The Oregon daily journal., February 02, 1919, Page 21, Image 21

THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, . SUNDAY s iMORNINGPEBRUARY 2, 1013.
BOOTH- AMERICA IN.-:
NEED OF E SYMPATHY
COLONEL BDSCHKE'S
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Student of Affsirs'In South Says
Business .in Latin Republics
Needs Frills and Knowledge.
UNGUAGE IS ONE ESSENTIAL
War Helps Remove Suspicion
"That: Monroe , Doctrine Was
" Selfish Move on Part of U. S.
Br Sterling. Hellls
HPOURS, France, Capital of the S. O
. 8. It vai in the smoking room of
the Officers' club of the Hotel Metropole,
Tours. A- rather illustrious crowd, not
entirely military shipping, banking- and
senatorial 'visitors were present listened
to this talk of an 'American engineer,
half of whose achievements have been
done in South America.
J made these notes and use them now,
with his permission, The motive is pa
triotisma contribution to the solution
of the Jatin-American trade problem.
It was the engineer, Guy Boschke, one
of those Americans who,, before the war,
went, silent and doing, on great enter
prises, "precluded by the facts from tell
ing others how to do it. At borne, .his
name is connected with the sea-wall at
Galveston and similar harbor works on
the California coast. The Boschkes are
a pure American family, of long-back
Polish stock, the father, of Civil war
fame, having been a well known - engi
neer himself, long associated with Wash
ington city and New York harbor.
Donates His Invention
. realized the Interest of his informa
tion from talk In the S. O. S. The S. O.
S. s that vast area of France where we
have flung our telephone-telegraph and
railroad lines and built up .factory-warehouse
cities and depots. General Har-
'.Dora. wno commands n, ruies over z.uuu,
000 Americans. Among them, running
the machinery of giants, are giants of
business, industry aod engineering who
took officers commissions out of pa
triotism. Europe thinks that she has
seen the might of America : she would
have seen it, had the war continued !
Today, Guy Boschke is a colonel of en
gineers, A. E. F. The Boschke flying
crane, devised for A. E. F. needs in
French ports, is in the air from Mar-
seilles to Brest. He made a gift of his
patents to Uncle Sara. All in that crowd
at the Metropole knew, more or less,
what he had done in South America.
So they listened attentively.
American Commerce
"Peru." said Colonel Boschke, "has
been described as a beggar sitting on a
pile of gold. It is the fact. Chile, I
w6uld compare to a man sitting, out in
'a beautifulllear stream with a cup In his
hand, imploring someone on the bank
. to go and get him a drink of water."
Why "are not Americans better es
tablished' commercially in such coun
tries? He postulates two principles :
(1) In addition to having something
to sell to peoples in such a situation, we
must see to it that, they have the money
with which to buy from us. This is no
Joke, but plain business.
(2) Latin-Americans do business on
their, friendships and social prejudices,
more than any others in the world.
. Sociability Is Valuable
' "A German comes along selling shoes,"
said the colonel. "His merchandise is
not very good ; but he has made a friend
pf a merchant, say. up in Lima ; and he
speaks the language. Now, on arriving,
he does not rush into that man's place,
open his sample case, and tell what fine
shoes he has. He stays around with the
mouth about shoes. He takes aa inter
est in the Lima merchant's news, views,
family, local subjects, politics and busi
nessJust falls' into the current, in a
peaceful, - social way ; and he lets- the
I ..atin-American get ready to talk busi
. n ess In- his own good time and own sweet
way and finally unloads a Vast stock
on him.
"Whereas, an American is apt to blow
Into town In the morning, and get right
fn the Job with sample cases and an in
terpreter. He does not speak the lan
guage ; but he tlls through the inter
preter that he has a better shoe than
anybody In, the world (and probably he
has), shows samples to prove it, and tries
to nail an order then and there. "The
Lima man is not used! to doing .business
in that way. He is upset, annoyed and
offended and the American does not .get
the order."
Business 2?eeds Frills
American business needs more f rills.
This is no joke either, but a profound
"American goods have not had. 'half a
chance in South America because of the
methods of so- many American represen
tatives," said this American engineer,
who calls St. Iago. capital of Chill, a ter
restrial and business paradise. "They
have not been polite, slmpatico, so that
Mr. Latin-American - merchant is liable
;o take an interior and secret dislike.
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just a line
to thank vou f or
and your wonderful medicine.
