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And Then Jofa

Two days later they were riding
on a fairly modern train over the
ancient peninsula Of Sinai to Leudd.
From there they plodded q singing
way to Surfeud, near the Richon
Lezion, and came to Jaffa, their
Palestine.
Their greeting there was beyond
all expectations, Bushmitz said. It
made them want not only to regain
Palestine, but to eat live Turks
without seasoning. This was a
strange feeling, he said, for people
who had never even wanted to harm
new cornet player.
The Zionist commission came TO
Jaffa while they were there, Bush
mltz said, and seemed proud at the
way the DICTIONARIES stood at at
tention and saluted.
All Of the Jewish colony at Jaffa
who could walk or steal a ride were
lined up when the legionnaires
marched away on September 2,
bound toward the front, which was
then becoming the back for the
Turks.
The sand was deep, the packs were
heavy, and the sun was hot, but the
officer in command Of his platoon
had difficult time keeping the
legionnaires from beating their
schedule. They sang, hummed and
whistled. cover There" sung both
in English and In Hebrew, mixed
in tuneful democracy with "Sayus-
ano Fiona" and the "Darktown
Shutters Ball" as aids to marching.
Nobody fell out Of line and nobody
| complained Of sore feet.
They made seventeen miles the
first day. six miles the second and
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few German aeroplanes. he said
were moro interesting than the
more quiet architectural wonders.
The air raid occurred on the night
Of May 10. Bushmitz remembers q
long, rising wall, a forty -hve-minute
run through the street with an al
most hysterical mother and a fully
hysterical child, and then $4,000 peo-
pie crowded in a shelter built by
some forgotten architect and intend
ed to house about 1,4O0.
There were feasts, pageants and
prayers In the Rothschild synagogue
for the legionnaires during their stay
in London. 1t was capped by fare
well banquet on May 21, after which,
still singing and joking, they left
for Plymouth.
They had an especially prepared
supper on June 16, and that night
they sang with greater vigor than
ever. They had become accustomed
to especially prepared suppers. They
always came before leavetakings.
The omen was correct. The next
morning they moved out Of Plym-
outh, with bayonets fixed and CLINT
ing, with the blue and white flag of
the Jewish nation borne between the
American and British flags. Those
were the colors which the legion
naires followed throughout the cru
SADIE. They marched behind them
first on Fifth Avenue and last on the
fine grained sands of Jerusalem.
At Southampton, where they de-
trained, they met a wharfful of
Yankee doughboys and were soon
searching out their friends with sur
prising success. On Rivington Street
they had never once greeted friend
with hearty slap on the back. They
did it now, with force that evolved
echoes. They gripped hands with
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their friends and trooped aboard a
Channel boat, which rolled through
the trough toward France. These
men, who had scarcely wandered out
of their Assembly district on the
East Side, reached Cherbourg,
France, the next morning, marching
snappily to nearby rest camp be-
hind their three flags.
Italy next" they sang, as they
crowded In third-class coaches and
rode In them for two days until,
reaching St. German, France, they
cheated some perfectly good cattle
out Of their medium Of Transporter
ton.
They had a chilly ride through
the Alps, Private Bushmitz said. In
side it was 80 warm and outside 1t
was so cold that it was great to be q
crusader end not mind the climate,
he declared. On June "a Faenza,
Italy, drew up beside tie track and
the legionnaires piled into it. They
had their first ice cream there since
leaving home, and met contingent
of Canadians returning from service
in Palestine. The Jewish population
in this Italian community brought
the best their farms afforded for the
legionnaires, and were there to see
them entrain for Sorrento on June
%. At Sorrento they got tropical
suits, which had pants like runners
wear, and short socks. On June %
the men received their Mogen
Davids, or stars of David, to be
worn as their divisional insignia on
their right shoulder.
An American battlecraft was fir
ing little of everything it had in
honor Of the 4th of July when the
legionnaires, still eagerly facing the
East, embarked aboard the Rose of
Glasgow for Corinth, Greece. They
slept on deck and looked up at the
stars. 1t was pretty good, Bushmitz
said, to be able to feel that the stars
looked upon their loved ones at
home and upon Palestine. Corinth
was reached on July 8, and on July
II the crusaders went on another
ship, this time bound for Alexan-
dria. Alexandria, they remembered,
was in Egypt, and in Egypt bricks
were once made without straw. It
must have been even harder, they
thought, than sewing pants in an
East Side sweatshop.
For three days they sailed the
warm seas, and on July IA, summer
in the tropics, they reached Alexan-
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local rabbis will have a few duties

