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Show it - 't TIIE BEAVER COUNTY' WEEKLY. PRESS, ' BEAVER, UTAH" CONDENSED CLASSICS By THOMAS HUGHES Condensation by William Ftnwick Harris Taeaiaa Haaars KM harm Ort. 30, 1833, at CSriactea, Berks. la 1834 hia talker scat Tom la RKb7 te be aadr the ckarae at Dr. Araalai tka teeter aa tka father &ad aeea fellew eta-aa- te e, at Oriel Oder. Balk srkaol aa4 aaaater were made world-kuk7 tke eol-fec- wi aeek, eh I Tta Hoc kea ataat have Dare." aeea aerjr eaaca tke aaata earl at eckeel-a- y aa tka here at tka eterr. hat la tact Gears, kla kralker, waa tke artel aal al Teat, aa Deaa Stealer waa tke artctaal at Ankar. - ra Theataa Hackee fellewea la kla feetatesa at Oriel ke waa later eaUeal ta tka ear, aa4 ereataallr waa apaelated a eeaaty eeart Jsidaje, Hla lite waa aaa at true eerrlea te kaataaltjri Freaerlek Maariee waa tke Treat lataeaee tkat werke aaaa a la, aad ka waa at tka arrea aleaa; wttk Ckarlea Klaaraler, wka derated tkeav eelree ta tka eaaae at tka Werktav aaea'a Callage. Ha aat ta aarllaatrat, alwara 'a derated rrlead af kla frleaaa, tka werklaaea ka tried kla kaad at aa MeaUatle eolear, railed Kasar, la Taaaeaaeei ke waa a freejaeat vlalte ta Aaeerlea, aad waa f trreat rrlead aad - datlrer at Jamea Raaaell LawelL wkaaa lafaeaea aver klat la akawa la tka treejaeat aaetatleaa la kla keeks. Hla ether veluMee laeladrd a eeeael ta Toea Brawa at Oxford," "Reticle lalel," aad kla Meaaetr af a Brother." Bat ka will elwara k remewbered aa tka aaaa aad areal-hear- te aatkar wka kaa aaderatoed seaeetalae; ef tka seal af a eeaeelttr, aad wka kaa wrlttea tka arreateat kaok la EaeUak at tke ecaeelaar'e - Ufa. 1 whose scandalized mother demanded on the occasion of a visit from Madam Brown : "Job, Job, where' thy ' . . cap? on ma head, , Beant'e , "Whatl mother? replied Job, slowly extricating one hand from a pocket and feeling for the article hi question; which he found on his head and left there, to his mother's horror and Tom's great delight. Rugby was a new world for Tom. He was a sturdy, and combatlre urchlnH Rble to fend for himself on bis own heathj yet It was a great boon for him that he fell Into the hands of a boy of his own age, but a bit ahead of him at Rugby. The first sight he encountered on his arrival was a lordly crowd of youngsters who looked One quite as if they owned the of .these. young heroes rar. out from the rest and accosted Tom. "I say, yon fellow, is your name Browji?" . "Tea," said Tom, In considerable glad, however, to hare lighted on . some one already who seemed to know him. "Ah, I thought so; you know my aunt, Miss East; she lives somewhere down jour way In Berkshire. She wrote to me that yon were coming today, and asked me to give you a lift Yon see," said his friend, as they strolled up toward the school gates, "a great deal depends on how a fellow cuts op at first--" If he's got nothing-odd about him, and answers straightforward and holds bis head up, he gets on. Ton see I'm doing the handsome th!ng by you, because my father knows yours; besides, I want to please the old lady. She gave me half a tor this. half, and perhapsll double It next If I keep In her good books." Thus began a friendship which lasted through all thtir school days and meant much to both of them. Friend ship and loyalty and good sportsman ship are great features in this book, which shows an insight Into the brain and heart of a boy which is just as wise in the year of our Lord 1020 as It, was hv the days of William IV. Tom and East were together in games, in mischief, in fights, in good deeds, or in deriltry, as they were In Ingenious syndicating methods of working out the mysteries of the Greek and Latin languages. And yean later, when -- the - wise Doctor Arnold of Rugby decided that Tom was headed toward destruction, it was by means of friendship for a weaker boy who heeded his protection that he rescued him. What waa the marvel of the doctor's power orer boys? "We j;''. 