I had a very bad attack of bronchial .
trouble last winter.
I would cough and raise mucous every
five minutes and at night I got na
peaceful sleep. . 7; ;
Decided to try essence Mentho-Laxene
and proud to say in two weeks
.was entirely, well.' T , t .
-Netet The above Quotation from letter written by Mrs.
Emma Conway, 80 B. 64th St.. New York City, to a prominent
physician. Is only brief evidence of the great virtues which
anyone will find In using the concentrated essence Meathe
Xew to abort colds and coughs and te relieve and overcome
the chronic effects of neglected colds. Contains no opiates and
Is now used by a million families who "swear by it- Tali
directions and formula with each bottle. ;
Seld by drsggiats everywhere.
.... Colonel OSosckk Known Here
- Colonel Guy ; Boschke, in France
with the U. S. engineers, 'and the cen
tral figure of " the accompanying-article,
written for The Sunday Jour
nal by" Sterling Heilig, is well known
in Portland, where he- resided, for
several years while engaged In en
gineering work.
prior to coming to Portland Colonel
Buschke .had engaged in engineering
work- bl ithe east and south, among
his undertakings being the construc
tion ot the Galveston Jetty. He left
Portland several years ago for San
Francisco from where be removed to
the west coast of South America.
His stay on that continent enabled
him to get a general insight Into bus
iness conditions and trade opportun
ities. America's entrance into the
war, brought him a commission In
.the army engineering corps and an
alignment to duty in France.
The American does not always show that
regard -which he deems to be due to his
social and national Institutions. He
ought to take interest in them, register
sympathy and admiration. He ought not
to shove business ahead, of all else. There
is prejudiced against doing business with
'greedy' hustlers. I have seen hundreds
of cases where American business was
lost .because the native merchant was
not properly approached. Germans, Eng
lish, Belgians, Spanish and French, all
train their salesmen. Men are never
sent out. unless they Bpeak the lan
guage." - Spanish Is Essential
, "Of course," said everybody, "the lan
guage !"
"It is essential, almost, yet there is
that other fundamental, which I men
tioned at the start. Before we can eje
pect to do our proper share of business
with these peoples, we must meet them
in their . need of some sort of financial
facility. ' Before the war, they argued ::
'Why should we buy American rolling-
stock, when it is the English, French,
Belgians or Germans who furnish -us the
money to build our railroads? Our loans
are made in Europe. Europe takes care
of our financial requirements.'. Even so,
now, when America 'may be holding
much (who knows how much?) of those
loans, the South Americans scarcely re
alize the fact; I think that it is coming.
If American business is to get firm
foothold in South America, we must be
come effectively the bankers of those
countries to a large extent enough to
facilitate the business which we propose
to do."
It was recognized mildly, in the" last
few years, by the National City bank of
New York, in their efforts to establish
branches down there. But there, too, the
slmpatico came in. -
We Most Hare Confidence
"I attended a meeting at St. Iago in
1915," he said, "in whjch the representa
tive of the National City bank addressed
the Chamber of Commerce of St. Iago.
His object was to notify them of the
bank's intention to do business in their
country and to help them along; and
the thing that killed all enthusiasm was
the line of Ideas expressed. "We have
decided to open a branch, here, with
11,000,000 cash deposit," he said. "What
security will the Chilean government
give our bank for this amount deposited
here in bank?" Can you imagine a sane
man making such a proposition? One
of the Chileans said : 'Dear, sir, when a
bank does business in' this country, or In
your country, it gives the government
a guarantee of its Jntegrity. They felt
it to be a slap in their face. American
lack of confidence when doing business
with those people, down there, is some
thing that must be overcome, or we
shall never get the footing we merit.
What must Americans do? .
Want What They Order
"In & large way, we must furnish them
with the funds to develop the resource's
of their country ; and we mufet give them
a certain line of credit, equal to that
given by other nations. And we must
gain their respect and friendship by per
sonal efforts on the part of individuals
doing business down there."
They will not do business with men
they do not like.
"If the Latin-American has a personal
dislike, you can offer him a better arti
cle for less money, yet he will not take
it," said the colonel. "Manji. people do
not believe this. I know it to be gener
ally true. I know, also, that in many
cases a native merchant gives an order
for goods and Is required to pay the total
amount of the consignment before per
mitting to be loaded in New York.
