Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-09
WE DON'T WANT I HE BACON, ALL WE
 WANT ISAP|ECE OF THE RHINE
sammles In Army Of Occu patton Have Realized The
 Sentiment Of The Song Once So Popular Along The Front Line Trenches

very top and returning to it's base, tell frankly what they think of it. An old German, overhearing one of them disrespectfully request it to Come off the perch!" one afternoon lately stop ped to protest.
 'Id iss nod der Kaiser" he said. "1d is der Emperor Wilhelm. He was a goot man."
 Nobody said anything to the old Ger man, directly. They couldn't if they had wanted to, because the "No fra termination with the populace" rule is being strictl yenforced these later days in Coblenz. The Y. M C. A. warns against it daily. A too friendly Good morning" may land you in the guard house, if you say it to the wrong per son. But they answered him by the
 oundabout method of speaking to each other.
 Same family, anyhow" they dis posed of the subject.
 Back ill France plans were never made for even a day ahead. Here the American soldiers center their conver- sation upon what they are going to do when they get back to the United States. It is the leading topic at the "Y" huts.
 "I hope we go soon," said red haired private on the streets of Co., blenz the other day. .I gotta quit this fooling, and get down to serious things" "
 Serious things?" someone asked. Sure. I'm circus clown at home," explained the red haired private with out smile.
 His name was Red" Shipley, and he has been star feature with Barn. um and Bailey's circus. But in 1917 he enlisted with the 163rd Ambulance Company, and. soon after he was sent Ito France, the first American clown in the fight. When he gets back to the tanbark, there will probably al- ways turk, under the layers of white zinc and behind the painted grin, Reds memory of his ambulance days at 'sev- eral American fronts. But he isn't letting that bother him much now. While he waits to get away from the foolery of warfare back to the serious business of clowning, he puts in his spare time i'll training ametuer circus performers for Y. M. c. A. entertain ments for the soldiers over here in Germany. He is turning out clowns by the wholesale for the members of the A. E. F.-they are good material to work with, he explains. The Rainbow Division took on a new joke with their new emblem. That
 isn't quite accurate, either, for the
 oke was certainly old enough, but their
 adoption of it happened in Germany. i Pine Tree Division , 'We're the Pine Tree division now"
 hey tell you when they meet an Amer
 ican on the street. "Know why we're the Pine Tree DNision?"
 Why are you called the Pine Tree Division?" you ask.
 Because we never have any leavcsw a dozen of them answer in chorus.
 We sure have travelled enough any, Bowl" added one of them of the Flight ing SixtyNinth," and who provided 1t by his good Irish name of Sergeant
 Spillane,-from New York. We've visited every American front of inter- est in Europe, l guess. How about it boys?"
 We'll say we have!" returned a group in shorus. Edward J. Doran, Walter Fuery, Michael Cough, Will liam O'Sullivan and Dana l.. Heaphy, buck privates, and Sergeant Doherty and Sergean Pete Gillespie, all from New York, are in the group. Say. there never was anyone like our officers, either" Sergeant Spillane goes on to violate the positive army rule always to speak ill of ones su- tperiors. Wild Blll' Donovan, he's our colonel, is sure the greatest man in France. We hope he's going home with our outfit.
 We got to be home in New York by 1 March 17th," corroborates Sergeant l Gillespie. We got to march down Fifth Avenue on St. Patrick's Day-l we've been invited"
 Everyone does what is to be done to | divert the American soldiers in Ger. many and to tide them over their per- iod of waiting. The army even plan ned a series of sightseeing excursions on the Rhine for them. The Y. M. c. A. gives the boys on leave in Co., blenz everything from two free meals a day to constant moves, and rep ertolre of entertainment at the Great f Fest Hall that includes everything from boxing to selections from the ! gfand operas, and form costume dances Ii to short tours to nearby castles.
 The Army of Occupation in Ger many, in fact, is being treated rather like a debutante her first season out. The "Y" and other agencies are help ing to entertain it, everyone is doing possible to make the time Ii pass quickly for it. No tourist in !; Europe ever got so much attention as II our soldiers are commanding. Never theless they all tell you with one voice that they are just about fed up on globe trotting. Castles and kaisers cabRages and kings are all very well. but they. want to go home