Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 12, 1918, Page 6

EX-GUNNER AND CHIEF PET - MEMBER OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE OFFICER-U:-S-NA CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSARD e WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE eens 1918 ty Rady and Brean Ca, Through Special Amangumare With the George Master Adams Servcg, ~ SYNOPSIS, CHAPTER I—Albert N. Depew, author tava atvlig’ Your yours: aud siteinieg ai he rank of ehiet petty officer, first-class rom the navy and he vith a determination to enlist. CHAPTER IlI—He joins the en gion and is Peal to the dreadnaught cassard where marksmanship wins aim high honors, CHAPTER IV—Depew is detached from “eeion te Fianders whe on nds egion to ers re he soon umeelf in the front line trenches. CHAPTER V—Hoe is detailed to the ar- illery and makes the acquaintance of the ‘75's", the wonderful ach guns that wave saved the day for the allies on many a battlefield. Before i any action, he 8 ordered to his regiment in the ront line trenches, CHAPTER Vi—Depew goes “over thi op” and “gets” his first German ina bay- met fight. R VII—His company takes part another raid gn the German trenches and shortly afterward assists in stopping & fierce charge of Huns, who are mowed down as they cross No Man's CHAPTER VIII-—Sent to Dixmude with es, Depew is caught in a Zeppelin but escapes unhurt. CHAPTER IX—He is shot through the chigh in a brush with the Germans and a sent to & hospital, where he quickly -ecovers, ‘ER X—Ordered back to sea duty, aeyoing the Cassard, which makes trips to the Dardanelles as a con- ‘The Cassard is almost battered to rleces by the ‘kish batteries. f CBAPTER XI—The Srett robe age part in ot engagemen 16 mnemor- able Gailipoit campaign, Sage ged Peay es a ing party which sees as my in the trenches, at Gallipoll. . CHAPTER XIII—After an unsuccessful trench raid, Depew tries to rescue two wounded men in No Man's Land, but both die before he can reach the trenches, CHAPTER XIV—Depew wins the Croix de Guerre for bravery in passing through & terrific artillery fre to summon aid to his comrades in an advanced post. CHAPTER XV—On his twelfth trip to the Dardanelles, he is wounded ina naval Rompltal at: Brest, hele Glscharged from a » he char; 7 service and sails for New ‘York on the steamer Georgic, and a half they untied me from the wire, and I keeled over on my back. They kicked me until I had to stand up, but I fell down again, and all the kicking in Germany could not have brought me to my feet. I was just all in. So they blew thelr whistles and the sentries in the barracks awakened two of the boys, who came and carried me in. All the time the sentries were yell- ing, “Gott strafe England!” and “schwelnhund!” until you would have thought they were in a battle. What their idea was I do not know. The boys had a little water in a can, and one of them tore off part of the sleeve of his undershirt. So they washed the gash and bandaged it. Believe me, I was glad when I could see again. I was so tired and worn out that I went to sleep at once, and did not wake up until they were giv- ing us our barley coffee next morn- ing. CHAPTER XIX. German Prison Camps. A few days after I had been lashed to the barbed wire fence some of the German officers came to the barracks, and one of them who spoke very good English said: “All of the neutruls who were on unarmed ships step out.” Only a few stepped out. Then he called for all the neutrals, and the Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Brazilians and Spaniards stepped out. But when I did, he said, “No, not Americans. Americans are not neu- tral. America supplies our enemies with food and ammunition.” He raised his fist, and I thought he was going to hit me, but instead he gave me a shove that caused me to fall and get a little cut on the head. Then the sentries pushed me over with the British and the French. After that they took the Norwegi- ans, Swedes and Danes to separate barracks, and gave them clothes and beds and the same rations as the Ger- man soldiers. When I saw this I made'a kick and said I was a neutral, too, and ought to get the same treat- ment as the Scandinavians. They took me to the officers again, kicked me about and swore at me, and the only answer I got was that America would suffer for all she had done for the al- lies. Then X was sent back to the bar- racks again. The next day at about one o'clock they took us from the barracks and drilled us through the swamps. The men began to fall one by one, some crying or swearing, but most of them . going along without a word. Those who went down were smashed in the ~ head with rifle butts or belts. Finally we arrived at a little rail- road station, and had to stand in the snow for over an hour while the en- gine ran up and down the tracks hook- ing on cars, When we finally got in the cars we were frozen stiff. I could hardly. ~of_the boys member of | simply could not move without intense pain. They loaded twelve men into each compartment, and detailed a guard of six men to each car. The windows in the cars were all smashed, and every- thing about the cars was dirty. Finally the train stopped at a town named Alt-Damm, and there was a mob of women and children around, as usual, ready for us with bricks and spit. They stoned us through the car windows, and laughed