"Now, If he loses the use of that money
for at least 60 days while the merchan
dise is in transit, he also risks that when
the goods are received, he may, find them
damaged, or (as lias often happened),
what he has bought and paid for turn
out to be not what the sample indicated
or the salesman undertook to deliver.
This is a fact. - Many times. It may be a
better article but not the thing which
the native merchant ordered and
wanted."
It's another place "where we get in bad.
"The native merchant said to the sales
man : 'We want cotton cloth with three
inch wide stripes of red and yellow.' The
American answered: 'You do not want
that It is not the kind we make. We
will send you better prints than that,
more up-to-date.' And he tries to in
duce the local merchant to buy where
as the latter knows what natives want
and what he can sell to them- This is
why the French have never been so
successful, oown there, as the Germans.
The French are artistic' They will not
make theso things. They say: We do
not want the business.'
Germans Kob Latins
"The French sell them Parisian gowns
and articles de Paris, because the well-to-da
want them ; but tfiey will not fur
nish 'this cloth of general commerce and
50 other manufactured staples of Latin-
vour advice
MEN of Oregon country who answered the call to colors: (1)- Charles M. "Ross with 363rd infantry at Argonne and later in Belgium. ' (2) Glen Trussell on the- hospital ship "Comfort."
(3) -Nathan Hi Hiatt, who was promoted from private to first lieutenant in two months. (4)'' Simon Zwald, 306th infantry intelligence department, 6n the front three months." 5) Wagoner
. Patrick Ieegan, -with Twentieth engineers, returning to the United States. (6) Private A. F. Ellison, at the front? with field artillery, t (7) Fred A. Zahn, with the "fighting bunch of fools"
of the Seventy-seventh New York division. - 8-Ji I vorson, who was gassed and wounded atArgonne and has returned to Portland. (9) Private William Butler,- of Camp Meade, Md, (10) .Private
R-W. Beck, at the front with the Sixth division., 11) Nathan H. Hiatt, transferred from the jriarines to,army.s (J2. Ralph Stoneman Ivey, who is now in Luxemburg., , f
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American purchase. The Germans will
make and sell them anything. They
study native interests. They sell them
an Inferior article for a good price and
rob them..
The American does not do that, nor
the English, Belgian, french or Spanish ;
but we must remember that people live,
down there, tinder completely different
conditions from those in the United
'States, and all ideas are different. You
must educate them to modern methods
slowly."
He talked, once, to an old fellow
ploughing a field with a wooden plough
and wooden mould-board. "A steel plough
would give better i results, with - less
labor," said the American engineer, at
that moment building great docks in the
nearby harbor. Could you guess the na
tive's answer. "A steel plough," said the
old buzzard, "would make the ground so
cold that nothing would grow."
Have Confidence In 17. S.
It does not prevent selling steel
ploughs. They have been sold In quan
tity. All is in the representing. The
mass of Intelligent people, down there
have such a great desire to develop their
resources and such confidence in Ameri
can practical ability that they have tried
to welcome us, again and again. And
we . .
We have abused their hospitality. v.
"Yes," he continued. "On the other
hand, I think that all our financial in
vestments, down there, have been easily
profitable. So far as I know, your' life
and property are as well protected there
as anywhere. There are some very large
American interests in South America,
especially In Chile and Peru."
"Such Americans, I suppose, have
known how to get, on with the natives',"
observed someone.!
"Not always. They have taken ad
vantage of the natives, in many cases ;
but the desire of these people to improve
their conditions is so great ' that they
are willing to be imposed on, to a certain
extent, in order to get the assistance
they need.
"Suppose that the United States had
never been able to secure the- financial
means to develop its railroads, mines
and all sorts of Industries, how could we
possibly have become the tremendous
purchaser and . producer we are today !
Now, you can apply that to South
America."
"Did we get so much of our develop
ment iffirids from abroad?" mused some
body. "Of course, we did."
"When this war began," replied
Boschke, If the Stock Exchange had not
closed, we had gone bankrupt; because
they were going to dump 'on the market
the tremendous amount of American se
curities held by Europe; and prices
would have gone by the board. A mor
atorium was declared. Now that we
have the colossal capital which has been
flowing in to the United States from four
years ef war purchases. South America
offers every advantage for ; the invest
ment of as much of it as we please."
War Remove Suspicion
A good result f the war will be to re
move the suspicion which prevailed
throughout South America that the Mon
roe Doctrine was a selfish motive of the
United States, to keep foreign nations
hway from touth America, so that in our
own good time we might go down there
ai:d annex everything.
