The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1918, Page 18

SWS THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1918 hb * Soldiers in the Trenches Find Food for Laughter In Midst of Grim War — Major Lauchlan Maclean Watt, a Chaplain and a Scots-, man, in His War Book, “The Heart of a Soldier,”’ Tells | of Incidents Which Show That Business of *s War Is Not Without Lighter Side. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall sy out at the front {fs not all a thing of sighing. laughter as well as sorrow—laughter that doea not slam th door on thought of higher things, and thought of tender things and holy which does not close the curtain on Hghtest® laughter, without Which our very souls should perish. And our good-bye ts always— theeri-oh!'" Phat is the happy tntroduction to a newly published war book by a chaplain, a “padre,” which he has called “The Heart of a Soldier.” He himself {s Major Lauc lan Maclean Watt, who first crossed to France on Christ mas Eve, 1914, with a troop of London boys. Later he epent three months in “one of the saddest hospitals in France,” at the Advanced Base, ‘Then he went with the Gotion Highlanders through the Battles of the Somme, |! the Ancre, and the trenches. near Armentteres, and his latest ‘war service was with the worid-famous Black * Watch at Ypres and in the Sallent ! Of course he has been under fire many times and shared tn all the |) hardships of war. But in “The Heart of a Soldier” he modestly leaves out |} fmuch possible autobiography. There are a few bits of tt, as when he wpeaks of leaning over a French balcony in pyjamas and playing the march | |, of the Camerons to welcome a Scottish detachment to thefr fighting in a rtrange land. Mostly it is what Major Watt tells of others which discloses the perils and discomforts he himself has undergone unfiinchingly, \§ Still, as he has pointed out, there Is ee | laughter at the front, and it is the | Observes the author, “than meeting)! dchoes of that laughter in the pages; en past military age who some-| | M “The Heart of a Soldier” which times, for the sake of their boys); most delight the reader. | serving, had slipped into the army, “Our Bex are not bloodthirsty”) Mentally folding down a corner of Major Watt declares. “A friend of their birth certificate over the date,| | nine, after a scrap, saw an example|*Alving thelr consclences, as did one | of that. It nearly cost himself his| ho sald to me: ‘I told them T was iife, as he had to resist the tendency | thirty-four—but T didn't say on what jo Yaugh, for he had been shot birthday.’ ' Through the lungs. A big Scotsman,| “I called on one old woman at im a muddy kilt and with fixed | home, and she told me that ber bus- dayonet, had in his charge a German | band had only the previous day, prisoner who was very unwilling to which was his birthday, gone off to 4 fet @ move on, And Sandy shouted| France, ‘lh,’ sald she, with unction, jut to a comrade on ahead: “Hey,|“he's a guld man, my man. I often THURSDAY, MAY 23 Doing War Work? Show It By Wearing New Badge, Proof of Patriotism Badges of Honor for War Workers MANUFACTURERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ADOPTING DESIGN FOR MEN AND WOMEN| a anal SHOWING IN WHAT GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES THEY ARE DOING THEIR BIT. Perera AER Ue Dore t earn Ceara ance, eT baieaiaatoniibkeaite susie eer ee i antaen eneyie titanic a or Helping Turn Out Supplies for the Navy, Newly De- : i aE i signed Badges Will Be the Insignia of Your Ser- 4 vice in Uncle Sam’s Big Industrial Army. | MERICAN patriotism has found new expression in the creation of A A an honor badge for the workman who is helping to win the war by 4 doing his job—and doing it thunderingly well—in shop or factory, The bronze medal on the plain blouse may be worn as proudly as the shining decoration on the soldier's khakt j The idea originated with Lieut, Cohle, stationed at Hartford, Conn, | It was his first intention to use buttons and badges that would serve as marks of identification for machine gun workers, The number of the worker wearing the button or badge was to be engraved on the reverse side ad correspond with his payroll number, It likewise answered as @ pass to the munition works. he original design was slightly modified by the Gorham Company and subsequently adapted to the use of other manufacturing concerns engaged in war work. This design incorporated the American Eagle in jcombination