The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1918, Page 14

AY \y UESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24 ht Months at the F ront THE AMERICAN “DOUGHBOYS” Nearer the Fighting the Happier They - Are And They're Full of Confidence in Their Prowess as the ‘‘Best Fighting Men on Earth’’—Wounded Coming Out of Action Cheer Those Going In, and Then Hurry Convalescence to Get Back Into the Battle Lines—Next to a Scrap, They Like Jokes—As One Officer Said: “We've Got an Army of Scrapping Kidders !” j By Martin Green (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ++ Guprtight, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening Wo: “The Infantry, the Infantry, with mud behind their e ‘The Infantry, the Infantry, their pay ts in arrears, Artillery and Cavalry and the lousy Kngineers— “Whey couldn't lick the Infantry in @ hundred thousand years.” N this article I am going to try to write a tribute I to the private in the army, the inconspicuous doughboy, who finally wins the battles that the Generals plan and the minor officers direct. The dough boy does not ask for sympathy. His opinion of himseif is expressed in the verse printed above, which is the chant of the American foot soldier in France. In all truth, and I say it in @ epirit of admiration and respec, the American doughboy {s abundantly self-satisfed. He is honestly convinced that he fs the best soldier in the world, and that conviction goes a long way toward making him so good. American doughboy's t asset, next to his belief tn wn prowess and smartness, ts @ense of humor, He is earnest @meugh when lie has a job of fight~ NYAS Of band, and serious enough, to, but the irrepressible American pro- ‘ to “josh” crops out frequently tho heat of battle, he wounded the hospitals while away the time i ing” each other. At rest the 2 y chief diversion is trying i - me @ joke on somebody, If there ie ny twist to any event, no Mt how momentous, the dough- ‘boy grabs the twist. “ “GLOOMY SURROUNDINGS FAIL TO DEPRESS SPIRITS, fh The most trying times the Ameri- Army has gone through in ss lighted match to his cigarette when the scream of an approaching Ger- man shell was heard, It was tho first shell the Germans had seat over that evening and it landed in a church steeple avross the street und blew that steeple and part of the churob clear off tho may of France. At tho first sound of the shell the boy halted the progress of the match toward his face, but kept the light Intact in the hollow of his hands. As the roar of the explosion died away be remirke . boy, that sounds Lke home Then he com- pleted the Job of lighting the cigar- atte, WOUNDS CANNOT REACH SPIRIT OF FIGHTERS. Scores of our young soldiers wero lying on stretchers or on the ground 4 dressing station not far back of the front in the afternoon of Juy 18. All were suffering fromm: chine gun wounds. A tall boy wt a were associated with trench last winter and ealy spring our soldiers were in the Lor- and Vosges district dn that tory there are only eleven weeks the year ‘when thin ice does not at night around the edges of Pools and larger bodies of still water, h his head shaved down to the scalp touched me on the leg ax I passed the stretcher on which he was lying “Mr. Correspondent,” be said, “will you all look at my foot? she feels like she was bleedin’ like the devil.” ) Notwithstanding the gloomy sur-| An © bandage about hit Preundings thy sprit of the common | ankle bh displaced and blood ‘ lers never flagged. 1 saw a regi-| was spurting from a nod f i tin billets ina muddy, grimy Mt | With the ald of a ased i" town one night wary. The | the bandage, Along the road a few Maen had marched nineteen miles that’ yards away. marines were hurry se outed with ice and) to the front were UN- | “Will you all please kinda jift ma wain the | around go's I kin see them birds?” ters was , asked the boy, We lifted him aroun 4 to @ position facing the roud and then, uhis request, raised him toa witUAg posture a dispiriting needed had not ti fp transport ne place, Many suppl lacking. n de- Attaboy! yelled, waving his oy, Ang mm. know just | hand ‘ching eolumo. "ALS y J taboy! Go to ‘em! Oh, you leatber- he outfit was « ; Q where t Theres necks!" was Ht among the men In ce “Oh, you old timer,” howled one of & burning desire to connect UP} the marines, in anawer, “I'll get you areiiresd Somewhere and et) 4 couple of Heinies.” rains. All along that road wounded Ameri- quarters of the men van doughboys coming out a ihe nak: S different spirit. After all.! te cheered doughboys