Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1921, Page 20

Burchell’s Bougquet Coffee A Flavor of Irresistible Appeal 25(3 per pound N. W. Burchell 1325 F St. N.W. We Are Ready to Supply You the Best Makes THE ELECTRIC SHOP 607 14th St. Visit our display rooms and let our salesmen show you the best valuves and latest in elec- ‘wo for to any room. ‘Bxture home. Qme-that will add beauty || YANKS' FRAULEIN BRIDES PENNED UP Hundreds of Soldiers Talk to Wives and Babes Through Wire Fence. BY MIRIAM TEICHNER. COBLENZ, June 2—When the steamer Cambria, sailing from Ant- werp, arrived in New York, it car- ried between 130 and 200 women wWho are brides of American soldiers. Most of these women ars Germans, but there were among them, too, a sprinkling of French, Italian, Belgian and British brides. Until sailing time these girls were housed in the cks of the Coblens casual depot. Eighty-one of them are the mothers of babies. The policy of the Army headquarters in the American area toward the marriage of soldiers below the rank of ser- geant had at one time develope is admitted by high ranking officer: into a peculiar situation among some American soldiers and the German girls of the area. A man below third rank was almost certain to be re- fused permission to marry unless he showed “moral cause” why the mar- riage should take place. Neither could he be married by German civil authorities unless he first had the necessary milita: consent. He might, of course, slip away with his prospective bride to some town over which the Americans had no juris- diotion, and be married there by Ger- man civil authorities, but the easier and more obvious course was not to do this. How System Works Out. A typical instance of the working out of the system ia that told by a »|captain in the Medical Corps. The man in question came from a good family in the United Statea His father, a student and a man of bnil- liant intellectual attainments, made the provision in his will that this boy should study medicine and should serve least one years internship in.a hospital. The boy disliked medicine, but he followed his father's desires to the letter. One year, to the day, he served an intermship. Then he left his hospital, where, in spite of his distaste for the profession, he was in a fair way of making a brilliant record, and became a wanderer. He was shiftless, unstable, in spite of his intellect. The cause was morphine. He went to Alaska, and he worked in the mines. and a lumberjack. He enlisted and went to Mexico and later to France. He is a man who might eaally have had a commission, but he had no ambition. The captain in the Medical Corps discovered him during a small influenza flurry here, when the supposedly green private showed a skill in administering difi- cult treatments which confounded the captain. In Love With German Girl. “Oh, I've worked around hospitals some,” sald the man when he was guestioned, and it was some time be- fore the captain learned his true story from him. He is, in_addition to his other attainments, a linguist; he can £0 home at any time and fili a posi- tion as a tranalator and interpreter. During his stay here he fell in love with a German girl. She was a respectabls girl and a pretty one, though of no cuiture or education—a farm girl. He Insisted that he would marry her and his com- pany commander, knowing his social Position in the United States and his mental qualities, refused him permis- | | sion: “Youll ruin yourself,” the man was told by every one who knew him and who hoped to have an influence over him and to help him to a future. :‘:0 result, of course, was the obvious e thinks he loves that rlrl now,™ s the captain of the Medical Corpa, ut he will return home with her and the child begin, inevitably, to compare her with the girls of his own social station—a station which he cannot hope te fill with the sort of wife he has taken. Then it will be more dope, and finally he will drift away and the girl will 'be deserted— as a good many of the others will be when they once get to America.” Hi iness as Well as Misery. That was one case. There are others Wwhich presage a happier outcome— heppy marriages between upright young eoldiers and girls who love them and will make them good wives. There are others. again, which have in them potentialities of nothing but ry. There {8 one woman at the casual depot who arrived there with har1 baby in fiith and in rags. Sheisignor- ant and not clean, a girl of the low- est peasant type. Her husband is of the same type. He is, moreover, in disgrace. Because of an act of dis- honesty his Army pay has been dis- continued, although court-martial was waived, and he will return to the Lnllel!' States, as his officer in charge says, “owing the government money.” There are women, according to the physiciaps in charge at the casual depot, who have not the remotest idea of how to care for their bahies. Th boy baby, whom she brough mmng‘-r 50 encrusted with dire flu‘t e body wes eore. It the physicians all the "n.'lfl — proaching the conditifon 'I!Mh‘ll :g; right of his plump and lovely baby- ‘hood. Conditions Different Here. When these women