with a workman, tools of his trade in hand, and carried the | name of the concern issuing the medal. Certain concerns had individual {etic designs prepared. | ‘These badges and buttons Instantly became popular and were adopted in the plants of the Marlin-Rockwell Corporation, New Haven, Conn., and | their subsidiary factories. ‘The Winchester Repeating Arms Company, |New Haven, Conn.; the Colt Patent Firearms Company, Meriden, Conn.; the William J, Oliver Company, Knoxville, Tenn.; the Pennsylvania Trojan | Powder Company, Allentown, Pa; the Sandusky Foundry and Machine Company, Sandusky, O., and the Rome-Turney Radiator Company, Rome, N. Y., have also supplied thelr workmen with bronze medals of various designs. The distribution of workmen's war badges received the hearty indorse ment of the War Department at Washington. It urged upon manufactur. + ers who are turning out ordnance material the adoption of an emblem for their workinen. ‘The plan has already been brought to the attention of over 3,000 plants of this character. { RIGHT HERE-IN NEW YORK. | < , With So Many Different Styles to Pick From, a Man Can RD 4 q Easily Select a New Straw Hat —If _— : a | His Wife Isn't With Him! By Hazel V. Carter SFY RI EO ' t ' f cS BADGE, FOR WORKER: D) WHO PORN GOT NAVY SOPPUES | + ORKER \Y2ED BY WORKERS IN FACTORY. SIGN BY GEO. T BREWSTER] BADGE FOR THOSE went ‘pip' into the parados. brought the rations to the waiting} Wms east and west and to and fro, He bombards the works with a : : suff, Ho tried ‘em narrow and he! And found her skirt too short + “He paid no attention to it, for, of] trench. Leas than that has got a| barrage of zum zums, Why Does Shaking the Head |'* on\y another way of saying “shall tried ‘em wide, But they were all! We pad astother Joyful thrill sourse, that was only a bit of the] D, C. M. before now. There 1s a bass ‘cello operator {n every moving picture theatre. Mean “No”? be Please made for some other John Wheo abs appearea : ° al vhiel r erica q ¥ a VO F ,, > . Pi in court, lar's work, But when another came,| ‘The Heart of a Soldier” 1s pub-| Which is a reminder that the American family 18 taking Its moving | Why Do We Blush When Em-| He watched other fellows walk oft urt he thought it was an attention which] shed by George H. Doran Company,| pictures in habit forming quantities, No day 1s considered offictal HE origin of this method of Indl] 0 an Je | With a satisfied smile and he looked | We want new uniforms for her little too far. 80 oo and under control unless the whole family absorbs at least one dozen cating “No” 1s found in the re- bit @é | at their satisfied lids that snuggled| No night work. oniy deeatt @ ee ee ee ain aad : p | reels of celluloid. And they take their cellulotd very seriously. mils of the mosher'e eftorte in When Angered? | close to thelr heads, He wondered | Why not, some Kind Retorne he called a Scotsman to him an Separating Eggs With al i | the animal kingdom of trying to feed f f clos 8. J y not, s Kind Reformer, sald: ‘Go out, Jock, and nail that as | Years ago when butter was almost as cheap as beefsteak, and yer young. A mother animal would| “M¥thing that will make your heart why he brought his wife. Suggest a little raise? egger’ : Funnel | peotsteak was almost as cheap as eggs, which were so cheap that you | tm trving to wet her young to accept | *2M4 Af extra supply of blood into the, —— oe — —— ’ “Jock crawled out, glad of the di- © you ever have diMeutty in| could get two eggs for 1 cent, two omelettes out of one egg and have | the food she brought them and triea| “teres and veins which supply your ; ; M B R ‘; d ‘eg version, stalked the enemy, ‘winged’ rating the white of an egg| the other egg left over to egenog with, a girl was satisfed to marry a | to put it in their mouths. Perhaps,| j.0) With Plood will make you blush. Lusitania ay e alse FE him, and was running up to “feenish’ from its yolk? Here is a way} guy who had a Job, knew what a toothbrush was and had a grand- | however, the young animal had had] |), assent will de Shie fe will b N . ¥ 1 anger, generally, altho 101 imeés e him, when the German held up his} of doing it that will save you t father who slept with his shoes on, Zum, zum. But now, since the | sufficient food or did not fancy the} ious) poe a pape ae eins y. ew Salvage Ship 4 arma and cried, ‘Mercy, Englehman!’