The evening world. Newspaper, June 5, 1918, Page 16

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1918 , se 8, S WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1918 Soldier Frankly ‘Afraid’ Star Spangled Banner . Often Hero Under Fire; & Real ‘Wedding March’’ Action His Real Test Could You Conquer Your Own Fear in Battle? | ~~ OF 1918 June Brides |SERGT. BALDWIN WAS “AFRAID,” BY HIS OWN ADMISSION YET UNDER FIRE HE PERFORMED 5 Mehta FEATS THAT BORE THE STAMP OF BRAVERY. They're Not Wasting Money on Who Composed Strains That j E/ f ° Hie Zeal for Duty May Overcome His “Funk,’’ Impel Him to Volunteer for Dangerous Missions and “Carry On” | aoe pe | Accompany Them Down the Aisle—They’re Busy in Battle With the Bravest, Says Sergt. Baldwin se Listening to the Call to Give and Serve in’ in “Holding the Line. | Their Country's Cause. { By Marguerite Mooers Marshall AN a soldier be afraid? ( “Yes!” frankly and boldly answers Sergt. Harold Ba rere author of “Holding the Line.” Yet his whole tensely interesting ook is an unconscious revelation of the fact that a fighting man may suffer from the uttermost degree of funk and yet earn the right to hold up his head with the bravest; that he may stamp on his fear not once but a hundred times, “hold the Ine," volunteer for highly dangerous duty and tn the end not only valiantly but cheerfully endure the pain of a serious wound and the knowledge of life long crippling for the service of his country Not even stopping to change his overalls and don a coat, Sergt. Baldwin hurried elghty miles to the nearest recruiting station from his ranch in Northwestern Canada early in August, 1914, He was only 6 feet 4 inches tall—two inches under the required army height, “I may be small, but it is concentrated stuff,” he told the army doctor, then lied unashamedly about previous military service till he was accepted; although as “Shorty,” Runt” and “Bub” he had to stand unmerciful teasing from his comrades and most unwelcome pity from kind-hearted women who thought “the child” shouldn't have been allowed to enlist until he had “stopped growing,” He went to France with the first * om division of the Canadian Expedi-|tlon. He helped withstand seVeral tionary Force. Barly in 1915 he went, German charges, volunteered to crawi through the nell of Ypres, when the) “most to their lines in order to Aa: Germans used gas for the first time) Ut What move they planned next, re- and ¢heir artillery far outclassed that mained for days under one of the most of the Allies. His special job was|44ngerous and nerve-rac that of company runner, detailed to) bardments of the entire war carry messages along the front, often| At Yser Canal he was stunned and under sharp fire, when telephone unconscious for sixtesn communications had been put by the by the explosion of @ huge sheil~this enemy. Hoe took part in tie terrific hi oi bi psn on _continuonsly fighting along the Ys Charging |) lee Me he mtuicke It out, al- over the top, his left foot was com-) | 0NRB Ne ae mite that his handy and pletely smashed by an explosive WA ants avi che for days. After a jet, and he lay for a day and a night pit viet mile ro’ ho and only a in @ ashell-hole in no man's land. PP ( aise ete was ant in ‘There was a shortage of stretchers vr gonad Sirs y-pressed force and finally, with his foot hanging by Jo, \ rr a shred of skin, ho was carried out) (0) i uiP UP over the rough ground on the backs sul of his comrades. After several oper-| |) ations, each time josing @ part of h leg, he was discharged from the hos- pital—of course incapacitaiod for fur- ther service—and he is now in Amer- joa working for the British-Canadian "Reoruiting Mission. And at the end of “Holding the Lime” be can say “in all humbler of spirit and with a deep sens of T8| trons, and was fortitying it wh gret that I was not permitted to 40) 9,00 aimout jite ’ more than I did, that if I had it to do) ga. pin over again and knew beforehand that| wagon readers may em 1 was going to be maimed, a8 1 DAVE! oowargice,” he conclude heen, I would still go and thank God) wine je those whe for the opportunity of going.” | men die in b Yet alwaye this hero was MeHUNK) 46 brave, 1 am not, and in additiny fear, “It 1s a peculiar sensation 0/1 nave always had a repugnanee tor find yoursel¢ under fire for tho frst/agnting. 