Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-05-09
SAMPSON WRITES
ABOUT HUNLAND
SAYS That the Little Burg Where He
Is Stationed Is Dirty and That the
Boys Want 10 Start fer Home

man war souvenir in the form of a
match box holder stamped with the
outline of a Big Bertha" shell deco
rated with the iron cross. The fol-
lowing letter, which accompanied the
gift, will be of general interest. Mr..
Sampson is in the postal service of
the army of occupation.
"Hunland," April 4, 1919.
My dear Mr.. Goodyear:
Am inclosing you small token
from the famous Hunland. l have
not been able to get one like l want
ed, however.
Knowing that you read and hear
all about the trouble in general over
here l thought l might say a few
words regarding this little burg which
may be interesting.
This town is called Dungenheim
and is located in Rhineland near the
Mosel and Rhine rivers. 1t has some
thing like 1923 men, women, Frau
leins and kids-mostly kids and
few cows. 1t is very evident that
the inhabitants of Dungenheim are
not declining in race suicide from the
number of children that roam the
streets.
Most all houses have the stable
attached, where they keep their cows
and horses. At the present time the
most of them are combined in one,
consequently the poor cow pulls a
wagon around all day, and works all
night producing milk for the family.
The COW is rather useful utensil
to have around the house. When
there's work to be done the farmer
CASUALLY the frau bitches the COW
and horse, one in front of the other,
to most dilapidated old wagon, and
soon they are going down the street
with a big load of manure. Speak
ing of manure will, perhaps, remind
you of the name of the town. Divid-
ing the towns name in two parts so
as to make Dungen and Helm.
think by perusing German-English
dictionary you will find that dungen
means manure, and helm means
home. Hence the meaning of the
word Dungenheim is Manure
Home You may safely say that
the Americans think that the Ger
mans should be given credit for their
application Of an appropriate name
to this little town. In fact, on enter
ing the town the manure asserts it.
self both in sight and smell The in
habitants seem to enjoy the stuff,
however, and raised devil of fuss
when the Yank medical authorities
made them carry the stuff away.
There is but one main street with
four or five streets running off from
It for short ways. There are three
stores that sell the Germans their
daily needs and three wirtshafts that
supply the Americans their daily
wine. The German needs seem to
consist OF black bread, spuds and
burnt barley, which they call coffee.
They all work hard but the frau
lein finds a little time for amuse-
ment in the evening when her sehatz
comes around. Then the show starts.
To witness one of these love making
stunts is as good as going to circus.
AS for myself, | was lucky enough
10 get located in butcher shop
where they did not have a manure
pile closer than across the street.
This is some town though, for fact.
The boys are all getting very anxi-
Gus to get home, including myself.
II does not set as well as it might
with many of them in the army OF
occupation having to stay here after
having gone through all the trouble
while many, who never got near the
front, have come to France and re-
turned home. They notice many
Writeups in papers from boys who
were never at the front telling Of
how it all happened and this causes
some of them to think and at times
TO say things that would not be so
pleasant for the other fellow to hear.
The April weather has been regu-
lar March weather here but noticed
yesterday down near the river many
OF the farmers were out in the fields.
the women with the shovel and the
hoe, and the men with COW or a
horse and sometimes one OF each
hitehed to pillow or harrow.
France and Germany are nice 10
travel through but the U. S. A. 70
live in
Yours very truly,
H. w SAMPSON.
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