1 " -- as Tom was swallowing his last mouthful (three o'clock In the moraine), winding his com- . .forter round his throat, and tucking the ends Into the breast of his coat, the horn sounds. Boots looks In and ears t "Tally-ho- , sir,'. and they hear "J: the ring and the rattle of the four e fast trotters and the drag, as it dashes up to the Peacock. couldnt enter into half that we heard; "'Anything for usvBobr ys the we hadn't the knowledge of our own ' burly guard, dropping down from be- hearts or the knowledge of one an hind and slapping himself across the other; and little enough of the faith, chest end Iovneeded to that end. Bnt " Toting genl'm'n, Rugby,' answers hope we listened, as all boys In their betta hostler. ter moods will listen (aye, and men, "Tell young gent to look aUre,'- - too, for the matter of that), to a aays the guard, opening the hind-boman whom they ' felt to bey with alt 1 and shooting the parcels In after ex- his heart and soul and strength, striv amining them by the lamps. .Here, ing against whatever was mean and, F1I shove theV portmanteau up unmanly and unrighteous in our little fasten him presently. Now, there, sir, world. It waa not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warnJump up behind.' " " fathermy lore at home.' ing from serene heights to those who A last shake of the hand. Up goes were straggling and sinning below, Tom, the guard catching his bnt the warm, living voice of one who and holding on with one hand while was fighting for us and by our aides, with the other he claps the horn to his and calling us to help him and ourirontb. Toot, toot, toot I the hostlers selves and one another. And so, let go their heads, the four bays plunge wearily and little by little, was brought at the collar, and away goes the tally-h- o home to the young boy, for the first Into the darkness, 45 seconds from time, the meaning of his life: that it the time they had pulled up," was no fool's or sluggard's paradise So Tom Brown started to begin his into whlcbThe had wandered by chance, school days at Rugby when William but a battle field, ordained from of IV sat - upon the throne. Squire old, where there are no spectators, but Brown had meditated something as the youngest must take h!s side, and follows the night before; "Shall the stakes are life and death. And he I tell him to mind his work and to who roused this consciousness In them make hlmse'.f a good scholar? Well, showed them at the same time, by but be Isn't sent to school for that erery word he spoke, and by his whole . at any rate not forthat mainly. I dally life, how that battle was to be V don't care straw for Greek par--' fought; and stood before them their r and the captain of their tides, or the dlgamma, no more does his mother. What Is he sent to school guard. The true sort of captain, too, for? Well, partly because he wanted for a boy's army, one who had tio misto go. If he'll only turn out a hrare, givings and gave no uncertain word Englishman,-an- d of command, and, let who would yield helpful, a gentleman, and a Christian, that's or make a truce, would fight the fight ' all I want."- Upon this rlew of the out (soetery hoy felt) to the last gasp case he framed his last words to and the last drop of blood." Tom. "And now, Tom, my boy, re- And so, Tom lived his life from the .t member you are going at your own first green days to. the last memorable " earnest request, to be chackedjnio night,-jcas-:-f chaired round this great school, like a young bear the quadrangle by the eleven, shout ... wi th. .all your irojuhl. beforeyou he's Jolly,-go-d ing 4n ehorasr-Foxarl'.er than we should have sent you fellow," himself as great a boy as all !erhars." (Tom was nine.) "If schools the rest, despite the passageof the " ire what they were In my time youH years and his dignity of captain. It see a great many cruel blackguard Is a story of humanness, with all its hlngs done, and hear a deal of foul good points and its frailties, but espe had talk. But nerer fear. Ton tell cially of loyalty and of friendship ; of the truth, keep a brave and kind heart, games, so much like our own in spirit and nerer listen, or say anything you and yet so different in details; of East wouldn't hare your mother and sis- and. Arthur, of the brutalities of the ter hear, and youll never feel ashamed old faggtng system, the school bully to come home, or we to see you," and Tom's classic fight with him, of Tom's father was a great asset to the final war ot Independence against the boy. Tor though he belonged to what was mean and sordid. what Is called the upper middle class, want to leave behind me,' said the opinion which the squire lored to Tom, speaking low, the name of a propound abore all others was the fellow who never bullied a little boy belief that a man Is to be rained wholly or turned his back on a big one. And for that which he la In himself, for then, I would sooner have the doctor's that which stands up In the focx good opinion of me as I really am fleshly walls of him, apart from dothea, than any man's In the world.'" rank, fortune, and all externals what- by the Poet Publishing ' : He held further that It dldnt Copyrtrht, Co, TKe Tkxioa Peetl.' Copyright la tka matter a straw whether his son amm-- , United Kingdom, tke Dominions, Its Colon lee and dependeorlea, ander the copy elated with lords' sons or