and marines he js not actually, fighting, the! xoing in. Occasionally a wounded an is content to let his of-| American would be brought in on. a . do the worrying for him. He) stretcher improvised of a blanket and that the pnsibility for! a couple of branches of trees and cat- in a given time | red by Ge chato, itie aoe. nae 8 Aine | tied by German prisoners. ‘Tho Ger- men up mans were unable to conce ‘ tes of this regiment were 4 amazement at the olnial ise s happy. They were quartered in| chango of comment. between th French barracks and within these | wounded and the fighters goine in to ra the only | © their places, The wounded & scant supply Khboys brought in. by ‘German Every barre with «were haughtily happ and laughter, A wise old dre," said one to & chaplain who told us why t him’ at the station, “I y know,” he said, “that they| guess I'm’ bad, It took four} going up where the fighting ts. | Heinies to bring me in." are on their way to the front." LITTLE STORIES OF SOME NEW YORK DOUGHBOYS. In another battle Frankie Burns of JE NEARER THE FRONT THE| KEENER TO FIGHT. 1s NA \Hazards: Hold No Terrors for American Girls THE IDENTITY OF THE WOMAN IN THE SECRET SERVICE 1S UNKNOWN EVEN TO HER FRIENDS IN MID-AIR THIS GIRL BLITHELY / WIELDS HER wer EXPLOSIVES HOLD NO TERRORS FOR THESE LASSIES HANDLING DEADLY GERMS \SN' DANGEROUS (?) | fee ONE. 1S ONL’ CAREFUL” THE GIRL ‘UNDER THIS ! the gravity of their work. The strictest account is kept of every tube, and only those directly in charge can access to them. By this system it 1s impossible for a criminal to get hold of them. In the da Pont works women are employed in filling shells. It is not only dangerdus but affects the health, so those who do this werk are dowbly brave. The manufacture of high explosives and poison gases is carried on with many a bantering jest. “Easy, there, or you'll blow us into kingdom come,” cautioned one girl to her laughing companion as I paused to sketoh them. “Then we wouldn't get our pletures in the paper,” she added The woman Secret Service agent is no figment of the imagina- tion, But the very nature of her work and the fiendish cunning of our enemies make it unsafe to reveal even her habits or station. You would thrill with pride if you could see her as she really is, in our midst, cool and alert, taking her life in her hands at every turn. Even her closest friends do not dream that her adorable personality is the veil that conceals a brain with the keenness of a man, and the added mystery of a woman's intuitions. get . By Stella Flores. | Copyright, 1918, by ¢ Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). | LIRTING with death is the daily occupation of many of our love F Hest women, There is something spectacular in the sight of a fearless girlish figure swung high in midair, jauntily slapping | paint on a smokestack, The little lady in the sketch {s @ soldier's | wife, proudly doing her share, | Very different 4s the work being done in our city laboratories. | ‘The very thought of handling the deadly germs used to make the | serums is enough to make a strong man shudder, ‘You take your life | in your hands every time you touch the deadly things, don't you?" 1 | asked the sweet faced, soft voiced girl who was explaining them to | me. Her demure face crinkled into @ charmingly mischievous smile, | “Why, no,” she said-—‘that 1s, not if you are careful.” Not only is your health and mine safeguarded by our Health Department, but a | | great part of the serums used in the army are being made in our city The girls who make the germ cultur laboratories. fully understand | hen the ‘Germans Cry ‘«‘Kamerad ” How, Ruthlessly and Treacherously, the Allies Have Been Taught What It Means War Book by Edward R. Coyle. Samerad, kamerad.’ was commanded to throw up | in the German Manual of Arms, Described in | By Marguerite Mooers® Marshall. | Suppose you had been one of the|{ oceupanta of the French trench and uF i a OD York cen cate a Copyright, 1018, by The Presa Publishing Co, (The New York Prening World) a he RaIA? his hands and advar which he did Brie tactibery in which, the |. the Arabic een cee Hea HAT “Kamerad” really means in the German Manual of Arms, and |\t esvaped Aa kd en Shoe cl It was impossible to note that slung BP gine at the trant could be|™@8n prisoners, He introduced tgs W how ruthlessly, treacherously and thoroughly the Allies have] \ rg aatailed for duty tn thelrevciven On he came Unhil Rereetia heard. The first to distinguish | 2%, WY Frenble hoe ae tone, Somebody been taught its meaning, forms