The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1919, Page 16

In France for the Word | “We're Going Home!” indifferent, : Sewlld boar and was going to have its ~@ORyan overnight last It is usually settled out in 3 back yard, and the man who can ; the last word while his oppo- > Bity feet away he tells him that his WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1919 1 How the 27th Waited TOLD BY AN EVENING WORLD MAN WHO FOUGHT WITH THE DIVISION “Colonel Postponement” Was Chief of Staff to Old “General Rumor,” and the Doughboys Fought the “Battle of Impatience”’ Started by Visions! of Sweethearts and “Own Folks’’ Waiting on the Home Pier. By Sergt. H. H. McLellan of the 107th Regt. (Now on Board the Leviati han Bound for New York.) Copyright, 1919, by the Prews Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) MONTFORT LE ROTROU, Feb, 11. LITTLE less than nine months regions of North France. passing us every we gave her the Montfort is a streets, On Jan. stand by the soldier boy like French. ui Colonel Postponement is Chief of Staff to old General Rumor. Gootie seems to be doing the dough- boy work for the two. Like the German people we are now resigned to any fate, They can take us or leave us. We have stoves jn our billets and French beds, beds that you sink into a yard, We are introducing the turkey trot to the peasant maidens, smoking all the cigarettes the Y, M. C. A. hagiieft and buying up all the souvenirs inthe tewn. The French shop keepers are @ven breaking up their iron stoves apd selling tho pieces as shrapnel remnants. Gen. O'Ryan lives in the chateau of the Count de Nicolay on the hill, and when the General is not boar hunting with the Count he is Promenading in the Count’s oran, leas orange grove. If a strange General visits Mont- fort, or the Chief of Staff of the em- barkation centre runs up in his ma- chine we are going to Russia toute de suite, Miss Anne Morgan called and t the evening with us this week, and General Rumor had it that we were going into reconstruction work in devastated regions. Miss Morgan has something or other to do with the society for the reconstruction of devastated regions, How nice! Bernard Baruch came down from Paris and had a talk with the Gen- eral. Hight away we were going to become guard of honor to the Peace Conference. And finally when we heard that the General had shot a head stuffed we figured that we would be here another month, for it takes a French taxidermist just two months to stuff a wild boar’s head, | To make matters unbearable we get cablegrams every day telling us that | our wives and sweethearts are at the New York piers waiting for us; that New York will be bone dry before we get there and dozens of other morale breakers. A divisional show was | written and rehearsed for production ig New York when we get back. It was called “Let's Bear It." Its ttle has been changed to “Let's Wait.” When Gen, Pershing visited Gen. Saturday he saw our comedians, and they sure did rub it in. One man had four medals on his breast, all awarded for patience while waiting for @ transport, The General Jaughed, He said it was the best show in France, But the next day our latest postponement was an- ced. Dietere compensations, though Bmerson was right. Some fourveen Kilometres from Montfort is Le Mans, the big town, nere are ‘steen divi- sions there. in the same gnpatient plight we are in, Our boys manage to have one argument an hour, least. The burning question in France among the Yanks is “Which fg the best division in the A Fr?" Wherever doughboys are the question Ment lies speechless on the ground represents the best division in the AEF. Ask a Y. MC. A, Med Gross, K. of ©. or civilian which ts the best division. He looks at the @mblem on your left sleeve and saya: #Why, the 27th is, of course, Every- Bedy knows that." Directly he meets @pother man from another division @iyision “is the finest on earth,” y first, re are a couple of negro rogi- tn Le Mans waiting for the Brest, and then home. to leave on Jan, 28, through at last that the division was going on Feb. 6, and now it appears that Feb, 20 is the day. been “deloused” and are now “relousing,” for cooties at ago the 27th Division passed through this town, on the sluggish Sarthe River, bound for the devastated | We got our first look into the back- | fields of the war game then. Hospital trains were half hour bound for the seacoast. To-day we are giving France a last look here where | first “once over.” tres bon place if General Rumor and Colonel Postponement would stop stalking through the 10 we