plowmen's rlsM act. by the Poet PublUhlnc Co , sons, provided they were brave and rt-BostonIaas.BViAJlrlgtlta, Tom had merrjrthJ right served. jThohe;"Fo Democratic time witn the wys ot the village, and teamed much that - Her Inclination stood him in good stead when he got to TTow about your poem, YanewaT" Bugby, among other things to value "The editor returned It with man or boy wholly for what was in greta." ," V him, whether it was Harry Wtndboru, "Regrttsrthe quickest and best boy In the par-so with "Tea; many regrets that I iRh, who taught him the turns and feel tempted to send it to hint again." Louisville Courier-Journ,olJi volefe later carritd him through ' town-mad- . - - a-t- - .;' "Oood-by,- hat-bo- x . t truth-tellin- fellow-soldie- g - lah r , . "I . t , - -- ri - al UEI i -- H;Shews Lack i Legion's Investigation Attention to Men Whe Suffered ; ' . Terrors ef War. n, TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS Browa'e NEGLECT OF DISABLED his great fight with the bully of Rugby; or poor Jacob Doodle-cal- f (as the hoys nicknamed him). In whose hands everything came to pieces and in whoso head nothing would stick, or Job Rod-ki- Bij a Lieutenant in tttd United States Navy QlEBOMQ (Copy for Taie Departmeal Supplied the Amerieaa 'Leitoa Neva Skrvlce.) HONOR TO MINNESOTA br WOMAN She led blm into a strange house Dr. Helen Hughes Hielscher Is Chosen State President of Womsn'a said , strange thlngr to strange and D. S. S. Wasp had a ':". Auxiliary of Legion. tried His head whirled. He glory about her thatVas al- people. more than had to had remember he if most modern. Approximately four hundred deleShe flitted Into being in April. 1814, one glass of grog at the landing. all parts of Minnesota at Ten minutes he sat In a kind of gates and buzzed out during the fall of the tended ... the first trance. Then someone mentioned 8t ;'-same year. : convention state There was a first Wasp in the war John's. He leaped to his feet "The women's the of ! he of 1812. This second one was smaller boom the compass deviation auxiliary of the but .h!tter.. built . Her SUA Ions, mail" cried. "It's Newfoundland Tve hit" .. Legion American They Ui6ughfWra crazy,huf In fact her little more than an overgrown in Minneapolis. it was his compass that had gone yaeht. The ireetl n g s 32 looney. He had missed Sydney by Just J She was armed with 20'sawed-ofmarked the begin three hundred miles t . pounders and a pair of lean ning of the naCutting loose all together she tional. organtzQr BON HOMME RICHARD could hurl the tremendous broadside tlon of the auxilOLD STORY, yes. ,But I bet of 315 pounds of eaetal or about the iary, which is didn't know she won her batshell i' nltlmn tel v weight of one modern I Jm to bind togethetl Captain "Johnnie" Blakeley took her tle with a bucket She was the flagship of our first about ten out on May 1, 1814. He wasted no time palMon women, the mothers, but , headed straight for the English J. P. who was known by foreigners as wives, Bisters, and daughters of for-n, channel, pi six weeks he had denned "that pirate.". service men of the World war. John Paul Jones named her after The up enough prizes to retire on a cblck- delegates at the Minnesota conthe Almanac published by a certain ference represented about 6,000 tiem-ber- s B. Franklin. The latf er Influence in But Jtoniewaa'noiTtherrUrTni;' of the 113 units of the auxiliary Frunce made It possible for Americans In that state.' kind or we shouldn't have named-on. to fit out a squadron of reprisal of our late destroyers after hint The convention adopted a state conOn June 28. H. M. S. Reindeer hove against the British. stitution modeled after the tentative In the summer of 1779 five AmeriIn sight With Lnplandlsh pertinacity used by auxilcrossed under1 Jones' constitution previously the Wasp perched on the Reindeer's can and voted to "dedicate units, iary command. After painting the Scotch themselves haunckt and stung her venomously.' to the cardinal principles But the Reindeer was known as the coast red they fell In with an English Pt.ih...Legion".;.;..W';.,.:---reasons obscure fleet. rather For only "Pride of Portsmouth." so she bucked Officers elected were: - Dr. Helen M. S. and kicked and fetched other vicious two ships chose to engage, H. Hielscher, president; Mrs.E. A. LewS. S. Bon Homme efforts to dislodge her adversary. Her Serapls and the U. is, first rice" president. Mrs. Myrtle Richard. skipper Cifpt William Manners, leaped Gets, second rice president ; Mrs. O. The British was a first rate into the rigging and gallantly promulB. De Xaurler, historian ; Mrs. George while the Richard was an gated a boarding party over , the rail