|2%¢ & the present high price of ¢ chickens have been educated by the movies, no frail would think of uw Shae see Shad AN ‘ll driven out of their faces. In this is not unlikely that one of the/light, capable of tiuminat : But Jock replied, ‘Merey? Ye dinna marrying a bird unless ho had cuffs Ike Doug Queerpranks, a vest | ‘int do Under the olcumstancel] case they are so angry that thei first great undertakings after the] water for a distance of thirty feet ne Ms hy -, 1 7, y vould be to clos he mo. nt and ¢ 2 0! 7 fleserve nae mercy. Ye've missed oor lke Francis X. Pushwa, and hair like Lou Tellegum, Zum zum. ante ihe seek tees GAs a5 Lanny to | Neart Practically has stopped beating,,. War will be the raising of the|more, and by means Ohne ation ; Colonel twice!’ And mother drags the old man forcibly to the movos, with the | prevent the mother from forcing the| _> 4 | Lusitania, The vessel carried a huge | me fat below, the surface, will die | “It is told of Jock,” Major Watt result that the old man only gets there four jumps ahead of her, She | food into the mouth. Thus we got Paris Under Fire. jereenure to the Bote. OF he tel ioe Mies ree. What ite eet ae further chronicles, “that on another nits there mentally comparing her poor old hubby with Will Hart. | the closed lips and the shaking the BODE un eat dae hac a halt Pole tien Gnoonemerie ine yee |e located, a bowertul stream of wane | une a halt)o: ich $2,000, gold and Bil-/ will be fore bi 4 occasion, when a German held up | Hubby fs easily defeated without waiting to hear from the returns | head trom side to side to m Of the lonesdlmance bomel ver Srase acd counert’s like amiaunt| oleae BWA the Pri u the rod, to Hl his hands, after a good deal of dirty {rom California, What chance has an old bird, who never rode any- | In other Words, that kind of a w bardment of Paris, an officer |jn jewelry and other personal valus|¢d high around the lowe cygt® diiel> work with them, and said ‘Mercy. thing more dangerous than a swivel chair or a flivver, against the guy | saying “No” camo from an effort tol of the Red Cross went out to get|abios; $5,000,000 In negotiable and| yh eu? Cptous perpendic Unglishman! 1!) go to England with | who rides four wild bronchos at one time with one behind each ear? say “I don't want any Bis lunch, notes a writer In the New unregistered securities in the ship's}sunk, two on pak Ae Hs t h , , tepubl ar! ad jus verse: saris Walia’ 5,000, a eh ido o e i you,’ Jock replied grimly and coolly, Zum zum |Why Does a Nod of the Head|®*Puviec. Paris nad just traversed |vault, and a cargo valued at $5,000,-) and to them will be ‘attuched. husy ‘Maybe, but ye see, that’s no exactly "The only ointment in the fly which is in the ointinent fs that the barl- | Mean “Yes? “ty Ae nua id SrA Sir 000, Much of the latter ts believed | i) chr Disiine under tho sunken hull. bi a af moment of mystery; ordered s " ured, a 1 readines 8 va whaur I'm gaun to send ye.” tone half of the family can step fifty-fifty on that comparison stuff. maalid @ ncaa t Yes’ | cellars in br a, Hf ylight, it retin etediaiacyete | Bay be lifted to the surfac emt , 4 oy lea of nodding to mean “Yes"'| °eliar oad daylight, ‘ould | ae a Ayr raping wound Another of Major Watt's amusing While wifey 18 comparing hubbo with Francis X. Bushwa, lil" old | | The Wes of nouline to Tewn Nien jh aplte. Of Br'l0glo: explosion (coun Sens wien om she anithing | SG RRR eeunG Ie hep un bo ree comes fro! © Oppo: of the 0 in s | sands he bottom of St, George’s| Ba!red and the ship floated tales with a Highland tang is of the | husband can match the wiff up against Mary Pickleford or Theda |‘iicn, an just described, indicates a{“iscern a single “Gotha” in the em- eee jee Herat OF Ah, MSSTaS AL tiie ta but an Outline ae eA root who was giving his impressions Whooals, the celluloid vamp, Wifey would win the contest if warts “No. When the young animal was|PYrean or hear a single French de aa Paninaad RannpHians vata at thin feetee p meter | feature be- of the French, “'D'yo ken’ ”-—thus | counted. Zum zum, anxious to accept the offered food it|fensive shot, Hut news of the long-|4"un 9o an entirely new type of aul: | rie thane tor the, pontoons, queth the Scot—“ ‘what an auld wife| | Sister and her sweety spend the evenings in the movos, where | made an effort to get at the food ie wee now aaron’ already |vage ship bas been designed by a fare Ethene ay, Weather without ree had the impudence to say to me?| food, will also save you money, says| sweety gets sore because the nickel chocolate machines won't faly for | quickly. Hence the pushing forward ne boulevards were in move. |marine engineer, Carl J, Lindquist.