The evening world., 1919-03-05

Colonel Postponement is Chief OF s
cootle seems to be doing the dough-
boy work for the two.
Like the German people we are now
Indifferent, resigned TO any fate.
They can take us or leave us. We
have stoves in our billets and French
beds, beds that you sink into a yard.
We are introducing the turkey trot
to the peasant maldens. smoking all
tho cigarettes the Y. NJ. c. A. haY ieft
and buying UP all the souvenirs In the
town. The French shop keepers are
even breaking up their iron stoves
and selling tho pieces as shrapnel
remnants. Gen. O'Ryan lives in the
chateau OF the Count de Nicolay on
the hill, and when the General is not
boar hunting with the Count he Ia
promenading In the Counts orange
less orange grove.
fort. or the Chief OF Staff Of the en-
barkation centre runs up in his ma
chine we are going TO Russia toute de
suite. Miss Anne Morgan called and
spent the evening with us this week.
and General Rumor had 1t that W.
were going into reconstruction work
in devastated regions. Miss Morgan
has something or other TO do with
the society for the reconstruction
OF devastated regions How nicel
Bernard Baruch came down from
Paris and had a talk with the Cen
erai. Right away we were going To-
become guard of honor to the Peace
Conference. And finally when we
heard that the General had shot a
wild boar and was going TO have It's
head stuffed we figured that we
would be here another month, for II
takes a French taxidermist Just two
months to stun a wild boar's head.
To make matters unbearable we get
cablegrams every day telling us that
our wives and sweethearts are at the
New York piers waiting for us; that
New York will be bone dry before we
get there and dozens Of other morale
breakers. A divisional show was
written and rehearsed for productiou
i'm New York when we get back. II
was called Let's Bear It." Its title
has been changed TO Let's Walt
when Gen. Pershing visited Gen
o'Ryan overnight last Saturday he
saw our comedians, and they sure did
rub II in. One man had four medals
on his breast, all awarded for patience
while waiting for a transport. Th'
General laughed, He said 1t was th'
best show in France. But the mex
day our latest postponement was an
nounced.
There are compcnsatlons, though
Emerson was right. Some four1eeT
kilometres from Montfort is lie Mans
the big town. There are 'steen diVi'
sions there, in the same anpatien
might we are in. Our boys manage
to have one argument an hour, a
least. The burning question II
France among the lanks Is "Whic
is the best division In the A. f. F'Y
Wherever doughboys arc the question
arises. II is usually settled out II
III back yard, and the man who CA
utter the last word while his oppo
nent lies speechless on the groun
represents the best division in IN
A. L. +. Ask a y. NJ. c. A., lite
Cross. X Of c. or civilian which
the best division. lie looks at IN
emblem on your left sleeve and says
why. the 27th Is. OF course, Every
body knows that" Directly he meet
another man from another divisio
nifty feet away he tells him that hi
division els the finest on earth.
ssfety first.
There are a couple OF negro rcsl
ments In lie Mans waiting for tn
ship. Col. Henry Sternberger. IN
Division Quarteirnaster of the 27tf
recognized big. tall darky Corpora
q che street a. a former New yorl