1 am afraid in an ordinnes time,” he says, describing DIS fr¥t/ ent and can always in tay darned maroh into the trenches, when bullets] fee} the impact of a fist landing with fell around him, “A man fecls utterly |q sickening crunch on ny. festures helpless, and at first he will duck hi8! pefore the war 1 have often, only be head at every whit he hears. Of| sheer effort of will, kept myaclf from| course ducking Is useless, because It] fainting at the killing of a hog you hear the whiz of the pill, or the] «imag By Nixola Greeley-Smith ‘ | S there going to be a slump in June brides? ‘| John Philip Sousa has launched an attack against the greatest of all our summer industries—the June wedding—by urging young Ameri- cans not to get married to the customary strains of Wagner and Mendels» sohn, now enemy music, but to wait until he has come posed a special all-American wedding march. “Don't propose until I compose,” Mr, Sousa has been quoted as saying, for he believes that any young woman who walks to the altar to the choppy musfc of “Here Comes the Bride” should be liable to prosecution ander the Seditiou Act, Now, I do not mind admitting that, doubtless through peculiar defect of the brain, I am unable to see the . point or value of the sauerkraut patriotism which has acecteerr compelled Mr. Hoover to declare that this valuable food product is probably of Dutch—not German—origin, though I've never eaten sauerkraut in my life. 4nd I am inclined to feel that energy spent in denouncing music and the teaching of certain languages might be better employed in making munitions or parts of airplanes or ships if not In fight. ing at the front. Nevertheless, I am willing to wait the happy hour of Mr. Sou march, But will the June brides be? ET tT WAS HE WHO,AS If I were going to be a June bride I think I should tell myself that COMPANY RUNNER. CARRIED music has no more nationality than lightning, and that the particular com- MESSAGES THROUGH THE poser who published it to the world is merely the lightning rod that con- Lnanhminndit dnd Mtntde- here ducted it to earth, And I should feel that Wagner would turn over im his ave at being classed ‘by Mr. Sousa with Mendelssohn, whom he derided in “Judaism in Music,” an essay written with dynamite ig bom- But if I were a June bride [ should women who are expected to get off the sidewalk that a man {in uniform for the guests, anyhow, and thit may pass: sen whose husbands ide sh ves first at table; women melodies sweeter and who black the shoes of their come un have ever been composed | placent husbands and sons, RENCH COVERED WITH ¥ H by mere musicians, I should know| ‘Why can't American women stay COWD SWEAT — that the central figures in a wedd untry? They are al- move to the music of the spheres, / ways telling us it is the paradise of that trumpets speak from their glow- | women,” asks a cynic in “The Pleture ing eyes, cymbals sound in their | of Dorian racing bl and that any other) “It is a paradise, That is why, ely (© like Eve, they are so excessively bring the hard, cold, djgéllusione anxious to get out of it,” is the Jeer- wedding guests up to the nuptial ing rejoinder know that the music at weddings ts we brides and ar in their serve thems: HE CROUCHED IN THE BOTTOM oF HIS FIRST own rarer t in their own ¢ more he avers, “I bluff that 1 wos melodies are provided =m he ran messages up and down | 16 column under heavy shellfir when relieved from a working party | ‘up front” he could not sleep until he had protested aguinst the order und| had Jt confirmed with much mock | | sternness; he risked death again in a | hazardous trip with a wounded man| to @ dressing station, and he charged over no man's land to an enemy! mood | No anxiety of this sort is apparent Heaven pity the br who does not to-day among A: an women, but go to thea nce of lov® many persons can live in paradise and delight. For her the road will | without finding it out, and there wit! prove heavy and difficult, and sio|be a few June brides who will have will weary and falter before the end. } given conscious thought to the benefi- The brides of this June must know |cence of being born an Amertean a special ecstasy, for instead of! wor dreaming the rosy and unvarying ‘o-day the June bride stands at little | the summit of her life. In this month home, children, an automobile, | of roses and raptures she sees all larger