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New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
Som
Chow.
Boy!

VA 7HoEvER goes hungry in
wv Europe this winter, it will not
be the American soldiers. The
daily stocks in hand reported
by the Quartermaster's Department Of
the American Expeditionary Force give
an idea of supplies orly when it is re.
membered they represent reserves held
between daily consumption and arrivals
known to be en- route. Potatoes furnish
striking example. The stock in hand
at the last report was 100000 pounds
and yet the American forces are receiv-
ing 10000 tons of potatoes month.
which makes 60,000,O0O pounds, chiefly
from Ireland. Potatoes being perishatle,
it would not be wise to keep double the
daily stocks in hand. Other items were
as follows:
Fresh beef, 100000 pounds; timed
beef, 23,700o00 pounds; timed bacon, &c.,
100000 pounds; timed salmon, 9,44O0OO
pounds; flour, 1876 10000 pounds; oatmeal,
100000 pounds; cornmeal, 100000 pounds
dry beans, 26,oOo,ooo pounds; baked beans,
100000 pounds; rice, 100000 pounds;
onions, 100000 pounds; tomatoes, &c.
100000 pounds; jams 100000 pounds;
prunes, 100000 pounds; sugar, 28,OOO,OOO
pounds.
This list does not include other foods
running beyond million pounds, like
dried vegetables, syrup, bacon in bulk,
hard-tack, hominy, dried and fresh
fruits, as we'll as cheese, macaroni, butter
and lard-From Trench and Camp.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
Time: Any Sunday Afternoon
Place: Grand Central Palace

Red Cross worker. Here at the entrance
to the big light ward a Kelly drill
is in hilarious progress, the rookie handling
his crutchride with veterans skill.
By the window where he can look down
on the silently speeding train that is soon
to take him back to his home in Mime
sofa, Hartwell Carr, of the 361st Infantry,
is hearing from Walter Mccormick. of the
320th who left Pittsburgh for the verdun
sector, the details Of the very excellent
entertainment that the Lambs provided at
their clubhouse the night before There
was lambent and reminiscent smile over
the drolleries of William Kent. who in the
leading role of "Somebody's Sweetheart"
had joshed his way into the hearts of the
Lambs and their guests before the big eats
down at the club.
Carr and Mccormick are natural buddies,
though they don't hail from the same regi-
ment. Fate ordained that on the first of
November last they both receive Teutonic
compliments in The shape of shrapnel and
high explosive, Carr up at Roulers in Bel
gium and Mccormick in the Argonne. They
have unanimously been elected charter
members of the Association of Infantrymen
Wounded on November /, 1915
Carr had been driving seventeen days
in the Argonne when those in authority de-
cided that he had done enough to the Jer-
ries on that front and to keep the war drag
ging on few days longer they shipped
him up to the Belgian front. Here whizz-
bang changed his luck by spreading itself
over his right hand. Mccormick, on the
other hand, had been going but FIVE minutes
when he was wounded four times. Where
is the logic of this war? asks Mccormick
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
Odds
&
Ends
Hard-Boiled

T'M TOUGH and I'm, rough and I'm
And raise Humping help 1Ohem
I'm, mad,
For I've tasted the sea,
And its put fight IN me
I'm no soSoer poaoder-patf lad.
] smoke ans 4 cheav and [ s,Uear,
can cuss till 3:sAe sparks fill the air;
And carry mag lat
At an angte-like That.
In, a doggoned bad soAsor-beavare!
But yoat should haze sscn mo before I
enrolled--
You scarce could conceive acar evould
make me so bold.
Mn shoes shone like diamonds, my finger
nails, too;
With part an the middle, my hair stuck
like glue;
My thin chest avas hollo1v, my legs avere
like acires;
Wine, acoanen and song acre 7ny only
desires.
foxtrotted, one-stepped and "shimmied"
all day,
Each night it was three when my shanks
hit the hay;
/ bounded the tea dances, guzzled the tea,
Sweet girls and their mothers went wild
over me.
But now Pm an egg-Im ard-boiled
My manners and poise are both spoiled;
For in sooth I'm so sound
I've become muscle-bound
Till my legs look like snakes that are
coiled From The Broadside.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