local rabbis will have a few duties
to perform
Windsor, Canada, Private Bush
nlitz said, was the first stop worth
talking about. 1t was there that the
legionnaires glimpsed the inside
workings Of large army in a still
larger war. The men, now out of
the warm. loving eyesight Of their
relatives and friends, found them
selves In a country that was chilly
Of nights and among sergeant
majors whose speechmaking seemed
limited to 'Fo-o-a-r-d, Y-oo-oh," or
something equally cryptic.
For eleven days, at the concen-
tration camp at Windsor, life was
one drill after another with Private
Bushmitz's contingent. Their clothes
were beginning to offer great open
ings to the sharp Canadian air when
they were given warm British uni
forms.
Private Bushmitz admits that
the conduct Of the legionnaires
caused considerable bewildered
headscratching among the Cana
dams. The latter couldn't under
stand why men who were going
twice as far as Flanders to fight an
enemy who was proving just as
tough as the Germans should sing
at breakfast, sing some more at din
ner and then sing again at supper
time. They danced, too, Private
Bushmitz said, their steps revealing
their various birthlands.
After two days at en- old fort called
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real mud and fenced about with
equally effective barbed wire.
Guns Were Funny Things

guys were funny things to most
of the legionnaires. A few had seen
them IN pawnbrokers' windows on
the Bowery. Isidore Tugendmen
had carried one once when be
worked fer a junk dealer. That
gun wouldn't go off, he said, al.
though there seemed to be nothing
the matter with it. At least he
hadn't been able to see anything
wrong when he looked down the
hole in the front, he said.
After thirteen days Of dri1l the
legionnaires went out on the firing
range. They kept imagining the
bullseyes were Turks, Bushmitz
said and they almost made the
sergeant majors appreciative. They
had established a new record in
reaching rife practice after seven
teen hours Of school and squad Of
the soldier.
On May 7 they took their frst
military walk. For Ave hours they
carried full equipment through most
of England, 1t seemed to Bushmitz.
Many Of the legionnaires were five
feet IN height and some weighed
one hundred and no pounds.
Every man completed the distance
and completed it singing, Private
Bushmitz said, and the only thanks
they got came from a group Of
British veterans, who said they must
be batty.
From May ~ to May 20 the
legionnaires saw London and the
most damaging air raid Of all.
Bushmitz said he liked the Tower Of
London, Westminster Abbey, lot
Of palaces and Parliament. The
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Physical Strain Too Great

