Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-13
HUMANISMS
~ WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

TNIIE Saturday night before the battle OF
l. Bellcau Wood ten Marine Corps officers
and three navy surgeons got together Tor
merry little dinner party. They knew that
they were going into action and so, when
some one called attention to the fact that
there were thirteen men present comment
was made on the luck this would bring. 1t
was suggested that some Of them probably
would not come back.
Captain Lloyd w. Williams remarked:
1T would be n bum war If somebody
didn't get bumped off"
1t was this same Captain Williams who
refused to retreat Mt Chateau Thicrry when
ordered to do so by the French. 1t was
this same Williams who was the first officer
killed in that engagement. On the day,
June 13. 1918. there died on that same
battlefield one Captain Edward Fuller, who
had also attended the dinner party the Sat
urday night before. Captains NJ. j. King
man, =. Comachy and l.. do Roodc were
wounded during the week that followed.
Captain Lester Wass, one Of the same party,
was killed five weeks later.
Captain G.. X. Shler. United States Ma
rinc Corps, who went through this and
every fight that followed, clear up to No.
vcmber ii and never got scratch, told me
about it.
Captain Williams, sir, thanks to you and
your kind, 1t was no bum war
Charles II. Burke, who is Commissioner
of Indian Affairs under the Harding Ad-
ministratiOn, has back Of him fourteen years
Of service in the House of Representatives.
In 1913 he was minority whip in Congress,
the Republicans then being the minority.
Out in South Dakota his friends entered his
name in the Republican senatorial primaries
| and he won overwhelmingly without making
| Il speech. SO confident was he of election
| in this Republican stronghold that he stayed
| on the job In Washington and let events take
| their course. Great was his CONSERVATION
| when, on election day, his Democratic rival
| gallopcd in, fact which he attributes TO the
| political finesse Of one Woodrow Wilson
sitting in high place down Washington
way at that time.
'Ilow many packages did YOU handle last
| year Postmaster General VIII Hays asked
the other day of the president of the biggest
| of all express companies.
'F0ur hundred Million" answered this
official, with his thumbs in his vest
Parcel post, Mr.. Hays rcjoncd "is
but little sidene with us. We Just sort
OF let our left hands look after it. An we
handled last year was 1900, 600, 900 pack
ages"
Dr. Lee X. Frankpl who Is welfare non
OF the Postoticc Department, has lust been
travelling around and talking to its 30 900
employees.
Out in California he was meeting the EN-.
pioyeS OF a post0fhce and they were telling
their troubles. One letter carrier said thai
MS route was too long that his legs we're
wearing out on it and his back was briny
broken by the size of his pouch. IIr hndm, :
complained to the postmaster about il be-
cause he wanted to take it up with Wash
Could he carry the route if he got over
time? DR.. FrNnkel asked. e'' 0'''
re certainly could. There was not Il man
in California who could do it better man
And the other letter carriers nrogcn,
guffawcd. Thus they passed their ycrGirt
on his case: Problems often clear Them.
together to talk them over e''