old converted Indlaman. The 5. Barber, representative on the Serapls of the Wasp, which had come along-sldeexecutive committee. could throw 600 pounds of projectiles " Mist Pauline Curnlck, representing ;';V?:f to the Richard's 444 pounds. Crews Followed a unanimous and success- were of the organization division of national ; nearly equal size. l . teadQuarters,1 ful prohibition movement amongst the addressed the "convenAt the first broadside the Richard's Americans. the plans and aims of , tion, outlining burst "and smeared the big Bill Manners and 67 of his crew and organization. crews their along the decks or splatofficers were killed or wounded. The Kansas members of the women's tered them on the crossbeams overship's clerk was the only officer left to head. Besides this disaster the swift auxiliary will hold their state convention January 10 and 11, and other surrender. Serapls cross Jones' bow and raked Thence the Wasp sailed to France to him fore and aft which in those days states are expected to take similar recoup. She did it so well that soon was as good as a home run in the action in the near future. after leaving port she attacked a con- ninth Inning with three men on. n voy of ten ressels escorted by the At this point of the combat the Limey WARSAW, POLAND, HAS POST Armada. . With captain staged a famous incident by V. r , sentimental partiality she cnt out the his fatuous inquiry;- "Has your ship Men Now All Members Are brig Mary, captured valuable military struck?"" To which,' as every school on With American the Duty " . stores and escaped, i . boy knows, Jones replied: "I have Red Cross. j.;... . With her blood still up she felXJn not yet begun to fight" with II. M. S. Avon. After a running So they went at it again, And they A post of (he American Legion with fight of two hours in the darkness of got all tangled np with each other. 0 members has. been formed In WarThe Finally they ust hung together and saw, Poland. All the members are et-night the enemy surrendered. Avon's mnlnsail fell over her after drifted Yankee riflemen in the tops servlce men who are now on duty with drove the British crew below. British the American Red Cross. guns and blanketed their fire. The post At the moment the Britisher sur- gunners between decks fired through was organised by Charles Phillips of rendered several more of "the enemy the aides of their own vessel to punc New Richmond, WIs head of the pubhove np over the horizon. Capt ture the enemy's. :'. licity department of the Red Cross In Then came a Scot, a Yankee Scot Warsaw, Blakeley prudently beat It and has the following offOn Sept. 21 the brig Atlanta was with, a bucket lie filled his bucket H. H. Hall of McDonald, Pal, icers: taken. She was the fifteenth prize. wvitn Domns.- - tie aaaea a pmcn or commander; Lee D. Rowe of McAUtfci, October 9 the Wasp fell In with a I lommon combustibles. He slid out on Tex, adjutant; Frank R. McKennay .Swedish brig and was reported for the the yardarm overhanging the Serapls. tf Richmond, Mejj treasurer, last time. She was never seen nor He threw a match Into his bucket, Commander ' Hall, who served In bedown bucket the batch u beard of again. dropped the France with the Three Hundred and neath, and beat It. Seventh supply train, is chief of stores a flame and and a Followed puff Red Cross In Poland Rowe, for DEVIATION a bang, a great big boom 'of a bang. who the was In the medical detachment vouch for this tale. I out all took the spunk This disaster ICA.VT I could. No. 412. In If there's any vouchof the enemy.' After a few boarding of medical aupf'y train ing to be done a sailor must save It for brawls the finish came. France, went to Poland a year ago with his own tales. To the nautical raconStates army typhus expediThe Richard was sinking and on the United '" . teur Truth is an abortion of scientific tion were and her decks fire? her gory Posts ot the Legion also are now Intrigue calculated to put the bug on sides like sieves. But she was saved; formed in Jerusalem, Palestine romance and adventure. being hero became the Jones Paul and John It Is true, however, that a compass of two continents. ' and in Peking, China. , needle Is of wenk and vacillating character. Let so much as a bnlly hunk of BATTLE STATIONS MOST POPULAR AT CARNIVAL Iron approach the binnacle do you pick a roan? howl and our guide be- HOW his face yes. And figure-someti-mes. Marie Balzarlnl Carries Off Honors at comes a creature of decidedly easy vlr His actions mostly. His Contest. Conducted by Wlrwlsor tue. The neeili ah&mlons its straight thoughts-whe- n yon are sure they are Terrace Post, Brooklyn. and narrow north-soutline and sub- his. But