The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1918, Page 18

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1918 Lieut. O’Brien, a War Hero, ‘Tells the American Boys How to Be Real Fighters) “Don't Go Into the War Boasting We Can Whip the wate! His First Bit of Advice; “Don’t Hate the Germans or Anybody Else; Keep Your Temper and Live Clean, Both Physically and Morally,”” He Concludes. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. 1918, by the Pre Sa « Publishing Co. Coprriciit but toward winning if only (The New York Prening World). “ American soldiers can go a long way hey will get over the idea that they can a walk. I'm for the American soldier. I have a lot of faith in him because he has imagination, I hope the officers have It too, for then we may pull off a few things that haven't been done before, That's no reason for not doing them, you know, The way to make an ad- vance is to make It, instead of sitting down and fig- uring out all the reasons why it can’t possibly suc- ‘That way you never get anywhere.” Not all in one breath like that, but with quiet, jorky sentences and pauses between, Lieut. Patrick Aiva O'Brien thus summed up for me his idea of the American soldier and of the part the latter will play great big war aE great war. you remember Lieut. “Pat” O'Brien, hero of one of the romantic adventures this mostly realistic and sordid war has produced. A member of the British Flying Corps, Lieut. “Pat” engaged four German planes at an tion of 8,000 feet last summer. He was shot down unconscious from that height, woke up in a German hospital, dived out of the window of a thirty-five-mile an hour train while being carried off toa rman prison camp, walked, swam and crawled 260 miles in seventy-two days through Germany, Luxemburg and Belgium, living on turnips, beets and pears, got half electrocuted by the nine-foot al fence acroes the Holland frontier and finally jug out a road to freedom beneath that fence with his bare hands. After a record audience with King George, telling of the Odyssey of bis wanderings, Licut, O'Brien returned to this country to see his mother and take # brief furlough. He sails back gext month—perhaps this time a member of the American Aviation Corps “if there Isn't too much red tape about the transfer," he told me frankly T occurred to me that this six-foot, smiling, not too communicative American-——he was born and brought up in Momence, 1l.—might be able to give other American boys who haven't yet gone “over there” some interesting tips. So T asked him for them yesterday at the Hotel Knickerbocker after I had obtained his general verdict on our fighting in sure most thrilling men, m ‘If you had a kid brother go!ng to the front,” T sald, “what are some of the things you would tell him “First of all, Vd tell him that we can't whip the world Just be cause we happen to be Americans,” Lieut. “Pat” remarked quietly. “T have a brother, as it happens, whom I've heard say that very thing. We mustn't go over there with a flourish of ‘Now, WE'RE going to win this war right on the minute,’ For isn't that just what all of us have thought—Frenchmen, Canadians, English? "I do believe that Americans will be a lot of help, not merely be- anso of their fighting qualities but because of their effect on the Ger- mam morale. As the German General told me, Germany has belleved that we would send not more than a quarter of a million of men to Vrance. Wo must send at least 3,000,000, and T shouldn't wonder ff 5.000.000 of us would be over there before the finish “As far as the material things he takes with him are concerned, I advise the American soldier to travel light. The Government will fur- nish him with everything he needs. He may bring some extra hand- korchlefs, a collar or two and a few neckties If he likes, One thing he mii! want will bo plenty of witing paper and Journal {f ho Intends to keep one. A ood pocket knife Is most useful, and @ small mirror, “Noarly everything else needed can be obtained in France or {a provided by the Government.” “But how about the ideas and disposition te should take with bim o make him the best of soldiers?” T asked. 