TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT JULY 10, 1919. U.S. ESTEEM WON BY BRITISH ARMY style you can get it on the British ■ front," said the dissatisfied hotel guest. he told of his service there, Dispelling of American Prejudice its Greatest of Then the collapse of the Fifth British army under Gen. Gough in March, Work—Comradeship the Test. . 1918 and gave his explanatioi^f the I greatest defeat the British-army ever suffered. were patriotic enough to come were found to be all fight.’’ Ail the intelligent class and most of the ignorant class admitted the worth of the Colonials, the Scotch and the Irish. Those who would not were generally officers who had been demoted or transferred for In­ efficiency or were ignorant officers Interesting Article Written by Lieut. Moss E. Penn, who was or enlisted men. American Hotel Poor. One man came home praising the | The American officers’ hotel at Le with the Thirtieth Division. Mans was so poor that most of the Colonials and all the British army Without the British army Germany can understand the satisfying effect Americans went to the hotel De Paris except the English, but during the would have won the war before of jam. That was one of the (jrst of which was under private control. But conversation recalled a subaltern America saved it, but his majesty’s many points in favor of the British. if they went to Cala's they went to from London named Coleman and a expeditionary forces rendered their Their ration was better. the British officers’ dub, which pre­ major naired Boxer who,, he declar- greatest service to the empire by dis­ Americans had been told that Eng­ war tourists will remember as the ed, were tlip "finest fellows he ever met." Boxer was from up in Mid- pelling 100 years of ignorance, pre­ land was hiding behind her colonies. Grand Hotel. judice and misinformation in the Among the first things to be noticed Service at the officers’ club was lands. It developed that the Ameri­ minds of Americans when Britishers in the British army to which the furnished by the army service corps can's friendship had been won over and Americans met on the field of Thirtieth wm attached was the large of the British, It was smart and a sociable quart of Scotch. He knew battle. number of^pien wearing wound quick, just as was British service "on a number of real Englishmen who Little enough of the virtues of the stripes, the service chevrons worn parade,” just as it was in a front line were "good fellows”. But naturally English was said in America before showing three of four years army trench under all trials and in the they w’ere snobs and braggarts and bullies. He thought that because he the beginning of the war in 1914. life in France, the stories English face of all difficulties. From that time until the United veterans would tell of the death of The Royal Air Force which protec­ had not met them all, but he did not States entered the war in 1917 the brothers, cousins and other relatives. ted the Thirtieth division has been know from personal experience that thousands of German propagandists ' admitted by men in all armies to be he had met a lot of good Englishmen. England at War, However, he would not apply his own and anti-Brltishers denouncing the Not the colonies alone, but Eng- the-best in action on the western experience to the nation. He just English and the entente in general front. Old Fritz admitted it by stay ­ left nothing but the gullible skeptic land, London, Liverpool, Sussex, the ing on the ground, the best argument let the old prejudices stand, and de­ Midlands, the northern counties, clared his "jolly” English friends to doubt. The English were the chief were at war, and today they bear the in favor of the R. A. F. The times were exceptions. object of criticism because of the that the Huns appeared over the scars of war. Some Americans have come home popular prejudice against them. ' American lines in an air raid in day­ The following story told by an The public was told how England light can be counted on the fingers. denouncing the English because of was starving German women and American lieutenant is one of thou­ The number of times the R. A. F. of their exclusiveness. One Memphan sands which were true of the British took the air over the American lines came home and said the British ad­ children, told that England w'ould army during the last year. I "fight to the last Frenchman,” that can be counted by the days the mitted Americans were good fight- The lieutenant had borrowed an ers, “but socially they were ini pos- thirtieth division was at the front. she was hiding behind her colonies, ambulance and chauffeur from 'a British artillery .either English or sible.” When the Britisher made denouncing the villified. No nation British officer to get back to his bil- Australian, protected the American that statement he reflected two of in the history of man, except Ger­ let, 10 miles from Amiens. En route infantry throughout the campaigns the characteristics of his race, frank- many, *has beeh guilty of all the ■ his car passed a middle.aged British of the Thirtieth, No support could ness and bluntness. There ls no crimes which were charged to the ‘ officer walking along that beautiful have been better. doubt that many Americans who British. highway from Amiens to Albert. The went to France were impossible so­ But in machine gunnery the Brit- After two years of anti-British American stopped and' picked up the ish were supreme, Machine gunners cially. Any observer who has ever propaganda Americans by the thou- , Britisher. in the thirtieth division fought with counted the number of drunken sands were sent to reinforce the "Where are you going?” queried the British Vickers gun and accord­ American officers in any first.class British army, which, like the French the American. had withstood attacks more tremen­ • “I am going to Albert to see the ing to British tactics. Many machine cafe from Calais to Nice, heard the dous and hellish than were believed gra”e of my son,” he replied quietly gun officers were sent to American grammatical blunders made by ig­ schools after reaching France, but norant regular army sergeants who possible before the war began. j and with a lack of emotion which Few Americans were pleased with only a soldier can acquire. "He wa> they always returned to the British were given commissions and have the order that sent them to the Brit-1 killed at his gun in 1916 and I saw front and again took up British tac­ noted the activities of lieutenants ish front at the time the order was his grave after that time. I have not tics. First .because British tactics who made $100 a month for the first time when they got In the army, will received. Still fewer were pleased been there since the Huns were were adapted to the weapon and be­ realize that a lot of overseas officers with the orders that took them away puched back this summer, 1 am go- cause no one could ever find out from the British front after they ing up'today to see if they have vio- what instructors in American ma­ were "impossible” in a good many chine gun schools were attempting ways. The only trouble was that the had served a few months on British lated the grave.” British were so frank it hurt. to teach. rations, fighting according to Brit­ Then he went into detail about the The record made by the American The first test of British sentiment ish tactics and after learning some, death of his boy as the auto sped officers on leave will never add any thing of the British spirit and disci­ along between the two rows of state­ in the Thirtieth division came last September when the division was glory to the record of the A. E. F. pline. ly poplars which followed the ro id. ordered out of the Ypres sailent after Any American who went to France Sammy Meets Tommy. 