"Many intelligent men in South Amer
ica have believed it." said the colonel,
"and still believe it; but this war will
have cleared It up. When it coes home
o them that the United States entered
the war expressly to make the world a
safe place for weak and small nations,
without danger from strong and aggres
sive ones, it will have a grand effect on
the purposes of the Monroe Doctrine.
German propaganda fostered the false
idea. , German cgents, for years, were
whispering that the United States In
tended to annex. Now that South Amer
ica knows better, we have a grand role
to play, a grand 'reputation to live up to.
With patience (and it is worth It), we
ought to become their bl friend, in
wbom they have entire confidence, and
the big department .store in which they
come to bujf everything they need."
FOUGHT IN REVOLUTION
1
Ex-Deputy Marshal ' Cauthorn Finds
Interesting Family History.
Frank B.) Cauthorn. former chief dep
uty marshal for Oregon under United
States Marshal George F. Alexander, in
writing from Camp Lee, Va., to his pa
rents, Mr. knd Mrs. A. W. Cauthorn of
Portland, bays that the boys In the
army are 'merely "marking time" and
longing for the day when they will be
discharged.
The Eighth division, to which Mr.
Cauthorn is attached, was on the verge
of Bailing from Camp Mills when the
armistice was signed. This took all
the "pep" out of the boys and drilling
has been Irksome ever since.
Mr. Cauthorn has visited many places
of historical interest ! In Virginia and
located some of the Virginia relatives
of his family, which is one of the pio
neer families of Oregon, and has seen
a family tree book published a few years
ago showing' that" he came of. Revolu
tionary stock and that his first ancestor
In America was a Richard Cauthorn,
who lived in Essex county. Virginia, In
1681. and who was a son of a Richard
Cauthorn, a merchant tailor ef London.
The following quaint preface of an
arithmetic published by Richard Cau
thorn in 1778, a several ; times great
grandfather (the first arithmetic ever
used as a textbook in the South), is one
of the items of. Interest, that . he noted:
"Having, f or s. many years' te ached
school in this county and thereby gained
some experience, X think. It my, doty (as
I intend to discontinue it) to draw a
small treatise on ariUirrietick, both vulgar
and decimal, for, the instruction ot my
own children; . or , others.' and . likewise
useful to those concerned ta . Merchan
dising; and have done my, endeavor
not only to digest them into a proper
method, but have collected the best
authors already extant, and supplying
the rest out of such observations of my
own - as have occurred to - me In above
20 years' practice. I have taken a great
deal of 'care as to Inform-and Improve
the meanest capacity and least knowing
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SOME: iOEz BOYS WHO HELPED FIGHT AND
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Officers Not Hit By Shell
Glen Trussell, pharmacist's mate
aboard the hospital .snip "Comfort,"
which has been carrying wounded men
home from France, has, the distinction of
being the descendant of one of the min
ute men at Valley FCrge. He was a stu
dent at Washington State college at
Pullman when he enlisted and since that
time has made several trips across the
Atlantic on the U. S. S. Comfort and
writes his mother from France in part as
follows :
"We have 12 patients in our officers'
ward now,- nine men and three women.
One of them is a lu"cky man, a captain of
Infantry and about 24 years old. He and
his lieutenants and three or four other
officers were all hit-by the same shell.
They were walking up a street in a lit
tle town back of the front In Belgium
when the best regards from, Fritz ar
rived. All but my captain friend went
west in that explosion. .He bears the
scars of 19 wounds, all received the same
time by the one shell.
"We are now enjoying the storm we
missed last month. When drawers de
liberately slide out of their racks and
squat cushioned chairs topple over some
thing must be stirring. At times we
have gone over nearly 20 degrees ; then
you grab the nearest thing and wonder
when she is coming up for air.
At the Aeores. January 11, the boys got
hold of some Portugese cognac and got
nicely drunk. It was "fighting whiskey,"
like that described by the Irishman who
said, "Bedad, 'tis the kind that made the
mouse come out of his hole and ask
Where in hell is that damn catr "
When we were In France last we vis
In number, and to entertain those of a
more happy genius and advanced In
arlthmetick. I shall add nothing fur
ther at this time, only I freely submit
my performance to the censure of proper
judges such as have skill and candor
enough to JuMge aright. What the ma
licious say concerning It I regard not,
but If any who are better qualified
Should find fault, I willingly acquiesce,
and should take it as a great favour if
they would give themselves trouble to
correct it-
Captain Charles M. Ross, who Is a vet
eran of the Spanish-American war, and
who resides at 6230 Forty-fourth street
southeast, writes hiswife from Belgium,
where he has been In service with the
Three Hundred Sixty-third Infantry.