On September 20 they marched
forward, to the bank Of the Jordan.
The Jordan was crossed on a pen
loon bridge on the following day,
and a camp which the Turks and
Germans had Just deserted was
taken over. Papers and souvenirs
abounded here. The town Of Essalt
was occupied by the crusaders on
September rs and a systematic
search of the houses was made.
The strain on the hastily augmented
physical resources Of the men made
itself felt in Essalt- The unsanitary
conditions Of the town and the ex-
posed state Of the dead horses were
the chief elements making the legion
naires susceptible to the peculiar
Eastern charm Of malaria. Ninety
per cent Of the New Workers went to
the hospital. The remainder, includ-
ing Private Bushmitz, were placed
on guard duty, with the guarding Of
prisoners their speciality.
For more than a year the legion
naires waited for orders that would
send them back to their homes in
America. Then, finally, the orders
came for some of them, and Private
Bushmitz was one. He brought
back twenty pounds Of newly made
muscle with him.
1t is comfortable on the old East
Side, he said; far more comfortable
than in older Jerusalem. The food
is better here, and there are elevat-
ed trains and subways which, even
though the service might not be the
best at all times, are better in a
transporting way than anything the
Holy Land has to offer. There are
more theaters here, too, he said,
and better actors.
Just one other thing he wanted
known. AS soon az Palestine's
destiny is determined ke-and 30
per cent Of the other legionnaires
from New York-are going back
there, and on one-way ticketa.
But in the mean time, Privats
Bushmitz, who has looked upon
Jerusalem and rested beside the
Jordan which King David knew. Il
going back to cutting knee psntu
next week.
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y EUBEN BUSHMITZ, Of Flat
Z No. 9. 1855 Eldridge Street,
"A late private of the seth Bat
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twelve miles on the third, Septem-
Der 4. Then they moved into the
Judea mountains at Ramalah, where
they rested in a reserve line for
eight days. On Rosch-ha-schonah,o on
September 7, they exchanged tele-
grams with the 3sth Battalion,
which was up In the line.
The 39th moved forward on Sop
TENDER II and made twelve miles,
reaching the outskirts Of Jerusalem.
At 4 40 in the afternoon Of Septem-
Der Is they reached the Holy City,
but did not hesitate. They trudged
twelve miles on September 13 and
thirteen to Jericho on September Ia.
On Yom Kippur, at $50 a. M,
they stole away from camp for a
steady jaunt to camp near the
Jordan. They were passing over
the remains of Turks and here and
there an Australian or a Canadian.
The guns doomed DULY OFF to the
East, where the Turks we're almost
succeeding In outrunning the horses
Of the Australians, which were also
the inspiration for their bursts Of
speed.
On September IS the 89th took
over a section Of the reserve line,
and the Turks made canopy Of fly
ing lead over their heads. It was
not at all disturbing, this moving,
smoking roof, Bushmitz said. He
didn't see, at all, at the time, why
his lieutenant should get so excited
and swear at them for not rushing
behind some rocks for shelter. Two
Of the boys were playing checkers, or
some game, Bushmitz said, but the
lieutenant interrupted even them.
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By Bertram Rcinitz

~ EUBEN BUSHMITZ, Of Flat
X No. 8. 1855 Eldridge Street,
J. "A late private of the seth Bat
talon. Royal Fusileers, Is
ming back to cutting knee pants
rsxt week. Re expects to be q bit
ustv at it, because he has been cru
siding In the Holy Land and against
he Turk for considerably more than
year.
Part Of the crusading, the last
vart, wasn't so interesting. he said.
I: consisted merely Of feeding and
nsrcising q compound full Of for
ysrly Terrible Turks who had run
-hemse,ves ragged for several
aonths up to October, 1918.
More than three hundred crusad-
RS ike ex-PriYate Bushmitz have
sne back from Turk tanning in the
&st ten days and will resume knee
vsnts cutting, or delicatessen store
zssping, or shipping clerking, Just
Were they left off when some voice
which had been silent a couple Of
thousand years or more called to
.hm TO come and free the HOLY
Land.
The voice was penetrating. 1t
Eas heard even above the sweatiest
.. sweatshop machines, and above
tie assorted whinperings of dozen
.hidren Of the noisiest family which
svef crowded into three rooms.
Young men whose shoulders were
Or lateral line with the backs Of
heir heads and whose only exer-
Use had been some footwork on a
pants sewing machine, got up.
Slaughtered their spines in & ten
atlve sty.e and went out to fight.
The British Canadian Recruiting
Mission, then situated at 22O West
Forty-second Street, became the OBJ
lectlve for these young men who
Tanted to WIN back from the infdel
he land sacred 10 Abraham and
Isaac and David.
Joseph L. Cohen. a fellow Of Co
lambia University, was the first to
enlist. 4 lot Of kosher butchers
helpers joined not long after him.
WITHIN week, on February 81,
llS, one hundred men had enlisted
'oF service With the Egyptian Elk
dictionary Forces in Palestine.
They were aliens, Russians, many
Of them, and not subject to the
american araft, They enlisted spe-
eHcaly for service in the Holy
Land. They annoyed the recruiting
o@cers. Some were less than five
leet tall and came around every
Qay' Sons had chest measurements
o. thirty inches inflated. Others
we're slxteen years old, and then
others vera eiv+7
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In a Hurry to Go

