Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-17
ALWAYS AN ARGUMENT
OVER ROAD SELECTED
Ncwspapcrmcn Have Merry Time III
Finding Their Way About
| In Europe.
ALWAYS BROTHER IN CHICAGO
Find Many Soldiers Who Have Rcla-
lives In United States, and Scribcs
Arc, as Usual, Unable to Answc-'
"ics, We Know Him."
BY DAMON RuNYnN.

or WITH ,TIiE AMERICAN ARMY OF
France. undated). There is always an
argument in our ear. Generally it's
over the question whether VIC shall
although anything else will do. AS :,
rule we finally agree on the turn and
II proves the wrong one after we've
on this night when we we're returning
from visi, 70 the Eighteenth In
After We had discovered the mistake
we journeyed on II few kilometcrs fur
s sm"r ii usual fo we debated the re-
There's German up the road
there said Mr.. Wood. of the Chicago
News. pecrins throueh the, fog. ram
a ahs 'r rish, an rts "T him which wa%s
a brother in Chicago" '"'' ~ nave
No argued Mr. Johnson of tho
New Iork sun. he has Il sister in
'.itn be an uncle in Milwaukee,. We
avrrrcd. positively. having made u Sc
ccrct study of the manifestations OF local
h hx xure @Seh M Sc arf Si ao" ~ hs
darkness. II proved to be an old man
wiz! 9,s a c Ep,ar wrarpGa around hin
wildly IL the direc,Ion ahead lie
word" which MIR. Johnson Interpreted
run right INTO the MoSeiic River I'm
less, the car could hoat. lac advised
We invited him into III. car to SHOW
us the road
onss sUa haze A., od nTotnsf in chsagq
side US.
Tell him that in German" he di-
You have sister In Brooklyn
said Mr.. Johnson correctly. The, old
said mir. Johnson. Ills name is vii
helm something, and he's very Old and
fNG Mr wood w MGS yfS or wrGns ngain
overlooked at least one Sister in -
the ferry. 1t was dark. but we could
dimly sac some kind of boat out In the
river Nv. y broad voice answered our
10 have brother in Chicago" declared
Mr. Wood. with great satisfaction. "lt
Viii be- 1n aunt in Dubuque. Iowa"
uncle in Milwaukee. we announced
FIRMLY. There proved to lie two men
in The boat. One OF them was a charoM
with whiskers. The other was q young
German soldier in uniform. The boat
was , = nat Scow and "" doubted if !,
driver ran the machine aboard to see
1t did not sink. Meanwhile Mr. Wood
was addresSini; himself to the charom
L am from Chicago, where your broth
son chanscd into German mark.
rather REMARKS. lie means your aunt
who lives, in Kansas city" Mr. john
SON Was hedging again The old fell
lew "Neinod' them promptly. II was
an uncle in Madison. wis.
We were getting close. The German
soldier had been listening To the col
loGuy. He spoke UP in English: II
also have AN uncle in Philadelphia"
We nodded. only We said: "Wc thought
IL should hc III Milwnukcc."
The charon and the soldier wcrc
showing Of the boat when wc heard
shrill cries. Out Of the darkness came
running young woman with "a basket
on her arm. she desired passage over
tho river. AS she scrambled! aboar ID
the boat she caught us in the glow o.
the autoinobiic lights.
AmcricanS, Shc murmurcd
MessrS. Wood and Johnson moved
forward eXpectantiy. II have people i'm
America" she said na:vely in German.
sister" Interrupted Mr.. Johnson 'Nein''
she said somewhat startled. An un-
Gle in Milwaukee,
But how should Mr. Wood or Mr..
Johnson know, not being bettin" men,
that The local prices on any inhabitunt
in this particular region are
brother or other relative in Chi
cago: { to l.
Brother or sister in some other part
of America: 80 To /
Uncle in Milwaukee: 100 to /.