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"They’ll Make the Finest Soldiers in World,” Says General Over
s e a s -S o ld ie rs Determined to Fight to Finish— Snipers Take
Daring Chances in “ Pot Hunting”— Negro Troops
Furnish Much of Humor in W ar Zone.
Even a sm all chew of R eal
G ravely Chewing P lu g satis
fies. It gives more re a l to
bacco comfort than a b ig chew
of ordinary tobacco.
%
Peyton Brand
Enough o f the American Nutlonal cally be called murder. The snipers
army has urrlved in France to bear don't call It that. They call It pot
out the predictions that this army will hunting. I have talked with several
be one o f the finest bodies o f military and have beeu on the line with a few.
men in the world. I recently went to They wouldn't any more shoot u song
O R E G O N C O M E S N E A R TO G E T T IN G A S A L O O N
a section o f France where new troops b*r(l or 11 uiagpie than they would kill
are quartered fo r final training, writes one o f their own officers, but shooting
The Post about three weeks ago received a letter from a Don Martin in the New York Herald. F ritz ucross the line— that's another
10c a pouch— and worth it
__ mil- story. It is dangerous business, too.
There I saw the vanguard o f the
man in Nebraska who asked us to tell him if we knew of lions who were legally selected to serve I Many a sniper is sniped himself. Some
last» so m uch longer it costs
C ra w ly laats
f tlu'm camoutlage themselves and
“ a good town iti Oregon that needs a saloon” or if there their country. A general who has o stand
to chmw than ord in a ry plu g I
for hours in runge o f a thousand
been all his life in the army fairly
rltles. There is u young American o f
was one he could “ buy at a reasonable figure.” He gives glowed in admiration o f them.
‘They are a splendid lot o f boys,” ficer from Massachusetts who is assign
P. B. Gravely Tobacco Company
us a reason for desiring to come AV est that “ this damn the officer said. “ They are proud to ed to technical work, who spends a day
Dannila, Virginia
state [N ebrask a] went dry about a year ago.” Twelve be here. They are sorry for the boys and a night each week on the line
at home who are not to help in the sniping the enemy. H e does it be
cents in stamps was enclosed for a reply and the change great battle fo r democracy. They want cause he likes it. H e is an expert rifle
to get right in the line. They realize shot und he enjoys the hazards of his
we were asked to use, as he stated it, for the following the
I f You Can’t Sing a Cheer-up Thing
dangers fully, but that doesn’t wor work and gets satisfaction from killing
ry them. They have hnd their eyes Huns.
purpose: “ Take a couple of beers on me.”
The two best known Hun snipers are
opened fully to the wonderful sacrifices
The Post in reply told him that there wasn’t a saloon France has made. They have seen tiluck F ritz and C'ruzy Fritz. Black
(Judd Mortimer Lewis.)
If you are built
F ritz Is dead. Crazy Fritz was wound-
how
the
villages
are
stripped
of
every-
If you can’t grin,
in I lie state at file present time for sale, but if he didn’t
So you can’t sing
thing but the very old and the very ,?6, hut whether he is deud Is not
An’ if you frown,
gel caught at it he could open up one in almost any Oregon young, and yet they have seen how de- ■ known. Black F ritz harassed the
A happy sort
You better tliest
termined and cheerful the country is. American sector for weeks. H e was a
O’ cheenip tiling,
Keep out of town,
town and get rich in three months, and as a postscript So they are proud to be here, and they *»'ood shot und put bullets now und then
You better hadn't
An’ in tiie house,
are
going
to
make
the
finest
soldiers
i
through
a
soldier's
armor
hat.
But
one
that nine cents wouldn’t buy one beer in Oregon now, let
Sing at all;
Till it comes night;
i day he was spotted behind u log and
the world has ever seen.”
Tliest let wildbirds
A grouch is best
alone a couple.
Superlatives ordinarily are not per a bullet struck him between the eyes.
A n ’ crickets call,
"H e was a handsome chap,” said a
■ Kept out of sight.