there is one more method mits to the magnetic charms of n baser and like Gladstone, statesmen Great Miss Marie Ba'ltarlnl of Brooklyn, metal. Others like T. It have known and used N. Yn-wvoted the most popular Deviation l the name of the' needle's to man how a Is: 'the mark Sure-It girl In a contest sin. On a steel vessel each compass waits. Not Just Ms Ttlence. Watch held a during points out of true. Though magnets nil of him while bo's waiting. week's carnival of are arranged about o compensate, The fleet leave port for maneuvers. Windsor Terrace for action of surrounding inetnl. there Complete war watches are kept on the J. I of the Amerpoet Is always a small error. This error Is job all the time. Submarines are the' ican Legion. The deviation. In , the greatest immediate peril. eon-te- st popularity V it ally inport n n MojijOd pp,r course .La fewjSays an actual war bewhich is to know the amount of error. AIho zone ts reached; that Is, an area In favor-R- e a coming -iunsthe. he..iaiulJla r ith..wha t.4x rhy w hleh Huy..b Jarkingv-- Or pastime among beams ana rraces cause most of It. , on the horisuspicious smoke appears Eastern- - posts of - For Instance one of the1 Canadian zon. . the American Lea woodparola 0 the tale goes-hn- d "Signal "general quarters," Is the gion, has been the en cargo boom secured Just forward admiral's quick decision means of boost- aalkrfdeettaaaW ''WaasaaawaaaBa. of her bridge. The heel fitting on the "Aye aye, sir from the flag lieu- .ug the unsocial standing of several boom was of steel. So near the steertenant lings flutter for a brief space, posts as well aa affording amusement ing compass was this piece that when are answered down the column, then for the members and their friends. a gnlo swept the forecastle clear, takdrop to the signal boards. On every ing boom and all, there was some 12 ship alarms clang. Bugles take up the dep-ee- s chnnge In the compass error. emergency call. On each auperdread- - NO TIME FOR "BLUE UWSW .. Prrhnpa It wss youth, or mayhe op- nnttght the whole ship's company file timism In the captain thnt kept blm to battle stations. Indications Are That Legion National offfrom worrying. Or It may have been Offlcera Will Not Take "Post means ench that this primarily that be wa bound up to Sydney, his icer and man shall roost where the tlve Stand." home port Or it mny even have been rhlp'a station bill provides for him to that he wns going to see his wife. meet the enemy In time of battle, Cap"Bloe law" agitation Is apparently Some sailors are that way. t tain in conning tower, surgeon in sick obnoxious to a large number of memAt any rote ho kept on In spite of bay, gunner at pin, engineer In engine bers of the American Legion, accordtain and fog and snow nn l sleet. So room, and so on. , ing to expressions of opinion received moon, nor sun. nor stars to guide him. in letters at national headquarters. All very pretty or a drill But sup Ills dead reckoning had to do. - , the enemy actually la near. Or National officers have been called upon pose -hol in the wail. He crawled lute It tnrns out that the. hostile fleet Is to take a "positive stand" particularly which a harbor is like In thick weath- creeping Just behind the horizon. against those who would do away with er. And though It was late he went Then it's all hands stick to their stathe cigarette. ashore. tions. They must not leave if powder "As individual citizens and voters Somehow thr'dorir?ookcd--tnifamri-laIs outNotIf the other fellow Is close oor membership can support or oppose The street beyond, curved the enough to take a pot shot pretty soon. what it sees fit," said one national ofwrong way. Certainly there was some- Nor if destroyers might dart In under ficer of the Lesion, "so ion as thv cover of fog or darkness. It's stick to conform to our national constitution. thing queer about the lights. . Suddenly he epcountered a woman. stations for all hands. I think the veteran, however, Is against It wss his wife, But why should she Broadsides are not bad There is Intolerance. The national have her new suit on as he discerned room enough to sit and to stretch one'a of the Legion has no time organization for this con by the .glow of a shop window, legs; and perhaps, if the division off- troversy, however. We have our hands "What are you doing here?" she ex- icer is not too near, to get a little 'shut-eye- .' full In our effort to make life what It claimed. In turrets, though, the confine. bould be for the disabled" . . , tnnt soon grows irksome. "Oolnf home, of course." WASP THE . frn T AN er o.fai.,,J.X e men-of-w- . . na-lon- al s. 74-gu- - . low-cast- e high-price- -- h latestlgatlons