the subject matter of the most front jine trench. Also, suppose you |dliscern both figures clearly and, at six *| "Oh," be replied, “I can't’ kick, Ivo sinteresting chapter of Edward R. Coyle’s simply written and most readable | were at the trig of a machine |P4 eee Dans IBAS 6 Hee Pa el ty leet: EME Pieces of shrapnel on] record of life in the war zone, “Ambulancing on the French Front.” gun when a handful of men clint aE stig oy a eps aah regiment gave itself over to) 7.0%, ; | yung Coyle is one of the gallant vanguard of|out of a German trench yelling ‘Kame s ly that he was able to get in one ta hoary artillery is action | Way in the of a bur : Americans who went to France ahead of his flag, for) crad al what do vou think you [gies arnnen igh the butt ead of ble man shrapnel shell up near J it was early in 1917 that he transplanted himself trans Moule oe phy ei a dragged him into a French trench. prefs oes & big one,” ® lad) asmuyed forty-two alsa a perfectly good Job in New York to the French Ampw | ee ee co imon soldiers to vio- | Pit, BElsoner proved to be a German 5 a wise ompanion | nes the surgeons fined is tre lance Corps on the Verdun front. For months in biz|jate the elementary law of warfare, jout some valuable intone tes eave nis would acrimonious dis Afte |to his company, and on the 1 ussio , ase'on | back area, almost five miles from t groups Be ee thored ors ot | ont he wot tn the way of anoth barracks and s« 1 the sky Y APHOL AAG WHE protty wall north for gunflashes, The ‘ atmosphere of the camp me Walnrelcally ’ hed with eagerness, has never been out fire since. They have been time and again, The hav agat in the trenches and in the} by day and by night, and they still as anxious for a That regi of sound of Finnegan of New York woke up one day } dressing station, ale had been carried in from the front ay parently dead. The regimental chap lain stopped in front of Finnegan ani Scrap 88 lasked the urgeop ” n Were that night seven months | pened RO RIOR RAB! ap hen they first entered the zone He's suffering fron pen, & vere case | of shell shock Shell shock sitting ould mention hundreds of speci- ces illustrating the fighting of the American doughboy. 4 ne u never made @ shell that could shock WIN suMce. One night a battal-| me. Gimme me gur marching to the front in Pl-| | ‘They didn't want to give him hi The members had seen ser-| gun but he swore that if he didn’ Toul wector, but had not his gun he would knock the iv re ‘or more than a/block off e rybody in the hosp ‘The battalion halted on the| Finally he got his gun hoa i of a little town to wait| back to the front and fought two Half a dogen young pri- an hy new when ate wi % €0t an army of scrapping <an omcer at f car of merey he cargled the victims of that terrifle | ine himself under fire and |, Mean: | Mr following incident: of honorable relates ‘the code surren One day ant, twice to a Ge ay ung French Lieuten- for valor, jumped struggle over shell-torn roads, alg narrowly escaping death on many occasions | “Ona certain night, when one could man front line trench at : p resuit | hardly see six feet French | the, head of his company, “He saw while, he kept his eyes and ears open, and as a result | hardis ts. f vient German officer lying prostrate, his iis book is filled with interesting talk about much {patrol was sent tn Wire [head and face covered with blood,” . : into ‘no man's lane patrol was|writey Mr. Coyne, “At this instant sides“ lancing snipers, flyit hters, i [ val TY a ainbulancing”-—sp! mines, ring As Jinstructed to capture a prisoner if{@ French pollu ran up and was just | the pitifal children that follow armies | posible, and bring him in, Jyst after | # to ‘put the’ finishing touches } i “ | " un When the latter began With the special purpose, howeve lurk two young French boys were | On 1he G i only the expression of joy upo! ir , jyelling ‘Kam Kamerad!" Th Jor too trusting Amerie only the expression of joy upon their) oid in a shell hole in ‘no man’ | nt waved the polly Maideten writes about "Kame- | feces Jiand’ in front of the French barbed |t med badly wounded, He sta” the word whieh “has come to| “Not @ shot in fired as they ads | Wi0. 