The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-19

| married man.
This is that II a travelling order
| comes he has only To pack and
! march, leaving no wife behind 20
| worry, and not having TO bother
with packing and Grating and ship
| ping the hundred and one things
| that the army benedict accumulates.
| incidentally. Just on account OF this.
| bachelors usually get the brisk,
| Emergency assignments. II being the
| currently held theory, based on long
| practice, that any bachelor needs
only 10 minutes notice to travel to
| China or elsewhere.
But enough Of the bachelors--we
| don't count, anyhow.
Married officers and their families,
| OF course, have homes very much as
| civilian families have, the size Of
| these and their comfort depending
| largely upon the rank of the officer.
| The lieutenants who are married
are the boys who have n hard time
| OF Il, according to the married lieu
tenants themselves. for usually just
about the time they get their qcar-
ters fixed up beautifully along comes
an order and they move and some
| one else moves into the little nest on
which he has worked for months.
But such is war.
But the enlisted married men arc
| the ones who really benefit by mat
/ rimony in the army. As has been
said the soldier is a marrying man.
Give HIM the moonlight. give him a
| girl and leave the rest to him.
Many Foreign Born Girls Yield.
His amiable weakness i'm this re-
spect IS known to the girls near
| posts and camps in the United
I 10 nF la
belle France have heard his wits
pered words beneath the stars. The
red-cheeked maidens of Luxem-
| burg and Belgium have yielded to
| his opportunities. The frauleins Of
Germany have come to know him as
an honorable lover with serious in
tentions and maide of aIerrie Eng
! land in many cases have joined him
in an alliance which brought them
to the posts and camps-of the little
old regular army - an army which
guards its own.
Nothing which the army can give
is too good for the soldier and his
bride. In no other army in the world
Is there so large a proportion of
married men, and when the enlisted
soldier marries he btcomts at once
entitled to privileges Of a high order.
Somewhere in some blue book or
another is the ghost of a regulation
now long deceased which says that n
soldier must ask permission of his
commanding officer before he mar
ries. This is usually honored more
by the breach than by the observ-
ance, for what can be done when
the American soldier truthfully ap-
pears In the orderly room with the
announcement that he has gone and
done It" There is one thing to be
done-take care of them; and har-
assed commanding officers at once
get to WORK TO assign quarters to the
new couple, and harried quarter
masters watch the sCant stock OF
composition board and lumber di-
minish.
When the enlisted soldier brings a
wife home from abroad she is treat
ed exactly as though she were the
wife Of an officer. She is given first
class passage to this country. The
benedict. however, travels according
to his rank. II he is a private, he
travels with the men of the COM
pany In the quarters assigned the
organization. If he is "A nOncom-
missioned officer he is given quar-
ters which usually are compatible
to his grade.
for women in this mans army
gets the best that the army can offer
her.
II the husband Is O noncommis-
stoned officer he is given quarters
which usually are somewhat better
than those given to a lieutenant. In
permanent posts these consist OF
| little bungalows or apartments
(which any woman would find cute"
| II ne is a private, he is given smaller
quarters, but usually draws about
| two rooms, bath and all modern ar
rangements.
In addition 10 his quarters the
married enlisted man is given what
| les called commutation rations. As
| he eats at home, in other words. he
| is given the cash value Of his ration
and IL also permitted to buy from
| any army stores on credit at cost
| price
Genuine COmradcship.
II his wife or his children become
/ m there Is a physician sent TO the
/ house at once. II the sickness is
severe the hospital takes the suf-
/ ferer and gives every possible care.
| II death enters the household the
post, II II is a small oneS goes into
mourning, for nowhere in the world
] ~ AllfAt u Albllbfl Af'AAltHa " N'AAA
radeship than I'm the regular army.
This feeling OF comradeship. this
mutual respect Of officer and man,
Is the foundation OF discipline. When
men are long In the same organiza-
| tion this spirit breeds a real affec-
tion. To those who think the army
| hard boiled Il should come as
pleasant surprise TO learn that II Is
quite the usual thing for officers
and men who have served together
and separated to shake hands ana
chat bit on meeting once more.
There is a certain general IN the
army who, wherever he goes, Is
| greeted by some man or another
| who served with him. Critics OF the
army who profess 10 believe the
service is one of snobbery should
see the "old boy" on these occasions
Out goes his hand, his eyes twink
ling:
"Well. well. we'll sergeant--glad
to sec you, Damn glad 10 see you
How's the missus and the kids
Fine, sir"
It is a greeting between two COM
rades in a common cause. Officially,
OF course. there would be the for
mality which regulations impose
but unofficially - these things are
waived VIXEN 10 waive them u Ooih
! coed taste and common sense.
Critics OF the army say that West
| Point hraads gnohberV MANY an Of