The sun., 1919-02-18

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and saiuted and kept them of until the
men had gone by,
The 1000 or more people who crowded
the grand stand, many OF them negroes,
made more noise than any football sta
dunn ever heard as the regiment APP
preached. and the whole front OF the
stand WAS a bit of huttering color. But
the realest, loudest appreciation OF all
came from a mass of school children
who damned the opposite sidewalk and
almost showed good natured policemen
In the way OF trampng squad. What
those children didn't know about noise
making, And when Sergeant Henry
Johnson came along they whooped so
that Henry did them the honor OF .
special bow. lilies and all.
Henry had lost his trench helmet by
| that time. Somewhere about Twenty
! eighth street he became SO overcome
with emotion that he hurled tho tin
/ basin into the crowd, and some one last
| night was treasuring souvenir that
| they never hoped to have. For that he'll
met had seen half an hour of the live
Hest scrapping in France.
showered with Flowers.
| BY the time the men reached 1S5th
1
| like brides. husky black doughboys
plunk!ns along with bouquets under their
arms and grins on their faces that one
| could see to read by. White teeth
flashed smiles from sidewalk TO side
walk, hands forgot military etiquette
end waved at some friend who was risk
ing death b. his position on a fire es-
cape. Jim Europe's band did its hvelies'
jazzing.
Aren't you cold up there. honey
queried an anxious girl.
! cold? Why, I wouldn't care II
froze to death when that band is play
ing" And who would?
"wniz. Bang. There's another one.
! Whit Bang! There's a brother one.
Looka here, people what would you DO.
Out in No Mans Land. and no place to go
| whiz! Bang! There's another one.
| Whiz! Bang! There's big brother one.
Looka here. shoes, you gotta carry M
got the she'll shock shimmy blues.
Radio, radio. radio.
got the shell shock shmmy blues.
| Rat-a-tat-s- tat -a-tat -tat-tat.
I got the shell shock shmmy blues"
Can any one think of that song beint
written by any but negro trooper II
a listening post in Alsace, as Private
Clyde Rosa OF the radio corps wrote Il
one night when he was wondering II thu
next one had his name on II?
in 145th street, the fathers and mother
and wives and sweethearts OF the mel
would no longer be denied and the.
swooped through the police lines lik
water through a sieve. The soldier
were too well trained to break ranks, bu
when mother espied her son and threw
her arms around his neck in her joy a
getting him back again, he just hugge
her off her feet. and Col. Bill watche
'em with a smile, even II 1t did max
his lines wobbly.
Then the men piled down into the sub
way to take trains back to the Seventy
first Regiment Armory at Park avenu
and Thirty-fourth street, where chicke
awaited them.
Chickens of Both Kinds.
The two galleries of the big buildin
were filled with men and women an
: children when the companies trampe
: in, two abreast their hobnailed boot
crunching on the wooden floor. An
what a roar went up, Women leane
! far over the ratings and cried greeting
TO some one they knew, and others force
: their way to the floor and grabbed sheer
ishly smiling but happy men about tn
neck and Rugged them.
They danced before they went owe,
| harmony WIS lnelT OlllS JOY III tne Unu
of rest billets and each one of them ha
little jazz tune in his white heart.
, Hear that roar. there's one -ff1eD
stand stand fast Th 1Ssy op Her ySu Fht
Don't start abombin with those han
grenades.
3 There's a machine gun aholdin' spadea
Alert! Gas! Put on your mask,
Don't start to wonder how long II will las
Drop! There's a rocket for the Boche bar
rage,
, Down close to the ground as you can stanC
, Creep and crawl. follow me. that's all
What do you hear? Nothin' near. oh, dea
don't fear
That's the life OF a stroll when you ar
out on patrol,
(Soft harmony out In No Mans Land"
Back TO Upton TO Await Discharge
! After they had eaten and smoked ther
+, were few boxing bouts put on, an
they watched with all the grave after
!, ton OF fighting men TO the fine points {
the game. Perhaps 1t seemed litt
| tame. for most OF those on the outsid
seemed much more interested In Ii
/ girls who shouted invitations and thre
I kisses from the balconies.
2 And then along in the shank OF III
S day, when they we're convinced that the
. were Just as welcome In New York 8
0 they had been told they would be, the
= packed up and went out TO Camp Upto
TO await discharge, tired, but, oh. DO,
;. so happy,