The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-12-26
Son Of United States Senator
Found France No Place for
"classy" Clothes.
ESTABLISHED FIRST &c. HUT
Served 1000 Cups Of Chocolate Every
Mornino-Had Many Difficulties to
Surmount and Encountered
Many Exciting Experiences.

New York.-This Is the story Of
dawn in France; of 1000 cups Of hot
chocolate: Of the kitchen car that sup
piled the chocolate; Of two Tuxedo
coats and two evening suits and of
Uncle Joe" writes owen Conner in
the New York Herald
The dawn was not the pink sunrise
of America-it was the CHASTITY. gray.
grim break of day of gas-befouled and
shell-torn hattletieldS. The chocolate
was the morning heartener served to
men on their way to face death. The
kitchen car WAS one of the proud pos
sessions of Knights of Columbus war
workers. Uncle Joe" was and is JO-
seph +. Herman of Utica, n. V. and
the Argonne. X. of c. secretary of
personal distinction and of enviable
record for service
There is Il new dawn in France, pink
and rosy now. Hot chocolate figures
largely in high cost OF living tables.
The kitchen car went down TO its
doom on the glorious pathway opened
ny the Americans to Sedan, but it
didn't fail until just ut the very end.
after 1t had done Its duty noble"
Uncle Joe" is back in America. hale
and hearty. sixty years young. patrol
ling the BOwery looking for and find
ing soldiers he met on the seething
rims of the cauldron of enemy hate
over there. Oh, yes. be the way, the
two Tuxedo coats and the two evening
suits are here also.
Nicknamed "UncIe Joe."
He wasn't Uncle Joe" until after he
had gone to France. He loves the nick
name. for it was given him by Alneri.
can soldiers-in fact he likes it better
than any pet name ever bestowed up
an him in the days he spanked the girls
at ol,Htime dances. However, prom
!Sed not to tel! about that.
MIR. Herman is the son of Francis
Herman. once United States senator
from New York. He was appointed an
overseas secretary by the Knights Of
Columbus in March. 1918. To him fell
THE honor of establishing the first X.
of &. hut IL France. in May, 1918.
From the start the possibilities of Serv-
ice of the kitchen car appealed to his
imagination and he couldn't he torn
away from the front where he had a
chance II work for tn. soldiers with
the kitchen car rs base Of opera
lions. After he had opened several X.
of {. liatS he Went to Paris took pos
>eSSlor OF Il Kitchen car and Went up
Ia Cherry with it. There the Seventy.
seventh division WAS fighting and il
was The men Of that division who nick
named him Uncle Joe" He insists
that full credit must he given TO Fred
"rick EuntiSchau of Louisville. Ky,
aud 10 Louis La>age for the able and
devoted assistance given by them
Here is his story as he TELLS it him.
elf:
When started for France I WAS
told there would be considerable .en-
-ertaining 10 be done on the other
side. realized very quickly. once l
at foot in France, that the entertain
ng to he done WIS along entirely diff
ferent lines than those With which I
had ief. New York For example, I
started out with several trunks One
nf them held two Tuxedo coats and
two evening suits. on my arrival in
France ! promptly forgot all about
that trunk. II lidn'r tit in with the
scheme of things as | SAW il with my
own eyes. I'll tell you more about the
trunk later.
Immediately after landing went to