Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20

SQUADS WRITEI Edited by John T. Winter.
ich New York: Harper g. Bros.
IN Squads Write!" John T. Winterich one
of the original staff of Stars and Stripes,
revives the official and personal news
paper of the American Expeditionary
Forces through selection Of its best In
prose- verse and cartoons" to make
memory stirring book Of about 800 pages.
Edited with mot to serious comment" this
body of selections from the files Of the short
lived but uniquely successful onacial paper OF
the A. E. F. will furnish o reminiscent thrill
20 a million Yank veterans
Winterich has succeeded In retaining the
note which ran through Stars and Stripes
from beginning to end; humor, broad without
being ribald. satire that always holds flavor
of good craftsmanship. pointed anecdote and
factual narrative that are OF the trenches
ITSELF
The intimate history of the Buck Private
Is retold. His narrow escape from the label
Of Sammy, the quick humiliation of any
suggestion to curtau such rights as letters
home, the constant war for reciprocal saluteS
even the unesthetic but none the less serl-
Gus campaign against the cootie legions, Win
tsrich admits that some Of the humor was
a. deft "as o carthorse stepping q minuet,
but it was perfectly in consonance with the
feelings of the doughboy who responded by
giving his complete allegiance to Stars and
Stripes and by utilizing it as an outlet Tor
whatever was on his chest in addition to his
issue shirt and his two dog tags.
Reprints OF cartoons and poetry contain many
notable items. In the poetry section Is XII
mer's Rouge Bouquet" Dazey'S Tribute" and
the anonymous "Csmouf1age" 50 often quoted
and recited. Cartoons by Wallgren, Baldridge,
Morgan and others include . number reprinted
widely from the Army paper.
Squads Write!' relates the story OF Stars
and Stripes from its nebulous beginnings to
tia lowering or the nag from Ehrenbrettstein.
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vets o most important contribution to the his
tory of the
ONE LIVES TO TELL THE TALE BY Edmund
0illigan. Illustrated by Richard A. LOederer.
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison
smith.
THE great adventure goes back to war time
! and to South Africa. From the military
pg1son In Cape Town 500 German sailors plot
10 escape into the wilds Of the great Karroo
and TO make their way from its surrounding
deserts and plains into the north and, maybe,
to freedom and home. Such the groundwork
Of an undertaking that reads more like inven-
ton Of the reckless sort than as the record
Of fact which it so Individually is
The story itself comes as personal account
ing OF Ludwig Ehlers, third od1cer of the
German freighter Java, taken prisoner by
British cruiser in the African seas At present
Boatswain Ludwig Ehlers is commanding on
Ger Of the United States Coast Guard ship
Cartigan. Edmund Gilligan took the narrative
from El1ler himself and set It down as high
adventure and a chapter Of history lifted
b6dily from the world War
Enemies beset these escaping prisoners from
the moment of their break-away. The desert.
rivers to be forded farther on where crocodiles
appeared to be waiting for them, hostile ma
GVes all along the way. Near mutiny among
To- men themselves. To sustain and help the
increasing number OF those unable TO go by
themselves any longer-and seemingly thou
sand other malign influences crowded the two
years spent in reaching North Africa. Only II