The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-07-23

| child was often seen converslng with
n private who had languished overlong
In the guarihouse. The colonel went
his way, serene and unruffled. After
all. what is one adoring feminine voice
| In the life Of a 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 ma jOr.
Here was one member Of the army Of
occupation who had every right In the
world to have his disposition perma-
neitly soured with the assurance thai
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
10 the men (Which meant that
schnapps was verboten) the closing OF
the Gasthofre 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. II was hard life. but who
can say that he was not well repaid
by the sight Of the local bankers wife
palnstakingly brushing away the
street refuse from before her house
each day ut the end Of stormy siege
Of weepings. prOtestations and small
fines? I 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 vlllage Of approximately 1000
souls had lost something over 30 OF It's
men In the war; yet what resentment
there might have been against the
Yankee conaueror was too well con-
ccaled 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 viii marry us. That Is not
so. Is II? 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 a cynical laugh. "Who knows
frauieinchen? II Is too soon 10 tell"
Not fur up the road was tie main.
spring of the village. II good sized pot
terry works presided over by three pros
porous, rotund and well-groomed broth
ers In the neighborhood of 80 Chill.
dren worked In their factory, not
many. II Is true. but enough to BAN
ish preconceived bottoms of Germany's
elaborate cure for her common people,
In this pottery works were designed
and manufactured hundreds OF souve-
mir plates for the American and finally
also for the British army. The plates
we're circled with gold laurel wreath
and In the center appeared In lorna,
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. It's victorious en-
Iagcu,ents and November IL, 1913.
The tale OF Germany's humiliation WINS
thus voluntarily served out to her enc
mites with no thought, apparently. be-
yend the harvest Of marks reape,i.
Visitors were always cordially well
coined TO the warehouse where long
lofts were lined with shelves full OF
stems and simple potteries. These"
the herr smllingiy explained In French,
will 80 To America when the peace
treaty Is signed We sell u great deal
Of our goods In America"
Spring has come round again. II
snil,~ upon a distraught Germany.
Perhaps the fears of the buryomeister
were well grounded when he gronned !
over the holshevistic mutterinys Of his |
people and prayed that the American |
soldiers might never be called away. |
The town crier. red of nose and |
warped a. To teeth, still rings his hell, |
perhaps 10 announce nothing more So |
rtons than that "Chil,iren have been |
throwing stones ut the horses Of Amer. |
lean officers, This must he STONED nj |
once ar the parents will be severely
punished. by order Of the hurgomeis-
ter"