Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-28

paper OF the United States armed
forces in the European theater of
operations, but it is more than that
to us over here. 1t is a combination
of drink of water to perishing
man, a lifeboat to drowning man
and a mothers kiss to a baby.
This paper is just little sheet
averaging four pages a day, but it
comes close to being the worlds
greatest newspaper because it is
packed with news pictures from
home. 1t is amazing how home
sick an American gets for even the
smallest bit of information about
the United States. 1t Is actually
thrilling to read of new streetcars
being purchased by the Pittsburgh
Traction Co. or how high wind
was blowing in Toledo or how the
train schedule between Boston and
Portland, Me-, has been altered.
Familiar Faces Welcome.
Nothing is too small to be i'm
portant and there are pictures of
Stars and Stripes there is a picture
of Paul McNutt throwing out the
first baseball of the season, while
Connie Mack and Clark Griffith
look on. I have seen these men in
the flesh a thousand times without
getting any particular kick out of
it, but they look mighty nice when
you are this far away.
This boost for the Stars and
Stripes isn't meant to be any knock
at the London newspapers, which are
numerous and very thorough in their
covelage of world events, but learn
ing to read them and appreciate
them is very difficult task for an
American. They are an acquired
taste, like olives. 1t isn't easy to
get accustomed to front pages COW
cred with advertisements, for one
thing, when you are used to reading
the front page for news. 1t takes
time to adjust oneself to seeing
Births in column /, Personals in
column 2, Club Announcements in
column 3. Business Offers in column
4, and Investments and Loans and
Marriages in columns and 7.
Nature News Featured.
I am reading front page now of
London paper and so far have
found nothing more exciting than
that large perambulator is on sale
at Goring on Thames, that big toe
guards prevent big toe holes in hose
and cost only one shilling sixpence,
that an Atlas massage comb rakes
the scalp to tingling health and
that on April II at Grimsby Parish
Church Albert Scranton married
Mabel Anne Morris.
One has to be genuine nature
lover to appreciate the London
papers, too. No matter what page
you turn to you'll get a nature
column of some sort. Most of the
papers are not content with letting
one writer cover the field of flowers
and birds, but have an authority on
each type of tree and each variety
OF bird. You have cuckoo editors.
wren editors, nightingale editors,
rosebush editors, crocus editors and
half dozen other flora and fauna
editors.
Carries Comic Strips.
IT I stay over here much longer
and read these essays every day I'll
give John Kieran a run for his
money as an authority on things
that fly and things that pop from
the ground.
The Stars and Stripes of TODAY
is worthy follower of the Stars
and Stripes of the World War,
which was edited by such men as
Grantland Rice, Alexander Wooll-
colt and Harold Ross. It's editor is
Maj. E. M. Llewellyn and while he
has few officers on his staff the
great bulk of reporting and editing
Is done by enlisted men and the edi-
torlal page is on par with any of
the newspapers at home, and so is
us feature page and sports page.
1t carries comic strips and cartoons
and, despite lack of space, there isn't
much OF Importance that happens at
nome that doesn't get printed. OF
course, 1t is not as complete as the
papers at home, but one of the
mysteries over here is why it takes
the American papers so long to get
here, The ones here now are adj
Vertlslng last Augusts clearance
sales.
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