1 After the boy had been killed this two months’ service. The division and came home without realizing When Sannny went to Tommy’s aid officer, like thousands of other Eng­ had been in or behind British lines any of the improvements we need to in Flanders he admitted, after over­ lish fathers, had "come out to France for two months. It had seen an ex­ make in ourselves is too narrow to be coming the prejudice which he bad on his majesty’s service.” ample of the bulldog tenacity of the improved by either travel or educa­ inherited from half a dozen genera­ England has not fought? On last Britisher in the ghastly salient in tion. tions, that Tommy was a "jolly good Nov. 11 she had one man out of every The returned soldier who could not Belgium where an army stood sur­ chap”. After traveling 3,000 miles three under the age of 60 years In rounded on three sides and fought realize after service with the British from home, suffering from the dis­ some kind of war work. If she has not to save a stragetic position but that our cousins have been slandered advantages of a foreign tongue, he not fought why did she stand on the to prevent a pile of brick, Ypres, for a century missed the light that had at last met a man with whom he same front for four years giving and shown for his comrades. from being captured. could talk, a man of similar ideas, a taking the most tremendous blows The world for years to come Is to Where are we going? Everybody t soldier with the same dream of vic­ recorded in the annals of war? asked. And nobody answered. There be predominated by the’ English- tory, though rather low in morale. : Has England not fought? I were repprts of Italy, of various sec­ speaking races. The British Expedi­ The average American pictures an Who defended Ypres? On whose tors on the American front. During tionary Force "performed its greatest Englishman as a monocled snob, a front were Cambrai, Lille and Amen- the summer many stories of priva­ service when it revealed the true boaster of ancestry and a braggart, tieres? Lens, Tournai, Peronne, the tion, of lack of rations and poor com­ greatness of the British character to There are some of them, but they, River Somme and the Hindenburg munications had reached the Thir­ the army from the republic of the thank heaven, are like that class of Rne shook under the thunder from tieth division from the American west, which will be a partner of im- Americans pictured just above—they British guns even before America front. mortable Britian In the upbuilding are getting fewer every day. had seIrt her victorious thousands of a worn-weary world, and which i Stay With British When the Thirtieth American di- lnt0 the great drive for victory, by custom, tradition, law, tongue So when the American front was vision went to the British front in The British empire sent 8,000,000 and blood is bound to the British announced as a probable destination June, 1918, they found themselves men to battle on seven battle fronts. empire for decades to come. hailed as the men who must save the Australia, with a smaller population there came a protest of “we don’t want to go there. We want to stay war. that the state of New York, and Can­ Notice of Sale of Real Property by “It is up to yot^.’’ That statement ada with her 10,000,000 or 12,000,- with the British.” Executrix. — | The anti British spirit of two was made by every British officer 00O, could not have furnished them. met from Paris to Ypres. Not much Ireland, pouting like a spoiled, child, months before, the schooling of the Notice Is hereby given, that the German propagandist, the native of a boastful spirit about that. would not furnish them. undersigned, as Executrix of the last prejudice was dying. The doughboy No one asked anyone who he was The bulk of the British army was will and testament of W. J. Clemens, back in the states, how much money English. Scotland bled herself white who had spent the summer at Ypres, deceased, in pursuance of. an order which was just around the corner his family had' or what college his but the Scotch are not numerous. of the Circuit Court of the State of father was graduated from. The What were at the front from Scot­ from hell, had learned one thing— Oregon, for the County of Multnom­ that the British would get the nmn British asked only one question— land made a record that but few ah sitting in Probate, which order "What do you know about fighting have equaled and none can ever sur­ in the front line something to eat, a was made and entered on the ¡Kith little pure water and even send him and can you fight?” They soon learn­ pass. But London sent a million, and day of June, 1919, will, on Friday, ed that the American could, and that Manchester, Birmingham and other his mail. the 25th day of July, 1919, at the iere'rcpresentedin I The Brltl « h are raB * te ” at keepinS fact pleased the British just as well English centers w____ _ __________ i up communications. Nothing means hour of ten (10:00) o’clock a.m. of as the Americans. equal proportions. so much to the man at the front, said day, at the oSfice of Clemens, Officers of the Thirtieth division No English institution reflects its nothing can more vitally effect the White & Colman, in room No. 200 argued by the hour over the good true characteristics more clearly in the Stevens building in the City and bad qualities of the British sol­ than the British army. It reveals fate of an army. A graveled high-’ of Portland, Multnomah County, way waj kept in perfect order at dier. When the Thirtieth first went English bluntness as many self-sat- Oregon, ahd thereafter until said to Flanders front the British had but isfied American lieutenants who Ypres up to the gates of the city, property be sold, offer for sale at though the last few miles were un ­ few friends. But gradually t