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Show More Interested In Chewing Gum Than Baseball Adams Product Make Bigger Big-ger Hit With French Than Our National Game. FORD M. JACK, who, with Johnny Kvera. trie, to teach the French haseball, rttumed to America a few day's ago and - aait th FYench wre more tnterested In chewing gum than baseball. "They will have hard time learning baseball because, unlike the average 'American, they have never learned to play ha said. "They hava no playgrounds, and almost no park escept private ones, but they certainly cer-tainly are craiy about chewing gum. "I visited, all told, about i0 places In France) where American troops are quartered, and from the moment I got off the ship f waa struck with the real need for gum over there. "I hadn't been In France three minute min-ute when -a group of little boys and girls crowded around me and shouted; 'Chewing gm, sl'l Vous nla It V " """It is a. common slghT lo see the little boys and girls beg a stick of gum from our A merlcan sot di era of course. In a nice way; and I have yet to sea a doughboy fall to respond If ha had a package of gum or could get one nearby. "It twvw lmprfrtrt fh.t t-A HMr - mil tif every five that went over for our boys were given away to the children, and that despite the fact the American! prise chewing gum most highly. "Water la a rare article In France. In placea almost priceless; and there never haa been enough gum over there to take care of the soldiers. Frequently I have heard of gum being sold at a premium. It haa tn many pieces as stands rdlsed a price aa a flott Mit Una' German belt for souvenirs. sou-venirs. "In the T. M. C. A. huti cartons of Adams brands of gum were emptied aa fast as they were put on display. "It certainly haa been a great blessing for the little fellows of France to tret a -stick -of - gum- for there are two things they lack badly. One la a proper place In which to play and the other Is sweets. Jack wore a V. M. C. A. uniform, and aald the reason why the Americans Ameri-cans were excelling In all lines of military matters over there was because be-cause every one was an athlete. He formerly was principal of a school In Los Angelee. |