This week we received another communication from mitted by the censorship when refer sniper,
An’ let the honey-
"und hud beautiful hair, liloude
ence is made to Americans. A deeply
Why even nights
Bees ba-zoom.
him. He said he was mistaken in the state; that it was grounded principle o f the American us u girl's and combed buck like u col
The little frawgs
censorship Is that America, while glory lege hoy’s.”
An' flowers breathe
Sends cheer-o songs
Washington he meant.
“
I
f
he
had
blonde
hair
why
did
you
ing in her own idealism and achieve
Their sweet perfume;
Across tiie I logs;
ments, must not forget that France and call him Black Fritz?”
That is the way
An’ if you're sour,
“ Because he hung so much crepe on
England have been at war for nearly
You better do,
An' grumpy blue,
W H E N T H E B O Y S CO M E H O M E
four years and have set a very high our doors.”
if
you ain’t glad,
A frawg is of
There
Is
another
Hun
known
as
standard fo r Uncle Sam. But the su
The tiling for you
More use then you.
perlatives Indulged In by the genera! Foolish Fritz, and a rather pretty story
(W illiam Slaveils McNutt in Collier’s W eekly.)
To do to help
were sincere. H e actually believes the may be told about him. H e is not a
If you can’t sing
The world along
You know what l W hen I get back I ’m going to kick National army will he as fine a lot of sniper. The men in the trenches can-
A cheer-up tiling,
men as ever stood In a uniform, and n° t tell Just what he is. Perhaps, they
Is not to bu st
You better go
me loose a slab o ’ curbstone off Broadway an ’ eat it. after seeing them and talking with huve figured, he corresponds to uu
Forth into song;
Hide out, by jing!
American football or baseball mascot
T h at’s me! Yes’ when 1 get back tlie first thing I ’m to do them in more than fifty villages I H
e is a mere youth und he takes dan
must say that I think he has prophetic
gerous chuuces. He might have been
I ’m goin’ to buy me a great big heavy chain, an ’ I ’m goiu’ vision.
Folks and Foibles
shot u hundred times, but the Ameri
All Show Their Mettle.
to put one end around my ankle a n ’ the other end I ’m go
To praise the National^ army does can snipers huven’t the heart to kill
(B y Claude Callun.)
in ’ to put around the Times building a n ’ fasten it tight, not imply disparagement o f any other him.
"One day,” said a sniper who has
wing o f our military force. The mili
M
ajor
Dough
has
at last given up his pocket kuife. F or
a n ’ then I ’m goin’ to say to my feet, I ’ll say: Feet, you tia group has already, in various watched him play uround like u kitten,
several years his wife and daughters have been working
"lie
crawled
up
over
the
top
o
f
the
can step up and down in one spot if you get restless an clnshes with the enemy, shown the trench and went over to a log and lay
patiently to make a city man of him, and they now feel
stuff o f which It Is made. The 104th
must move, but you ain ’t goin’ to take me no place no regiment, which halls from Massachus- ! on it. H e was there fo r an hour sun that they have succeeded. First of all they taught him to
etts, has been decorated by the French ning himself. I had a bead on him all
more.
W hen he reached the point
government for its valor under heavy the time, but what’s’ the use?— a mere wear shoes and suspenders.
fire. All the men have made good, but kid. Another time a new sniper here where he didn’t complain much at having to wear shoes
all they have done will unquestion saw him and was just about to pick instead of hoots one of his daughters gave him a pretty
J E L L Y , J U IC E S A N D J A M
ably be equaled by the excellent army him when I said ‘Nothing doing.’ We
H e didn’t want to hurt her feelings
o f draft men. The latter have the can’t exactly understand what It little pocket knife.
L IT T L E E L E A N O R A N D T H E B E A N S
physique, the initiative and the spirit. means. About two weeks ago I thought about the knife, so he didn’t say that he wouldn’t carry it
give the youngster a scare, so I put
Little Eleanor, when asked if she liked beans, replied As one o f them said, “ W e’re not here a I ’d bullet
He put it away in a
in a very small tree about a because he was afraid of losing it.
because w e’re here ; w e’re here because
“ Yes, I like beans— J like all kind of beans— green beans, It’s where we belong and where we foot from him. He scampered out of good place, and theu took out his big heavy knife and cut
Want to be.” The training they re sight like a frightened puppy. I often some tobacco for his pipe. Although M ajo r Dough knew
navy beans and human beiu’s.”
ceived in the United States worked wonder if he or anyone else knows
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that he is living in the shadow of little about anything except the cattle business, he took
wondeas in them.