got choked. What do you mean, maxim
mess of it
why, you poor simp, oughtn't to have
let er get choked, that's what l mean.
ought to have had sense enough to 90 q
little slow with 'er, stead of trying to shoot
up the whole German army in ten minutes.
Course it was my fault, spilled the whole
pot OF beans, and let the Huns take the gun
and darned near get through the line.
and, oh, WE'LL if it hadn't been for some
body else coming up just in the nick O. time
there's no telling what might have ham
pened. It's just those little things that
turn the tide of battle, Matt. If I'd done
my part in proper shape, right then and
there, a lot of boys wouldn't have been
killed and wounded, and ole Mister Boche
would have had his tail between his legs
tor good and fair, and beatin' it for homo
so fast'-
"Oh, piffle"
"But that's all past and gone-and it isn't
piffle either. They say the war is over for
good and all, and that we Americans helped
EN- do the trick, SO l guess there's really
nothing to complain about. | did the best
knew how. The only trouble about me is
that I'm good sign painter, and that's ALL"
I'D like to ask how you happen to have
that little decoration pinned on your breast
If you're such good sign painter. The
government don't pin medals on sign paint
ers, lemme tell you that"
"Oh, we'll, there's no sense in arguing
about it, Matt. We never got anywhere
DONG 1T, and 1t amt what started to talk
about anyhow. The main point is, what are
you going to do to earn a living when YOU
get back home?"
I'm going to get a job filling toy bal
loons," said Matt, grutfly. "Thats easy to
learn, and when they bust on me I'll thin:
| I'm right back on the front"
"Dont get funny"
Nov, look here, Tony, how many times
have | told you there's some kind of an
organization at home that's going to fix
| fellcrs like me up with new arms and LEGS.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
From "The Right About"

~ UNDAY afternoon.
A Father has gone upstairs with the
~ paper and his pipe, and in short
while there will sound through the
house the lusty explosions that accompany
fathers slumbers. Mother, with the COM
Portable crinkly noises that her best dress
always makes, is tidying up in her parlor.
Sister Jane has sailed out with pig
tailed, giggling, much beribboned COM
pany, and YOU, WELL you are left fiat with
a heavy dinner setting uneasily on your
conscience and vast gloom settling over
your soul.
Remember those Sunday afternoons? :?
Nothing much to do; nothing much to see;
nowhere much to go.
Consider then the latter-day difference
Come with The Right-About's reporter to
the Grand Central Palace and watch for
momet the long line of machines that
of Sunday afternoon mill around by the
main entrance waiting to take the gold
stripe men for long swing up the river
front where there are glimpses through the
misty smother of great zebra-sided ships
lounging at their moorings, or perhaps it
is purring spin through the park with the
Obelisk looming suddenly ahead and the
sight of trees that have never shell-sc
on their straight limbs. Watch the crutches
being dclicately handled by the attentive
James, hear the kidding talk that flies back
and forth between the lucky riders, and ask
yourself If New York has ever known such
Sunday afternoons as these.
Come through the knot Of visitors who
are anxiously awaiting passes and step into
the elevator with this so-easy- to- look upon
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
Sand
By George Barr McCutcheon
Illustrations by F. T. Chapman,
From "Carvy ON"

~ ATT the Marine stretched himself
N lazily, comfortably on the fiat Of
his back, his tranquil gaze fixed
on the fragrant MiSps of smoke
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
| Laying by the Rifle but Not Letting Up CO.

Again Matt favored Tony with a glance
out of the corner of his eye, and fell silent.
II don't like gutter" said Tony, after
q while.
Neither do l." said Matt.
Il haven't much use for guy that quits
cold and says whats the use?' Specially
young fellers, like you and me. This thing of
sitting still and letting the government feed
you amt going to make feller proud of
himself, no matter what he did over there
in France. No, sir; the only way for
feller to be proud Of himself is to feel he's
of some use in the world and that he can
earn living-and get rich as Rockefeller
maybe-no matter how much of himself he
left behind in France You're the right
sort, Matt I'm glad YOU amt going to set
back and say the world owes you living.
l wasn't much good as soldier, but as long
as I've two hands and brain I'll work for
a living-and I'll get over this gas business
all right don't you worry-and I'll stick my
little old pension and insurance money away
as velvet besides. A feler was telling ne
the other day about the way they provide
these new-fangled arms and hands that
work almost as we'll as the kind God gave
us in the beginning. You think you'll get
one of 'em, eh 2"
"Sure, I'm going to have everything that's
going, Tony, old boy"
"Fine. That's the way to talk. By golly,
a guy like me don't know how lucky he is
that he's got both his hands. 1 should think
it would be mighty hard to get along with
out hand"
Matt put out his remaining hand and
tucked the blanket in around the edge of
the wheel chair in which his companion re-
clined. His gaze swept the figure of Tony,
the lad who bitterly declared he had not
"made good" the day the Boches directed
their gas and grenades at an isolated ma
chine gun in the side of the hill, and then
he looked scornfully at his own empty
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
His First Day
at Home

