The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-18

(From last Issue of the Stars and
Stripes, A. E. r. Newspaper Pub
lished in FranceO.
With this issue, No. 10. Of Volume
IL, the Stars and Stripes flnds itself
being reverently hauled down. to be
as reverently laid away-but not. we
trust. in the brig; the while printer
Dave Walsh, our only reformed bug
Ter, sounds not too mournful ITO
the Colors."
Dawes old outfit. the 26th DIVISION
sailed for the States long ago. while
he stuck over here to help finish the
Job up properly. But now it's done
and he's going home. And 30. now
that our work is completed, we are
Alleging home.
The Stars and Stripes Is up at the
top O. the mast for the duration Of the
war, ran our opening bow editorial
In the first issue, that Of February 8,
1918. We think that now with all
combat divisions save those Of the Sd
army we'll out of France we are vio-
lating no confidence in proclatming
the war over. And with the Sd army
ably served by its own daily publish
ed on the banks Of the Rhine, we feel
that 1t is time for this weekly publish
ed on the banks Of the Seine to cease
firing.
So, after blowing ITO the Color"
Bugler Walsh will sound ITO the
Rear" Yet before saying goodbye to
what Is left Of that A. E. +. which
the Stars and Stripes was created to
serve. and which it has served con-
tinuously throughout sixteen and a
half months according as God gave it
to see the light, before saying good
hxy "a Tho ram inirc rnaypharc NJ fha
most homesick and most likeable army
on earth, the Stars and Stripes feels
that 1t owes a report on itself and
its activities during those sixteen
and a half months made to the man
to whom 1t owes its being. its reason
for existence, and its unparalleled sup
port roughout-namely, the Yank
enlisted man. For 1t was Old John w.
Doubhboy-using doughboy In general,
inclusive sense-that made this sheet
what Is was, but setting up before
It those examples OF heroism. pluck
and endurance which It has been its
privilege and glory to chronicle for all
the world to read.
So, Yanks, since the paper belongs
to you, you have perfect right to ask
what the Stars and Stripes did in the
great war Well, here Is our story:
Ol0n't win tnS war
To begin with, the Stars and Stripes
Is, so far as we know, the only sub
division OF the A. e. +. that does not
claim to have won the war single
handed. Why this is, we cannot tell.
Perhaps It is because we have never
had more than two marines on the
sheet at the same time. Perhaps 1t
is because-rumor to the contrary,
notwithstanding-we have no person
mel recruited from the overseas Y.
NJ. C. A.
We are content to rest on the ap-
praisal of two Of our chiefs. Said
General Pershing in our anniversary
issue:
The Stars and Stripes
has been an important factor in Gre
ating and supporting the excellent
morale which has at all times char
acterized the American expeditionary
forces.
And Major-General Harbord, one of
our oldest and best hackers, told us
in the same issue:
The Stars and Stripes has played
an important part in the highly or
ganized business we have carried on
to defeat Germany.
Suppose we let 1t got at that for
the present, and get on with the yarn
The Stars and Stripes was started
on shoestring and bloomed in the
course Of twelve months to circu.
lation Of 526,00g. Its staff at the be-
ginning consisted Of one frantically
energetic and everlastingly pepful
second looey Of infantry (he's a ma
jor now), as officer in charge; one
equally energetic but much more rest
full second looey Of marines (he's a
first now: one ditto first looey OF
infantry as advertising manager: one
never energetic buck private Of leath
ernecks as art department.. and one
forced-to-be-energet buck private OF
machine guns, as reportorial and re-
write force. More buck privates were
added later, and Immediately proceed
ed to outvote hell out of the officers
at all editorial conferences.
The first office Of the sheet was In
the back room of little converted
shop on the Rue St. Jean in the town
OF Neufchateau, then used as the field
press headquarters OF the A. E. F
1t Is a far cry from the present
high palatial offices in the Credit Mo
biles building on the Rue Taibout in
Paris back to part ownership-ant
sometimes not even that-ip that lit
tie room in Lorraine. But what can
didate for the presidency ever SUI
fered from once having been borI
in q log cabin?
Created Stir.
Then as now, the composition an6
makeup Of the paper was effected a
the plant of the continental edition
of the London Daily Mail in Paris
whittier four printer Yanks from thu
29th engineers had been dispatched
For the last ten months the pres:
run has been made at the plant o
Les Journal From the very begin
ming British printermen and French
engravers have elaborated with thu
sweating, denimed Americans, who
below ground in the Malls plant, hav'
made the Stars and Stripes possible
these sixteen and one-half months; 81
that it is really in no small sense, a.
international affair.
The appearance Of Volume l, No.
created quite a stir In the states. Eng
land and continental Europe, but mos
of all in the A. E. F. itself, then