Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-08
TAKE OFF ON THE
MARINES PEEVES
ADMIRAL PLUNKETT
"old Tars" and ''Devil Dogs"
Getting Lot Of Smiles Over
e. Incident
BY HARRY B. HUNT
NEA Service Writer

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NEA Service Writer
:, WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-Army
I'd navy officials are, unoffcially.
Ela wing no little fun out of the hor-
nets nest stirred up by Rear ADM
raj Charles PlucKett, commandant of
the Third Naval District at New
Work in seeking to censor Broad
,nov nlav in which certain marines
irdI,lqe ia language and discuss sit
nations so startling as to cast doubt
On the efficacy of the marine corps
oa medium of moral uplift.
90 The "Old Tars" and "Devil Dogs"
obont the navy building are getting
= lot of smiles out of Pluckett's CT
forts particularly, to expungate the
profanity in the play.
They concede that as an officer OF
1onU experience, Pluckett probably
Is an expert judge of profanity; but
most of them were under the I'M
nression that he had lost his senSiti-
vity to strong language, evel by
men in uniform.
That profanity is not unknown IN
the service, and that it is even in
dulged in, under proyocation, by
high officers, is asserted by one Of
fcer who recalls that when Admiral
Pickett was in command of the Dig
naval guns which Uncle Sam sent up
TO the front on railway mounts,
shortly before the armisitice, he him
self was moved to picturesque and
axpressive explosives on one occa-
I'LL when one of the big guns
3dpldn't fire.
rBut, observes an officer of ma
rines, the cussin' done by Pluckett
when the gun wouldn't go off was
MT a whisper to the stuff our boys
ripped out when the thing was fired.
81 was with an outfit of rs az
tillery that had its horses parked
about a quarter of a mile from
where his his Naval Nibs had his
big roarers lined up, and when those
babies cut loose-wow!!
"The conclusion blew our pup
tents away. 1t gave US headaches.
1t woke us out of a sound sleep
after So hours of hauling amnunl-
ton. It attracted German bombers.
1t played hell with the horses.
From battery commander dcwn
we all LASTED the admiral from stem
to sten. We raked him anG his
crew With all the cuss words we
had knwn before enlistment, with
others We had learned in year and
a half of service, and with still
hers which dubbed up out of
Ger impiration.
How the admiral must have
hanged since those days, to let :"
ew Ordinary book cuss words get his
oat."
The amiraps concern Ovec the
9lfare of the service" through
Rhle light cast upon it by the
1 question, also stirs an old
b of his to "reminiscences.
P III is the admiral's sense OF
] his old officer inquiries.
dis st lecause a play intirates
tn our marines drink and have
littl, affairs he fears this will
,,ol senlistnents. When he was sup
ervi$ng marine construction in dear
old Quincr, Mass, he knew better
than that
"And DIES he remember the trip
of the SPECIAL squadron to France
Is years aro?"
Just whit these old-timers recall,
n claim torecall, in their kidding
If Plucket and his moral crusade
against "Vhat Price Glory" would
make almst as thrilling play as
the drama against which the admiral
has turned his hearvy batteries.
His nav fellows are enjoying it,
tuhg. Doubtless the producer OF
the play is also, for the publicity nc
has given It in packing the place to
the galleries each night. And far
from harning enlistments, it may
be helping them.
"Amter seeing that play" one
visitor remarked as he stumbled out
OF the theater, 'Td join the marines
myself if l was five years younger
and not married. Yes, even II !
We just five years yOungerW
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