Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-22

Mr. Downes. whose home rs ut 903
Nandcver avenue has arrived safely
in Franco. according TO messages re-
ceived by his mother and friends. Mr..
Downcs had been stationed at Camp
Dix, n. J., since September Is, with the
3llth Field Hospital Corps.
Sergeant II. Hunter Price, 600 North
Van Rurcn street, is sending The Stars
and Stripes the official newspaper of
the American Expedltionary Forces IN
Franco, to Major Ernest { Parks Of
the Delaware Pioneer Regiment. The
Stars and Stripes. is printed IN Paris
every Friday and circulated among the
American soldiers in the camps and the
trenches. There IS nothing French about
IT except the price, which is % ccntimos
COPY The French newspapers offered
little comfort to an American who could
not understand the language And IN
he second place, foreign papers PRINT
comparatively little about America. Third
", the bows wanted to know what was
gong on in army life The Stars and
Stripes" is a full-sizcd, eight-page news
paper In general make up 1t follows
the usual lines editorial page sport page,
cuts and cartoons. staff correspondence
and advertisements The striking dh-
ference is the absence of woman s
page. with its social column, recipes and
fashions In some respects the paper has
the air OF 4 college periodical, with its
abundance Of Jokes and Kidding Of
members Of he 4. T.. +. ii ls noticeable
that the term "Sammies does not
appear in the sheet the mcAnamcs are
"Yanks" and DOughhoys 1t IS q
highly optimistic sheet. that would give
no comfort whatsoever TO the enemy II
II fell into their hands. There IS nothing
amatcursh about the paper II IS. IN
fact, written by trained professionals,
though all of them are soldiers at present
The front page war news reads very much
as in anv home news sheet. OF interest
is the Stars and Stripes orphan fund
Companies, units. even individual sol
ders. have paid 500 francs for a year :
support Of a French orphan or little
refugee child The aviation corps has
led in the number Of adoptions. The
money is given through a special Red
Cross committee. The units are very
particular as to color of hair, eyes age
and disposition Of their mascot tIlrls
are the faxoritcs A. might he expected,
baseball and boxing bouts have a proml-
n-nt place in the soldiers paper. 1t IS
curious 70 read Of tho Paris and London
Baseball Leagues Cartoons BY Wallgren
| show the funny side Of army life ii the
VARIOUS ways the Yanks perform the
! salute. and the like. In sinister contra
| TO the good humor Of army doings at
/ the back Of the front are grim and ter
/ rble articles Of Hun atrocities. stories
! OF boiling water poured on men who had
/ been beaten UNCONSCIOUS IN German PRISON
I camps oi prisoners hung up by their
wrists hy Hun captors and ifogged back
! 10 consciousness when they tainted
! such stories are likely To rouse the anks
/ to lighting mood that will mean evil To
! the enemy they face 10 come back To
! lighter vein, an anecdotc Is related Of Il
/ Scotch-Amerlcan and an Irlsh-Amcrlcan,
1 both soldiers, who were fighting One
/ said the general 5 name was "MacPersh-
/ ing. the other stood out for 20 'Pershing.
| The pcacemaker, who SAID 1t was just
/ "Pershing, got the worst Of IT.
Lieutenant William f. Leach, who
was born in this city. where he has rela-
! tivcs living, was wounded III action III
/ France on May IL He Is the son of Mrs.
/ James Leach OF Bayonnc. y J., and one
! Of his uncles IN Wilmington Is William
| Lyons, Jr Young Leach was living in
/ BayOnne and went to New J ork last
August where he enlisted III the Canadian
! Flying Corps lie was trained IL Canada
and for time IN England being given a
commission as lieutenant No particulars
as to the character Of his wound has
been received His father Is dead.
Mrs G. II Mason, Of 1911 Laurel
street Yesterday received a letter and
! postcard from her nephew. John II
| Lunt, a member Of Co |, l5Oth Infantry.
| L. 5. Army, announcing his safe arrival
| ia France
/ Sylvester + Bryson, of 1913 West
Sixth street, belonging to the French
/ Aviation Corps has sent word to his
| friends Of his safe arrival overseas