4, await event, t ked th rman if there ware ; sicnifleance not at afl in|¥ance, Men in the French trenches}, TL ak 6 halt be men { tain dugout, point. Donny: RlenineRnes HS go 80 far as to expose themselves in | bag OxbIrs HOUF Tinie to one © off from the front keeping with its original meaning. ip far oe y \three figures appeared in front of} iine trench. he officer replied ‘No, hia iy his frst illustration of the (Oder to assist the surrendering ets |ihem, all walking cautiously Jen-|but there are some in that one,’ ine ew synonym for Punie faith emy on their way to (Ye Feur A811, they stopped, talked very low for|iMicating another aa diene ? [prisoners of war. : anne {small communicating trench, toward “Pict © yourself two trenches a few moments, then separated, ‘Twol which the. Licutena ) SOW Picture to yourself tw | “Suddenly, at a distance of twonty}men went one way and the third in| Sarte Lieutenant _ forthwith nist Wed with soldiers, a barbed wire in|} started, revol rin hand, But he had feet, the hands of thgGenmans dive lexactly the opposite direction, which } A Rife > sooner turned his back when the front of each a pe a iene [into thelr pockets and each man|Wgs toward the position that the boys} Hoche officer rolled over on his. aide, tretching out endless between peor ag aca Ra iy priory rey TIE his man Was instantly| whipped out a revolver and shot him as. Handhoao. up inc the rere 1 F Li sloovered and could have been shot|through the backg killing him ine and at this distance throws them with renches and soldiers climb out on top | geadly accuracy all along the machine with the shout of ‘Kamerad’ on their| gun positions in the French trench, ‘ps, ‘Their arms are extended over | Killing or wounding all the occupants challenged and commanded to halt. heir heads in token of sufrender, py Poe tl helt guna thus allow. {The German, knowing full well that seer be lence: ae raphe dng then owin iuleihey dv vemon down had either of the French boys so desired, but he was allowed to pro- ceed, and, at the proper time, was stantly And the moral, as the author points out, is “Never take your eye off the Boches, under any circumstances.” _“Ambulancine on the French ‘by the Britton | Working to Help Uncle Sam Win the War TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1918 on the Stage ANALYZED BY DKOPPED in It for several years, would compare with her work on the screen. In the movies she has shown herself ac- complished in emotional roles, espect- ally wherein there was love making Picture fans have frequently referred tober as “the best little love maker jof all the female screen stars.” Hor heart always appears to be in her work and this fact has made her the popular screen favorite she is I wanted to see if she were as thorough pictures. I found her, !f possible, even more so. After the performance I sought her in her dressing room. “Miss Brady,” I said, ‘I see you lare just as thorough in your emo- on the screen. Do you find it easier to make love in films or in the spoken drama?” © “I find it easier on the regular stage,” she replied why audience before you. you do, You might as well be acting before a pile of brick, so far as sym- pathy or other interest goes. With them {t's all in the day’s work, The director and the camera man, o| course, are interested in getting the best results, as their reputations de- pend on !t, but they don’t ‘feel’ yous scenes with you. Therefore, al) you have to do ts imagine and just act. In tho spoken drama, however, it {9 different, Out in front are pos sibly 1,500 people actually ‘living’ the play with you. Your troubles are theirs; your joys theirs for the time being. They laugh and cry with you. It all lends you inspiration which makes your work absolutely real for the moment. is easier to be natural. I might say, it Is twicg as hard to do emotional work in @ film as it is tn @ spoken pla; “What sort of work do you prefer?” “Each has its advantages, but I enjoy the spoken acting more. There is a satisfaction in !t that is not in the other. And you get your satisfac- and on the spoken stage as she is in the | Httonal scenes in this play as you are | Necessarily, it | “Tove Making’’ in the Movies “ALICE BRADY Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) the new Central Theatre, Street, the other evening to sew Alice Brady in her new spoken play, “Forever After.” Always ar admirer of Miss Brady in filrns, I was curl- ous to see how her acting on the regular stage, after she had been away from at Broadway ALICE BRADY [tion then and there, seo his, interest and constantly tion “Will you quit the films now tha you are firmly | drama?” “Oh, no |year. It keeps me terribly busy, and 41th It is Uke a news- paper man’s work compared to that of “Woll, in makihg a Olm yoWhave no|4 writer for a monthly magazine, ‘The You act with | 2€wspaper man has the satisfaction no one looking but a director, a cam- | f seeing bis