| Nor will they yong fe Bays she, “You Scotch is every bit as|the Ilustrated World, A small fun | & pewter Jitney and sister looks at the movo hero and mentally trades | of the head and the open mouth and d the old woman who ‘At the surface it will be onl out | the raising of the Lasitante Wh bad as the Germans.” Fancy that,| nel will do the trick, even if the egg) him for alx dozen fish like her sweety, while sweety aims his flat [am expression of gladness, You will] Mewspapers at the Kiosk opposite inirty feet in length and halt that |acean be Lot the west coast of Europe noo! But of course I was liftin’ ane] !# nono too fresh, When broken and{ halibut eye at the heroine, who has sister faded to a whisper, Zum [Notice if you see any one nod the) “cood-morning, madame. 1 haven't |i Width, but sweeping a mnvata re, in 150 feat of weter Neate the o' her hens at the time, and that wad | 2opped into the large end of the fun-| gum, ‘They all sprain their eyes looking at the intricate movie | hetd to indicate “Yes” that the lps! heard that famous gun of yours MM WHIT APP SBMORANG, 10: 8 h # $7,000,000 cargo: ¢ maybe mak’ a difference.’ nel, the white slips through, leavin arn lauvwithy healtlfal se 1 oft t bay Reniy are open rather than closed and that/st least half an hour—have you?"|jength of 300 feet, and which is|tMe Healdton, an American ship : Hig ebony be the yolk unbroken in the funnel, Kowplen: with heay are and elbows Bub they eenerally wind Up | (ere ia usu A smile or an indica-|**ked the officer ; mounted on big wheels, resting upon 0 worth of goods to the “Nothing could be more pathetle,| jitter can then be poured out as de.} >Y Marrying a hick who has an expression like a quolt, but works | tion of a amile to ac pany Ite Int meg eyoules:vous, monsteur! Faut) i. bed of the sca hottom off the Duteh coast. while but 4 Deen at Whe same pe funnier,” grou steady at his profession, which ls crocheting boilers. Zum cum, wer words, the bod to menu “Nes” juachi" ' MS) Near the bottom 19 4 large searcis Aruble took her tutal plengat® 8 lock, he winna steer, What'll I dac wt’ him?” But Jock, busy driving Ma own man forward, just answered, over bis shoulder, ‘Bring him wi rou! “Both of these men had the sweat of conflict not yet dry upon them. But they never for an instant thought, as the German would have Mought mors readily, of driving the sic a man, a ie." | “‘And yesterday was his birthday” I tnqutred. ‘And how old was he? ‘He was fifty-eight,’ was her answer. But when I asked how this modern rival of George Washington had got into the army, she innocently replied ‘Ye see, he said he was thirty-twa!’” think I was a lucky woman to have!) D'ye ken—he never told) ( | WHS WORK ON MACHINE GONS There Once Was a Fellow, Zum Zum, Who Played ona ’Cello, Zum Zum. But He BADGE FOR MARINE y ' HARD WARE WORKERS|/ | MAN stepped into a Fifth] A Avenue shop the other day! to buy a hat—a straw hat. The shop was crowded with men | buying hats—straw hats. them looked happy and their hats | fitted happily on their heads. Others looked sad—and their hats looked sadder. They looked as if they had been adopted into the wrong home. Some of) Then he picked a winner, It looked like a trench helmet and it felt heavier. But out of the cor- ner of his eye the John-in-the-mirror beheld the face of the wife It | beamed. | Straightening his tle and wielding his cane, wearing a mean and im- posing look and trying to decide that | it wasn’t the hat band that gave him dayonet into that reluctant foe, Of] One of the elders is the hero of Wasted His Art, for He Played a la Carte From a Menu of Only Zum Zum. From | ‘The man who stepped into the|the horrible headache——Jobn ad- sourse one does occasionally find the} one of Major Watt's most stirring "es le y ry y } . 