ST R A N G E , B U T P O S S IB L Y T R U E
In a little village a handsome young death. Maybe the Germans figure they some stock in the new bank and was made a director. A l
ster In a private’s uniform suluted learn something from it.* However,
(Society Editor, Topeka Journal.)
most before he knew it his wife and daughters had him
with the grace and snap o f a trained you’ll never catch me killing that kid.”
A news item came into this office this morning mention regular.
wearing
a black hat that was much smaller than the white
Negroes
Furnish
Much
Humor.
H e had the look o f the sol
ing a woman who had six children all married and alive.
dier In every line.
Humor gleams frequently through one he still kept handy to wear to the ranch. But even a f
“ Where are you from ?" I asked.
the grimness o f war and much of it
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H is wife
H e nnmed a small city In the North- comes from the negro soldiers from ter getting the new hat he kept the big knife.
T. B O N E G E T S P T O M A I N E O U T O N T H E T I N
west.
•the United States. A particularly dark was humiliated when he took out the knife in the presence
Bone Rayer lias bad cold, which he says is ptomaine
"W ere you ever a soldier before?"
skinned private was overhauled re of company, and the grown daughter wouldn’t have her
“ No, sir,” he said, smiling. “ I never cently by a military policeman. It was
poison brought on by sitting in his tin motor car with the
did anything before hut spend father’s on a country road anti the soldier was beau see it for anything in the world. But M ajor Dough
top up.
money and get arrested for speeding.”
ambling along with his military outfit has a small knife now. It isn’t real small, but is so much
“ Are yr.ii glad to be here?”
as well as about 150 pounds o f sou-
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smaller than the old one that the wife and daughters are
“ I wouldn’t he anywhere else fo r j venirs o f France.
L A T E S T STO RY FROM T H E TR ENCH ES
His big knife is kept in the kitchen, and while
anything in the world."
“ Where are you from?’ asked the po satisfied.
A n American hero who had killed a dozen Huns with
Seated In front o f a small house, a liceman.
he never carries it he sometimes looks at it and thinks of
“ Me, sah? Tse from Alabama.”
the hack side of his wrist was pointed out to a young wrinkled woman on one side, an aged
the good old days.
“ Whereabouts in Alabama?”
man on the other and two wee chil
French girl. She rushed up to him and cried, “ Oh, let me dren playing on the ground In front o f
“ Don’t know, sah, exactly, but Tse
kiss the hand that killed those Bodies.” “ Y o u ’re sure a him, I saw another young man who from Alabama.”
Current Press Comment
“ Where you going to?”
chump,” said his trench mate later. “ W h y didn’t you would attract attention anywhere. As
“ Well, I don’t ’xactly know, sah.”
the officer who accompanied me ap
tell her you bit them to death.”
“ Where you coming from?”
proached the young man Jumped to his
A Missouri farmer who didn’t use smoked glasses when
“ The last place I ’member, sah, ’s
feet, snapped his heels together and
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he
looked at the recent solar eclipse is using them now.—
saluted as if militarism was in his Barleybuck. Seems to me the train I
A P A T R IO T IC D I T T Y I N O N E S H O R T S P A S M
marrow. He said he came from a was on went while I's buying a few St. Louis Republic.
(Detroit Free Press.)
small town In the middle West. I things to tnke back when I go.”
K ing George has eaten buckwheat eakes and seen a
“ Do you know where you ure?”
asked him about his affairs before he
A patriotic arm I own,
ball
game already. W e Americans will have him asking
Joined the artny,
“ Can’t ’xactly say I do. sah (looking
Siiid Jabez, spitting;
“ I was In the lumber business,” the around with the feigned erudition of for root beer on his ice cream before this w ar is over.—
private rejoined. “ I was getting along an astronomer), but I reckon I ’se some- Kansas City Star.
