New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-07
Necessary in the Military Service"

Necessary In tho Military Service"
Sir: Right from the first page of the
SateVepost: his uniform was in
the utmost rgor of military nicety-the
cord breeches crsply lighter than his gabar-
dine jacket. close fitted under broad belt
WIN us supporting strap while on
his left were the insignia of his d.
vision. charged with the concentric red and
blue and white A of the Third Army of
| Occupation"
Just recalling what a Depot O. M might
have said if you had called a blouse a
jacket and mentioning the fact that G. O.
l43. Hq. Third Army, Series of 1919 for
babe the wearing of army insignia when
divisional insignia worn do you pipe
that the hero is wearing a Sam Browne
belt! He's wearing it up the driveway of
his own home this side of Hoboken
Maybe that's why his wife exclaims on
Page :, Howard, your uniform! Your
captains unform!' And the hero himself
probably has it in mind when on Page 3
he admits, as Mr.. Hergesheimer has it,
What | can't realize yet is how lucky. how
marvelously lucky, I was Guess he was
thinking what might have happened if he
had met a colonel along the driveway.
Us fellows who used to sheer at magazine
cover soldiers going over the top without
a gas mask have still got our work cut out
ior US. Wx.
Those fireworks are expensive" OBJ
served the young woman. "Perhaps,"
said the elderly gentleman, "but the
retailers have a short season."
DO any merchants, by the way, have
a shorter season? One expired pin
wheel for the answer.
An acquaintance Of ours is so Injured
to the 90 per cent discount thing that
last night he offered the subway ticket
seller four cents,
We Enter the Losers Campaign Efforts
Sir: Speaking of the minimum re-
suit via the maximum effort. as we
haven't been for some time, I think
that in the long run the Democratic
national convention will take a lot of
beating in this direction.
]. W. L.
We don't know much about yacht
ing, but we know enough not to use
the definite article when speaking of
a yachts name.
Marriage obviously is in the mind
of the Sun, etc.'s, theatrical reporter.
who yesterday spoke of Mrs. Emily
Stevens and Mrs. Ira Claire.
1t occurs to us, though not given
to attempting epigrams, that there are
fewer self-made men than self-unmade
men,
They take no chances in the Evening
Mail, whose headline refers to cal
legged Womans Slayer"
OUR OWN TRAvELoGuEs
try to take advice as freely
AS any human being can
And SO | needed Horace Greeley
Go West, young man.
went West as the Pacific
lThe Godwyn Studios are there),
breathed the drowsy, soporific,
Far Western air
l done it right, believe me, Mawruss:
And now I'm wise to this at least:
Advice is cheap. and as for Horace
Well HE stayed EAST
Los Angeles FREcKLEs.
otis a slow town." wires the Indian
apolis News's correspondent, speaking
of Harding's' municipality Nonsense!
Have you never heard of Marion
haste?
Well, Senator Harding and Cover
nor Cox both are opposed to profiteer-
ing. Look out for low prices on March
5, 1921.
Not Dollar Was Used to Buy
Vote.-Evening World headline.
GAS his corse to the rampant we
hurried"
Hesitatingly the forecast is made
that an Ohio newspaper man will get
the second largest number Of votes for
the Presidency.