Washington County News | 1919-01-02 | Page 3 | Men of Iron

men of iron capt adward beck of south bend ind at present in iannce with the black senegalese troops recently wrote home concerning them they are just like our own col ored he writes aso wonder greit fighters they neer feel any pain they remind me of a colored in south bend one dai to test the hardness of this tel low head a mason on the upper floor of a boulding dropped some mortar on it the fellow never moved in fact ne haan hadn t felt a thing so the mason dropped a brick crash 1 otlien the brick hit his head the colored man looked up at the mason languidly look out whir you alls done drop pin dat mortar he said