I fractured it and now the bone
pretty well— have n w ife and two chil where In France.'
Is knitting.
The effort of the esteemed New Orleans Times-Pica-
The negroes amuse the French peo
dren about like these here (pointing
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to the two near his feet), hut even I f 1 ple. The big black hoys swing along vune to affix the name of “ B uddy” to the American sold
knew my business was going to ruin I the country roads singing or smiling.
M E L ’S M E L A N C H O L Y M O O D C O M P L E T E
wouldn't go hnck If they’d let me. Tm They frequently organize a quartet Ip ier in France is comparable only to the task of nailing an
(B v Mcl Moody, Himself.)
here to stick It out to the finish and a camion and If the work in which they icicle to a hot plank.— New Orleans States.
Synopsis: This is the saddest story ever told of silver you’ll find all the hoys the same way.” are engaged isn’t vitally important stop
Senator Brandegee says that women do not need the
The spirit o f all Is. as this young beside a road to “ put over" a few di
threads among the gold.
ballot
to take their proper position in this country, hold
minished
sevenths,
better
known
as
denier said. Identical. The men
Chapter I: By jinks, it sometimes makes me sore to lumber
are here to fight for France and demo barber shops. And they know how to ing that they are already the “ queen bees” of the"United
find my lialyeon days are done; the girls don’t look at me cracy. They understand exactly what do It. They are happy-go-lucky wher
States. The idea, however, appears to he that a queen bee
the Issues are. They understand pre ever found.
no more, but smile on boys of 21. The End.
is not satisfied if she is only allowed to bu zz— Santa Fe
cisely why the United States came In
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to the war and they will he disappoint
N
ew Mexican.
BAN ON LOAFING
ed If peace cornea before every allied
P A S S IN G A G Q O P T H I N G A L O N G
aim has been achieved.
(Farm . Stock Bulletin.)
Ord«rs Against It Issued to the Peace
Among the first ten thousand N a
Officers.
C. F. M iller of Beebe has been in Miles City for some tional army men who came here to fill
Loafers will no longer find Wabash,
In
various
units
may
he
found
men
rep
time receiving medical attention, lb ' has purchased some
Ind., a haven fo r them, tinder orders
prairie dog poison from the farm bureau office and is resentative o f every branch o f citizen Issued recently by Sheriff Vrooman to
ship. I saw motonnen. farmers, bank every peace officer In the county. They
recommending it very highly.
clerks, architects, lawyers, manufac
provide fo r the arrest and sentence
turers, brokers, commission men. car
o f every man or boy In the county,
penters— In fact, everything. There
now out o f school, who does not work.
A N H O N E S T * A D V E R T IS E R
A Successful Business Career of
were men with names suggestive of
The public In general is asked to
(A d in Clinton. Iowa, paper.)
every nationality In the world.
Twenty-Five Years
help prevent loafing during the war
Theae particular soldiers ere In
with Germany and Austria, and Is ask
northeastern France, where they are
ed to co-operate with the offlelala
W e have on hand a good supply of
going through Intensive training to
h.v telling them whenever a loafer Is
equip
themselves
for
the
front
line.
used Fords at reasonable prices. They
found.
The sheriff promises to see
8niperg In the Trenches.
won’t last long.
that the men either go to Jail or to
Far off there was a slight movement
the state farm.
\. Daebler, Ford Dealer.
close to the ground. T w o snipers were
watching.
Tough to Bo Bumped.
“ Go on shoot,” said one.
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“The war Is producing a slang all
"It’s your turn," said the other.
H. Hirschberg, Pres.
D. W . Sears, V. P.
Its own." writes a Y. M. C. A. secre
W O M A N ’S C O M F O R T H O U R
There was a snap of the trigger.
“Ton binged him all right—that's tary overseas. “In England, for ex
W . S. Kurre, Cashier
(S p o rt’s Cousin.)
ample. when you hear that a ship was
three In two days."
W . H. W alk er
I. A. Allen
0. D. Butler
W hen n woman wants to he really comfortable she kicks
Perhaps this salplng might technl- ■bumped’ yon know It waa torpedoed."
C L Y D E T. ECKER, Editor.
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