The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1919-01-16
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Who wuz the bird. Hal? Looked
Ike 4 s;X-cyiiHGar officer. but they
don't ride ia no tiisver."
YOU are gues IN close. Ireland.
pidn: you zee thp Red Cross on his
jItDcy? That's t,,r Red Cross Man.
ICES so' a real indie su, few know
what it like. Yer jack from the
{. .. TO the dU - II TIC guardhouse
rail him The Rec ross Man. Got 'em
In All the camp,
Il didn't sre Il - IL Wheeler's field.
IS he what you G, not Il preacher
but L.
"No, Mike, he Stat no chaplain, II
thaHs the handle .ypu wuz huntins for.
Che Cross is big red one. an the A.
L. c. on his jacket don't stand for
aero reserve CORPS, hu' he American
Red Cross. l heard him the other
morning when he tried to start his
f'iv'er @fter the rain. Captain Welsch
said his language was Biblical, but it
WuZnr orthodox, whatever that means,
1t sounded like good old United States
to me. No, he amt no preacher, but I
reckon he knows how to talk turkey to
the boys all right. Corporal Murphy
hadn't been giving his folks q square
deal; never sent any money home.
a-soakin' his pay shootin' craps two
hours after gettin' it. The corp. stO1e
me the Red Cross Man talked to i'm
like u Dutch uncle, an when he got
through, the corp. had signed a paper
t&llin' Uncle Sam to take q strange
hold On half his pay, an slip 1t to his
mother. Take it from me, Uncle Sam ,
ME likes to hear them sort of orders,
an to show how happy he wuz to get
the corps message, he chucked In
twenty more plankers to the corps If
teen an the mothers gettin' thirty-flve
per. Sure she amt happy less she's
with q washboard every day.
but the corp. tOle me she wuz only
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 t0le him he could
gamble his bloomin' block of with tho
rest of his pay. The corp. gets q good
nights sleep now on pay day, cause
what's left Of his pay only lasts TN
about ten thirty"
lis this here Red Cross Man q eeat
for-sure officer, HalY'
Rank Of 0fsicer.
swell, I dino. He ought to be. We
call him captain, or lieutenant and
say sir to i'm. He says he's IN on
GER without rank. Says the leather
puts and green pants show that he's
part officer and the rests Irish. The
lew fellers don't know whistler =
lutte or not He says We en- s'Iuto
he esoseA - ~ I'll ~ 4 II ~ I'm :,
are Z tinkars hammer whether ~
lutte MIN Of not We old vets know
m an s'1ute the cross an the mar
hats benin 1t. But officers and mi.
ates are all the same to him. I seen
IN talkin' to the c. o. the other day.
n ne wuxn't actin as though he WA
ny scared OF him. They seemed to
real fr1endly-like. But he don't
aem to care whether he's talkin' to
re =. q. or q N. G. They all look
IKE to him. He takes chow at our
less sometimes, an tin dishes don't
pset his stumik any. The boys like
nave him. cause he joshes 'em along
nd they forget they'r still In tho
lates stead in France where they all
ant to be. He can deliver the mer.
'anuise too. Last winter. when Tom
ason's wife and four kids come down
re from Detroit an got sick, the Rel
'oss Man got Tom leave an took
Il ITO the burg In his aivver. Then he
Mt Toms wife doc. an: some coal
!. some eats.a Reckon he must a.
lped Tom get a discharge 50 he
ad support his family. though no,
dy knows nothin' for, sure. Slim
wson thought he. did. though, an
Aed the Red Cross Man to help him !.
Off Uncle Sans pay roll. The
Cross Man wrote some letters nm
Sims home town, an when they
ne back. he tole Slim his wife and
$ wuz a-drawin' forty-seven Hfty
and they wuz better OF, with him
ain for Uncle Sam. an he'd better
Z aroun' and help make Germany
9 for democracy"
Must have the spondulix an some
. If he's so free with the cash an
VS. SO many people everywhere"
he.Ain't No sPiut"
10, he amt no 'plut.' They say he
tsdraw no pay, an he polishes his
shoes, an in pinch washes his
shirt. But you see, Mike. this
Cross Man business is all over the
es.. When soldier from Millers.
gets word his folks Is IN bed, he
'mopln' aroun' like dog was met
18th q skunk. He's soured or the
:, show, an all the sugar this man
'er's saved couldn't sweeten him
one His off; see ne's punk an
try to work It outer him. but IL
makes lin punker. They look for
Q go over the hill next Then tho
Cross Man hears about it. Ho
him In his office, or In his jitney,
'elieve me, he knows how to find
hats wrogg. Then he writes up
llersvtle. where they got the Red
too. an they go see what's
: with the doughboy's folks a.,
pun ri ly out the iemo and
back that ais hunkadors ~
lick bird just goes to- eattn' a !
ork ac1in my ~ RED Cea
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