The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-05-13


City Star, now doing Y. NJ c. A. work In
France. Mr.. Shippey had attended every
Journalism Week until this year,
A feeling of sadness and longing
which is very much akin to pain
comes DER me and o'ercomes me at
the thought that this year, for the
first time since Journalism Week be-
gan, my name will not be written
there, on the registration book, some
where below ole Doc Blackburn's.
This spring l will not get to gaze on
the beauties of the campus at Colum-
bia-I mean the verdant ones-but
must try to content myself with look
ing out the Office windows at the
garden of the Elysee Palace, across
the street. AS back yards go, the
palace garden is a very pretty place,
and Mrs. POincare must take pleas
ure in it every time she steps out
there to hang out the family washing,
but personally l prefer the campus.
But, though Paris may seem a long
way from Hinkson Creek, it has
and interest since this war came
along. Just for a starter, the Mis-
souri, Waltz Song is a mighty popular
piece of music over here, hit with
Paris orchestras. And though l don't
know how many Missourians are
Frightening up the corners where
they happen to be over here, all I've
met have been boosting for the good
old state, and lots of people-French
people-have asked me about it. We
fx the name in their minds by tell
ing them it is farther from Kansas
City to ST. Louis than from Paris to
London. They Immediately conclude
Missouri must be the greatest state
in the Union and we admit it.
His Roommate Is Homer CrOy.
The first Missourian of interest to
NJ U. and the typewriter tapping pro-
1esslon l met over here was Homer
Croy, who ever since has been nv
roommate. Before he degenerated
INTO novelist, Homer worked on the
Post Dispatch, just after leaving the
University, but wasn't quite bright
enough for the newspaper business
SO he fell, first to magazine work with,
Leslie's and then to writing hooks
over here he has been one of the
bosses of the cinema department of
the Y.M.C.A., which Just now, is Civ
ing more than 1900 showings a week |
ior the entertainment of the A.EF.
HE is about to return to America. as
there isn't bed in France quite long
enough for him and after eight |
months of sleeping curved up he feels
an overwhelming desire to go home
and straighten out. 1t wasn't so bad
during the winter but now that warm
weather is here he can no longer
stand doubling in brass beds.
Charles Phelps Cushing, formerly
OF The Kansas City Star, The Worlds
work and Golfers, was next. Lien
tenant Gushing is in the Marine Corps
out has been serving the Signal Corns
as caption editor of all the still pic
lures which pass through the Signal
corps laboratory, the old Pathe cine
ma plant, at Vincennes.
Preparing History of the War,
Inc Signal Corps, by the way. is
making o Photographic history of this
world war which will be of eyerIast-
ing value. Still and motion pictures
Oh every branch of military activity
and many actual battle scenes will
De preserved for the instruction of fu-
ture generations. General Edgar Rus
sci, head of the Signal Corps, is a Mis-
sourian; Capt. William E. Moore head
OF the historical division of the pho-
tographic section, was a st. Louis
newspaper man before he went to
Chicago and later was managing edi-
tor OF the New York Tribune Lien.
tenant Carl Mayhem, said to be the
oest Photographer in the A. E. F.
work, is a Carthage and st. Joseph
boy, and has taken boche prisoners
as well as their photographs. He
captured a whole string of them one
day in one of the most daring exploits
vi tne war.
Maude Radford Warren, who lived
IN Columbia several years, is the only
woman major in the AE.F., l under
stand. AS a Y.M.CA. canteen work
er she worked many times under fire.
went right up into first line trenches
on several occasions and would have
gone oftener if she had been per-
mitted to do so, and wrote some
mighty good stuff about it all for the
Saturday Evening Post Shortly after
she was made an honorary major for
fearless service under shell fire. She
came to Paris and walked from our
ONCE TO her hotel with her one aft
ernoon. Never before had / seen such
timorous, shrinking creature as
she was every time we crossed a
street She would jump like scared
bird every time a motor honked. And
yet they tell me she couldn't seem to
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