= A. M. The returned soldier awakes,
~ dashes into his uniform in thirty
" seconds fiat, and is halfway down
stairs before he realizes that roll
call is thing Of the past. Returns
sheepishly to bed.
7:3O a. m. to 8 a. m. Breakfast, al
which Mother realizes vividly how nee
essary it was for the folks back home
to save food. Explains how he acquired
wound stripe on blouse sleeve.
a. m. to 80 a. m. Calls 1880 MAN.
romps with Rover, instructs young
brother in small arms manual, green
several dozen admiring neighbors. TX
plains how he acquired wound stripe OF
blouse sleeve.
$3.50 a. m. to II m. Walks downtown
with Dad, finds handshaking fully a.
tiresome but more pleasant than salpr
ing. Explains how he acquired woan'
stripe on blouse sleeve.
1920 p. m. to 1870 p. m. Returns
home, obeys order to call 1880 Map'
"Mess." Under pressure, he again e.,
plains to Mother how he acquired woun.
stripe and treasures her that woun'
doesn't trouble him in the least.
1880 p. m. to 4:30 p. m. DutifuA
attends reception in honor of returns'
soldiers at Grand Opera House. is ~
busy searching for a certain face on"
endeavoring not to appear seif-consci01.
that he almost forgets to rise WIZ
national anthem is sung.
4:31 p. m. Succeeds in locating iS'''
almost entirely concealed by post
1855 p. m. to p. m. Tries to g.
better view of face behind post faiss
$50 p. m. Reaches home. Calis -0''
Main.
6 p. m. to z p. M. "Mess.'
7:10 p. m. Informs family he IS y y
ing out for evening, assures slas,
brother that the box under his arm o0, !.
not contain candy, tells Mother not :
wait up for him and that she can =
Goodnight" by calling up $3.50 Ms''
Life.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
The Unwashed Bolshevik

NJ OF feeling particularly apt at versi-
flying this morning, but having been
dallyfng about bit with Rossetti of late,
we offer the following germ of an epic
to the tender mercies of other editorial
lists and pointed punsters, with the re-
quest that they 'carry on:
"The Unwashed Bolshevik leaned across
a loa0 bar IN Petrograd,
He didn't have dime, but oh, Sweet
Vodko, ho1o he Uished he had"
We think there is a Bolshevik in
the office. Our soap disappears as
fast as we buy it. Wonder where
it's being buried?
--"Slin" Stiles, in The Great Lakes
Bulletin.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

sleeve and shook his head. One of Tony's
legs was gone and the other was badly
shattered. Again he looked at his comrades
face. There was a faint smile on Tony's
lips.
Getting tired, Tony?" he inquired "Want
to go in to bed? I'll wheel you in"
what time is it, Matt!"
"Four o'clock"
"Gee, then it isn't dark yet, is it?7
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
Precisely Military

TT WAS the company regulation that
there was to be no smoking in the
barracks. Two or three offenders hay
ing been caught, the lieutenant, at re-
treat formation, was again cautioning
the men. He ended his talk with the
following words: "And, furthermore,
want 1t understood that there will be
absolntcly no smoking in the barracks" !"
he paused, and then added, especially
at night. From The Gar Bag, pub
ushed at Fort Omaha, Net.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

time he had in Belleau Wood No, sir, my
boy. Pm going to make people forget
was at Beleau Wood, and Pm going to make
a lot of pikers wish they had only one arm"
"And you'll get married. and all that?"
"Sure. If anybody'll have me-"
"Well, that kind of relieves my mind,
Matt. I had a sneaking idea that maybe
you'd be discouraged, having lost your regu-
lar trade, and that you'd sort of drift along
and let things go to thunder"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

= A. M. The returned soldier awases
~ dashes into his uniform in thirty
" seconds fiat, and is halfway down
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

and maybe beans for all know, and teach
us how to forget things Well, me for that.
wasn't Stacker before the war, and I'm
not going to be one after it. I'm not going
to have people say: Look at that poor guy;
he's lost an arm and he's all through The
governments going to support him, and all
he's got to do is to set around for the next
fifty years and talk about what hell of q
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
lust So

7 STARTED to walk
Il To Charlotte
And met
man who said
Affably to me
you want q lift
In my machine ?"
And I nodded
AGably,
And when we got
To Charlotte
All he said was
Quarter, Please"
And I gave him
The last two bits
| had.
Next time / go
TO Charlotte
! won't nod
Affably
To anyone.
From The Caduceus, published at the
Base Hospital, Camp Greene, N. c.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-03-12
MAYBE ON HIS WAY HOME.