lhey wanted to 60 as speedily as
possible after they passed the tests.
iney did f number of things to pass
@ese examinations. Samuel Ella
'oV' Tor example, made the weight
minimum By drinking 81 worth
VI inexpensive beer and olive oil.
men he rushed up to the re-
''ul'lHg depot and weighed In.
'Osepn branin, son Of the foremost
Hebrew literary critic, enlisted
nyman 57Persky, whose father sold
r TAXED sweet potatoes under the
williamsburg Bridge at East
broadway, also offered hirnse and
Sas accepted.
'hth Avenue saw a new kind Of
Oahner and novel brand Of pro.
spectlve fighters at various times in
'.srcn two years ago. Contingents
VI Palestinian recruits, with q bras
sfa on one arm and a fearful
'anily on the other. would tramp
'laYeiy up or down the street
@-many-farewells- Before them
slnkelberg's band, or sometimes II
vas the musical men Of the U. s. s
Ae3ruit. would swing along, playing
Hstikwa," the Jewish national an,
hem, with its meaning the yearnin,
VIA race-Hope.
The ancient flag of the promised
as'lon--promised by the British t.
We jews--would be carried by two
the tallest men, between the
american flag and the Union Jack
'ae squads usually had some ser.
giant major, often a Canadian back
nom Far Eastern service, setting
me marching pace.
on the evening before departure
saere would be a dinner in Bee
saoVen Hall or Stuyvesant Casino.
'as legionnaires would be toasted
sao cried over. They would be
USED and presented with things.
,''eph Barondess and other noted
.s"s would voice thhe appreciation
V The Jews OF America for the
susaders and would ask them to
r'sae hurry their fighting work,
'ause some of the older folk
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Jerusolen for the redemption of ,cFich the East Side
crusaders enlisted

dr1a. It was dark when they ar
rived and they entrained almost I'M
mediately for Helmih, which is just
outside Of Cairo. Here companies
were formed, and the New York le.
gionnaires became members Of C and
D company Of the 39th Battalion,
Royal Fusileers.
At Helmih the legionnaires en-
countered the Palestinian legion
naires, Jews Of Palestine, who had
been formed into fighting organi-
cation at their own request.
The New Workers caught their
first glimpse Of group of real
Turkish prisoners here. These were
Jews who had been impressed in
the Turkish army. A petition
signed by the New York and Pales-
tinian legionnaires was forwarded
to the commanding general, asking
that the Turkish Jews, at their own
request, be freed and permitted to
enlist with the British forces. This
permission was granted after a
short time, and there were many
reunions. The father Of Pales-
tine warrior was found to be among
those who had been impressed into
Turkish service.
The commanding officers were
liberal with their passes, and Bush
inita and his fellow legionnaires
saw the Pyramids and wondered
what happened to the nose Of the
Sphinx. They also learned that
''baksheesh" is the Arabian for
handout or tip.
The men were embarrassed by
the heartiness Of the welcome ex-
tended them by the residents OF the
Jewish colony. There were feasts
IN their honor, and when they
couldn't eat any more there were
dances. They managed to get
nearer the front on August rs,
when they moved to Kantara, near
the Suez Canal. the principal base
Of the E. E. F. They swan in the
Suez Canal, Bushmitz said, and
frolicked abo It like the kids do
around the stringpieces under the
bridges
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Legionnaires from the East
Side and ricinity. Top ro,o,
left to right, Morris Schif-
man, Philip Robinoscifz, Jo-
seph Coidblatt, YeGet IdeL
ouits; second ro,c, abraham
friedman, Isaac Sch,cartz-
fuchs and Morris Riutin
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Learned Brare Oatl,s