447 DON'T think the American should go over there hating the Ger- mans as individual men, eut. O'Brien, “I believe he will fight better if he fs inspired simply by a determination to play the y advantage the rules allow and play as said game to the finish, take e hard as he can to win. “Hating isn't a specially healthy emotion, to my mind. If you #atch two boxers, the fellow that comes off best is the chap that keeps his temper and bis head “It would be absurd for me to tell the American soldter not to be afraid, because he wouldn't be in the army if he were afraid. Asa matter of fact, he should be cautioned not to be brave to the point of foolhardy rashness. After all, the army gets no good out of you when you're dead or seriously wounded, The best fighting man {s he who, while dodging no legitimate risks, takes proper care of himself. “The American soldier wants to keep a8 well as he can, That means he ought to bathe whenever he gets a chance, although, of course, he can't do it in tho trenches. Tis medical officers have oz- cellent ideas on the subject of health, and {\'s up to tlm to take their advice. Americans and Canadians, I think, are more adaptable than the Tommles and have more ingonulty in making themselves com fortable in unpleasant cireumstances, 46] TVING clean has a lot to do with fighting clean and keeping well ‘The American soldiers will not be allowed to visit London and certain other centres of temptation, They can find drinks and the wrong kind of women, but the temptations are no worse than in New York or almost anywhere at home. They don’t pay for a real soldier. “And che American boy wants to take his smile with him. The best way to get through the hard things that are coming to him will be to side of them. I think he will do just that, for it's tho ee the funny American way “What sort of man makes the best soldier?” “I'd pick out a regiment of boys from a ci best fighters,” he replied. “They've roughed make great soldiers, Individually, I believe the a better all-around soldier than elther the fights because be must “The war will Inst at least O'Brien answered the question without which no interview with a sol- dier from the front is complete these days. “But had 20,000 crack over there we could end it in no time. They could destroy Germans possess and then we could drop bombs on bridge and communicating line of supplies, Nor would there be balloons to help the German arti}! id {ts range, But however we do it, we've got to beat ‘em and make a good job of it— or we'll have it all to do over again fn no time T questioned, ty slum if I wanted the ll thelr lives and they soldier of fortune is Patriot or the man who two years, {n my opinion,” Lieut, airplanes every facto! POETS HELP IN WAR, | EGGLESS BREAKFAST 800! t SYLVANIA much excel- BSIDES writt d which has been ent patriott . our Amer- | taking a census of its fowl popu- lean poets s their bit" | lation, finds that 1t has 4,000,000 1 other ways ican Poets’ | loss chickens than a year ago. several motor| fourths of the Nallap Army, hens Three Committee has bought @apbulances for the decroase ie in laying HIS ADVICE TO THE AMERICAN BOY TAKE AS MANY BATHS AS POSS/ BLE DON'T GO OVER LOADED wiTH THINGS Don'T BE FOOLHARDY See ThE FUNNY! % Sie OF, BNERY THING 7 Lieut. Pat O’Brien, War Hero WHO GO *OVER THERE” Navy Wants Na SHOWN IN SKETCHES ' SARE AED gp EM Gite BETTER SoLDIeE! { 4 RS w 16 86 ba COMPORTABLE Don FIGHT WITH HATE KEEP COOL. Live CEAN AND FIGHT CLEAN LieuT. PATRICK ALVA O'BRIEN ~ hot Pane Ms mes for Boats” Can't Utilize the Genius Who Invented the Pullman Names Because He’s Up in Matteawan—Names for Battleships Are Just as Essential as Periods and Commas in a Dictionary—Sturdy, Baritone, Rough-Neck Names Will Be Welcomed, but No Contralto Appellations Will Be Accepted. * BY ARTHUR (“BU Onpydaht (918 N Wie good old days when the Sphinx was a gossip, wh I got eugar in your coffes without a subpoena, and whe to call coal by its frat name, the jolly oM di cook by bouncing @ demijohn off bis dome and vo! for some wine and rare food, ‘The genial old kinks and kinkesses wore sharks on wine food. And if they didn't got it they used to how! ike por ingrown quills, And they got it, But nowaday k couldn't get ho had a brother-in Wine trom the board of director untver even have a vote, And rare food? In rare, Anybody who can reme ber what Noah suid when he got splin by the Prese Pubilnhing Oo 0M s¢ Yor Proatus World) ) you could they used 8 used to page oa Merry aquawk and rare nos with eo and ra food even tf iminated rs it won't of rare food—the food 45 aber seeing a boefatonk can also rs in his whiske aw on the fury ing grad ©, and in a few y toad remem- m pulling up tho gangplank beforo the jihbloowafflus could clan ard, Tho {ibdloowafflus ts 4 very extinct animal because he was a very stubborn quadruped. Ho insisted on rubbing all the rules against the sp. And {if you want to s rule eore Tho Jibloowafflus in ay riun on Wheatless Wedne death, and now les beneath a fitne hee monument, ‘That's the way with all {{bbloowhooztses, which really means fathead in Pnglish try rubbing tt agains « canntbal on Meatlesy Tuesday and And as a result, starved to y epitaph carved on a million the nap. sted on being tay. Vt be a fathead and have an cpithet for an epitaph, The fibbloo tsn’t really to blame for being a Jibbloo, It's the ser'y fault in the first place for foolishly thinking that he could get ade discount on to Parts and 10 per cent. moro off f bh, Aap a result the whole ¥ ry confused as an astigmatio Mongolian