! Following is a letter from Pvt
James Pate addressed to his mother,
Mrs. Winfield Pate, Pvt. Pate seems
to think he is winding his way home
and it will not be long before he ar
rives in the States. He writes:
Dear Mother: Just few lines to
let you know | am we'll and maybe
'on my way home Anyway / left
Vichy week ago and am in casual
camp near Paris There are only a
few Of MS, about sixty thousand, They
put us in Companys of $50 each and
send us to the states is what they
tell us.
| hope all are well and fine have
cold at present. think it is be
cause OF. change of climate and also
from the bed to the ground. | don't
expect to be only few days, maybe
Ill'be home in month or six weeks.
Well, tomorrow is my birthday. Do
you remember where | ate my birth
day dinner last year? ! certainly do
and that is the last real food | have
had too.
Well, there is about sixty thousand
here in this camp. When we eat we
fine up six ARREST The line is usually
about six or eight blocks long. mud
about one foot deep. Ha, how is thatl
How is Dixie and all the rest! Tell
all hello for me. l will write again
soon. With lots of love and good
wishes from your son, James, U. S.
Army A + +.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-03-12
OUR VALIANT HOME YARDS.

Here's to the boys who got married
From the boys away over seas.
Here's to the boys who need airing
From the boys who are caught in the
breeze
We read in the daily papers of many
exemption pleas
Some claim they have weak stomachs,
Some claim it is gold teeth they lack.
But the boys over here think the
trouble is
Abig yellow streak up their backs.
We know of good cannon fodder
Who aught to be taking McNab in
structions,
But it seems there only ambition is
to push baby cab.
Some are already in action of push
ing their little carts,
And we take it from the daily papers,
That others have very good start.
1t is all very we'll to raise soldiers
In fact some day we may need them,
But let's hope the new generation will
be more manly
Than their dads in years to come.
When children ask their proud papas
To tell about the battle they fought
Then they will bring down their
heads,
Begin to herr and haw and stanImer,
And try 10 shit he scene.
For they never even tasted of stew
or ARM beans,
They ncvci slept in pup tent or
Walked a post for hours in rain and
mud.
They will not tell of battles they have
fought
For that dear old flag of ours,
When the sound of a toy cap pistol
Would wreck their nerves for hours.
But the time is drawing near
When wen be coming back,
And we'll see that boys who pushed
buggies
Keep their buggies on their track
The above was written by Sanford
Critchloe, 10 Vet Hosp. A P o 747
A + +
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-03-12
WITH THE HOME BOYS IN SERVICE
III I ~ I wy
FROM GWEN BATES

Mrs. Henry Burden Of Cloverport
has received the following letter from
her brother, Owen Bates who is in
France. He writes:
Rollentaint, France, Jan. 20, 1919.
Dear Sister; will take great plea
sure in answering your letter | re-
ceived a few days ago and was glad
to hear from you and to know you
were all we'll and enjoyed Christmas.
| sure would love to have been there
and helped you eat that Christmas
dinner We had big eats on Christ
mas eve about midnight.
Tell Henry and Dee hello" and
tell Irene and uncle Len hello; and
tell them think they could write to
me even if | didn't answer their let
tiers for / enjoy reading letters from
back there more than writing them
Tell James and Harold to be good
and to keep their Christmas toys, and
when / come home | will come to
see them and we will go boat riding.
/ will tell them about the little river"
| came across.
Well, you must go to see mother
and father as often as you can. will
close for this time. Love to all. An
swer soon, Your brother, Owen Y.
Bates. Co. G. % Eng Bn. Amer
Ex Force, Via New York.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-03-12
CARD or THANKs

We feel that our words are toe
feeble TO express our gratitude to our
friends and neighbors for their love
sympathy and help during the last
illness Of our beloved wife and moth
er. Your kindness and sympathy have
caused us much weeping for joy. We
feel that our loved one is not dead
but just gone into another room in
our Fathers House.
c. H claycomb and Children.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-03-12
IN KITrEo, GERMANY.

PVT. H. G. Vessels who is heard
from again in Kitteg, Germany, gives
his experiences as a private in France
and his opinion of those who won the
war. His letter says:
Kitteg Germany Feb. II. 1919
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-03-12
QUICK RELIEF

From all coughs by using our
Mentholated Cough Syrup csc per
bottle. Weddings Drug Store. cloy-
export, Ky.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-26
Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union.

