Newark post., March 05, 1919, Page 6, Image 6

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THESE TWO MEN
DID NOT HEDGE
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Carried Out Contrast to Limit
Ol&dbiüing, OIUs io Escape.
"The war is over; I'm not «oing to
buy any more Liberty Bonds."
This is a remark you may have
making it
Maybe you
If you have,
heard. Many persons
thoughtlessly every day.
have said it yourself,
surely it is because you forgot that
contract you made with those partners
of yours, James Yaeger and 1. Berry,
are
less limn two years ago.
What? You never had those men
as partners? First, refresh your mem
ory a bit in regard to Yaeger. Let's
see, it was in April, 1917, that you
made that agreement with him.
terms were very
Yaeger was to go in training, lua\e
submarines, bullets, shells and gas for i
an unlimited period, for WO a month, |
to protect you and your family. You
were to remain in comparative coin
fort, only guaranteeing that Yaeger's
salary and all expenses incident to his
should he paid :
At that, you were not ask
only
to lend it at a good rate of interest. |
Now, your other partner. Berry, j
Perhaps you have forgotten him, too.
He was a lieutenant in the Fifth Ma
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to you. ,
favorable
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perilous mission
promptly,
ed to give this money outright
chine (Jun Battalion. His agreement
with you was the same as Yaeger's— j
he was to give ids service, even to the <
death if required, while you were to
do your part in footing the hills.
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How did these two partners
yours carry out their part of tile con --1
tract? The War Department's records
are eloquent on this point.
Yaeger was near Verdun on October
12, 1918, performing Ids duties in your
behalf. With a few companions he
exposed position
anil artillery fire,
df the foe with his
lie fell severely
Several hours later the
found him.
was rut oft in an
under heavy gun
While standing
automatic rifle,
wounded,
stretcher hearers
Smith first," he begged, pointing to
his companion. They did, and re
turned as quickly as they could.
Yaeger, your partner, was dead. He
had been released from his part in
the contract. But, by the eternal law
of Right and Decency, ids death did
not release you!
You have yet to—but wait, let us
"Take
see what became of your other part
ner, Lieutenant Berry.
The first week in October, the ree
ords tell us, lie was in action near
fng"'id's"conmi'i-t 0 to f ^' keep'^-nil''"™!
your family safe, no matter at what
cost to himself. His commander fell
dead. Berry went to the front line
and "carried on."
Shortly afterwards a bullet hit him
in the head. The surgeon ordered
him to the hospital. An "evacuation
tag" was placed on ids uniform, which
meant that he was out of the fight
and for the time released from his
responsibility to you, ids partner.
What did he do? Tore off the tag, de
stro.ved it, and <l,nshed into tlie front
line! For twenty-four hours he com
mantled the defense, guided ids men
hack to safety—and died.
Yaeger scorned tlie chance of re
lief that the stretcher hearers offered
him.
Berry disdained an "evacuation tag."
You are the partner of these men.
They kept faith with you to the hitter
.end. Their spirits cry to you from
the Great Beyond to fulfill your prom
ise to them. Their millions of com
rades— nisi
lives were saved,
your partners—whose
ask you:
seek an easy way out of the battle?
Do you covet an 'évacuation lag'?
What is your word worth?"
"Do
you
In April you will he asked to carry
out the final part of your stipulation
by subscribing to the Victory Liberty
Loan.
Of course, you will meet your ob
ligation !
'MISSING IN ACTION'
All through those days of the
growing casualty lists one feature
of the reports was the number
"missing in action."
Many of these victims
found ti
Some had been wounded.
were
>e in Germnn prisons.
Sortie,
overcome by weight of numbers,
had been taken prisoners out
right. Many were more dead than
alive.
A lot of folks here at home have
been "missing in action" without
having done anything at all.
Simply laid down their arms and
surrendered without firing a shot.
None of us can afford to lie in
that list.
Every one of us can be on the
list of "those present" instead of
"missing in action," if we do our
share in the Victory Liberty Loan.
Liberty Loan Levity
Bill lived for one thing—just to spend.
Couldn't even spare money to lend.
Save? Bill couldn't do it.
And he—Well, you knew it.
ne died poor and curly.-— The End.
AMERICANS GOT
FLAG OF SURRENDER
FOR SOUVENIRS
Busy Cook, However, Got
Only General's Goat
If the day should ever come
when some made-in-Germany his
tory book attempts to claim less
than defeat for the Kaiser in the
great war,-there will be a number
of Americans—members of S.S.U. !
No. 598, to be concrete—who will
be able to offer tangible proof of
the fall of Prussianism in the form
of certain little white squares of
linen that were once a part of the
flag of surrender itself.
One man of the S.S.U. will have
nothing to show, however, and that
will be the cook, which is a story.
movec j a f ew m iles to the eastward,
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French that made their blood boil.
: But they got a somewhat differ
en f reception from the 39 members
s.s.u. No. 598, which arrived in
| ^ own the game day, attached to the
j 33rd French Division. The Ameri
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L ' ans souvenir instinct was arous
After General von Winterfeld
and the other German armistice
j delegates came through the line at
, guise November 8 and the line
as it had a habit of doing in those
days, their five automobiles return
ed to La Capelle, where the occu
pants got a welcome from the
ed. In a very short time after the
j cars were parked, not one of them
< showed a white flag, and most of
the Americans had souvenirs in
their pockets—the best souvenir
of the war, they are saying now.