and jeered at us, but by this time we were so used to it that we did not mind much. Only, every now and then some_ fellow would get all he could stand, and elther talk back or make a pass at somebody. Then he would get his— either a bayonet through the arm or leg, or a crash on the head with # gun butt. After an elghteen hour ride, with- out food or drink, we arrived at Neu- strelitz, It was raining as we pulled in. As we went up the grade to the town we could see lights about a mile away, and we figured that that was the camp. The rain stopped and we. remained in the cars for some time. Then, after a while, we knew our new guards were coming; long before we could see them, we could hear the racket they made. Somehow a Ger- mai cannot do anything shipshape and neatly, but always has to have a lot of noise, and running around, and general confusion. Four-footed swine are more orderly in their habits than , the Huns. When they came up, we were roust- ed from the cars and drilled up the rond to the camp. When we got near the German barracks we were halted and counted again, and“made to stind there for at least an hour after they had finished counting us, shivering like leaves. At last they placed us in barracks, and those who could went to sleep. There were about forty barracks in the Limey group at Neustrelitz and two large Zeppelin sheds. The bar- racks were just about like those at : Swinemunde—at least, they were no better. Along the sides of the rooms were long shelves or benches, and every three feet were boards set in grooves, The shelves were what we had to sleep on, and: the boards in the grooves divided them up so that only a certain number of men could use each bench. The following morning’ we nearly dropped dead when the Huns pulled in a large wagon full of clothing. We thought we never would have any- thing to wear but our underclothes. They issued to each man a pair of trousers, thin model, a thin cont about like the seersucker coats some People wear in the summer, an over- coat about as warm as if it had been made of cigarette papers, a skull cap and a pair of shoes, which were a day’s labor to carry around. Not one of us received socks, shirts or under- wear. The toe was cut from the right shoe of the pair I received, and as my wounds were in the right thigh and my leg had stiffened up considerably and got very sore, I got pretty anx- | lous, because there was nothing but slush underfoct, and I was afraid I might lose my leg. So I thought that if I went to the commander and made a kick I might get a good shoe. I hesi- tated about it at first, but finally made up my mind and went to see him. I told him that it was slushy outside, and that the water ran through the hole in my shoe and made it bad for my whole leg, which was wounded. He examined the shoe, and looked at the open toe for some time, and I thought he was going to put up an argument, but would give in finally. Then he asked me whatI wanted. I thought that was plain enough to see, but'I sald just as easily as I could that I wanted a shoe without a hole in the toe. “So the water runs into it, does it?” he said. “Well, my advice to you Is to get a knife, cut a hole in the heel and let the water out,” All the other swine in the room laughed very loud at this, and I guess this Fritz thought he was a great comedian. But some- how or other, it did not strike me so funny that I just had to laugh, and I was able, after quite a struggle, to keep from even snickering. It was a harder struggle than that to keep from doing something else, though! Our meals were just about the same as at Swinemunde—the bread was just as muddy, the barley coffee just as rank, and the soup just as cab- bageless. The second morning after we had had our barley coffee, one of the sentries came to our barracks, which was number 7-B, and gave each of us an envelope and a sheet of writ- ing paper. Then he told us to write to uuyvody we wanted to, after which he chalked on the door in big letters: KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER and told us it was the return address, We were all surprised, and asked each other where we were, because we had thought we were in Neustrelltz. After Wile, We Tearfed tiat;it micins | “Prisoner-of-War-Camp.” At __first, | though, many: of us thought it was , the name of the town,/and we got to | calling it the Brewery, because the | name ended in lager. Whatever beer | was brewed there was not for us | though. Y I noticed that all the time he was writing the word and giving us the stationery, the sentry was laughing and haying a great time with his own ‘ Httle self, but I figured he was just acting Gerinan, and that nothing was important about it. We were all tickled to death to get a chance to let our people know where | we were, and each man thought a long time about what he would say and who he would write to, before he ever started to write. Each man wunt- He Chalked on the Door. | space he had, and we wanted to let our friends know how badly they were treating us without saying it in so mauy words, because we knew the Huns would censor the letters, and it would go hard with anyone who com- plained much. So most of the men sald they were having a great time and were treated very well, and spread It on so thick that their friends would figure they were lying because they had to, One fellow