Private Bushmitz swore often as
he narrated the story Of the last
crusade. His auditors, fellow mem
bers Of the B'Nai Am Chef, of POI
East Broadway, hadn't heard him
swear before he went away. They
liked it, though. In fact, they liked
every word he released, Judging
from the way they withheld their
own comment. The B'Nai Am Chef
is Hebrew social club, where eco
nornic and other problems Of to-day
are thrashed out in the pure Hebrew
Of many days ago.
Girls would come In from time to
time and bestow encomiums on the
returned warrior. He merely shook
rheir hand gravely and thanked
them for their greeting. One of
these days the B'Nai Am Chef is
going to hold q grand blowout, with
wine. 1t is also reported that the
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From the East Side to
Jerusalem and Return
Wearers of the 'sMogen David''
Enlisted i'm a British Contin-
gent to Fight the Turks

wanted to die in an emancipated
Jerusalem.
Most Of the contingents sailed
late In the afternoon, on the Fall
River Line, from Pier ID. Roses min
gled with tubs Of butter along West
Street as the legionnaires made
their way to the boat which would
take them on the first leg Of their
journey.
Private Bushmitz was a member
OF one of these contingents, the
second to go. 1t caught up with the
first at Sorrento, Italy. and later all
the contingents became the 39th
Battalion, Royal Fusileers. And
the Royal F'usileers Is the only reg1-
ment which may march with fixed
bayonets before king.
The passengers on their boat
complained, Private Buahmitz said
the other day, that they couldn't
sleep because the little fellows with
the trick brassards on their arms
were raising hell all evening
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4boue-Pripate Reuben BusI,ntz, an East Side LEGION
aire, and the Jeoish flag under soich he fought; bottom
military cemetery in Palestine the Craze marked 10Th
Mogen Dapid being that Of Je,oish soldier from
Ve'o York; left, General Alleby sating the Je,eish flag
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-06
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
why Some Men DON'T Marry.

A very prominent and successful
physician of this city was asked the
other day why he had never married.
Because of the awful warnings
against ma trimony that 1 have seen in
the practice of my profession" he re-
piled. especially among doctors, who
seem to have a deadly i'll luck in draw
ing jealous women for wives.
Il have seen too many men working
themselves to death in a vain effort to
keep up with their wives extravaganza.
have tried to patch up too many men
who have been nagged into nervous
prostration by peevish and discomfort
ed wives. l have seen too many of my
brethren hampered and held back
from the careers they were fitted to
fill by suspicious and jealous wives
who regarded every female patient as
rival.
"Of course I have wanted a home.
OF course I should have liked to have
had a wife and children if I could
have been certain that 1 would have
gotten a wife who would have been a
help instead of a hindrance. But there
is no magic that you can apply to a
girl before you marry her that will
enable you to tell what sort of wife
she will make, SO 1 was afraid to take
the risk.
ST had my work to do in the world
and I felt that 1 could not do it prop
erly unless 1 had time and peace in
which to study and a mind unvexed by
domestic worries. How is a doctor
going to keep up with his profession
if he is married to a woman who
weeps because she is neglected every
time he takes up a book at home ?
Yet know doctor who has that kind
of wife-and he's slipping back
every year. How is a surgeon going to
have steady hand for an operation
if he comes to it with his nerves all
tangled from a scene with his wife
Yet know plenty of surgeons who are
handicapped that way, too.
Women are always wondering why
men don't marry. If they would look
about them they would see that it is
the awful warnings against matri-
mony they themselves hang out that
>scares off all but the foolhardy."
Fortunately, there is a cheerier view
of the holy estate than this physician
gives. Not all marriag es are unhappy.
There are women who make men as
well as women who mar them! There
are wives who boost their husbands up
| into success as well as wives who pull
| their husbands down into failure. But
| the doctors words should make every
| married woman ask herself whether
| she is a help or a hindrance to her
husband.