The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-20
JUST A PLAIN SOLDIER
NOW WITHOUT ANY JOB
.SITTIN ON THE WORLD
OVER THERE, SAYS SOLDIER
RETURNED FROM RHINE.
HE WAS A MARK MILLIONAIRE
Doesn't Know Whether to Cheer or
Howl on Reaching Home. Brides
Were Tired and Weary Lot When
Ship Reached New York.

Ship Reached New York.
NEW YORK, N. Yves, I sup
pose we're glad to be back, but we
were sittin' on the world over there
and when you've been a mark mil
lionaire and then become plain SOL
der lookin' for a job, we'll
Private Doe yanked up the collar of
his issued overcoat, swore softly at
the driving snow, waved his hand
back amidships of the army transport
St. Mihiel, where the German brides
and their infant American citizens
posed delightedly for the camera men,
and added:
81 dunno. though. may be I guess
we're pretty glad to be back after all
l guess most of us would like to see
the old home town"
Private Doe, who might be termed
a mouthpiece for the Isl enlisted men
who reached this city early today
the last but so of the American army
of occupation on the Rhine-seemed
to strike the sentiment of the home
corners fairly square. The soldiers
didn't seem to know whether to cheer
or howl at the journeys end, and
some of them had not been here in
five years.
Big Stein for Half Cent.
One top sergeant made no effort to
conceal his disappointment. He want
ed to stay in Germany for good. My
army pay brought me about l,500,0O0
marks a month";" he said. Il married
in Coblenz and was able to rent a
house and hire two maids. A dinner
which probably cost 81 in New York
set us back to the tune of about III
cents over there. And, say, talk about
beer. A big stein of the real stuff
costs less than half cent for gen
erous STEM"
And the German girls who married
American soldiers at Coblenz were
a tired, weary lot. Excitement of the
welcome at Savannah and at Charles
ton, and the strain of a rough voyage,
did that, with maybe the cares of II
babies adding to it.
Sent Into Barracks.
Greeted at pier 2, Brooklyn, by
about 800 persons the soldiers then
were sent into barracks at Fort Ham
ilton. The married men, with the eX-
ception of seven on-commissioned
officers, are to be mustered out of the
service in a day or two, to ind Jobs
that will permit them to support their
families The unmarried enlisted men
are to await assignments to various
units Pending the discharge from SER
vice of their husbands the German
brides went to the Hotel Rutledge.
Many of the brides had been very
seasick in the turbulent weather off
Cape Hatteras, and the silence and
lack of motion, as the transport rode
at anchor, brought out for the first
time full dining list.
Unknown to the soldiers and their
wives, the transport brought bodies of
II persons who died in Germany, in
Guiding those of Lieut.. Co. E. NJ.
Burroughs, retired, of Washington,
D. c.; Maj. Henry F. Brinkerhof, jr.,
of Atlantic City, and Private Thomas
Long, who lost his life in an auto
mobile accident the day before the
troops left for home.
The final Rhine detachment of the
American troops will arrive Saturday
on the liner America, while Maj. Gen.
Henry T. Allen, commander of the
American occupation forces, and his
staff will return on the George Wash
ington in about a week.