had an idea that was better than that, though. He had been in jail in Portsmouth, England, for three months, for beating up a con- stable, and he had had a pretty rough time. So he wrote a pal of his that he had been captured by the Ger- mans, but that everything was going along pretty well. In fact, he suid, the only other trip he had ever been on, where He had a better time, was the three months’ vacation he had spent in Portsmouth two years before, which he thought the friend would re- member, He’ said that trip ‘was’ bet- ter than this one, so the frienf could figure out for himself how pleasant this one was. Everybody thought this was @ great idea, buf unfortunately not all of us had been jin jail, so we could not all use it. Which was just as well, we thought, because the Ger- mans would be suspicious if all of us compared this vacation with others, A few of the men did not have any- body they could write to, and some did not know their friends’ addresses, so they would write letters to friends of the other mem, and sign it with the friend’s nickname. As soon as a man had finished his letter; he had to go out to the center of the camp, where they had built a raised platform. ‘There the sentries took the letters, and the men formed around the square. There were offi- cers on the platform reading the let- ters. We thought they read thém there in the open, before us, so that we would know they were not tamper- ing with the letters, and we thought the heaven would fall if they were getting so unkultured as that. Finally, all the men had finished their letters and turned'them over to the officers, who read them. And then we saw why the sentry laughed. The officers tore up every. one of the letters. They were anxious that we would see them do it, so none of us | would have any hope that our friends would get word. | But we said to ourselves that, if it | was information they wanted, they had as much as was good for them, which was none at all, because I do not think one letter in the bunch had a single word of truth in it. But we were all very angry and pretty low after that, because it showed the Huns still had plenty of kultur left, after all, and we knew there was rough sledding ahead of us, Also, some of the men were sore because they had wasted their time thinking up different ways of tip- ping their friends off to the real state of affairs, and dll for nothing. Why they should worry about time, I could not see. Time was the only thing we had plenty of, and I for one, thought we were going to have still more of it, Going buck to the barracks we tried to sing “Pack Up Your Troubles,” but there was not much pep in it. We were not downhearted, though; at least, we said we were not. | CRAPTER XX. Kultur—the Real Stuff. Neustrelitz was mainly for Russian prisoners, and there were neither Brit- ish nor French soldiers interned there —only sailors of the merchant marine such as the men I was with. The Russlans were given far worse treat- ment than any other prisoners. This was for two reasons, as near as I could make out. One was that the Russian would stand most anything, whereas the British and French could only be goaded to a certain point, and beyond that lay trouble. The other reason Was_that the Russians sent German | I was one, and drilled us over a field prisoners to BE so the Huns thought, -and Fritz hates the cold. . So, hating ;the Russians,, ant. reglizing that! they were used bee) ‘Ing under-dogs, Fritz picked. on them and bullied them in a way that qre- rest Sf us would not have stood. We would have riishéa them and gone west with bayonets first. The barracks were made of spruce, and were about ninety feet long and twenty-five feet, wide, and you can take it from me that as carpenters, | whoever made them. were fine farm- ers. ‘There were cracks in them that you cotld drive an automobile through, When we were there, each barracks had a stove in the center, a good stove and a big one, but at first it was of, no use to us, because the Germans would not give us coal or wood for it. But after shivering for a while, we be- gan ripping the boards out of the bar- | racks, and taking the dividing boards from the benches that we. used for beds. ie? Later, they gave each of us a mat-/| tress filled with wood shavings, and a | blanket that was about as warm as a pane of glass. The mattresses were placed on the ground in the barracks, which were very damp, and after three or four days, the shavings would be- gin to rot and the mattresses to smell. In order to keep warm we slept as clese together as we could, which caused our various diseases to spread rapidly. ; When we were receiving our rations, the sentries would offer us an extra ration if we would take a lash from their belts. We weére so hungry that many and many a man would go up aud take a swat in any part of his body from the heavy leather belts. with brass tongue and buckle, just to get a little more “shadow” soup or barley coffee or mud bread. One morning the sentricas ptcked out ten men from our barracks, of which We Had Our Choice of Standing Up and Dying, or Falling Down and Be- ing Killed. ever saw them run, except when the Foreign Legion was on thetr beels at Dixmude. When. they got up to the dogs, they would first talk to them and then kick them, and after that, they would rest thelr rifles Sa: | | “Zuruck!” at