were to leave this area for We didn't stir. Then we were Still no stir, Real orders came rchins hang around the mess kitchen, Private haltboy, Horace, Horace saluted, addressed him. “Where have you been in the war?” inquired the Colonel, “Dawn in de woods, boss; down with de boys in de woods. You know de woods,” replied the darkey, “You mean the Argonne Forest?” queried the Colonel, “Yas, sah, boss. gonne Woods. boss?" “With the 27th up in France. Our boys broke through the Hindenburg line," said the Colone! remember dat; yas sah, I re- member it sure, boss. I remember how dat line sagged way down in the Argonne, boss, Sure I does.” Our wait here is also producing many reunions. Wounded men are coming back from English hospitals and our artillery, separated from us during the war, is in the Laval area, forty kilos from here, and buddies Dat's it—the Ar- Where was you, days. ‘onley had a buddy in the old venth, J. A, Kennedy, a famous New England swimmer who came all | the way from New Hampshire to get} into the millionaire regiment. “J. A.” as the Seventh knew him was a muscular giant and @ swimmer des- tned some day to carry honors from Hawaiians, Australians and all com- ers. He will be remembered by men of the New York Athletic Club as a champion under-water swimmer. “J. A." went through our first scrap in Belgium without a wound, Conley and “J, A.” were bunkies, Last October when our men were all set before St, Souplet for the next morning's show, Conley, “J. A." and Lieut. Lockyear, Intelligence Officer of the Seventh, crossed over the tape in the darkness to make a recon- naisance of the La Selle River, a few hundred yards cast of St, Souplet. Nothing was known of the depth of the river or the general condition of tings on the eastern bank. When the three men reached the river ayore they found it too deep to wade and hundreds of German eyes were wait- ing on the other sid@ to sweep the river with machine gun fire, Kennedy at once saw thatehe was the man to do the job, and it would be a lonely one, The regimental front ran along the river for $00 yards. The water was just deep jenough to swim in, “Is a job for me,” “J. A.” said as he relieved himself of his khaki, “J. A” had never been known by his tentmates to talk of the ideals of a soldier, the great things Amert- |} Cans were fighting for, and he knew nothing of theatrics. “It's a man's war, It's @ big thing |I've a chance to do something here that others cannot do, and I'm going to do it," sald the swimmer as ho | handed over a German watch and a few trinkets to Conley, hia pal. “It's Just what we came over for,” he con- cluded, with a shake of his bunkle's hand, The Lieutenant and Conley placed “J. A," in the water gently, because even a splash would have Col, Henny Sternberger, the Quartermaster of the 27th, tall Cc stirred those Boche machine guna into deadly action, The officer and Cofiley pushed “J, A." under the ter, and he wag off like @ fish We have | ROL ' regim: came to attention and the Colonel jail the information necessary. in ah from To- as he killed. Tt wa alway: Capt. baron halted. forty car 80 The ¢ handk But t OOOO OD 12009 K Has Wa marked against a bunch of ¢ versation “I did Barney, first wave he was caught in a sw ing machine gun bombardment and lives in our minds when thou homegoing are uppermost. O'Ryan's ald appearance, Not long ago the Captain was Eddie, and the Eddy's car was stalled at fort Railroad crossing while a French troop train on its way to Paris was O2006 r Made the Do ughboy a Bette i } \Y iu S WY ~~ Husband for the American Girl ? LING PINS WILL HOLD NO ‘TERROR ental front and returned wit As shivered into his clothes “J, A." re how he had s@ right u mans hidde hedge and had h he could speak German. it 4o-night, but will be my last, me, there's a fearful Take line « machine gun nests along that bank.” morrow was “J. advanced A.'s" last, with Conley in fc thi Conley was wounded For a time stories like Conley's put @ damper on frivolous soldier pirit s not for long that the tra ere | ard their con- to-morrow, WHLL A future. | Some Say Yes; Some Say No | American Girl Will Appeal to Him More and He’ll Appreciate Her Better. BUT ——— Will He Be More Critical of Her House- keeping—and Will He Take Orders? By Zoe Beckley Copyright, 1919, by the Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ago we wrote a nice piece about the war-produced wife. After a careful canvass of persons who had observed the war- work girl in action both at home and abroad, we found much evidence to prove that the wife of the future would be at | least fourteen points ahead of the wife of the past. soul had been stirred, we were assured, by the mighty forces of world-calamity. She had learned to work, and | to think, and to feel, | war, would be safe in planning great things for his He .would find a true mate waiting—a cq; builder of the perfect home. And now, how about And the warrior, home from the the war-produced hus- What do you see, sisters, along the matrimonial sky- | Fine, hn band? wt weeny “ lin What are these incoming transperts bringing? n it ot Will Buddy like the perennial circus, “bigger and better than ever before’? The ideal comple- |ment to the ideal girl who waits for him? Far be it to hint that he may possibly return with an unholy desire to put his feet «/on the fender, light a stogie and en- be, in short, ” from us, gentle reader, # @ good laugh going around.|courage everybody to work but Joseph D. Eddy, son of the coat “father.” But we admit that while of New York, is one of Gen 8 and noted for his ke private sent at t the Mont From one of the hommes eight pme washing was hanging ow Yaptain recognized hts favorit erchiefs and started for the: he train pulled out. Laundry doors of chevaux Here’s What a King Looks Like s Just a, Lit hen He’ 1 gland ING GEOR evidence concerning Bud- dy's new state of mind and soul we collecting n from Brooklyn are belng reunited.| sent nis jaundry to a French wash-|received a setback to our optimism Stories of the Hindenburg and Mt! grwoman, ‘The laundry situation in|from an army chaplain who asserted Kemme! days are being told in cor-| France Ia something like It wa nln. racapraam cease Hare of dimly lit otaminete,, Many licen, wacsworth) One can. caaga| ret human nature never changes: wonderful tales untold until now be-! pot 4 good shirt for an old by “Don't expect a new yn of an cause the survivors were wounded oF | just claiming the first eood what ot come home from the war," he missing are being told. One of the] soey in the washerwoman's load, warned. “He will have the same most thrilling was told by Barney] (, AGH : virtues and faults he took away with Conley, whose father, a former police te Eddy's laundry was of the | nim. If he seems different at first, it captain in New York City, was in the| Me8t quality, But the laundry lady js only because he has learned in Tenderloin districy: in its palmier| &4¥° it to a privaté whose first hame | eight months what it would have © taken him eighteen years to learn another laundry woman who gave it! without the hard lesson of war.” to another soldier named Eddie, and) Which is only another way, per- it passed through all four infantry reg- haps, of phrasing what iments and was lost, so Capt. Kddy py Charles Brook thought. One day this week ¢ secretaries of th over ‘und seas a boy," says comes home a He went Brook, Mr. he man. But Secretary He believes Brook goes furth Buddy's nature has ti changed, and as he spent sixteen months in France—first with the 20th Regiment, Forestry Engineers; then »/with the artillery in’ the training larea at De Souge; later with the + a tle Baby cnr now 4s forty-four years changed quite a jot in his appearance since the above photograph of him was tiken, and whic h shows him two generations removed from the crown. For he is here shown enjoying a pick-a-back ride on the back bis mother, who became Queen Alexandra, but who, at the time ‘aph was made, was still the Princess of Wales, | Has the mud, ang the freeze, and the slop of the trenches strengthened Buddy's character Ike a cold shower does the spine? taught him to be a better “digger up” in the matter of pay envelopes and |< weekly allowances? Has the Hut that was “his home over there” built him |a finer notion of the home he is going to own? | reverence for the hearthstone and the helpmeet he's dreaming of? Has “digging in” Has loneliness bred new Division, 23d Infantry, and lastly with the 4th Ammunition Train—it is as- sumed he has seen every type of doughboy extant and plumbed the secrets of his soul, “The soldier hag changed,” says Mr. Brook, “in his whole idea of citi- zenship, He has learned teamwork— and efficiency. He has learned hard toll and how to put through a job. He has been snatched out of his small world and shown how vast a universe he is 1 part of. He won't be content to return to his insignificant niche, “The man who has gone over the top a few times in face of withering fire won't be afraid to leave his rut if by chance he gets into one when ho comes back home." I was told| bring on one of the returned | daunt the doughboy. By this token we feel