The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-07-09

child was often seen conversing with
n private who had languished overlong
In the guardhouse. TIE colonel went
his way. serene and unrufTled. After
all. what is one adoring feminine voice
In the life Of n colonel?
American Town Major.
Life on the main street was always
full of interest. There was. for in
stance. the daily parade of the burgo-
master and the American town major.
Here was one member of the army of
occupation who had every right In the
world to have his disposition perma-
nently soured with the assurance that
no other wearer of the American uni
form could honestly put the familiar
question. "How do you get that way?"
He was responsible for the good be
haviOr of Germans and Americans
alike-the restriction of liquor sales
to the men (Which meant that
schnapps was verboten) the closing of
the GasthOffe at an early hour and the
enforcement of the rule against fra
ternizing lin public). He administered
the system of fines for dirty streets
and yards. 1t was hard life, but who
can say that he was not well repaid
by the sight Of the local bankers wife
painstakingly brushing away the
street refuse from before her house
each day at the end of stormy siege
of weepings. protestatiOns and small
fines? ! was never privileged to ac-
company the little gray burgomeister
and the lanky young town major. cit
izen from Alabama on their daily tour
of inspection.
This village of approximately 1000
souls had lost something over so Of Its
men In the war. yet what resentment
there might have been against the
Yankee conqueror was too well con
ceaied to command respect.
Soldiers Become Socialists.
All the soldiers who really got to the
front came home Socialists. Our
girls are crazy. They believe the
Americans will marry us. That is not
so, is it? In Germany everyone laughed
during the war when they heard how
many little German babies were born
tie American babies in this town"
FASTENED to protest that she had IN
entirely wrong idea of the American
! soldier. She shrugged her shoulders
with cynical laugh. who knows
| frauleinchen? Ii is TOO soon TO tell. "
Not far up the road was the main.
spring of the village. a good-sized pot.
terry works presided over by three pros.
porous, rotund and well-groomed broth.
ers in the neighborhood of 30. Chill
dren wsrked in their factory, not
many, IL is true. but enough To ban
! ish preconccived notions of Gerinany's
elaborate care for her common people
In this pottery works were designed
and manufactured hundreds of souve
mir plates for the American and tinallA
were circied with gold laurel wreatl
and In the center appeared in fo"ma
design the individual purchaser,
name, his regiment, division emblem
and the insignia of the army of occu
patton, the date of the divisions en-
try into the war. its victorious en-
gagements and November II, 1913
The tale Of Germanys humiliation wa.
thus voluntarily served out to her enc
mics with no thought, apparently, be
yond the harvest of marks reqped
Visitors were always cordially wei
coined to the warehouse where ton,
lofts were lined with shelves run d"
stems and simple potteries. "rhese'
the herr smllingly explained in French
"will go to America when the peac
treaty Is signed. We sell great dea
Of our goods in America"
Spring has come round again.
snr;les upon distraught Germany
Perhaps the fears Of the burgomeis.e
were well grounded when he groane
over the bOlshevistic mutterings Of hi
people and prayed that the America
soldiers might never he called ava!
The town crier. red of nose an
warped as to teeth still rings his bel
perhaps to announce nothing more s,
rious than that "Chiltlren have bee
throwing stones at the horses Of Amel
lean officers. This must be stopped O
once or he parents win be severed
| punished. BY order of the burgomei
ter"
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