The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-12-31

Il Nicknamed aUnele Joe"
he wasn't "Uncle Joe" until after he
had gone to France. He loves the nick
name, for 1t was given him by Amer1-
can soldiers-in fact he likes 1t better
than any pet name ever bestowed up
On him In the days he spanked the girls
ut old.time dances. However, I prom.
ned not to tell about that.
Mr.. 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 Z.
II q. hut in France, in May, 1913.
From the start the possibilities Of serv-
Ice Of the kitchen car appealed to his
imagination and he couldn't be torn
away htm the front where he hadSa
chance to work for the soldiers with
he kitchen q as q base Of opera
lions. After He had opened several4K
OF @. huts.r hehwent to- Parfssssto0kspos.ty
session Of q Kitchen car ard went
70 Cherry Whit. There, tie 'Seventfyy.--s
seventh division was III lighting and It
was the men Of that division who nick
1amed him Uncle Joe, He insists
that fun credit must BE given 70 Fred
,erick Bundschdau, OF Louisville, Ky,
and to Louis Laslaag,e for the able and
devoted assistance given by them.
Here II his story as he tells 1t him
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sWhen L started for France I was
told there would be considerable EN-
tertaining'= toHbe done on the other
side. l. realized very quickly, once I
set foot in France, that the entertain
ting to be done was along entirely dtf!
ferent lines than those with which I
had left New York. For example, I
started out with several trunks. One
Of them held two Tuxedo coats and
two evening suits. On my arrival In
france I promptly forgot all about
that trunk. It didn't at In with the
scheme Of things as I saw 1t with my
own eyes. I'll tell you more about the
trunk later.
Gets Kitchen Car.
Immediately after landing I went to
Baccarat, in the Luneville sector. With
me was Fred Bundschau Of Louisville,
4 splendidly legal and efficient man.
We opened q hut at Baccarat. Then I
went to Camp Devre, known correctly
as Mud camp
"Some time later I went to Paris,
where I seized q K. @. kitchen a and
carried it OF to the front at Cherry.
That was the thing to do your enter
tanning with and I'll tell the whole
wide world that a Tuxedo OF an we
ming coat would have been as funny
there as q suit Of overaIls at the opera.
"You see the car began work at
dawn-in the summer that means four
O'Clock In France. We weren't allowed
to build q fire before daylight
might have aided the enemy. We got
out of our hunks. Fred Bundschau,
Louis Lasage and I, at a little after
three, started the fires going as soon
- we could get permission and then
moved the a to q point where the
men going cut to the trenches and the
men coming back would pass each
other.
'Our greatest pride was that We
were able to serve and did serve 1000
cups of hot chocolate there every
morning, besides giving out cigarettes
and other supplies to the soldiers.
And we kept it going, too. every day.
Hard 70 Get Sugar.
'.There were difficulties to be sur
mounted. The greatest Of these was
to obtain our own supplies Of choco.
late and sugar. Many times u trucks
could not get through because there
was 80 much artillery and ammunition
! the move. We simply had to have
the supplies for the boys. After some