Show WORLD WAR WAS YARNS by Frank E. E Hagan Flapjack Warfare Soldiers of he the Sixth Infantry alFort at al Fort Oglethorpe In ID 1917 remember with pride tIt the dinner served In D company II a mess megs Also Abo they recall re reo call the hand hand to battle which fol tot towed lowed D company's meal was a success UESS Shoals of golden brown cakes l geared down eager throats of were emptied to 10 add uhl to 10 tin it seductiveness I spirit mw grew wl warlike nt as the Ihl food road w was us con cun sUllied And i over lI er er nl at a corner corill table Ihle two Iwo I D soldiers clashed cinched above I a disputed Ihl I Usher Other soldiers shoved them Into the Ih company street I. I meanwhile chewing their own flapjacks ks The rhe warriors were ere pushed to 10 the center ot of a II run rap Idly ring They squared oft off The tinnier were unevenly Rig III Ho Roy By from frum down In Alabama led with hl his hili left Shorty u ii mall Mil rather her pasty faced fellow from frum fort Slocum bucked harked away Again the IIII hi fellow led again the smaller one olle r re re- treated Lint Hut this tune time Big lJ toys Buy blow almost reached him and his Irl gleamed wanly In to recognition u of his hb plight Suddenly however huwe the littleman little man stopped From somewhere near his can camas he started H II left leff swing The blow which pullets pulled J Shorty lipon tipon up tip upon on his toes tue at al the end landed on the point of the hi big bis fellows fellow Jaw The big man flopped forward rolled over nver on his back bork andly and oDd lay Iny quiet ly Iy lie wits was out Victorious Shorty gaped at lit the evidence e of his hili prowess Then nver come Conte and frightened he tie turned arid and fled headlong past the Ihl hll barracks A lung long time later at al the Front D O company soldiers remembered remembered the pun JIlin cakes When this mans man's army serve t us beefsteaks ks Just before were ere to 10 step off oft for an nn attack It knows what Its It's dolne the soldiers declared Food has hall made I D company tight fight ever pr since the day of the flapjacks You ou tell em soldiers I Youthful Warriors The claims ol of Ernest Sweeney of lIa Moss Mass and Chester lII Merriman Merrl- Merrl man of Romney V. W. Vu Va both huth of whom enlisted In the American army at the age ale of fourteen to being the youngest st American soldiers In the Ih World war has brought out the fact fall that there wt were re other youthful Amerlean American Amer lean ican warriors who served In France even though It was os under another las flag I. I U L S. S M. M Robinson secretary of department 0 of nf the Navy League of the United States Ill I U is the llie authority tor or orthe the following statement Many very pry young American boys boy enlisted In the Canadian army where rt regulations were ert ere Ie less stringent than those of American recruiting ers This department has hils In Its flies files no noI noless noless I less s than limn 21 records record of boys under r sixteen years of age ae who Joined the I army Iwo two ot of whom were here killed In battle bottle when barely sixteen years jears ears old Among them teeth were U L Goldstein fifteen and ten tn months years I 13 I lIu fifteen years jears all alt but three thrle days das end and Anton Anion KowalskI fourteen years and eleven ll months and und Moise Iole James dames s lIst lrene thirteen years jears ars old of whom horn the litter latter two were born In Wisconsin and Minnesota and were living In Canada CI at ot the time of their enlist enlistment incur A Sharp Affair No 1 croup of stories ot of the World war eon can possibly he be complete without the llie gem which Involves a colored American soldier presumably of the second Ninety di division who took part partIn In an attack shack This Thill man was Willi shout to 10 step oft on In his first firl engagement nt and he proposed to 10 he be prepared fur for mortal and sun san combat So St for fur a half hour or more before I the hl forward movement l was to he launched tied he hI occupied himself himself him self with sharpening I his hili tru truty ty ly razor A brick which some IIII German hud end left behind made an nn excellent hone Uv Rg II H II hour I the ht colored man had hi Ids equalizer sharpener sharpened to Ih the 1 edge he Opening It In Ills his hood hand he II went WEll forward with II II I tie the h rE rest 1 of I the h troops I One of the Ihl first places visited was Willi wasa a II huge hUll dugout and according to popular pupa IIII lar lam report the was WI occupied by byset t se several rul of the rhe enemy One of them thew made a II dash for the razor bearer razor bearer as us he The colored man mun a veteran of 0 levee pe dances dans nil all along ahong the Mississippi slashed Just once mice with the tine eded eded razor as nil hi ht hI enemy was about to la grap gran grapple pie lIe with him hint Hard liard luck colored boy You run never touched me the said aid In III excellent excellent ex IJ cell lI I but bul stopping stOl suddenly In his Ilia rush You Jus' Jus think I didn't touch you yoa replied the colored d soldier a n w wide toothsome grin showing on his face You MYun jus' jus thinks I t I tomb vou nil he hl repented Hut 1 you 11 Jus' Jus wails Hulls white hll boy 1111 till you jou u tries trl's to waI waggle yo u hood h on 11 rT Ia S iota lu Wi tern S' S II i o M Paine I t I |