home, more gowns, social men as horoes, all women as heroines triumphs and the rest. They have a nows that all the great wars new vision of patriotism, sacrifice, of been fought, the great pogms immolation perhaps when the bride-| written, the gr pictures painted, groom must go back to his camp and the great deeds done that she and the to the perils and mischance of war. | Inco 4 I may These brides, I think, might prefer | consi quite commonplace might to hear familiar patriotic airs, ike | come together. You and I, base un- “America” and “The Star Spangled | believers that we are, doubt whether Banner,” to which our lives are #e*/the destinies of nations will be rather than new music, For they/ changed when her newly fledged will pass from the altar to the Red| Second 1 na Cross rooms, and if they drop thelr| But she sees the | knitting for soldiers and sailors, it 13) full rout before hit ar in this t n one ly was shot trom un- an, dreams of peace—dreams of a at simply; have not seen You perhaps may| able Being you nt gets to France, erman Arinies in She does not v6 then, after having naa| report of the rifle, you are still UN-/experience with the killing and maim-| touched, but every man who has ever] ing of strong men, after having ween| 4 CHARGED OvER. AND\RISKED DEATH INA Jonly for the brief duration of thelask why life is, wh is fon kaa experienced this will tell you that hel young boys mangled and dying, heard| [oom “NO-man'sS LAND® TO BAZAR DOUS TRIG WETH Eiiifiit| ceremony- | Ah te Spins, DOcauEe: he. RAGES AEA ven knowlug wines ERENT 5 CAPTURG AN ENEMY UNDED ih) i And while theso June brides—| all the ages are justified, all the rid could not help ducking even knowiug|the pitiful cry of lonely, wounded! fin, TREN Ctr DRESSING STATION — , all the ride how useless it was. I went so far AS/taddies from the b are'anay al ered in her own heart, ackness of no . | ‘ 1 ° y . - ~~» | men they have chosen for themselves | that the stars were lighte to put up my shoulders to cover my/man's land at night, the gasp for HidenGutbthntat men they h © stars were lighted for her jaws as if in a boxing stunt.” ‘mother’ from some expiring stalwart, ° 4 go to tae altar—unlesa she aes edding ord the whole scheme of Be eri nastics eonveving (ie 'aianeh, the liken tear ne Ci ar Store Gossi I inpetheusande of young German | doware plotted that there might be the wounded to the rear, and instant-|SWeated with horror at the thought! g p | women will be entering into compul- Later on, perhaps, A. Gaui 1 ly his vivid imagination prompted |of being vent into it again. Yet, thank ory marriages recommended by &]come as ' ar baa him to wonder, shiveringly, “how long|God, ! hold the respect of my sur ; re » whether the “ges really vivin " a es - rm a A a : a Government commission to all per-| converged to that polnt of light watore woule ve ae eo of eee ae or eane ae those in Val- To a Cigar Store: Gossiper Other Folks’ Affairs Are Just as Private as the Sub- \ |ons reaching ite age of nineteen: | Wores yot, she may. wonder whats uoys! A058 klnd of ‘home. ans elcome ‘Bobkie’ when he " hi : 5 my n le 11 enjoy for a month the extra| her bridegroom {4 really the mother’ fesling in my stomach," he) Joins them. way at Rush Hours—The Chip-or-Git Proclamation Is Going to Tear an Ba ee ual vp) & veanvoleatimi¥?| reason whe ihe slaty anice ate adds, naively ell they may. For surely the Awful Hole in the Profession—-The Loafer Whose Wife Hasn't a Trade Is ernment to the new recruits of its|winds shake the petals from J ‘ h poly om June But did he really flinch? On the bravest of all soldiers is he who has ° ~, : 9 ’ , } a tock farm poppies, contrary! “The door of a bouse|@" ‘magination, yet can get o etran. Between the Nippers and the Calipers, if Starvation Doesn’t Get Him the [nee Senast od ASianea take furl But wie erlll Navan ADURETAS tae opened and a woman came out and |sle-hold on it, Jail House Will. | granted the honor in which they aro|that tho remembered radiance of @tood calmly watching us pass, only| “Holding the Line” ts published by 200 yards from our own front lines |A- C. McClurg & Co, and 300 yards from the Germans. . > And there I was trying to make my-/ Shrapnel Won Battle of It does not occur to them that | these shining a 5 | held. ays will cease to make BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. anywhere