Ninety-first division. This regiment went
through the' battle of the Argonne and
later was on the front in Belgium under
direct command of the King of Belgium.
His letter follows in part: , k
"Starting at Langres. we went to Iss-sur-tille,
thence to Dijon and back to
Clermont. Later- I joined my company
after an experience in the hospital at
the Bols de Chippy and marched back to
Lalmont. From there to Revigny. where
we entrained for the Flanders front, de
training near Ypres. We finally arrived
near Oosroostbeke and. later went over
the top for the second time. From there
we fought our way to Audenarde, where
we were held at the river. We went
back to,Paandres for a couple of days
and then returned to Audenarde and
went after fhe Hun again and got aa far
as Mater and ' Elst when the armistice,
was signed. We were in battle forma
tion and the attack order had gone out
.when word came to hold the attack until
further orders. So we were on the very
front when the war ended.
"We were with the First American
army in the Argonne and In the French
corps In the -army of : Flanders, wnlch
was under direct command of the King
of Belgium. We have citations both in
the American and ' French, armies. It
has been a wonderful trip,' the big show
that one comes through all right, and
NO MORE HUN
m fc ii m mr-aiu)W.miii 'l'w:s
Edwin W, Jaekso?x and motor truck in which he Is transporting ammu
., nitloa from sector around Beaumont Ardennes.
-Private Edwin ,W. Jackson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. A. -Jackson of 170 ;"VTsta avr
enue, is in France with motor truck com
pany i5,. where they are now engaged, in
salvaging and hauling ammunition from
that sector which lies around -Beaumont
Ardennes. In- his - letter- to his parents
he writes:
We ( have stopped hauling- German
shells from here now as a good many of
them were timed and have gone off. A
big ammunition dump blew up near here
some time agoy the explosion caused' by
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ited an old castle, which, was begun by
fished by the French king. Louis XIV.
The queer old. ways, customs of dress
and styles of architecture was quite
what 1 had expected, but I was not pre
pared for the crooked, narrow, cobble
paved streets and tall stone houses with
tiny, dingy shops and parks in the most
unexpected places and two dinky trol
ley lines. - The wooden shoes and the too
evident signs of poverty and hard times
give me the shivers. Nearly every one
is in mourning and the streets are full
of French soldiers, crippled or wounded,
many decorated with crosses for brav-
fipv Tfi afA flva nf wHsi mam
I around together. One splaks French like
a native and the four gawk and grin fool
ishly. We call ourselves "le -clng mous
quieters," the five musketeers from the
book of Alexander Dumas. The lad who
speaks for us we call "le compte," and
the rest are named accordingly.
The navy department issued an order
saying that all who were in school up
to or -at the time of enlisting and who
wished to return could make application
for discharge. So many put in that the
order was amended. Now all branches
except the special ones (I'm in a bloom In'
special) could do so but must produce
affidavits that they were in school and
intended to return. That is, affidavits
from the school and parents, if you were
not of age. Seesto? Then for the special
branches 20 per cent were to be dis
charged in lots -of 5 per cent beginning
January 1 and occuring thereafter on
February 1, March 1, April 1 and no
more. This was due to the scarcity' and
need of the men in those branches.
never regrets seeing. One thing "is sure,
all the men of our division saw the real
fighting before they went west.
"Captain Worshom, as I understand it,'
got into a town and sent back word that
he was there with two machine funs
under very heavy fire but intended hold
ing it 'till hell froze over.' He is still
there somewhere, poor fellow.
"H company was fortunate in regard
to officers, .but not so as to men. Lieu
tenant Yantes was wounded twice, but is
well on the road to recovery. Welsh,
Yantes and Estes were the only officers
with the company and earned the admir
ation of all. The men swear by all of
them. H company did fine work, and
was especially . commended. Captain
Welsh Is pleased as three of his lieuten
ants have been made captains. :
Tea
Writing from France, Private R. W.
Beck, with headquarters Sixth division
intelligence section, who Is a irdther
of Mrs. Robert Lines of this city, gives
a description of his experience in trav
eling about through France in a truck.