that Buddy will be more aggressive. After the roar of a barrage, the clack of a shrewish tongue and the flourish of a rolling pin will hold no terrors, A taste of war will have produced the same effect, We submit, as the leakage from the barrel of old bourbon pro- duced upon the mouse in who sipped and cried, “What, your cat!" Nothing will ho— “Not daunt him, no," says Mr. Brook, “But many things will appeal to him and soften him that did not do soto such an extent before. The American girl, for instance. Not that he lacked appreciation of her before he went abroad, but that her goodness | and fineness have been brought home to him in a new and startling way, Furthermore, he can make compari- fons now which he could not formerly do, "It is very difficult for the Amer- ‘an soldier ever to see the inside of a French home, He forms his opin- jon of European women from a class far from representative of the ideal feminine, While this is necessarily unfair to the French woman, it is tremendously favorable to American women, They stood out in almost superhuman fineness, The doughboy came fatrly to worship his own com- patriots, ‘Say, just you wait till I got home to my girl!’ hundreds of bays ave said to me, ‘Nothing'll be too good for her! First I'm just going to sitand look at her for about ten weeks straight, ‘Then I'm going to rustle a better job than I ever had before and, oh, boy, watch me be the little home builder!’ That is how the ave lad feels, And I take it as an omen of better citizenship. He will be a better son, a better brother, husband, father and friend,” If betterness implies obedience, however, a disturbing thought insin- uates itself, One might argue, of courss, that if wife's voice ts suffi- clently martial her “Carry bundles— march!” will start the habit tncul- cated by many months of drill, On the other hand, may Bill not have de- veloped as strong an aversion to or- ders as ho has to stew? Will a man trained to obey his eu- perlor officer under penalty of death or prison be more obedient to his boss whether of the office or of the home or less 80? Will the stock cleris meek- Her | rad y some. By the clean, s heavens, yes, say fe, steady, friend- ly work instead of counting gas and shrapnel shells! Will ho Bo non-resistantly to the with wife’s houseke ng list, Jand face meekness the domestic surt martial when he returns without the baby's comensed milk? No, say By heavens, yes, say others. Anything—ANYTHING for PEACE! Will Bill consume the pies and flaky biscuits of his home kitchen with seemly appreciation, after bully beef and h Or will he, with cruel candor, complain that he “learned how to make better pan- cakes than these in the old mess shack at St. Mihiei"? Or “Gee! This bed t done accordin’ to army rules, Look-a how that blanket's put on! Never would-a passed muster in our camp at T Marion Cothren, Suffrage leader, writer and beautiful lady, just returned from many months’ sojourn Mpon the fighting fronts of France, with some, al for the Red Cross, inclines to the theory that “the day of the hen- pecked husband is over. The re- turned doughboy may be a better man than when he went away, but he won't be a better husband trom the viewpoint of the commanding American wife. blind How about it, Gentle Reader? He is through with obedience WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5&5, 1919 Six Plucky Ame To Open a Hos By Marguerite H™ six American girls fought give a little bit of home to who have been act since Nov, W. C, A. Training Pony There seems t Panes 11—that w: terday by Miss Elizabeth Boies, director of Y. W. C. A. work in Russia, at the headquarters of the National ¥, and much needed supplies for the American troops at Archangel. Northern Russia among the “places God forgot.” the Y. W. C. A. has not forgMten it, rican Girls Nearly Froze, Almost Starved, tess House For U. S. Soldiers in Russia And Miss Elizabeth Boies, Leader of the Six, Has Come All the Way Back to America to Get Six More Y. W. C. A. Girls and Take Them All the Way Back to Archangel for Similar Service. Mooers Marshall terrible cold, lack of food and prac- tically every necessity of life and utter desolation in order to the five thousand American soldiers tually as well as technically at war the inspiring story told yes- School, No. 135 East 52d Street. Miss Boies has returned to America for a brief visit and i 4) will take back with her six more Y. W. C. i A. women k with the ‘0 be competent opinion for including But although from the description given by Miss Boies, the conditions confronting her five