Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-02

graceful and always professional,
noisy. The jazz orchestra transporeeu1
singing with Ungar, Mahoney any any
Johannes reaching for the tonsorla,
parlor chords. (These men We'c a.
II ofessionaIs, you understand NV,p,
Van zandt became a star VII ~
shell Shocked" act and Jim Mofey
had a load OF trick hats and q nut
turn which they never found out
OF course they were heroes tHou
cant break Hindenburg lines without
itl But 1--WE never get maudlin about
eallantry," said Gen. organ; and how
could Gen. Lewis feel otherwise?
So the Blue and the Gray have
particular record for passing up
heroism. Many recommendations
made by company battalion and
regtmental commanders were not
forwarded on the principle Of that
is what We came for. to be gallant
Plain RaIlantry, in this view, is simply
the performance of duty, Only when
the Gallantry was exceptional and
extraordinary, going over and beyond
" hat good, healthy nghtiug man
should be expected 10 do" was the act
considered as subject OF recommends
ton for q medal.
They got Thorn, British distinguished
service order. British militsry medal,
military cross and distinsu con
duet medal, quite rs numerous, by
couut, IN both divisions as the dis
tNguj4hed service crosses OF our own
government fut that in Your pipe
and smoke IT,
Il could READ you the cold English
describing acts that sound almost like
fairy tales, of men WHO were very
gallant and therefore simply per-
formed their duty, said Gen O'fsyau;
'and they were wounded and entitled
to ne evacuated, but refused and
went on. They set brilliant example,
doing more thau duty, by GotnS on
while wounded capturing prisoners
and bombing duGouts, and then being
wounded again. That's v hat You cal
gallant gallant Hay " hut2 That
it, gallant gallant,F
The Blue and the Gray
They were gallant gallant side by
side, elbow to elbow.
.'Tbe eth Division and the &0th
Division have been side by side ever
since in training in South Carolina,
where they were twenty-five miles
apart said Col. Leslie kiucaid, the
judge advocate of my story, right
hand man of the brilliant and wealthy
young general commanding, a SYRIA
self brilliant parsonage, socially, po-
litically and now miltarily.
How did the 30th and the 2Tth
Divisions find themselves side by side
again at Mount KENNEL? Chance,
Providence or The deep wisdom of our
G, II. q. or all together? The thing is
strange and striking, and there is more
a each end.
il i
Al Mount KENNEL the 27th and the
3oth went into the line side by side
ard had adjoining sectors; and. again.
the same coincidence at the Hinden-
burg line continued the advocate gen
eraI- 1t seemed particularly striking
and Interesting to US of the New York
division, because when we were on the
Mexican border In 1916 we had right
with us there the I'D Tennessee (Which
is now part of the 30th Division), and
as far back as the Spanish American
war troops of Tennessee and the Caro-
linas have been serving intimately
side by side with the New York troops
North and south stuffp' he concluded
gently, Gle is the judge advocate who
won the British ID. S. O. for operating
q iethAiS PSI I'M
promptu, at Il certain moment) 1--WE
think it is tne. The Blue and the
Gray"
And that is why they will parade to-
gether
Mind you. the New York division
does not ask 10 parade in its own city.
1t don't have to Only. II says: I'VE
won't parade without the 30th Division.
They're our buds. You must take us
together. We want nothing that the
30th don't share"
And as New York city IL crazy to
welcome and honor her beloved sens.
what do you think?
The parade win probably come off as
planned.
Every one VIII approve it.
II Is north and south stuff. the Blue
and the Gray! 4.
STERLING HElhlG,