Private Beck was In active service at
the front with the 318th engineers and
was later transferred to the headquar
ters company. He writes in part :
"What a mad rush I have been in
the last two weeks. We move every
minute, no sleep, riding in trucks all
the time, and the eats are poor. The
Heinies went so fast for a while we
couldn't catch up with them at first,
but you can never know what a truck
ride In this country is. The roads are
mined, torn up by travel and shells,
wires are stretched across, the road and
bodies of men and horses have been
strewn along here along with piles of
German shells. .We used to travel this
kind of a. road at night without even
daring to light a match. You can imag
ine how 20 or 30 men enjoy a; ride all
night long like this, with trucks piled
high with office equipment and per
sonal truck. At times we went like
this .for a week and had no sleep till
we came to a dirty, muddy barn or
a lousy shed. Believe me, I have prayed
more during some of these trips than
SHELLS HAULED
one of these time bombs. Everyone who
was anywhere near it was gassed. When
we first came up 'here there were' shells
lying all around in the road and on both
sides. The Germans used a narrow gauge
railroad to haul their supplies up here
and the United States engineers are now
using It to haul their stuff away.:
The president went through this sec
tor about & week ago, passing Just below
here, but we didn't see him; We haven't
many comforts, here, baths are' scarce
and .we're almost discouraged about get
ting home oeiore ine ourin or July.
AYIN . WAR AGAINST GERMAN -C MILITARISM-.
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f '" "" ""J St.wViSSW-ii'.i"!!-; ' n twt im .mi'
I ever did under shell fire or air raids.
"But it was soft nothing in com
parison to what the doughboys had to
do. They put heavy packs on their
backs and hiked instead of riding, un
der these same conditions.
"I visited one of the towns which had
just been the scene of a famous battle.
It was certainly a grewsome sight. The
brave heroes of the battle had died,
many of them with their hands on their
guns, fighting ; others had died reading
their Bibles or letters from- sweethearts
were still clenched in their hands. - I
shave seen hard men look at these let
ters and turn away, their voices choked
and tears in their eyes."
Is l"l
Fred' A. Zahn. a young man. well
known in Portland, after spending sev
er weeks in the trenches is on his
way home. Although being in the serv
ice only seven months, he took part in
some of the most severe fighting of the
last month of the. war.
Writing to his brother, Erwin Zahn of
64 Shaver street, he tells of his thrill
ing experiences that took place In the
last days of the war. "No time for
writing. It's all . action over here," is
the way he tells his brother of how he
spends his spare time.'
"There is no spare time; all we do Is
to fight. From one fight we pass to
another; there Is no intermission held
between battles. AH we have time to
do outside of fighting is. to sleep once
in a while and grab a bite of food when
we have a chance."
Mr. Zahn, was in the trenches con
tinuously from September 26 to Novem
ber 9. and took part In the fighting
around Verdun.
Before shipping for France, Mr. Zahn
spent time in training at Camp Lewis,
Camp Kearney and Camp Mills. - Be
fore entering the army Mr. Zahn was
employed at Wadhams ft Co.
Mr.. Zahn Is attached to the Seventy
seventh New York division. The New
xoraers nave a reputation or being "a
fighting bunch , of fools," . writes Mr.
Zahn.
-Ralph Stoneman Ivey. -in service with
Battery E, , One Hundred , Forty-sixth
neia iLriuieryt ib on iub wax inio ur-i
many with the Army of Occupation. He
writes his parents in Portland as fol
lows: "I am now1 in Luxemburg, quartered
in a small town on the Moselle river. On
the other side is Germany. Six of us are
billeted In the home of a Luxemburg
family. We sleep in their living room
and the whole family comes in during
the evening and we- parlez-vous' with
them. All Luxemburgers speak French
and German and quite a few speak Eng
lish. This family is composed of the
mother and father, three small girls and
three older boys. They are very pleas
ant and. we enjoy them.
. "We went through Verdun, about 10
miles of No Man's Land, then through
the corner of Lorraine and stopped- at
Escb, which Is a mining town of 30,000
people. We stayed there for a day and a
half and were billeted in the Ecole d'ln
dustrie et Commerce, a large, modern
three story, school with -gas lights and
steam heat. ' There are about a dozen
large iron mines and smelters in and
about town. In fact, this whole country
is dotted with mines and the farms are
modern looking and well kept. From
there, we went through Luxemburg,
which is beautifully situated with a deep
valley around two sides. We will prob
ably leave here in a few days and go
to Coblenz. .We ' all feel we have seen
enough of these countries 1 and have no
more curiosity about war, so' none of us
will be satisfied until we get close enough
to read the address on our own door
steps." - , '
- P - ton .