On Monday afternoon at $3.50,
there will be a meeting of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union
with Mrs. E. ]. Norris.
At this time plans will be laid for
raising Edgefeld's quota on the great
enlargement programme of the W. c.
T. U.
Mrs. Mamie N. Tillman will read a
letter just received from Madame
Olivier of Finistere, France, the
mother of our French orphan, Marie
Olivier, and the little girls picture
and the street in which she lives has
also reached US.
Vocal solo, "The Americans Come"
Miss Miriam Norris.
Life sketch of Mrs. Lillian NJ. N.
Stevens, second president of the
national W. c. T. U. will be read by
Mrs. r. G. Lee.
All whose subscriptions to the
Union Signal have expired or who
wish to become a subscriber as a
birthday gift to the memory of Mrs.
Stevens are asked to bring it on this
occasion to Mrs. Cogburn.
Piano solo, "Scarf Dance" Frances
Louise Townsend.
Collection for the French orphan
will be taken.
We hope very much that each mem
Der who reads this notice and any
who wish to become member and
help us to teach the value of individ-
ual total abstinence and world pro-
Ihibiticn, will come to this meeting.
You will be cordially received in one
of Edgefeld's happiest and most hos
pitable homes-a model of what
many thousands of homes would be
were it not for the evil of strong
drink.
Mrs. j. L. Minis.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-26
D. A. r. Meeting.

The Washington birthday celebra,
ton of the D. A. R. took place on
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. j. w.
Peak as hostess.
The members were met at the door
by Misses Elizabeth Craig and Mary
Lilly Byrd who were so like what we
supposed Martha Washington to be.
that we almost imagined we had re
turned to the past and the days 81
old.
Mrs. D. B. Hollingsworth, histori-
an, presided over the meeting in be-
half of the Regent, Mrs. Tillman, and
read paper prepared on the "Friend
ship of Washington ad Lafayette. y
Each member responded to the roll
call with quotation on patriotism.
Miss Annie Clisby who has been
absent for several months was cor
daily welcomed and was asked to
give some incidents of her visit, to
which she responded in a beautiful,
but tragic story of the heroism and
subsequent death of young flying
lieutenant at Payne Field, Missis-
sippi.
The oldest recorded will found in
the Edgefeld probate judges office,
that of William Perrin, was read by
Mrs. j. L. Minis.
When the guests were seated, the
little Martha Washingtons pinned on
each a little red hatchet, the parlor
being tastefully decorated with flags,
on the table a souvenir from Mt.
Vernon, a bowl of partridge berries
plucked at this historic spot, sent to
Mrs. Manly Timmons as Christmas
present.
Miss Sadie Minis was cordially ac-
cepted as member of the chapter as
soon as the papers are received.
At the close of the programme, a
dainty salad course was served with
coffee and whipped cream.
The March meeting will be held
with Mrs. P. P. Blalock.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-26

ljoying dove shooting and several
parties have gone out in the early
hours of the morning to the farm of
Maj. F. M. Warren, and one morning
bagged 100 doves.
Mesdames w. F. Scott and W. E.
Lagrone were hostesses for the New
Century Club on Wednesday after
noon, the meeting being in the home
of the latter. Miss Clara Sawyer pre-
sided.
One of the chief things to occupy
the attention of the club is the fight
against illiteracy, and the State Fed
Grafton is raising funds by club con-
tributions to aid in waging the war
against this dreadful state of affairs.
This club will do it's part financially,
in this movement, and a committee
was appointed to interview the Coun-
ty Representatives.
The Illiteracy Commission of
South Carolina is composed of:
Patterson Wardlaw, Chairman; Hon.
j. E. Swearingen, G. D. Brown, S. H.
Edmunds, DIR. C. E. Burts, Mrs. j. l..
Coker, Miss Mabel Montgomery and
Miss Will Lou Gray, Field Worker.
In Home Economics, "a letter from
State Chairman, Miss Mulligan, was
read, asking for receipts for print.
1t was decided not to observe Reel
procity Day this year, as the general
condition of affairs had been so alb
normal, and such prompted the mega
tive reply to State President. asking
if the clubs of the Gown would enter
tain the State Federation this spring.
Two new members were received,
Mesdames Olin Edison and Kellar.
The programme followed the busi-
ness, the subject being "Woman's
part in the War Work." Music was
also had.
The hostesses served dainty
salad course with coffee.
Miss Maud Wright will go to the
University Hospital next week for a
throat operation.
Mr.. Powell Harrison has returned
to Ohio where he is in government
service. He spent the week here with
his mother in the home, Of Mr.. B. 7 :.
Boatwright.