Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-13

very plain language said:
 T have noticed that we have the
 champion spitters of the world on
 board. If they can shoot as straight and as often as they spit the war will be over the minute we land in the front line trenches. I have noticed, gentlemen, that my regiment has a tendency to decorate the decks with their saliva, I notice also, gentlemen, that in some places there is a gather ing of spew. Now what l want to tell you is this:
 Sanitation Enforced
 eff we are to maintain the health Of the command and land with at least two squads of the regiment, this busi- ness of decorating the decks with saliva and spew has got to stop. As a remedy to the first evil I am go- ing to see that each man who spits on the decks is provided with a large can with a placard labeled 'spit here" upon his breast The duty of me Wearer of this can will be to parade the decks under the supervision of a military policeman until such time as he catches someone else expector- ating, when the can will be removed from the offender who has just been punished and placed on the offender who has just been apprehended. This will continue during the rest of the voyage and if I am not mistaken you will find that these expert spitters will either spit in their pockets or go to the rail rather than wear a can of this special design ana purpose.
 CT eli times when one cannot reach the rafr It is rather late in the voyage % them to that high plane of in- telligence but if it is possible we viii have all those who can do so go to the rail. Of course if the urgenxy is such they will yell "1ookout' or some similar warning"
 The First Victim Is Last
 An eight pound tomato can was fit ted up and placard reading "spit | here," was turned out by the ships | sign painter. A military policeman was summoned and given his instruc- tons. In five minutes George Wash ngton Brown of Salem, Miss, was the can, and he was parad- ing the decks accompanied by his military instructor" the M. P. The wonderful effect that this had upon hat regiment of expert spitters was It hurt their dignity to ,e wearing a can that other dough boys would eXpectorate in, and the Iecks from that day on were spotless The colonel knew his men and the v nen knew the colonel.
 During the last days of the voyage, he only death of the passage occur ed from influenza. There were 67 ases on board. At 9:30 at night he convoy commander signalled to over the body and the ships bring ng up the rear spread out in order ' lot to come in contact with the body. The regimental chaplain read the ser ices from the stern of the ship. The ,ody was Sewed up in a canvas bag with hole in either end and a weight jed around the limbs. An American law was draped about the body and IS the chaplain concluded the last word of the service the body wa, Iuietly lowered into the sea and widowed up.
 Destroyer FlotiIIa Comes
 As the sun was creeping up on the 'astern horizon the following morn ng an object was spotted on the western horizon. Then two and three nd four. Soon there were fifteen f them. It was the Yankee Destroyer lotilla from Queenstown, coming out O escort the convoy through 1he cute danger zone off the coast of Ire and.
 The rumOrs that went through that hip were fast and furious. Doughboy informed doughboy that it was the ierman fleet and doughboy looked at Ioughboy in amaZement. As the Yan- rec craft moved up, the American lag could be seen flying from the nasts of each of them and a chee~ vent up from those thousands ot hroats that echoed clear to the heav- ms. The Yankee destroyers were on he job.
 Silently PIod Along
 Steady and silently we plod6ea M long Soon there loomed up on the ky line the mountains of Scotland n one side and the mountains of Ire and on the other The ship was LOW travelling through the straights, he most dangerous spot in the ice hilled Atlantic It was here that the 1usitania, like hundreds of other un- rmed craft were sent to their watery raves ill defenseless combat
 At ten that morning two of the Ge- troyers were seen to speed across he bow of the advancing troop ship m the left. For fully five minutes hey sped on and on. A curtain of moke now enveloped their move nents. Was it a submarine? Dough 'oy knew not what it was, and he lidn't seem to care. The Yankee de- trOyer was good enough for him ana le felt perfectly safe ana serene. Sud- lenly a great trembling repor; tsau hook our ship like a leaf was heard, md a mountain of water Shot sky ward. Out of the screen of smoke wo Yankee destroyers bounced across he water and took up their original positions as unconcernedly as blind nan on a windy day.
 Some ExpoIoshun"
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