Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-07-08

child was often seen conversing witt
private who had languished overlOnl
In the guardhouse. The colonel wen
his way. serene and unruffled. After
all, what is one adorlng feminine voice
In the life of 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 wGy"
He was responsible for the good be
haviOr of Germans anG Americans
alike-the restriction of liquor Nales
to the men p (Which meant that
schnapps was verbOten) the closing of
! the GaSthoffe at an early hour and the
enforcement of the rule against fra
ternlzing 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 we'll 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 &C.
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
there might have been against the
Yankee conqueror was too we'll con-
cealed 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
will marry US. That Is not
so, is 1t? In Germany everyone laughed
during the war when they heard how
many little German babies were born
in France. Perhaps there will be lit
tie American babies in this town."
FASTENED to protest that she had an
entirely wrong IDEA Of the American :
soldier. She shrugged her shoulders
with cynical laugh. who knows,
1t is too soon to tell"
Not far up the road was the main 4,
spring of the village, a good-sized pot, =
cry works presided over by three pros
,erous, rotund and well-groomed broth
RS in the neighborhood of so. Chill
lren worked in their factory, not
many, it Is true, but enough to ban
Sh precOnceived notions of Germany's II
Elaborate care for her common people.
n this pottery works were designed d
nd manufactured hundreds of souve- u
ir plates for the American and finally
lso for the British army. The plates !,
iere circled with gold laurel wreath u
nd In the center appeared in formal -
esign the individual purchasers II
anne, his regiment, division emblem !"
nd the insignia Of the army of occu- 81
the udle vi Wv > en-
y into the war; its victorious en-
agements and November IL, 1913.
he tale of Germany's humiliation was
JUS voluntarily served out to her enc
lies with no thought, apparently, be-
nnd the harvest Of marks reaped.
isitors were always cordially well
)med to the warehouse where long
fits were lined with shelves full of
ems and simple potteries. These"
Ie herr smilingly explained in French,
will 90 to America when the peace
eaty is signed. We sell great deal
our goods in America"
Spring has come round again. 1t
niles upon a dstraught Germany.
,rhaps the fears Of the burgomeister
ere well grounded when he groaned
er the bolshevistic mutterings of his
ople and prayed that the American
ldlers might never be called away.
le town crier, red Of nose and
,rped as to teeth, still rings his bell,
rhaps to announce nothing more Sc
JUS than that "Children have been
rowing stones at the horses of Amer
IN officers. This must be stopped at
ce or the parents will be severely
nlshed. BY order of the burgomeis'
:"