'S ALWAYS GOOD DAY IN FRANCE
The last two pages are devoted tC
French lessons, Of which l select Jus
one;
The French phrase for "Good-day' Il
Bonjour. Literally it means "Ilowdy,'
but exactly good day, whether 1t Is Z
good day or not, which 1t generally
isn't Whenever a native says thusl!
to you. answer back just the same
Don't disagree with him or her fc
what's the use, you can't tell her o.
him why, and, anyhow, it makes nothinI
diff, because, don't you see, do you ge
me, he or she may not agree on whei
day is good or not since some lill
rain in steady diet form, and think /
good while others remember the SUI
and think that's better than good any
how, what's the use arguin'?"
The local Office of the Tripod is Y. NJ
c, A. Hut No. /, Noneofyourbusines
avenue, Nevermindwhere, France, An
the Editor reserves the right TO rejec
any manuscript not available for publ
cation, and proposes to eject any Sam
NEE from the Hut who comes in askin
why.
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