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Show EARN THEIR CROSSES WRITER TELLS OF BRAVERY OF GERMAN FIELD COOK8. Are Held Responsible for Feeding the Men In the Trenches, and Well and Nobly They Are Doing Their Duty. "There Isn't anything heroic nbout cooks," writes Herbert Corey to the New York Globe, "and when things go wrong one either apprehends a cook as chasing a waiter with a bread knlfo or giving way to tears." Yet tho Ger man army contains many a cook whoso expansive apron Is decorated with tho Iron cross. "And tho Iron cross," Mr. Corey reminds us, "Is conferred for ono thing only for 100 per cent cour-age." cour-age." Tho writer tells an Interesting talo: "'They've earned It,' sold tho man who had seen them. 'They aro tho bravest men In tho kaiser's four millions. mil-lions. I'vo seen generals salute greasy, paunchy, sour-looking army cooks.' I "Tho cook's Job Is to feed tho men j of his company. Each German com-I com-I pany Is followed or preceded by a field kitchen on wheels. Sometimes tho fires aro kept going whllo tho devtco trundles along. Tho cook stands on 'ho footboards and thumps his brend. Ho Is always tho first man up In tho morning and tho last to sleep at night. Tho Teuton believes In plenty of food of a sort. A well-fed soldier will fight. A hungry ono may not. "'When the company gets Into camp at night,' said the man who knows, 'tho cook Is there before It, swearing at his fires and tho second cook, and turning out quantities of a depressing looking veal stow, which is, nevertheless, neverthe-less, very good to cat.' " 'When that company goes Into tho trenches the cook stays behind. Thero is no placo for a field kitchen In a four- foot trench. Hut theso men In tho trench must bo fed. Tho Teuton Insists In-sists that all soldiers must be fed but especially tho men In a trench. Tho others may go hungry, but these must havo tight belts. Upon their staying power may depend tho safcU' of an army. "'So, as tho company cannot go to tho cook, tho cook goes to tho company. com-pany. When meal hour comes ho puts a yoke on his shoulders and a cook's cap on his head and, warning tho second sec-ond cook as to what will happen If ho lets tho fires go out, puts a bucketful of tho veal stew on cither end of tho yoke and goes to his men. Maybo tho trench is under flro. No matter. His men are In that trench aud must bo fed. " 'Sometimes tho second cook gets his step right here. Sometimes the apprentice ap-prentice cook tho dish washer Is summoned to pick up tho cook's yoko and refill tho spilled buckets and tramp steadily forward to tho line. Somu- times tho supply of assistant cooks, even, runs short. But tho men In tho trenches always get their food. "'That's why so many cooks In tho German army havo Iron crosses dangling dan-gling from their breasts,' said tho man who knows. 'No braver men ever lived. Tho man In tho trench can duck his head and light his plpo and bo relatively rela-tively safe. No fat cook yoked to two buckets of veal stow over can be safo as ho marches down tho trench under flro. Rut ho nlways marches. His men nro always fed, and fed on tlmo. Tho hero ot tho German campaign Is tho fat cook of tho field kitchen.' " |