in the world there are'her pathway clear and straight, Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) loafers must do something to earn the duily biscuits, and the new law REAT increase in marriages due to the war simply proves the is keeping husbends busy finding enough family washes to keep 'C) Sold Pl y Ba: b ll thsir-wives buns ur fers © tay seDda self as small as a midge and she See ne Ceimiy. rect plangh | Waterloo Old adage among the natives of the Souse Sea Islands that ope | Somebody in the family has to bring home the files instead of bullets were fiying ue fA waa iaha’ th anninan” {hla euanans af Sclbink cinee sweet cookies, and the man who married a wife who hasn't got a bd around, Tho! I, 2 that worien test of shfapnel was| smeng | trade is between the nippers and the calipers. If starvation doesn't | ere oman gions am d can stand like that, surely I can at made in England 116 years| Cigar store loafers and other military experts that the Kaiser | got him the jailhouse will, He hasn't got any more future than the | h least walk erect.’ I did so, but it was! if ae way a Samarastee of can't have much up his sleeve, as they are wearing sleeves very tight backbone of @ boneless herring. . G OOD American cheers ac wi hours Bb Sope, of Purlous hostilities ple ” sh army men reported favo: 7 so e run which cleared, to three weeks when there is at dead bed rably through on the invention af thelr relhag | this season, Any young man looking for a splendid chance should bust The cigar sanitarium experts admit that the chip-or-git procla- 3 ing & home run whi ie ine Ranine o lull te © honorab hrough his eno! 7 ” Z 7 awful hol » base: won the base- F 4 MEE ues <. she seaman: han | t Henry Shrapne! after whom| open a real estate office on the Island of St. Helena. Rea © will soon mation is going to tear an awful hole in the profession of leaning the bases and : | Blaborate prep one: have shane eel ies app lapenined pied @ deadly missile was nameu.} ev eatrineeiiere:: kavant oroussita’ ceibeen arias i The’ carding your chair back against the curb and blowing cigar smoke through | pall championship of one of Per! made to meet the de- andy tor ehanes hard training as a company runner, |2?T4Pnel was first employed in war- | : i ‘A your false teeth. The only loophole is to shoot a barrage of imper- | ghing's crack divisions may already | of scene and amusement of our mer- hie regiment took the front line at |< Surinam in 1804, and fylly faced gent with the hatrack mustaches who imagines he is Naboleon fecto smoke through your ears and establish a smoke sereen through have resounded over a field which ‘They will be billetted tn quiet moun. ets hs Vary Vawinnine af the trated ity usefulness, Soon| Der Twice is about due to fester on that burg until Kid Gabriel chins which no flat-eyed cop can waddle. ‘The old corner eigar stores have | once ecaoed to the tread of Roman | tain villages and allowed to enjoy awful bombardment, with not a Brit at all the nafions of Europe! @ meen foxtrot on his vid jazzaphone, Old Naboleon Der ‘Cwicer been in the works ever since Columbus discovered that three aces beat | jegions, The district to which our eee 8 as their tastes dictate . experimenting with ne new | ‘ store loafe: : fa ; e | © sent fol scuperation | Athletic equipment ts provided ish gun to reply hsm pai le Nee the new has his toes aimed in that direction now. He is guing to sign the ‘wo smal! pair, A ¢ r st ale merely an old lady who wears / soldiers are sent for a uber a eye Ry nagU 3% provided for Pela, Gapiie raters,” He writen | ores et cee on ome ene come) ieee acon oe the Allies clnue the wall paper: to natok suspenders instead of corsets and shaves his whiskers instead of tal- | after a period of trench duty is in| lit Mio Ke in for sports, others in “Holding the Line,” “were ie ed th arian) ot, ths Baitle| lease just as 6 c 8 change the wall paper to match the cum his nose, There ain't anything that goes or Hmps in the | the French Alpine revlon of the De 1 Seen ies eal ie ‘ Ne urioal . some e 1 nd again a shr bis aterloo, declared tha rrapnel's | oria arts ol is 8 orig om ploxio: » will oceup pes riment of Savoy, ¢ to the Swiss | and swim, while all abor everywhere; now and again as s nel's imperial warts on h imp-erial complexion. He i py the village that the cigdr store