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Show 4 1. PAPERS PUBLISHED OVER THERE By Frederic J. Haskin. WASHINGTON, D. C "The papers have come," announced a nurse in an American field hospital. "Anthony, will you read them aloud T Carefully, she propped the man In the first cot up against his pillows and handed hand-ed him a newspaper. He stared at it for a minute; then the doleful expression disappeared from his face and was replaced re-placed by a hroad Yankee prin. He turned his head toward the mnn in the next cot, nnd in a somewhat feeble voice began be-gan to read r "Marie Dressier is dead. In a green French meadow she knew and loved, where the poppies lift their scarlet heads to the sun, and where, as the afternoons wane, a friendly wood stretches forth a grateful shade. all that was mortal of her has been laid away. "This Marie Dressier, it should he explained ex-plained at about this point, was not the larsc and amiabW1 actress of that name, but an equally largo and amiable cow." This cow, the article went on to explain, had lived an eventful life. Left behind by refugees, she had been promptly captured cap-tured by a certain American battery nnd used as the trench dairy. Then, during a lull in the fighting, she had disappeared. A search was immediately instituted and she was found tied to a post near the barricade of another battery, cleverly concealed by a camouflage bush. She was recaptured by the first battery and led back in triumph to a dugout that had just been made for her, but was killed by an enemy fdiell just before she reached Its shelter. - The newspaper from which the wounded man read this pathetic storv was "The Stars and Stripes." the official organ of the American expeditionary forces one of the best newspapers that has ever been put into print. It contains four large i pages of news, feature articles, comics, ea r toons and advertisements that eom-1 eom-1 pare more than favorably with those of the metropolitan dailies. There is one great difference, however. There is very little war news uf a more serious nature than the above incident. Over here we are much more familiar with the general gen-eral progress of the war than is the private pri-vate in France who is actually fighting it. While we are Interested in the international inter-national aspects of the war, t he American soldier is Intensely interested in its personal per-sonal phases, and it Is about the latter that he JiUes to road. "The Stars and stripes." as is often stated in its editorials, is dedicated to the private. From .the beginning it has had a tremendous circulation, which has recently re-cently had to be cut down on account of the scarcity of white par er. It is now 1 1 in i ted to one man In ever t hree. or. In other words, to one-third of a regiment. regi-ment. Hut n speual weekly edition is now distributed free of charge annmg the base hospitals, one paper beinc Issued to every tlr" hop p tai beds. Here u hn-S greatly lightened the load of trie nurse", lor its fhppiiniv an.J Us humor are cen-tauion, cen-tauion, and the whole atmop:,ere of the lu.frpitul hecomes healthier altt-r the ar-n ar-n a I of t he pa ; ers. "1 he front pane of the paper aiwny contains news fnm home, and the third i:u'0 aiwavs prints a faithful record of the latest Amerban sportlna events. Thus, whin ciiil;it:s on this Mde of the Atlantic Atlan-tic are dtf.usilng the war with gloomy tore alines or w Ith mwh tlmoniou.' optimism, op-timism, a cording to their dispositions, the A:ner;.nn so.dier in Frame is arcu-ir.g arcu-ir.g th n.rim of Henry Ford as a T nttd States s-.-r.alur: the Justice of the new re-'uitttlons con.rnlni; tli Income tax; ('. ("'ic' rM of the r.ew whe.it rnp, and the difficult S's tae new dm 1 1 will evoke fcr the National l.Tfobal! league. AleO, an It fin d n tr lined "America,'.' and printed in a ftei.t number of "The Star and St rirs ' produced more animated discission discis-sion than anv event that has ! ;.pei.eJ in the late drive. Thin I'.-m s'aifd that experts of the Md r i;ii. in Ma -Him. who had rna-ie a ir.pte st :d of an lent armor, reported tfuu ''modern tin lizzie suits' ninth t be fffrctiVf in pre-irrvlrtK the lives of soldi, sol-di, 'iw "The Mvie tt..ok." havi the artl. . "Is t'.nt et oit. su ue cannot tHl ou hi'-t wl at n -ii tier of Mfd ,oats and pants .mi nin ultimately wear. l'er!apa ..-our uniforms in the future will be tailored h tie l". S Steri foiiihi", or t. e Ft. I facto, fac-to, v. ni,d ins'ead ef washing your under-w under-w e i r ; 0.1 w id u.t-i el oil It to prevent rust." Am ther rortion cf ' The Stnrs nd tripes" which is extremely popular with it v-b-t r :. i the Irifora'.atton ro'nmn whi.'h cns ai'.he on nrious forms of ft apict r". An, n. an m a.-, ult 11 1 1 y has h1-vas h1-vas maintained a high regard for ror-'ro. ror-'ro. t so. iai u-.tLf. nn l onlv i-ccmoruVdv i!-im Hon.e reekiens reison attempt to in-1 in-1 1 od - it e a n lnrn .i tln, an i t hen It in prompt!'. frowned upon. Thus the pri -ate who wrote the following commnnt-t commnnt-t ulion to ''Te St ir and Stripe,' was at on e disv ui a M'd b' the editor. "I want to write to a mint t.idv In the I "n ited state V he snld, "nn l w ant to know 1: (t ) better to use the ir.hlWirv f,ii m, like thia: From: Wm Hunter. PrlvHe. To- Mis Katie Cuhen. S.ih'e. t: 11. .raids. l.'Atteition Is ailed to the fet that since in , arrival In Fr.im my frellncs I licuf under went no change. I sun Mid ours. I :'. Answer, hv Indorse rent, at once. If mv photo N itl11 on i ur bureau. .? 1 ho: e Ofortre p,;,if,lt t drafted." "The Stars nnd Stripes" Is not the only rnw;.iptr p'iMh.hrd hv the American f.ue in Fiance Several unofficial pub-' In atioiit). put out hurriedly In typewritten typewrit-ten form or bv crude printing apparatus, are beiiiK flrr'uintfd in the front lines. a'-roi a'-roi -tilriir to sold b-r m who ha ve i ot urned to Amcrlru. So treat, iii'Ierd, fa the desire of the A merit an to dabble. In print, that 'mall newspapers are even Rotten out on the tranHpoit Kolug m too. One of these, a 0"pv of whh h lias Just been received . bv Mrs, Wilkes of the woman's committee commit-tee of the council of national defense from her brother who recently sailed on an ! A nif ri' iin 1 1 anport, is railed "The Sen iSinpent." It consists of nun whole patre de. i-lhlng an entirely linaglnnrv hniie 'which toi it place bet ween t he transport nnd a fqiindron nf I -hon ta. and n few p.Tk'r-i of Mineral conversation between n.embers nf t lie company, consist Ing of such remartts ns follows,; It r. .--"Have you mopped up rny stateroom yet ?" Private 6 - "No." It '. i e as pern ted 1 - -"No w hnt ?" -I I'rlvate t ) "N.i limp." This paper also describes the predicament predica-ment of the compnny commander who was unable to determine the nationality of three kittens born at sea. Tn fact, t he most not able tiling about nil of these soldier Journals la thnt there la not a serious one In the bunch. They are all evunlcs. The American sense of humor seems to he not merely undaunted, but positively stimulated, by tho war. |
