Evening star., 1919-03-30
F1outs the Rumor That
Young Roosevelt Was
Deserted by His Asso-
c;ates During Battle
and That Poor Eye
sight Was Cause of
Death.

OS0IHs
you that hundreds of both married
and single women have called to pro-
test against the moving pictures made
IN France and exhibited in this coun-
Try. 1T makes them furiously jealous
10 see American soldiers portrayed in
the act of making love to French
girls One nice looking married wom-
an SAID lf she was to see picture
showing her husband with a French
glrl perched on his knee. she would
would get him.
Going upon the presumption that
my position here gives me access to
all OF the letters on file In the War
department, dozens of women have
asked me to take a peep at the cor
respondenGe and see If I can find out
III their husbands or sweethearts are
true TO them or whether they are rum
hlhg around with any one in France.
You would never dream of the
number of women who call here to
ma out why some particular man has
been made general. while their hus-
Dahds' who are better equipped men
IN every respect. are still holding the
grade of major or lieutenant. This
invariably occurs every time a list OF
promotions is published in the news
- papers 1t is getting to be worse than
ever since many men have been re-
ouced IN rank on account of the re-
auction of the size of the ArmyA
"A tall man with his arms loaded
down with what l positively knew
were bombs calmly asked to see the
chief of ordnance. His face was
smudged and he looked as though he
had not slept for a week or more.
hardly knew whether to scream col,
an ofhcer or just be sensible. Fortu-
nately pursued the latter course. hut
Wnen' IN response to my query he
calmly said his name was Crook. i
asain ~; became suspicious. Upon phon-
ing to the ordnance department they
!aughed and said send him right mn.
ne mas bombs all right and his name
is really Crook. but he is working for
US ana we have been waiting for him
Tor the last ten hours.
one OF the funniest tragedies dur
ing the war took place almost every
DAY 1t consisted of the fat men, yery
small men and old men who were
simply wild to get into the scrap, but
ona WHO nad been turned down. Every
could only have little private talk
win secretary Baker. and let him find
out for himself how remarkably Al
1e me- was, hs ns ne would gladly lay down
boat e oSns for an ana let him catch the first
was amusing to see o5O-pounder
wheeling through the revolyinr
doors, with possibly n ninety.pound
m,inaget ,inag or man at his heels. and a
years leading the procession. All Of
them would be furious at the incom.
potency and red tape of all things in
general. l really believe that if [ had
Deen man they would have cheer
fully knocked me down a few times
just to prove their prowess as fight
ers. W. 7
Practically every four girls out Of
nVe wanted to get some kind Of work
that would take them to France. They
They offered to do anything fron
writing Gen. Pershing's letters to
carrying bullets to the trenches. They
came to Washington from every ham,
aet' village and city in the country.
They, too. thought that If would
only let them run upstairs and talk
things over with the Secretary of
war that he would Immediately see
things from their viewpoint and
hurry them across the pond
Il employed young lady to assist
me with the work. She had had no
previous experience with the public,
and almost dropped dead when n
man in very broken English, and half
crying, announced to her that his
brother was died. and wanted TO
know what to do, and she very
sweetly directed him to Mr.. Hoover.
Sho thought he was trying to tell her
that her brother was on a diet ana
that naturally Hoover was the right
man to see in such q case
"A very broken and suspicious look.
Ing man asserted In a loud voice
that he wanted to see his friend
Newt Baker When / tried TO get
him to speak in more respectful
manner when referring to the Secre.
tary of War ne formed a newspaper
he had in his hand into bali and
threw 1t into my face and left the
building, talking loudly.
"The very finest example of genu.
Inc patriotism was portrayed by
snowy haired old lady. who must
have been close to seventy. IL was
during the Christmas period when
everybody wanted to send presents
the boys in France, and the govern
ment was obliged to decline on ac-
count Of lack of facilities. This old
lady was wearing five stars, one of
which was gold. She gently said one
Of her boys was wounded and was in
a hospital and she did not think he
was comfortable and wanted to send
him II few things. When told that
"a pArc ,ty,.s hn1 nalx.