reach the states, although they will be cared for by the Red Cross on their arrival, they will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the United States military authorities. Once he is landed at home, the matter of ;‘vlmlhsr or not .a soldier is married is is own personal affair. He will be sent ‘where he ahould go, and he will have to provide transportation for his wife if she is to v him—unless, of course, this matter is attended to by the Red Cross authorities which were in- structed to meet the boatload of brides and their families. The married soldier will continue to soldler until the expira- tion of his term, at the rate of $30 a month. And the family allowance is diseontinued July 81. The German woman who is caring for the brides on their arrival into the casual depot is the mother of two children. a girl about seventeen and 2 boy a little younger. Her new husbend is a twenty- two-year-old private. This woman has been in the states before and speaks ex- cellent English. She is anxious to return there. ,_ene who is flithy and who is not without These women are kept in 8 Freneh Girl Offended. . M:mflhflafinm by the flaxen locks of tiny “Madey loine" that she was & Mmk im-\ ate offense. She, in her turn, finds it “‘tres drole” that American boys can marry German women,’ of whatever ‘wire sort! They line up at the barrier of chicken that separates their inclosure from the rest of the compound, for hours at & time, to visit their husbands, There are long backless benches on elther side the wire, with mothers and bables crowded ori one side, husbands on the dther. Occasionally a baby is boisted up over the some six feet of wife—be- tween it and the barb wire that tops it— from its mother's arms into those of its father. And sometimes the nursing bot- tle is passed over, too, and the father solemnly administers the baby's dinner, whils the mother sits opposite, bright- eyed with pride. And occasionally a Eirl leaves the barrier and rushes back to the barracks in tears—one of those who do not want to go to America with their husbands. Maj. Russell B. Patterson, in com- mand at _the casual depot, has need of vast diplomacy while, the brides are among the inhabitants of his compound. The reasons why girls want to leave that compound are wonderful trLings. There are dentist appointments and mothers who have just been operated upon and fathers who are dying. Dressmaker Cause of Trouble. .|| “Sir," reported ope young private to the major in his office, after a Snapp; salute. “The dressmaker won't come. The major sighed; it was just another problem in diplomacy. The private's wife insisted that she must leave the compound because she was having a new dress made and had to have a fitting. The majors edict was that the dressmaker should come to the compound. And now the dressmaker refused to come! And every visit that the major makes to the compound results in a surrounding bevy of weeping brides with dying parents, or parents Who will die very shortly if they are not allowed to see their daughters outside the compound. German parents, it is said about Coblens, are greatly incensed over the fact that their daughters are being kept for a perfod of days inside of wire inclosures, regardless of the fact that once inside the wire inclosures the girls are splendidly housed, fed and cared for. Many of theso girls were English-speaking saleswomen at the American commissary, a number of others were fnaids {n the homes of American officers, others were farm or factory girls. Seventy-Five a Month. Marriages between German girlsand American_eoldiers have been taking Dlace at the rate of about seventy-five a month, and the administration, which is unshaken in the opinion that a married soldier is not a good sol- dier, was sending them home only at the rate of fifteen or twenty a month. Hence, the entire taking over of the second class of the Cambria for the overplus of brides which the Ameri- can Army in Germany now has in its midst. A number of boys who are planning to marry are waiting until just after the saillng, in the belief that there will be a long interim be- fore the next batch of brides is sent home. Many of these girls believe that they are marrying men of considerable wealth. There was one man in the known to have shown his “frawlen” a photograph of the block-square pile { of the Chicago Art Institute and told her that he owned it and lived in it. Whether or not this girl is among the present bevy of brides is not cer- tain, but it is certain that there are many to whom thelr husbands’ salary in marks looks large and to whom, || in dellars, it will assume a somewhat different aspect. RENT BOARD DECISIONS. Two Amounts Lowered and Two Remain Same. Rents of two tenants were lowered and two were approved as now in ef- fect, in determinations handed down |Friday by the District rent commission. | The list of decisions follows: Margaret Chraig, complainant, against George W. Linkins; rent of apartment No. 1. the Stockholm, 2015 G street northwest, fixed at $65 a month, present rent. Albert V. Dickinson, eomplainant, against Samuel Shapiro; rent of ‘1426 Potomac avenue southeast, occupied