associates and herself were worse than anything to be found on the western front. She is a slender woman, not much over five feet, with eyes as blue as her horizon uniform. She first went to Russia in the spring of 1917 and established work in Petrograd, Mos- cow and other centres for Russian girls. She went out with the Ameri- can Consul and the other Americans in September, 1918, going to Stock- holm, Sweden. From there she made a long, toilsome journey to Vardo, the northernmost port of Sweden, and from Vardo took a Russian fish- ing boat to Archangel, in October, 1918, She and her five associates, Miss Marcia Dunham, Miss Clara Taylor, Miss Elizabeth Dickerson, Miss Hannah Ogden and Mrs. Bryant je, together with two Red Cross rses, were the first and only American women to enter Northern Russia since the American soldiers were sent there, “First we opened our hostess hovse.” she said yesterday, “which, of course, was nothing but a log hut. We had the greatest difficulty in putting even that together, for no one outside Rus- sia can conceive the utter lack of every common article, There were no nails to be bought and no tools, But the British and Americans were so glad to see us that they helped us out with everything they could supply or construct, and somehow we got the house up. “Then came the question of decorat- ing it. We had to make it look some- thing like home for those boys of ours. Finally we went to our friends, the Michigan Engineers, and they man- aged to supply us with one can of ylue paint. But what were we to do for newer V0 Age Limit on Stage By Bide Dudley Copsright, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Co, | The New York Evening World.) N the realm of the stage youth is @ wonderful asset, and yet there is no age dead line in the acting profession, Some of the most popu- lar players of the present day, who are past sixty and a few have passed the three score and ten mark. There ts No reason why a member of the s should retire on account he or she is incapaci- y. There is @ finish that comes with later years that youth lacks. Coupled with an under- ing and an ability born of long it does not take second tated physica lence, place to youth by any manner of means. The player of sixty who is still active has to understand his | trade or he will not be active long. Not a great while ago Patricia Col- linge was starred at Henry Miller's Theatre in a play called “Tillie.” In her support was Maud Granger, sev- y-two years old, yet still an alert, nted Then there is the r popular Rose Coghlan, She re- cently concluded an engagement in “The Man Who Stayed at Home,” is past sixty-five, In “Dear at the Empire, is Marlo | Wainwright, winning the plaudits of lth yusands weekly, You may not be- | lieve it, but she is sixty-five years old, Acting in the London music halls recently was Lily Langtry, a young | woman sixty-six, She is still a great success. In Paris, preparing to continue her stage work, is the great French actress, Sarah Bernhardt. Al, though she bas but one leg, Mme. Barnhardt, at the age of seventy-four, is still an active figure in theatricals, William H. Crang who is past seven- player at ly set about his task of invoicing 5,700| ty, has finished just recently a star- varieties of bone buttons between ring tour on the Pacific Coast, and is 6.80 A, M. and 12 noon? Or will he give the street urchin’s salute and tell title role in another the foreman to“"Go to Kamschatka’? & / « ‘i ‘ now sought by Oliver Morosco for the “Cappy Ricks’ company, are still active in their chosen work, | Popular- Players Past Sixty Prove Years | an Asset as Valuable as Youth. | Genevieve Ward, at the nge of eighty-four, played “Lady Macbeth" ie London a short while ago and did jit well. She was bdrn in America but |has spent many years abroad, Until about two years ago Ida Vernon, now seventy-five, was with William Hodge She met with an accident, however, and is off the stage recuperating. Frederick Warde, still active, !s past sixty-five. Francis Wilson, who con- siders himself anything but rétired, was born more than sixty years ago. Frazer Coulter {s still in the harness at seventy. John Drew, born in 1853, is good for at least fifteen years more. Robert Mantell, one of America's best Shakespearian actors, is past sixty, yet he isn't nearly through. Robert Downing is playing “Ten Nights in a Barroom" this season. He |has+passed the sixty mark. Robert |Hilliard, recently starred on Broad- way, is past fifty-nine, while Eddie Foy is in his early sixties, Others who are past sixty and yet Jable to