us, We all enjoyed this innocent pastime’ very much, and we were glad they had the dogs. There were somethings the Huns did that you just could not explain. For instance, one of the Russtans walked out of the kuche, as we were passing, and we heard a bang! and the Russian keeled over and went west. Now, we had not done anything and the other Russians said he had behaved himsc'f, worked hard and had; never had any trouble. They just killed him, and that is all there was to it. But not one of us could figure out why. After we had been at Neustrelitz | for three weeks, they drilled us out of the camp to a railway station, and stood us in the snow for four hours * waiting for the train. We were ex- be oe oy a agg as tienen hausted and began falling, one by CCAMe “VEXY, Stee at a3 lone, and each time one of us fell, the he was going to die, and when he fell } ri ld yell, “Nicht krank!" very 1 reported it to a sentry. The tesa Phen he pede ‘saw him lying in | 2824 sive us the rifle butt. We had sentey, Cane Ctecnae W i ying In | our choice of standing up and dying the «snow, yelled, “Schwein, nicht | = ” * or falling down and being killed, and krank!” grabbed him by the shoulder, ‘fine chiol¢é to‘hive to:make. and pulled him all the way avross the Se wee. Soe a 4 = field to the office.of the camp com- The cars finally puile in, and as mander, Then he was placed in the | usual, the windows were smashed, the guard house, where ‘he remained for } doors open, and the compartments just two days. The next-thing we knew, | Packed with etek When we saw this, the Russians had -been ordered to | W° knew we were going tor get: wore make a box, and were being marched | treatment, even, than we had been to the guard house to put him In it getting, and many of us wanted to die. and bury him. § r \ It had not been unusual for some of Another thing at St oustreilts, that | the men to tell the Germans to shoot was pretty hard to stigid, was the pret- |them too, and ft seems as though it ty habit the Huns Red of comiijg up | W8S always & miin who wanted to live ; to the barbed wire and teasing us ay | Who did get it’and went west: bin though we were wild animals in a | However, all of us Sd got killed cage. Sometimes there would be | When we reached Wittenberg. When crowds of people lined along the wire | the train stopped there, we saw a big throwing things at us, and spitting, .wagonload of sliced bread on the sta- and having a great time generally. It tion platform and we all stared at it. was harder than ever when a family | We stood it as long as we could, and party would arrive,>with vater and | then we made a rush for it. But when mutter, und ,maybe--grosyater and [xe got nearer, we saw that there were grosmutter, and all "fhe little Boche |four sentries guarding {it and four kinder, because; as you probably | Women issuing it out to the German know, the Germans take food with Soldiers. They would not give us any, them whenever they go on a party, -Of course. BY i no matter what kind, ‘and they would! ‘So we stood‘around and watctied the stan’ there and stare at us‘like the Huns eat it, while they and the women boobs they were, eating all the time laughed at us, and pretended that —and we so hungry that we could they were starving and would groan have eaten ourselves, almost. After and rub their stomachs and say, they had stared a while, they would “Nichts zu essen,” to each other, and begin to feel more at home, and then then grab a big hunk of bread and would start the throwing and spliting eat it. What we did-not say to them | and the “schweinhund” sangerfest, und was very little indeed. We were cer- they would have a great time general- tainly wild if any men ever were., ly. Probably, when they got home, Then some of us said we were go- they would strike off a medal for ing to get some of that bread if we themselves in honor of the visit. |went west for it. So we started a Then, too, there were always Hun fight, and while they were attending to | soldiers on leave or off duty, who made some of us, the others grabbed and hid | it a point to pay us a visit, and though -all the bread they could. They rousted I do not think they were as bad as the us back {nto the cars and we were ciyvies, especially the women, they just starting to divide up the bread were bad enough. when they caught us with it and took We had one bucket in each barracks, {t away. We were wilder than ever and as these buckets were used for then, but we could not do anything. both washing and drinking, they were It got colder after we left Witten- always dirty. We boiled the water berg, and the snow blew into the cars | when we washed the clothes, to get through the windows and doors until | rid of the cooties, and- that left a we were afraid to sleep for fear of settling in it that looked just like red freezing, It was the worst night I lead. We had to get the water from have ever seen, and the coal bunkers a hydrant outside of the barracks, and on the Yarrowdale seemed like a pal- for a while we drank it. But after ace compared to the conipartments, several of the boys had gone west because we could at least move aroung and we could.