chinsters don’t know. They are the | Part” nt € avoy it put them or an oath told that some ntion was responsible for the : | t t srder end a section of great natural] {8 @ beautiful and interesting eoune xen ‘stricken Gown: our 1 t » victory, and that without it| **me set of pajamas that the regular Napoleon inhabited, the only birds who get bunions on their noses from poking ‘em into other | setae TD montaine many vellon of) 17 (0 OuDiors coun. ‘wore crumbling like matchwood; put | N#@Peleon would have triumphed | change being that the name of St, Helena will be shortened to just folks’ busin To @ cigar stor iper other folke’ affuirs are | 1 imperial armies which 2,000 years| Tho best known town tn Savoy ts ail‘ we could do was to wait pnel has been used with deadiy | plain St. Hell, Long may she wave! just as private as the subwdy at rush hour, One of those birds can [1 5, rougnt against our present enemy, | Alx-les-Bains, famous for ita miner ittetas tine Auet*ichsat fol) ved in the present war, Henry Tua nid lumber Todinn Wao einnde Galarokiod oul in font of the poke his nose in a space where you couldn't drive a needle with a | tye barbarians of the Rhine. baths, to which our soldiers are ade g tear, That soul-gripping inaction el entered the Royal artillery ‘ f eat sledge hammer. They all worship old St, Rumor, And, taking the | Our Allies have found that men go} mitted at a small charge, In Chum ag . age cigar clinic w a flock of timber cigars cluteher . ' | : } very os ‘ took all manhood away from me as | d served with the Duko| Village cigar clinic with wu f of timber cigars clutched in bis no-loafing law with a chaser of water on the side, it’s just as well | stale when kept too long in the front|bery may be seen tho castle of the erouched in the bottoin of the trene ke BeOY 18 Finder It was| wooden mitt can’t gure why tho publishing of baby carriages should that the corner cigar store jury is to be abolished by work. Now, a | line trenches, The strain of waiting | Dul 8 of Savoy, dating back to the trying with might and main to : bi a 1 oF ‘ ; eucitan siege of! be cancelled because of the production of airplanes Th ds ma- guy with a secret orchard in his life can keep it seeret. While con- | for attack, the endie 9, datring con a as ntury, and the Roman arch, a M aonoerne elt dead) ,. Dunkirk which ted Shrapnel to begi ssion 0! e shells anc discom- | lasting memorlal of t) pear unconcerned. I felt deadly ; Mle nel to begin} nogany Mohawk figures that airplanes are no anore important than ceding that secret orchards are generally lemon orchards, why should | cussion of th and the discom- | luatin morlal of the triumphs of ger on every band and my face and the experiments which resulted in i : + “(i P yegt forts of living in such cramped quar-}T. Pompeius Campanus. Not tar a ses/al ith cold. aweat,'! the invention of the ease shot now | eitplanes, ‘The sentiment 1s excellent. ‘There are millions of ways the world know that the reason Miss Goofus wears high collars is that [fers are more than flesh and blood}away is Challes-loe-Faux, also oer Yot it waggierst. Baldwin who « versally known by his name, In| of wearing out shoes, and if a gu wnts to wear out bis sandals | she has a wart on her neck big enough to sink a U boat?) Warts ar. | can endure, s0, after a period of duty | brated for its hot bat nd here th ried message back to the drossing was granted @ pension of Rice A bal rat ‘ confidential, But the old cigar store jury knew everything and saw 4) 21 the front, each division is ordered |Y. M. C. A. hus secured control of ation, running two or three hundrod | $8000 a yea addition to his arm pushing & Deby carriage, let tho perspiration be on his owo head: everything, Which is remarkable, considering how deaf they are when | ¢, the rear, “in repose," for rest and theatre and a casino, to wilenthe ards through the shell-swept open py ane adit ith ‘ rank | Another way of unravelling your broga o KY rapidly away the factory whistle buzzes, and how near-sighted they are when old entertainment, ‘Troops are kept on] American uniform wing adcalteaaen MMONME GAVGCLE 10 ryacly bis destinu- yo loig, | (yom Worl Wlugh be bery gputegious uo uduym Hurbandy uy: r fo Gua Work Robles by, WA a Cour crutehes in igh Bear, \ phe tirkus Line fer fig tortyoignt land ® choury Welcome, > my 4 > a ’ *¢ } ”*, a