by the American lj gion reveal sboct lng conditions of &; management and neglect in the got ernment'a treatment of disabled ve erans, according to reports of the gion's findings made public by F. $ Galbralth, Jr, national cotomandf The Legion has launched a nation-wi- ; fight for the correction of these corn', tions, which Mr Galbralth has scribed as "a blot and a disgrace the name of our country." , More than 20.000 veterans are stE In hospitals suffering from wonnds a Infirmities suffered ig their countrri senlce. Magy.of them have been the; since they were brought back frcg Franco, on the hospital ships. Toft number is increasing at the rate of 1 500 a month, due mostly to the develop ment of tuberculosis among men were "gassed Statistics ; show thi, more than 500,000 ; men were ov charged with disability rated higfc, than 10 per cent. Experts agree tiy the peak in hospitalisation will come for five or ten years. Yet, g eniment hospitals at present are tiki to overflowing jnd even contract in rangements are not being made ft ; Idly enough to care for theeverTtglc, tide kf disabled men whose condition, demand hospitalization, ,? Certainly, there Is no lack of llngness on the part of the Americu public to do all ln human power to tit those who paid the price for the The same experts who estlmi that the peak of the problem will come for five or ten years say In ttt meantime $5,000,000,000 must be spen: in Its solution. The government hi not been niggardly. More than $500,1 000,000 already lias been spent. Mir management is the gist of the Legion charge. Lack of vision and foresigfc; and the governmental nt tape is blamed as responsible for ti death of disabled men before aid coble, reach them, for the Incarceration " disabled in jails and insane asylum and the charity wards of public no pltals where they . received the saac , treatment as paupers. In addition to its activities In adr eating reform In the conduct of tlx government bureaus, the American U glon has dedicated Itself to the tremendous task of "humanizing" thi dreary lives of 20,000 disabled buddlW who are patients In the hospitals all over the countryv ' Every Legion post in this counhr has been assigned to the definite Jot, of taking care of a certain hosplti' where former service men are patients. The Women's auxiliary also will V mobilized to share in the work anf civic and philanthropic .organization In the hospital towns will be enlisted.! There la also the dangerous post! bllity that the. hospital patients, malning day after day with no Winterer, other than their physical condition will become' bitter against the countrt which once honored them and whl-- I apparently has cast them aside. I several hospitals, Bolshevist agent! have distributed Inflammatory liters ture by Ingenious methods, of whld an example is the lnclesure of t& printed matter in bouquets of flowtn In ono case discovered by Legion vestlgators the propaganda' was 0 titled: "You fought for America s what did yon get out of And deed, it does seem that the sick r eran got little out of it except a sodperiod of popularity, the conselousnw of having done his duty and a mainl " X and diseased body. , "The 2,000,000 who are their bud dies," said the. Legion's national cod mander, "and are banded together the American Legion, are determine that the hundred million shall not tot get- In this work of giving the abled man a fair deal and making hU content we shall ask the of evry loyal American. We fou$ together and we will stick together." i ever-prese- ltr - WOULD STEER SHY OF CAMEE as Colonel Whittlesey, Leader ef "L. Battalion," Backs Off From Mai 4 tlon Picture Machine. , It-t- 1 ' J i - Althongh Colonel Whittlesey, an ' tive mftnber of the American Leglo led the famon "lost .... battalioe through the A' gonne and w ouo-- of the" I Americans wb won the blue r sette of the cot ' gresslonal med of honor, he to "Fatty" Arbucil that he wou be-"scared death" If plae1 before a motion picture camera, i "You can starve a man; you ct wound him with bullets," said (toine Whittlesey during a recent vlsirtoi Hollywood movie studio with the ly comedian, "but yon can't dim I love for the movies. Just a few hoo after my boys of the Three Hundrf and Eighth Infantry bad landed la safe billeting area on being relief from their perilous position, the wbi bunch were In a hut watching five-re' comedy" jkjt , r T , r. I In These Days. 1 Who's the boss heref ssked f traveling salesman as he stopped a farm with a set of the World's Hf Literature In 12 volumes. "He Is," replied the man at the de wearily, pointing to the hired rs loafing hard In a field fl'm only t employer." Aroet?cto Legion WV |