0 shop looked worried. His wife was. vanced to the Jury, yd grim warrior still, quite con-| stories, He was s piper attached to This We Pass by Easy Stages to the Movies, Where, Stacked Up Against a Film with him. | “How does it look?” he asked tent, under hard circumstances, find-| the field transport service of the Flapper or a Celluloid Vamp, Wifie Would Win the Contest if Warts Counted, “And you must select one that's | hopefully ng, indeed, the conditions a kind of| Gordon Highlanders—a service, says and Where the Girls in the Audience Sprain Their Eyes Looking at the Movie becoming this year, John,” she was| “Oh, John, {t's a dear!” she ex- real relief after the rust of peaceful| Major Watt, seldom appreciated but consoling him, claimed. “You look just too cute Says. This same friend, going one aight along the trenches, almost thigh-deep in mud, came upon & grizzled Irishman, O'Hara, cowering in the rain, ‘Isn't this a damnable war, O'Hara” said he. ‘Thrue for you, sir,’ was the unexpected reply; ‘but, sure, isn’t it better than having ao war at all in chapter— there is a Joyous story of an unpopular Colonel “He did not know,” writes Major Watt, “the depths of his unpopularity, put, deeming himself the best be- loved among his contemporaries, he was perfectly happy. One day, while he was sitting in front of h's dug- out reading an old newspaper, & suiper’s bullet passed quite close and the same the men of which are “brave as any who have ever faced danger in the dark.” One night, when these men were taking up rations to those in the first Hine of defense, “one of our oldest men, @ piper, who had left a good, easy situation in London and rejoined for the war—a man nearer sixty than fifty—-showed the stuff that was in him, They were going up the ‘duckboards’ when a shower of shrapnel came over, and every- body at once took cover. “Where have they gone to?’ asked the Quartermaster, And the piper leapt forward and cried, ‘Come on, you beggars! Follow me, and I'll show you how a Gordon goes through that.” The men rallied to the ery, and went up through it all and Kewpies but Wind Up by Marrying Some Hick With an Expression Like a Quoit. BY ARTHUR (“ BUGS”) BAER. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) HE Government may be authentic in its desire to eradicate all I the non-essentials and loafers from the tournament, but yon notice that the bass ‘cello players are still dangling around on the fringes of theatre orchestras. All a bass ‘cello player does 1s to hang around the suburbs of an orchestra and flirt with the blonde in row D, whose husband is off to Europe making the world safe for ‘cello players to flirt in with blondes in row D whose husbands are fighting in Europe. A ‘cello chauffeur doesn't have to know any more about muste than a cinnamon bear does about excess income tax rates. All he does Is to drag a mean bow across an alphabet of strings on his ‘cello while the trombone players blow all the buttons off their vests. Which {s the funny thing about an orchestra, The trombone players do all the work and the leader takes the credit. There are only about two notes on a bass ‘cello. zum. Doesn't make any difference what the musie ts, laborer does Is to zum zum, He zums back and he zums forth, They are both all the ‘cello He They have a great time of It at the movies, and almost forget that there are dishes to wash back in the old five-room apartment, four rooms of which are closets without the hooks, while the fifth 1s a regu- lar closet, hooks and all. Zum zum, They lamp the Jazz Comedy players tossing lemon meringue ammupition at one another for six long reels of celluloid and pies. Pie follows pie. Reel two follows reel one. Reel three follows reel two. Reel four follows reel three. Reel five follows reel four. Reel six follows reel five, and the family goes flatwheeling home thankful that reel six can't follow ‘em out tho door, Zum, zum. ee 9 The Reason “Why. Scientific Facts Applying to Questions You Should Be Able to Answer. Jobn started on panamas. The first one gave him a rakish air that evidently pleased John-in-the-mir- ror, He glanced over at bis wife. She shook her head. | ‘Then he tried on one that rolled up just a little all around—like a |pan. John-in-the-mirror looked |foolish. And his wife giggled. | Ragingly he picked up one that dipped in the front, He looked like a thug. And his wife drew back. So did John, He fingered his old gray felt lov- ingly. It seemed so his own—so a part of him—and each moment he grew more attached to it. But his | wife shook her head, And Jobo turned to a new lot. He tried ‘em soft and he tried ‘em | for anything!” John is wearing his old gray felt, Chicago {s doing away with dou, nuts during the war—hole and all, | There'd be no Joy in Living | In these days of fuss and fret If we couldn't find some brand new | _ fault | With the fatr Conductorette, “Her foot's too big,” “Her voice too loud,’ “She weighs too much, by far,” And then we read our paper While shi ruggles with the car, When we'd finished knocking her puttees plunge, ‘ q