-not figure out why, a in the ship, while in the train we could man told us he thought the water was not move at all, and were packed so poisoned, and a Russian doctor, who close that we could not even stretch was a prisoner, slipped us word about our legs and arms. Some of the men it also. So, after that, very few of did die, but not in my compartment, us drank water from the hydrant, I though most of us were frost-bitten was scared stiff at first, because I had about the face. had some of the water, but after that We theught that night would never I did not touch hydrant water. end, but day came finally, and though It was a good thing for. us that it seemed to get colder and colder, we there was always plenty of snow in did not mind it so much. At about Gerinany, and even luckier that the eleven that morning, we arrived at a Huns did not shoot us for eating it. place called Minden and saw a prison It was about the only thing they did camp there—just a stockade near the not deprive us of—it was not verboten, tracks with the-boys out in the open. I thought I knew what tough cooties We waved to them, and they waved were, In the trenches, but they were back and gave a cheer-oh or two. We regular mollycoddles compared to the felt sorry for them, because we knew pets we had in the prison camps, After we were/not going to that camp, and we boiled our clothes we would .be from what little we saw, we knew we free from them for not more than two could not be going to a worse place hours, and then they would come than they were in. I shall never for- back, with re-enforcements, thirsting get Minden, because it was here that I for vengeance. ~ received the only cigarette I had while The camp at Neustrelitz was sur- I was in Germany. rounded by big dogs, which were kept Minden ts quite a railway center, I just outside the barbed wire. We had guess, and when we pulled into the them going all the time. Every once depot, we saw many troops going to in a while, some fellow would make the front or coming back, As at all ain awful racket, and the next thing {mportant German railway stations, we knew, there was Fritz coming like there was a Red Cross booth on the a shot, with musket at his hip, just platform, with German girls han fis they carry them in @ charge, and out barley coffee and other things to blowing whistles at each other until the German soldiers. I saw a large they were ble In the face. When- shanty on the platform, with a Red ever they thought some ene was es- Cross pulpted over the door, I saw caping, they ran twice as fast as I the girls giving barley coffee to the | near the kuche. There was a large tank In the field and we had to pump water Into it. It Was very cold, ond we were weak and sick, so we would fall one after another, wot caring whether we ever got up or not. Fritz would smash those who fell with his rifle butt. We asked for gloves, be- cause our hands were Rrcesing; but all we got was “Nichts.” After we had been there for about solalers, ahd I thought I would have ea try at it~and at least be polite eno: to give the girls a chance of refusing me. ' I was refused all right, “put they were so nasty about it that I put down my head and let something slip. I do not remember just what it ‘was, but it wastnot very compliment- ary, I guess. Anyhow, I did not think @nyone near are understood Eng- Ush, but evidently some one heard me- who did, for I got an awful boot that Manded me ten or twelve feet away. I fell on my hands and knees, and about a yard away I saw a cigarette stub. I dived for it like a man-falling on a football, and when I came up that stub was safely in my pocket. And it stayed there until I reached Dulmen and had a chance to light it behind the barracks. If any of the other men had smelled real tobacco, they would probably have murdered me, and I could not have blamed them for it. That was the first and last cigarette I got in Germany, and you can be- Neve me when I say that I enjoyed it. There was not much to it, but I smoked it until there was not enough left to hold in my mouth, and then 1 used what was left and mixed it with the bark that ~we made cigarettes out of. Incidentally, this bark was great stuff. I do not know what kind of tree it was from, but it served the} purpose. Whenever a fellow wanted to smoke and lit one of these bark cigarettes, a few puffs were enough. The First and Last Cigarette. He did not want to smoke again for some time afterward, and like as not, he did not want to eat either. They were therefore very valuable. It is very hard to get matches in the camps, and when any prisoner does get hold of one, it is made to last a long time. Here is how we make a Match last. Some one gives up the Sleeve of his coat, and the match ts carefully lt, and the coat sleeve burned to a crisp. Then we take a button from our coats—the buttons are brass with two holes in them— pass a shoestring through the holes, knot the ens, and with the button in the cénter of the string, buzz it around as you have seen boys do, with the string over both hands, moving the hands together and. apart until the button revolves very fast. We then put a piece of flint against the cri cloth, and buzz the button against it until a spark makes the crisp glow, and from this we would ght our bark cigarettes. I do not think any nn in the world could in- hale one of these bark cigarettes: some of us tried and went right to sleep. GGONILNOO da OL URGENT GALL FOR LABORERS NV WAR WORKS Destruction of » Exposive Stock Needed in France Necessitates Increased