Last Sunday evening J. Ivorson of 745
Syracuse street had the. happy "experi
ence of, opening his front door to find
before him his son. Jack Ivorson, who
had Just returned from service in France.
Yeung Ivorson enlisted In the national
guard At Vancouver about two years ago
and has been In service In different parts
of the United States until in the fall of
1917. he . was sent to Long Island and
"then to France, "arriving early in De
cember. Since that time he has been in
active service at the front with the
Twenty-eighth infantry. He had a part
in the Battle, of, the Marne, on the Plc
ardy front, - on the Somme ! and in : the
Argonne . forest, where he .was gassed
and wounded' by-a high explosive shell.
With , all his army career and his trying
experience he returns to. his home in
Portland - looking somewhat older , than
his 21- years,, but 'his eyes still wearing
the old familiar smile,
i .r ;!wm1mi
: "The second battle of the Marne was
our first engagement, known to the sol
diers as the Chateau-Thierry drive
writes Private A. F. Ellison, who went to
France" with." the- On Hundred Forty
sixtk field ' artillery; Battery B.' "The
next driye we had a part-in was the St
Mihlel drrve,"nowea. by those drives all
along the Meuse river, which were the
hardest of alL fsThe enemy paid dearly
for all our American hoys who gave their
lives for their country.
The last night of the war was the
most .dangerous one for me. ' In the
small 1 hours of the night we were 'ad
vancing, through a. valley after - coming
from the top' of a range of what we would
call hills in', the States, ,We stopped
outside of a town to wait until the enemy
had stopped throwlng shells near us.
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We finally passed through safely and
when we were about half a mile between
the trenches and the town, the Huns
started an awful spray of shells in front,
on either side and behind us.
"Five other men were on a truck with
me and they jstmped out and started for
a place of safety, if there could have been
such a thing, but I stayed. Looking
out of the truck all I could see was the
blackest night and a downpour of rain.
I called to -them bftt heard no one, the
only answer being a big explosion that
threw mud and pieces of projectile at the
truck till it shook so I thought the ex
plosion was underneath me, but on feel
ing round, found I was all whole" yet. I
thought of mother and' remembered that
she said she had prayed often for me,
and since . then I have thought that it
must have been mother's prayers that
saved me that night. . -,
"Now that the danger is over and no
fear of bombs howling through the air
carrying a thousand deaths with them. It
seems wonderful to go to sleep and know
that one will wake up in the morning,
safe and sound.
"I was never gassed very badly. It
just happened that I was too smart for
the Boche. I practiced a long time put
ting on my mask till I could do it in a
few seconds, but when I smelted gas at
the front. I could put it on in nothing
flat. Pretty uncomfortable and a hide
bus thing to wear but it sayed my life
and I went through it all with only one
slight wound, and as long as ' the Stars
and Stripes are our national emblem I
will fight for them and I am glad to say
that I offered my services to my coun
try." - - - . . . ' -
On the firing line three months, from
September 23 to the last day of the, fight
ing and as yet uninjured, is the record of
Private Simon Zwald, . who has been 'in
service with Company E, Three Hundred
Sixth Infantry, intelligence department
of ' Seventy-seventh division. Private
Zwald is one of the lucky ones to sur
vive the Argonne forest drive. In part
he writes:
"This job of chasing the Germans day
and night for weeks and months has
been some job. Alt we had time to do
was eat and hardly that at times. If we
crossed a cabbage field right there we
would stop for a quick meaL It was a
great life. I never in the world thought
I would live through it alL Well, now
that this war is over I don't t,hink I will
ever complain again.
"In our second drive we sure did go
some. Starting on October 31 we drove
the Huns so fast they couldn't get out of
our way. In one place I saw over a hun
dred head of horses that they bad shot
for no reason on earth. We passed just
one whole battery after' another. We
were surely going it In some places we
weren't 20 minutes behind them and got
a chance to drink their coffee still warm.