by Dickinson, fixed at $42.50, previously 350 a month. Clyde L. Harden, complainant, against Shannon & Luchs; rent of apartment No. 33, 1350 U street north- west, occupied by Harden, fixed at $40, previously $50 a month. Mrs. C. H. Sparshott, complainant, against Buckley & Grindley; rent of 2315 1 street northwest, occupied by Sparshott, fixed at $16.50, present rent; IBuckley & Grindley demanded $20.50 month. POLICE LEAVE TO BE TOPIC. The police and fire protection com- mittee of the Chamber of Commerce at a meeting to be held tomorrow after- noon will discuss the proposal of granting _policemen one day off a week and thirty days' annual leave. Rudolph Jose, chairman of the com- mittee, said he. expects to have a re- port ready for the regular meeting of the chamber Tuesday night. The Advance that the next great . 4 %dvance in the science “# of medicihe would come through the dental profes- sion, or from a dental standpoint. ‘We are today living in the midst of the fulfiliment of that prediction. Many cases of arthritis, arotitis, embolism, appendicitis, the kid- neys, the liver, the skin, and, in fact, the serious derangement of every organ and every tissue of the ‘body, may be and often is caused by infections originating in the mouth. radiant beauty and red or rough arms made snowy white, yet there is not the slightest aign of its use. It il vanishes from sight and the most heated atmosphere will not produce the lesst shininess or greasiness of the skin. No matter whether you.are troubled with American forces in Germany who is|! PUPILS TO EXCHANGE ART. Baltimore and Yokohama, Japan, Children Make Plans, Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Jue 11.—Public school children of Baltimore will shortly have the opportunity to exchange art work with that of Japanese boys and girls according to a plan' now being worked out by the school board at a suggestion of Mayor Broening fol- lowing the receipt of a letter pro- posing such a plan from the school authorities of Yokohama, Japan. The letter was accompanied by & package containing examples of the art work done by puplls of the Yoko- hama schools. The suggestion was made by the Japanese school officlals that a system of exchange between the two citles could be worked out for the mutual education in art of the American and Japanese children. Attempt Made to Bob Post Office semi-cirale, in the door of the post of- fice at Spring Gap, this county, early Yesterday morning, & thief or thieves made a daring attempt to rob the place. The attempt was frustrated when the bored door was forced, caus- ing an glarm bell to ring. ‘The discovery of the attempt was made by T. M. SBtallings, the post- master that morning. His home ad- joine the small bullding used as & post office. B Nothing in the office had been dis- turbed. A large knife and s sack were left behind by the thieves. The mat- ter was reported to the postal authwri- ties and an {nspector made an ex- amination. PITCHING NEW CRAZE AT CITY POST OFFICE MoenMght horseshoe pitching is the latest thing at the Washing- ton city post office. So enthusiastic are the clerks and carriers over the horseshoe pitch- ing courts recently established by Postmaster Chance. that it has been decided to play at night. Ark lights will be installed over the courts, for fear “old man moon” will go back on the game, and trys for “ringers” will go on after dark. Today a foreman and three clerks who went on duty last midnight and came off duty at 8 o'clock this morning. pitched horseshoes until n:a.‘r]y noon befere going home to b 5 An eyeless reedle, the thread being inserted in & hollow section, has been designed for surgical use. WINS TYPING HONORS. Bebert Pomeroy Rates 07.4 Per Cent for Gold Medal With & rating ef 97.4 per cent, Rob- ert Pomeroy has been awarded the £0ld medal in the 150-word contest for five minutes at the seventh an- nual shorthand contest of the Gregg Shorthand Association, which was held in its offices, in the Brentano building. Second honors, carrying a silver medal, went to Miss Bertha M. Lonergan, In the 130-word test. J. Koestler won a brenze medal in the 110-wqrd test. KILLS SLEEPING ‘SON. DES MOINES, Towa, Jupe 11.—R. M. West shot and killed his son, Myron West, eighteen, while he was sleep- ing at their home here today. ‘West had been under the care of physicians for some time. His son was graduated from high school Thursday. PREDICTS ANOTHER WAR. Gen. Malone Addresses Class ; Staunton Military Academy. Special Dispatch to Th: Star. WINCHESTER, Va., June 11—1¢ 1 read the trend of the times aright, an- other war is In the offing.” Brig. Gen. Paul B. Malone, head of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, United States Army, is quoted as saying in an ad- dress to graduates of the Staunton (Va) Military Academy. Gen. Malone pleaded for “adequate” training for America’s young men., that, when called to defend their coun- try, they might “have a fighting chance to return victorious and alive to their mothers.” Gen. Malone intimated that war would entangle the United States and ‘he yellow races. 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