The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-07-06

One of Briggs Best Cartoons VIII Be Fea tured in Next
.ST.LOUIS TWINS
IN WAR ARE LIKE
mike AND IKE"

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
IN PICARDY, July 6.-when you go
to war twice at the same time in the
same OUTFIT, maybe you can consider
you really are doing your part TO
whip the boche.. At least Walter and
Albert Grierson are inclined to feel
that way about IL. The only way IL
can be done, however. Is to be q twin.
Walter and Albert are twins. Their
father and mother live at 1912 Lucas
avenue. St. Louis. And IL Mr.. and
Mrs. Grierson think they had a hard
time telling Walter and Albert apart
when they were little, they ought to
see the sergeant and company COM
mander trying IL. After you know
how to identify the twins, it's easy.
walter Tor is IL Alberto has a mole
on one foot But the sergeant can't
tell the twins to take OF their shoes
every time he wants to pick one OF
them for some particular job. The
result Is that Walter and Albert are
lighting the war both together and
separately. for themselves and for
each other, and in addition are-and
also is-carrying on q mail courtship.
Do the Girls KnOwf
They are writing Glendine and
Geraldine Smalley, who live in Shell
don, Ill. Glendine and Geraldine are
twins. Walter or Albert is writing
Glendine and Albert or Walter is
writing Geraldine.
Walter or Albert-anyhow one OF
the twins-first told the story as he
sat in the window of the United Press
billet one warm evening in Picardy.
wagons, guns and camions were roll
ing and rumbling by. The twins are
with an engineering outfit, and IL was
too early yet for them to set out fer
their work OF stringing wire and
digging trenches and dugouts. As
Walter or Albert talked of Delmar.
the bridge. the river and other things
OF home, the other one came up. II
was like seeing double. Their tin hats
were even at the same angle.
Nobody Knows Difference.
you see, it's like this" said AL
bert. when Walter'-that Identified
Walter is working
and is tired, and I'm fresh, 1 slip out
and relieve him, and nobody knows
the difference. Then, IL l ge: tired.
he comes out and relieves me, and so
long as one of us Is where one or
the other is supposed to be-well,
there you are"
No one in the company knows one
from t'other. On one occasion a new
sergeant was in charge OF the detach-
ment working on a dugout Albert and
Walter were working from opposite
sides Just as Walter left the dugout
with a wheelbarroW filed with dirt. Al
bert left the other end OF the runway
and came down another path with his
empty. The sergeant didn't know there
were two Of them. Every time he look
ed up he saw a Grierson loading and
OF with a wheelbarrow. The
sergeant figured this man GTierson was
doing twice as much work as any other
nan on the job and went TO the lieu
tenant to tell him about IT. Then he
learned there were two OF them
They Worked In Banks.
Before enlisting In the army to-
sether the GrIersons worked in diff
'erent banks in St Louis. It so hap
pened that each was at the passbook
window in his respective bank. De-
positors with accounts in both banks
began to consider taking the pledge |
4 they went from one bakn directly |
10 the other, until they learned how |
things stood.
The sergeant and the company |
have given 1t up. They |
assign Albert and Walter to work, |
Ind so long as a Grierson is there |
hat Is good enough.
The twins are over here because |
hey want to help win the war. They |
ire not yet twenty-one. Therefore.
hey would not have been drafted,
tut they are doing the war double.