writings printed daily, era man and a few carpenters and while the other must wait a month to electricians, They are not interested | in the story of the play. Their emo- | tions are not being moved by what) The former ts being fed on back tn the spoken I have just signed upto ¢|make six pictures during the coming bet Jit 1s profitable and I like hard work, |On matinee days here I cannot act j | films . but Tmake up for | by ac a: of our: e the films belp my spoken play and vice versa, Ail my so- in the films come to see | spoken sta lin the spok | curtosity prompts b a before the camera on Sup- “And then, another thing, I find d J admirers me on the those who like me n play go fo see my filma h kinds posgi- bly, but it all adds to my auccess ia | both lines.” | f# can you stand it te 1 as you are now work. lin iam A, Brady much as } end to act in bo displays. has and more the spoken « (as long N. Y. Banker Is a Gateman u are un- e energy my In Shipyard to Win War John K. Corbiere, Too Old to Fight, Dos His Spats and Boutonnieres to Don Overalls in a Seattle Yard to Do | His Share, Out of Pure Patriotism—Plenty of Men for High Places, He. Says, but Country Needs More Men for Lowly Positions. TRUE patriot must place self | second to country, a Roman Mr He Corbiere w: a self-made man, came to New York from Albany General once declared to bis! as a boy and became connected with legions. James K, Corbiere, war worker is one of the most in- teresting and worth-while examples was a dearth of men for lowly, re- sponsible positions, At the same time there was a superfluity of applicants to serve in governmental adminis- trative capacities, He declined the official appreciation and # stead a job as gateman in a Seattle shipyard, 4 To his friends in Cortjere is always thought of as an an exceptionally distinguished figure. His hair was snow white. He was never seen without a boutonniere, He usually wore spats, and always car- ried a cane. Now every morning Mr, Corbiere arises from three to four hours earl- ier than he has been accustomed to of late years. He passes by his fashion- ably cut morning clothes, his spats and boutonniere, and dons overalls, and at 7 o'clock ts at the fa@tory gate ready to begin a monagonous but im- portant day of checking. When the whistle blows at 4.30 he returns to his exclusive hotel, changes to evening clothes and is once more @ distinguished figure in the city’s social and club life, Mr. Corbiere shows more enthus- jasm in his war work than he has dis- played in years. He has felt very keenly his inability to fight. He has | of a patriot that the war has pro-| pany. duced, Mr. Corbiere saw that there | ing | Street, without e | work that carried with it glory and | ccepted in- | New York Mr. | | will remain in § | the war. When tha | the banking house of Morton, Blias & New York| Co. in the early seventies, banker, sextigenarian, clubman and | firm dissolved in 1899 he was on® gfe, | the organizers and became the Vice President of the Morton Trust Com- He made for the enormous collateral two loans in Wail had the reputation of hav- concerns’ er having incur@d the loss of a dollar for his principals and of never having closed out a bean in times of panic. sociated with Thomas F, He was closely aa- Tyan and other leaders of finance until his re- tirement about four years ago. For many years Mr, Corbiere was @ resident About four years ago, 57th Street in this city. Mr. Corbiere is a ol friend of Charles M when the latter was gether, It is generally fused to occupy governmental these jobs. a real need of men in the s hee explains, "I man should do what there is to be done in order to help win the war. am trying to do my bit this way.” been always on the lookout for an op- |really feel that he was wind eo ee te of the exclusive section of | Caldwell, N. J immaculately dressed figure. He made! however, he established a home t@ He was West jon a visit when the idea of helping |out in the shipyards occurred to.htm, | Now there is every evidence that he eattle until the end of © personal chwab, and in Seattle re- cently they were frequently seen to- understood among his associates that he has re- ad- ministrative positions, declaring that there were enough men ready to fill “It appeared to me that there was ipyards,” believe that every ¥ I Mr, Corbiere has a son who ts a Captain in the army and another eon They are not to be trusted | portunity to serve #0 that he could| following his lead in the financial ® makibg a|world. His daughter is the Bide th dae en anwusevele capitis