The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-07-14

( much singing and a sort of chant
"Ein, zwei. drei. vier." Occasionally
they broke into a weird and fearful
English. overheard az the horse line
| during grooming hours, or ehorused
J strictly phonetic renderings of XXX.
k-Kat." One little girl OF 8 or 7, cher.
ishing deep admiration for our colo
mel, waylald him each morning on his
way 10 mess to call out Shyly and In
her most winning tone Hello. chick.
en- r. and then rush. overcome, to sheI-
ter. History does not reveal the fden.
tlty of the sponsor for this pretty com
piiment. but It Is rumored that the
child was often seen conversing with
a private who had langushesi overlong
In the guarihouSe. The colonel went
his way, serene and unrunfled. After
all. what Is one adorlng feminine voice
In the life Of a colonel?
American Town Major.
Life an 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 perna
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 wayf'
He was responsible for the good be
havior Of Germans and Americans
allke--the restriction Of liquor sales
to the men (Which meant that
schnappS was verbctenl the closing OF
the GasthofFe al an early hour and the
enforcement Of the rule against fra
ternizing Gin public, He administered
the system Of fines for dirty streets
and yards II was a hard life. but who
san say that he was not well repaid
by The sight Of the local bankers Wife
painstaknely brushing away the |
street refuse from before her house |
each day al the end OF stormy siege |
Of weeplugS, protestations and smal !
fines: WIS never privileged to ac-
company the little gray burgomeister |
and the lanky young town major, a cit |
lzen from Alabama, on their daily tour
Of inspection
This village Of approximately 1000 |
souls had lost something over 30 Of It's |
men In the war. yet what resentment |
there might have heen against the |
Yankee couqueror was too well con-
4
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
~. is IN In Germany everyone laughed
during the war when they heard how
many little German babies were born
in France. Pe.haps there will be lit
tie American babies in this town" l
FASTENED to protest that she had an
wrong idea Of the American
soldier She shrugged her shoulders
with a cynical laugh. "Who knows,
II is too soon 10 tell"
Nor far up the road was the main
spring az the village, 4 good-sized pot
cry works presided over by three pros
3erous r0tund and well-groomed broth
RS in the neighborhood OF 50 Chill
lren worked in their factory. not
many, IL j. true. but enough 20 ban
81 precOnceived notions of Germany's
elaborate care for her common people.
u this pottery works were designed
md manufactured hundreds of souve-
Dir plates for the American and finally
lS0 for the British army. The plates
we're circled with gold laurel wreath
md in the center appeared Sin formal
.esign the individual purchasers
ame, his regiment. division emblem
nd the insignia OF the army Of occu-
,aton. the date Of the divisions en-.
ry into the war, its victorious en-
1gemeuts and November IL, 1913.
he tale Of Germany's humiliation was
hus voluntarily served out TO her enc
lies with no thought. apparently, be-
ond the harvest OF marks reaped.
'iSitors were always cordially well
omei TO the warehouse where long
fits were lined with shelves full OF
teins and simple potteries, These
be 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
miles upon a diStraught Germany.
erhaps the fears Of the burgomeister
ere well grounded when ne groaned
yer the bolsheviStic mutteriEgs Of his
eople and prayed that the American
Dldiers might never be called away.
he town crier. red Of nose and
arped as to teeth, still rings his bell.
erhaps a announce nothing more Sc
Gus than that children have been
lrowing stones at the horses of Amer
an officers This must be stopped at
nee or the parents will be severely
By order of the burgomeis-
r."