act, and act well, are Charles curtains? Not a scrap of any sort of cloth could be bought for miles around. Finally, @ friendly English surgeon save us a roll of bandage cloth, We stencilled jt with the blue paint—and there were our precious cur “The hegrt and centre ‘something to Of ¢ boys had their rations, like to say just here t fas! a but ts the nd I should Americans eat.’ urse, in Northern Russia have received good food and plenty of it, also plenty of thick, warm underclothing and blankets, Still, a home hut must hat something extra im the way of food, | After much effort, we obtained from the Allied Food Commission an allow. ance of thirty poods, or 1,200 pounds of flour a month, and ten poods, or 800 pounds, of sugar. We had nothing else except a little oatmeai—no choco. late, no butter, no eggs, no milk— nothin; But we made oatmeal cookies, and a kind of little cake which doesn't take much sugar, and we got along. “Of course, we had enter at the hostess hut. We taught Russian girls to dance, for we were organizing them into gil scouts and doing all we cou! for th wellas for our men. We gave dances at the hut and the American soldiers danced with Russian girls and with us. We got up ‘sings’—after much pers’ on nd many visits we managed to ob- tain a piano from a Russian woman | who lived in Arch “Then besides the work at the hostess hut we established a head- quarters down on the rail 1d front, a place about 17 versts-—-a verst is two-thirds of a mile—from Archangel itself, veral tra ere, and hundreds of American soldiers lived there all Winter in box cu We got a ct put a bench across one end and a bunk in the other end, and one of our workers stayed there day and night. We took this duty in turn, each woman spending three weeks Im |the car, She gave the men hot \drinks, books and magazines, organs ized impromptu entertainments for |the evenings and did the things a woman in such a could do for lonely boys. thousand position But I think what helped most was just the thought that an American woman was willing to stay in that desolate spot and endure its discomforts, At first the American boys could hardly believe it! “Now the army ¥ Janother hut on the Pvina River, and I am taking back six more workers, Miss Marion Curtis, Miss Marion Clark, Miss Dorothy Lack, Miss Ruth Heynaman, Miss Emily Hull and Dr, Estelle Warner, Also J have bought stores and brieit furnish you ve no idea how the boys in that nts us to open $ |desolate country crave color. It even cheered them up if we could find a bit of a bright necktie to wear. he men »preciativel Miss Boies again and Jagain, “Our huts were crowded all the time, I meta sailor in London who | A. Stevenson, Kate Bateman, George |##ld he had » en Ie nse sed Giddena, John Hare, Oliver Dowd - i Se ee ane Byron, James O'Neill, W. J. Fergu- it was alway so full that | had to |son, Willlam H. Thompsen, William | reach in and pull out about four fel- Gillette, Mrs. W. H. Kendall, Fr lows In order to have room £¢ Lavin fin Sanilaee myself!" eric De Belleville, J. E, Dodson NAA oe conc acme Lan ee aoe Bates, Annie Mack Berlein, George | somewhere in Northern Russia, Mise Woodward, Jeffreys Lewis, Helen| Holes brings them assurance that PS A d Sir|they are well and that the cold, Trecey, Harry Harwond and *l though rightfully un mn fortable, | Johnstone Forbes-Robertson. et LO I a MOC RR Oran Eefg Elsler was born in 1858, Clara/try ‘is healthier than many other | Morris, who has retired, is seventy- | where our boxe havo been 3 4 “ she says "OF course it is two, Ellen Terry, now lecturing on awfully desolate and mail is hard to |"Shakespeare” abroad, is seventy, get, but we are do fl can to |Kate Claxton, of "Two Orphans” fame, | keep them from feel.ig th re cut is seventy and retired. F, F, Mackay, | off from the world want to |come home—but so, I supt do tho who teaches acting and frequently | fome home” but, acts for the edification of his pupils,| from the Bolshev nd their is eighty-six. And there are others, | doings she wwe utters ited at tiv cently retired, who | Archangel, but she has t say both active and recently retired, who | Archangel, but she bas (i y have passed the seventy mark, Thus it may be seen that, while youth is a marvellous aid to the pro- fession of acting, the solid foundation of the stage is made up of the bricks of age. 4 “Th e Russians will work Government, for they are wonderful people. But it will take years and years, and meanwhile we can do little to help them except be friends and give them the food which they #o need. 4 peeing = r stable 4