trying to find the treble on a bass drum, That's only one spot the Kaiser's escutcheon, which hus s0 many spots that it looks like with measles, Another splotch on the Kaiser's escutcheon ts tho f, that he has mado us build eo 1 battloships that we are running names for ‘em, And unless we ein get some more names we will have to stop duilding boats. ‘Th a matter, and the Navy Dopartment ts looking for a man who car 1 names ag fast up they can make the boats, The head sant f the navy offered tho Job to the gent who first started naming the [ m ear at Mattcawan with boaing gloves but that guy is bivouacking up padlucked on his clbows to prevent Jarmea Wrench warrior who played 60] French Army. 1 Jagainst the German invaders, ””’) BAER, him picking all the commas and pe: don't think that a dictionary requires commas and ode Just ty reading one that aint got ‘em, You'll fee! Just Mke @ guy standing on @ local platform waiting for an express to stop. And titles for battleships are just as essential as commas and periods in a dictionary, The Navy Department wants good dghtiug baritone names though. We don't want any of our boats named after @ perfume or @ cough drop. If you can think of any good rough-neok title that sounds like @ etevedore after his fifth drink, you will be helping to win the war, Don't send in any contralto names, A droad- naught named after a Pomeranian wouldn't instil much respect among the enemy, When you think of a good, robust name send It to the Chairman of the Rocky Mountain ( 44 out of the dictionary. Tf you ust Defense League, on the eleventh mountain from the corner, His office ta If you don't get any answer you le, as thoy say that silence give know that they have accepted France's One-Armed Hero | AJOR GEN. PAUL MARIN Shortly before he retired on account M CAESAR JBRALD PAU 1 age, in 1913, he was the popular the full name of the one-|choico for General in Chief of the but is sixty-nine yeurs old, aid tol ge be as active as many mon half his| to Gen, Joftre age, As ® youth he fought In thel When the war broke out Gen. Pau Franco-Prussian War. He was one} was recalled to the service of his of the heroes of the battle of F'ro-| eschvilliers, yuntry and he speedily demons where he lost his rightjed that while he po: fot sturdy [ee urdy Handicapped am he was, he rose’ he was assigned to leas arduous du to the very top of r nt n ybe rear / HVORERDIC Giscases, urday 11 A, M. he post was offered clinquishment of the post, He sug- ed that the appointment be given | | | | brilliant @ part during the early days} to him, but he declined on the ground | of the war in Hrance's defense] that his age would soon nevessitate| He is|t exed less than} arm, So grait was the gallantry of, the usual number of arms, bis mental! Jthe young Lieutenant in that buttle] faculties were in no way dmpaired that he became a popular hero, and| But this 1s a war of young leaders he was permitted to remain in thejespecially on the Allied side, and the| servico despite the fact that he was! phystcal strain proved too much, even | minus an arm, en, Pau, Vor that reason| Copyright » FEBRUARY 15 What British Women Have Done to Help Win the War American Women Can Do | As in London So in New York Women Must “Come to the Front” So Mofe Men Can “Go to the Front’’—There, Street, Shop and Home Are Busy Hoppers That Feed the War Machine. By Bertha Bennet Burleigh 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) OMI to New York, after nearly four years of war in Europe, is Cc very much like going back to those day: months of 1914, beforo thi in London in the early terriblo war was forced upon poace- loving nations by the Kaiser. In those days, all day long in London, vehicles of all descriptions, enormous buses laden with folk going to and from thelr work or seeking a day out of town; private cars with women daintily dressed going to some function, perhaps to the theatre, a concert or to a lunch with some friends; cars filled with men to whom a little physical exercise would be the greatest boon In the world; or with children and their nurses when a good run and scamper in the park would be infinitely better; motors throb- bing their way in search of pleasure or for a week Delivery vans, laden with choice goods, flowers, dainty garments for some fair lady, clothes for men—for sports, for the children are not forgotten. Round about Piccadilly Circus toward Hyde Park Corner there were always two solld rows end, dress—and of traffic and seething masses of people, going either east or west. It was nearly impossible to get across the street at certain times in the day Now all this has changed; all private care, all private chaut- feurs have absolutely disappeared; for that matter any woman who Arn cars have now taken their place, and all, almost without exception, are would dare to use one would be speedily