"Don't worry about me staying on this
side to grab off a French girl I'm sick
of the name France. They'd charge a
fellow for drinking water over here, seem
to soak us for everything. I am trying
to get a leave to go to Switzerland. My
lieutenant is a fine fellow and said He
would do everything to help me. It cer
tainly feels great tp be back here In this
new world where there are no shells
bouncing and no gas to be afraid of. But
I hope soon to be on my way to the good
old U. S. A." : ,
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In France with FOrtv-third company.
Thirtieth engineers, Waggoner Patrick
Keegan writes that they expect to arrive
in the States very" soon. ' He has been
stationed of late in Vagney, in the Vos
ges mountains, about. 20 miles south of
Eplnal, which js near the. Alsace border.
On Thanksgiving day her took the band
to a town in Alsace for a celebration In
honor of the return of Alsace to France.
He writes In part: ' i :
"We went through some of the country
where the Hun trenches bad been dur
ing the war. Everything was all shot up
and not a building was left standing
that was not full of shell holes. We spent
five days at a little town called Ribeau
ville, near Strasbourg. ' which : was all
decorated for the occasion. The people
bad never seen any American soldiers
and they certainly looked us over very
carefully. But ,'we. became well ac
quainted - with the people and they
treated us very well everywhere we went
We visited a castle where the kaiser had
registered May 23 when .the ' Huns occu
nied this territory." - '. . ' .
, Corporal LloydTodd has been In serv
if with the Foriv-elehth s artillerv In
France. He enlisted at . the ; time of
America's entrance into - the- war "Id
April, 117, and for 14 months was sta
tioned at Fort Canby, later being trans
ferred to a non-commissioned officer's
training camp at Camp Eustis, Virginia.
He sailed for France the latter part of
September. Corporal Todd ? first en
listed with the Twelfth company, coast
artillery, which later became known as
the Sixty-fifth artillery.- He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs, W. W Todd of Oswego,
and a brother of Mrs. Verl Fague, and
Mrs. Arva Underwood, whose1 husbands
are . both serving irf- the. United States
army.. . . '
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' Nathan H.' Hiatt son of W. F.' Hiatt
of this city; nas apparently acquired a.
commission since his enlistment and has
forgotten to mention : it In his letters
home, according to the last return ad
dress on a . post card received by h is
father. Young Hiatt enlisted July. 1917,
as a private in the marine corps. He went
to Fraace and. was Injured in the shoul
der, September 15, out was well enough
to Write his parents the next day. A
postal card received from him under. date
of November 28 said he had recovered
from his wound and expected to eat tur
key on Thanksgiving day. The mysterl
oua thing about this card was that its
return address was given as "Natham II.
Hiatt First Lieutenant U. 8. A." :
He wan formerly, with the Eighth com
pany, Fifth regiment U. S.- Marine con.
::, lei -A - .
Corporal E. C Hind man, who has
been In service in France with - Com
pany B, Fourth- engineers, went into the
front line with his company the middle
of July on the Vesle river near Chateau
Thierry, m After ; a month on that front
they were ' relieved .and sent back of
the lines to rest, after which they were
again sent to the front for the drive
near Met early in September. - On Sep
tember 26 they went over the top with
the infantry. Remaining on the front
until October 21, they were at last re
lieved and sent back to rest again. Cor
poral Hlndman received - only a slight
wound and .says that the doctors tried
to send him to a hospital but he man
aged to keep on the Job -and considers
himself very fortunate to haye escaped
without a serious Injury. '
' . - - Pa -
Glenn - Quiett discharged last week
at Camp Lewis, was visiting friends at
Reed - college : Friday. : Quiett enlisted
with the - Twenty-fourth machine gun
battalion at ' Camp Fremont,- Cal., last
summer, was later, transferred to Camp
Mills, N. Y., tried Camp Lee, Va., for
a while, and ended his military career
at Camp Lewis. ' Quiett displayed ra.
Journalistic talent while a .student at
Reed and he has accepted a position In
this line at Astoria. He will probably
return to continue his education at Reed
next semester. ' '
' I 'fc v.
Walter Butler; son of Mrs. W.' J., But
ler of Canary, Or., has been stationed at
Camp Meade, Md., during' his serylce.
During his stay there, he was fortunate
enough to be given leave during whleli
he was able to vtalf Washington. D. C,
with a group of other soldiers. He Is ex
pected home from Camp Meade at an
early date. v ' . - .'
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v Ivan Elder, Reed, 1918, has returned
to Portland after several months spent
In artillery officers' training camp at
Zachary Taylor, Ky.
Yet
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