Arizona republican., 1919-08-15
PHOENIX G|RL
 WINS HEARTSOF
 MEN IN GERMANY
Something of What Miss Hannah Egelston Is Doing for the American Boys Is Told in Letter from One of Them

Miss Hannah c. Egleston, well known Phoenix girl, is the most popu- lar person in the army of occupation. Or at least 450 tank corps men who lately left Coblenz, the American bridgehead town, claim she is. A let ter received by The Republican, is loud in praise of the frail Phoenix miss who has made life bearabIe for the men of the army in Germany
 According to the information reach ing here, She has done the impossible SC many times in arranging entertain ments. looking after the sick and get ting dainty things to eat for all the boys, that the men all swear by her, as 1 the best thing with which the army has been blessed in years
 Presents the Colors A signal honor was conferred upon l Miss Egelston shortly before the tank corps men left Coblenz. when she was allowed to present the colors to the men Following the presentation, the entire battalion was marched in review in her honor, she taking the salute which each company gave as it passed. It was the first time such an affair had ever been held in the A. E. F.
 Miss Egelson has been resident of Phoenix for long time. She formerly was in charge of the Y. W. c. A. here and went to France soon after the l United States entered the war.
 The letter which follows was sent to The Republican by a member of the tank corps on behalf of his entire bat talion with the request that it be pub ftry,- Al. Fsl.xx may know the brand of workers they sent to the front. This is the letter: Takes Charge of Them Our outfit-45O tank corps men was attached to the army of occupa- ton for duty with the motor transport corps. We were not attached to any division, so were not taken care of in the regular way by the welfare organ izations. That was not their fault, they had all they could handle in the di- vision areas.
 Tn Coblenz. in the regional secre- , tarys office of the I'M c. A., there was fail little lady who was just recovering from the flu She went to work at 9 o'clock in the morning and l worked until 6:S0 at night After sup l per she helped entertain soldiers by } singing and talking and doing the mill ] lion things that only an American girl can do in this mans country. Last March she heard about us-a lot of others had heard about us but it remained for this little girl to wade in and see that we got all that was } coming to us and lot more Her name is Hannah C. Egelston. Do you know her? If you don't you're 5 missing something.
 Gets Castle for Dance
 Her first stunt was to requi5ition the ballroom of a castle here in our : little town. (The castle is the residence 3 of the former ambassador from Ger g many to Turkey) She arranged a : dance for us, music. refreshments l American girls. decorations. everything g It was one of the best dances given in : the occupied territory up to that time ; 4 lot of other outfits called on her ' after that, so we could not hold first place long
 l Her next big stunt was to reQuisi- tion the entire castle grounds for g D garden party It was a bear-50-pieee band-and loads of good things to eat :. Over 500 people were present. About this time we were keeping
 her rather busy. If we need Vic trola, Hannah got if for us If one U of our men was taken sick and seri ' to hospital Hannah showed up the : next morning with eggs Ca luxurs here) and flowers and cheery words
 When we put on our show, Hannah
 saw that we got costumes and scenery 2 If a chap was worried about some. thing. he told Hannah and she alway. Z, Z, managed to fix things up. She was oul mother, father, sister and brother ant
 all the time she was doing her regular :. work. Do you wonder that we all lov. : her.
 Abandons Trip Home Some time ago the Red Cross or.
 ganizations were ordered home. Tn.
 hospitals had been dependent upoI :. them for all their welfare work. an, z their leaving left a great many patient,
 in the five big hospitals here withou f those little extras that help to mak,
 life in any army hospital bearable.
 About this time Miss Egelston wa,
 planning to go home. Did she go? No
 by long shot. She told the command
 ing general that if he would allow he
 10 take over the welfare work left b, . the Red Cross that she would get som, : girls to help her and they lould SCI h that the boys were taken care of. H, [ D. kd it, so she put it up to the eY = so now every patient gets an America, : newspaper every morning and maga # zines once a week. But that wasn' o enough. She decided that the troop Ie who were going home should hay
 some 2ttention-now every troop trail
 has it's quota of apples, cigarettes an
 chocolate.
 I Is it any wonder that she is tn a best known girl in Coblenz? s. T could write stuff by the mile an $, yet not tell you all she is doing for tn l. men Suffice to say that with all he s- extra duties, she is still our Sister g Hannah
 It Reviews Battalion
 We are going home in two days. To = day we were presented with our regi
 mental standards. As you know sue
 presentations are usually made b
 some high official of the army but thi
 case was different. Our commandin
 oIfieer requested that Miss Egelsto
 De allowed to present them.
 Alter good deal of red tape sh
 was permitted to do so and with
 pretty little speech she presented ou
 beloved colors while 450 men stood a
 attention. Then the big event han
 pened, namely, the entire battalio
 passed Tn review for her, a distfnctio
 conferred only on officers and ciyi,
 ians of high raLk.
 We wanted to take her home wit
 US, but her answer was I can leay
 my other boys
 You Phoenix people should be prou
 Of this little woman who has done s
 much to hold up the morale of count 4aCa -rt<4