Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-09-24

chiid was often seen conversing with
a private who had IanguiShed overloup
IN the guardhouSe. The colonel went
ms way, serene and unrurled. After
All, what is one adoring feminine voice
IN the life of a colonel?
American Town Maiore
Lie on the main street was always
lull of Interest. There was. for in
stahce, 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, "Ilow do you get that way?"
lie was responsible for the good be-
haNior of Germans and Americans
alike-the restriction of llQuor 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
ternzing Tin publlc). He administered
the system Of fines for dirty streets
and yards. 1t was a 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? l was never privileged to ac-
company the little gray burgomeister
and the lanky young town major cit
lien from Alabama on their daily tour
Of inspection.
This village of approximately 1000
souls had lost something over 80 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 til,
front came home Socialists. "Ou
girls are crazy. They believe TIT
Americans will marry us. That Is no
so, is il? In Germany everyone laughe,
during the war when they heard how
many little German babies were borI
In France. Perhaps there Will be lit
lie American babies in this town."
FASTENED to protest that she had al
entirely wrong idea Of the American
soldier. She shrugged her shoulders
with q cynical laugh. who knows
fraulenchen? 1t Is too soon to tell.
Not far up the road was the main
spring Of the village, good-sized pot
terry works presided over by three pros
porous, rotund and well-groomed broth
ers In the neighborhood of so. Chill
dren worked In their factory, no
many, 1t is true. but enough to ban
ish preconceived notions of Germany
elaborate care for her common people
In this pottery works were designe'
and manufactured hundreds Of souve
mir plates for the American and tinall
also for the British army. The plate
were circled with gold laurel wreat
and in the center appeared In formn
design the individual purchaser
name, his regiment, division emblel
and the insignia of the army of occu
patton, the date of the divisions ei
try into the war. its victorious Ell
gagements and November IL. 191,
The tale of Germany's humiliation wa
thus voluntarily served out to her en-,
mics with no thought, apparently, b'
yond the harvest of marks reapet
Visitors were always cordially we
coined to the warehouse where Ion
lofts were lined with shelves full Q
stcIns and simple potteries. "These,
the herr smillngly explained In Frencl
will 70 to America when the peac
treaty is signed. We sell great def
of our goods In America
Spring has come round again.
smiles upon distraught German.
Perhaps the fears of the burgomeiste
were well grounded when he gronne
over the bolshevistic mutterings of h
people and prayed that the America
soldiers might never be called ava
The town crler, red Of nose an
warned as to teeth, still rings his bel
perhaps to announce nothing more g.
rIous than that "Children have bee
throwing stones at the horses of Anne
lean officers. This must be stopped
once or the parents will be severel
punished BY order Of the burgomel
ter"