mobbed. and Navy driven by women either in the Royal Flying Corps or the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. The bus services have been reduced to a third, and women take your tickets; for the other buses, being also patriotic members of the community, have enlisted to do bit” In France by helping wounded and tired warriors to and fro, or taking our men up to the battle line Taxis are f impossible to get and far between, and can only be ed when it a train, bus or tram, These are driven either by men discharged from the army or by dwindled in number, for everybody car women, Delivery vans have home bis own parcels, and —to use somewhat of an Irish phrase—these are again ma y Women, and the horses, from their stride and stop, are fully ce scious of the pride and care their migtresses have taken in them And then the mails, Perhaps the most wonde t lttle—tn fact it is a negligible quantity—disiocat e has b in the delivery and collecting of the malls in En 1 an } womenfolk, who realizo and who know what waiting for a lettor meat to and from those dear one the f t Motor ambulances—you see th 1 ] end . trails of them—sometimes twenty, rty nl arryin men broken and shattered in the battles a the water o doring for the women and children— wee toddler some, bar able to w or talk, and yet subjected to all the horrors of war, in air raids t the “boc refers How thankful Ame particular atrocity ling men, women and ¢ lea should be that she can iren in open t be subject of the German, by day or by night, as wo ar thankful that her children cannot be made into nervous wrecks; thank ful that she can go to bed without wondering on a clear night, “I wonder if the aeroplanes are coming to-night.” Great Britain, with her children, in spite of what she has sacrificed and has yet to ifice, fully determined in fighting this war through to a clean finish, so that in her generation she will never be subjected to such horrible and bloody warfar m, neither her nor her children’s children, Germany failed to realize that it takes a long time to rouse a Briton to wrath, but when he gets going— well, he’s a bulldog and hangs on till the finish, What struck me so much here tn New York were the o by able-bodied men and filled with gayly bedecked women, something or other, flying up and down Fifth Avenue. Hero one might ask with Thoreau It is not enongh to be bosy: so are the ants, YOU BUSY AnOUT? Tho greatest pleasure T hed the other night was at a meeting of the Twillght Club, when T heard announced that 64 of their members had given up their cars for the duration of the war in order to release thelr drivers for war work ip the shipbutlding and munition yards, The waves of cheers! I felt so happy! It is Just magnificent when one aces these fresh examples of the way America ia entering whole heartedly Into the war, determined to put every ounce she has got into the balance, There 1s no doubt Americh {s fast realizing that ship building is the vital question of the hour—and that with go many troops in France, she must have the ships and the wherewithal to feed them Mr. and Mrs, William Curtis Demarest, directly war way declared released thelr chauffeur and put astde thelr car, as they felt this was a way they could economize—for every gallon of petro army and aviation purpose Bainbridge Colity, of President Wilson's there wore hundreds of thousands of people in this country running cars for pleasure, with chauffeurs ied mechanics, and that the help of such mop in our shipyards would be invaluable. Ger many, ho added, 1s powerle and th must be a crushing blow from every man and child in ica Here, as in Groat Britain, T believe, it is the Dithalvarn final test as to whether a nation ia worth anything or not aan not know what we should have done without the women in England," and that same cry (s being echoed here: “We do not know should have done without our Amertean womenfolk bebind y Looking around in the three ars driven intent on WHAT ARF needed for Mr. Shipping Board, said who are s believes s, wer Ame wome the what we short weeks I have beon ho re, surely but gradually I have seen mon released for better services and re placed by womon, Bainbridge Colby wants American women to 14 lease their chauffeurs in the interest of the nation, Why not replace them with women chauffeurs? With @ short, Intensive course, women mako excellent chautteura and are capable of doing running repairs, as proved by the women ot the Women’s Motor Corps of America under Capt. Bastedo In England we women have a motto: “If you can replace a man and release him for the service of the state, do tt.” And then: w you find you can do without the woman, alao, and release her for the service of the state to do munition or farm work do it!” And so the process of the elimination of waste in our a our country’ business goes on . oil ‘ 4