The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-29
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'Tennhun /! SIutel Make her
snappy- That-a-boy !"
ssWho wux the bird. Ha11 Looked
like six-cylinder officer, but they
don't ride In no nivver.s
you are guessin' close. Ireland.
Didn't you see the Red Cross on his
1ifney7 That's the Red Cross Han.
He's got q real handle but few know
.. what It's like. Every jack from the
6. o. to the ducks In the guardhouse
| call him the Red Cross Man. Got 'em
| In all the camps"
II didn't see none at Wheeler's fselc.
| n he what Won call-not a preacber-
hnt ~
seNo Mike. he ain.t M chan,.fr -
that,s the handle you vuz huntin, for
The cross IL I big red one. an, the 4.
r n an HE iaeleat dor,t et~ra -.
ESQ roearv. rorns. INT fhe Amersc.r
Red cro.s. heard him fine nther
morninr when he tried to start hts
diver after the rain. CANAAN we,sch
said his language was Bihlica1. but II
wuxn,t orthoflox. whatever fhaf means
IF sounded like rood old Tinted state.
"a no No ha efn,f NJ nro.c,,or h,,+
racron "a Knows how to t.llr tnr,ev r.,
j the bovs All right. Cornoral Nnrnhv
hadn.t haer swing bts follrs : sonare
do.I. rovor cont env rorav horco
a-soakin' his pay shootin' craps two
hours after gettin' 1t. The corp. tole
me the Red Cross Man talked to Inn
like q Dutch uncle. an when he got
through, the corp. had signed q paper
| telIin' Uncle Sam to take etrangle
n ~p n III. IA a. IL
mother. Take It from me, Uncle Sam
mile likes to hear them sort OF orders.
| an to show how happy he wuz to get
| the corps message, he chucked I'm
! twenty more plunkers to the corps If
/; teen an the mothers gettin' thirty-five
| per. Sure she amt happy less she's
wraslin' with q washboard every day,
but the corp. tole me she wuz only
| R-takin' In five family washes now, an
/ the kids wuz goin' to school again.
| When the Red Cross Man had a toe
| hold on the CORP, he persuaded him to
/. take out insurance, same as the rest OF
us boys. an then he tole him he could
gamble his bloomin' block or with the
rest Of his pay. The corp. gets q good
nights sleep now on pay day, cause
what's left Of his pay only lasts till
! about ten thirty"
els this here Red Cross Man q real
for-sure officer. HalY'
RANK At off;eer
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nart of1,cor and the rost,s irish The
now follora don,t rno,u whatbar RI
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tha cross - ,ra Foo, HE - Int he dom
:. % a t,nror,s hau,mar whether Wa
s,lnte him or NOT. We old vets know
i'm an, a,lnte the cross nm, the man
tbat,s hebin. f. Rut officers and pri-
Yates are all the same to him. seen
nm taIkin, to the q q the other dav.
an, he vuzn't actin as though he was
any scared of him. They seemed to
be real friendly-like. But he don't
seem to care whether he's talkin' to
the O. q or a N. C.. They all look
alike tn him. He takes chow at our
mess sometimea, an tin dishes don't
upset his stumik any. The boys like
to have him, cause he joshes 'em along
and they forget theyr still In the
States stead in France where they all
want to be. He can deliver the mer-
chandise too. Last winter when Tom
Mason's wife and four KIDS come down
here from Detroit an got sick, the Red
Cross Man got Tom a leave an took
Inn to the burg in his fivver. Then he
sent Toms wife doc. an some coal,
an some eats. Reckon he must a
helped Tom get discharge SO he
could support his family, though no
body knows nothin' for sure. Slim
Dawson thought he did, though, an