Production from Now On Due to the fact that a stock of highly explosive shells imperatively needed: in France was destroyed by explosions the government has called upon other munition plants to work overtime on present contracts, and an appeal has béen launched thru the council of defense to reéruit addi- ional labor for these plants. The names of ‘local men who res- pond to this call of the government, jesecribed as most urgent, may be handed to E. Richard Shipp, chair- man of the county council. “The work is dangerous but that will not deter anyone,” says the ap- neal. It is unthinkable that any man in this country would hold back front doing work that the women of France and England long have carried on. When this problem is placed before the American People public opinion will be solidly behind the employment service and the community labor boards in this emergency,” Casper is asked to furnish men for this work and every. effort of local agencies, including the government bureau, will be directed to securing a large complement of recruits, ‘ i ——_—-——=——_ Miss Sarah Stephenson, widelv known as a lawyer and an active suf. frage worker, has been appointed sec- retary of the Borough of Brook at a salary of $8,500 a year, fe ne __ SATURDAY, OCT. 12, 1918 CHAPLAINS USE TANKS, REPORT Airplane Found ‘Serviceable in Making Rounds within a Radius of 200 Miles; An- other Rides Tank PARIS, Oct., 10.—(Correspond- ence of Associated Press.)—Air- planes and tanks/are being used by volunteer chaplains and field secre- taries with the Knights of Columbus, to serve the American soldiers over here. Two chaplains, the Rey. John Mo- ran, of Eugene, Ore., and the Rev. John Sullivan of Tuckahoe, N. Y., were the first priests to make their rounds by the air route. The Rev. Mr. Sullivan uses airplanes several times a week and thus is able to vis- it field hospitals within a radius of 200 miles of his camp. Airplane transportation was used by the Rev. Mr. Moran for the first time when he received two calls to say field masses‘ one Sunday morn- ing. The call came from villages 50 ‘miles apart where troops were bill- jetéd. An aviation pilot solved the problem for Chaplain Moran by of- fering to take him to both places and he went. The result was a field mass at one village at 6 o’clock in the morning and at another mass in the village 50 miles further on at 7:30 a. m. ‘ The Rev. Edwin O’Hara, rector of the cathedral at Portland, a volun- teer chaplain for the Knights of. Columbus used a tank to fulfill an engagement to say mass to distant troops and a secretary went with him to supply the soldiers with boxing gloves and baseball material for use after the services. COOKS PLAYED BIG PART IN MARNE BATTLE (By Frank J. Taylor, United Press Staff Correspondent) , WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept 21. (By Mail.)\— The army cooks had a lot to do with pushing the Germans back from the Marne. Any officer or doughboy will tell you that. The cooks were a great lot, and they were continally on the jump getting food up to the boys who were fighting. It was a common sight to see the old rolling kitchen lumbering toward’ the front, trying to get near enough to feed the company, and the ,cook keeping hot food steaming away as the horses dragged the “goulash wa: gon” over the torn-up shell-swept roads. Barrages didn’t stap those ermy cooks. The cooks fed anyone who was hungry, no matter what his company though they always looked out for “their boys.” - . “Say, I wish that outfit of mine would slow up enough so this old cart could catch up with them,” said one. worried cook, in typical words, “Believe me, C company would never quit fighting if. they didn’t get a bite of food, but some hot chow would mean new life to them. Let’s speed up a bit more, Jim.” So Jim, the cook’s assistant, who was drivigg the tired horses onward toward the cannon sounds, while the cook himself swung unto the rear end of the jolting wheeled kitchen, trying at the same time to stir the stew. “Were you a cook before the war?” the United Press Correspondent asked one husky perspiring cook. “No, I was a salesman,” he replied laughing, ‘‘making good money, too.” “War brinsg unexpected changes, doesn’t it?” “In a way, yes. I never figured on being a cook overe here,’’ he said, “but the same principles apply to this job that did in salemanship. First of all you have to have the real goods and then you have to give it to them in ie way iney. like it. ‘Camouflage for ordinary grub, studying _ what the boys want, using a little diplomacy and giving them plenty—that’s all there is to getting by with the cook’s job. It’s a great Vfe, hut the same principles apply as in salesmanship.” The whiff from his kitchen influ- enced you to accent his hearty inyi- tation to “have a bite with us,” ———— Tt is amazing how idess of femin- ine beauty vary with latitude and longitude. In Japan, the professional beauty loves to appear with golden teeth; in India she prefers them stain- éd red, but in certain parts of Suma- tra no lady who respected herself would condescend to have any front teeth at all They are removed the moment they appear, and strictly sup- nressed if they should try again. Sr Grand Union Tea Co. We are again represented i ~s~er by Frank G. Pierce and shen in need of good Tea, Cof fee, Spices, Toilet Articles, etc., phone 312-J. .