The German chauffeurs seemed to
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join in the joke, and von Winter
feld's own driver willingly auto
graphed one of the pieces, the
photograph of which is shown here
obligingly signing his chief's
name and inscribing himself as a
"happy North-Schleswiger" as if
to disown in advance any thought
of his alliance with Prussia, vic
torious or defeated. In addition he
recorded the place and date.
While the rape of the linens was
going on, the cook was busy in the
kitchen, but when word came to
him he rushed out only to find the
autos stripped of their symbols of
defeat. Nothing daunted, he went
back to the kitchen, found a screw
driver and began to remove the
horn from General von Winter
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feld's auto. Unfortunately the
General appeared on the scene and
although, when fairly calm, he
possesses a good command of Eng
lish, the situation proved too much
for his vocabulary and he dropped
into German and bawled out the
cook in several varieties of Boche
cuss-words.
So the cook, while he cannot
boast of getting a Boche flag, at
least has the pleasure of knowing
that he successfully captured a
general's goat.—Stars and Stripes.
JUMPING ON THE Y
Chief Weakness in its Person
nel Says "Stars and
Stripes"
To be thoroughly fashionable
these days it is absolutely essen
tial to jump on the Y.M.C.A. All
the best people are doing it. An
investigation of the Red Triangle
has been in progress In the States,
and the same newspapers which, a
few months ago, were rashly giv
ing over their columns to quite un
scrutinized publicity for the Y are
now devoting those columns to the
most blistering criticism.
Out of all the jabber there will
probably emerge the fact that the
Y.M.C.A. was unexpectedly bur
dened with a much bigger task
than it could possibly have per
formed to the satisfaction of all
concerned, and that it was chiefly
handicapped by an unfortunately
chosen personnel. In its personnel
its chief weakness has lain.
And on this point 'it should be
remembered that the Y, unlike the
Government, had to take what it
could get. It could not draft, and
it was obliged to do its recruiting
for a most difficult job after the
best America could boast in youth
and enthusiasm had already been
pledged to the Army and Navy.
How difficult its problem was
you will never appreciate till you
try to select a half a dozen ideal
Y secretaries from among your
own acquaintances. Old Shag
Brown, the former football star,
you say. But Brown was an Artil
lery officer—graduate of the first
Plattsburg camp. Buck Jones,
then. But Buck has five kids and
couldn't possibly w'alk out on them.
Well, then, Hank Norton. Ah, but
Norton enlisted in the Infantry and
killed leading his platoon on
November 11. You see, it wasn't
was
easy.
Perhaps it would have been bet- j
ter if the Y.M.C.A. had been a mere ,
shell to receive the money the
home folks were sure to want to
blow on luxuries for their boys at
a great plate to catch not only
war,
the millions of the oil kings, but
the nickels of the washwomen. The
personnel to distribute all these
bounties could have been chosen
from the Army's own ranks — as
time went on—from among the
men crippled in the fighting. A
wounded man would have made the
ideal Y.M.C.A. secretary. There
was ho one else in all the world
who could have understood sol
diers so well or been so well under
stood by them.—Stars and Stripes.
Dismount Gracefully
The Tenth United States Cavalry
is still laughing over the doughboy
who chanced in on them when they
were trying to break in some new
'horses. One horse in particular
seemed to be unridable.
doughboy, after watching the
cavalrymen try to ride the brute
•and fail, stepped forward and said:
"Let me show you how."
cavalrymen were willing and the
rookie climbed aboard. He stuck
for a moment, but when the horse
did a regular buck the would-be
buster took a header. He picked
himself out of the dust, smiled,
and said; "That's the way. When
you see he don't want you on any
longer, just step off gracefully."
The
The
R. T. JONES
FUNERAL
DIRECTOR
Upholstering and
Repairing
Second Hand Furniture
Bought and Sold
-; HE store that saves you money
NEUENBÜRG^
market and seventh STS.
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Saturdays 9.00 p. m,
Closes 5.30 p. m.
Store Opens 9.30 a.m.
Some Unusual
Luggage Specials
For This Week
sometime lias need for a g O0( j
Most every man or woman
serviceable trunk, or a dependable suitcase or traveling bag.
By keeping in touch with the lugguge news of this store you
will often find exceptional values.
Two Wonderful Offerings in Traveling Bags
$7.50 DuPont Fabrikoid
Traveling Bags
Ver y r special at $5.00 each
Steel frame.
16-18 inches
Black and tan.
$15.00 Genuine Walru*
Leather Traveling Bags
at the remarkably low price of $11.00 each
These bags represent one of the best luggage specials
ever offered by us. Steel frame, patent lock. The size is 18
inches and the workmanship fine indeed.
Headquarters for
Belber Made Wardrobe Trunks
Your traveling made a pleasure if you pack a Helber
trunk. They sell at
$30, $35, $40
At All Times
you will find a complete showing of
DuPont Fabrikoid
(Craftsman's Quality)
Suit Cases and Bags
Traveling Goods Department—Third Floor.
Three for Five Seven-five
$9.00 Worth of Shirts
That's what
this big and timely sale.
you get, men, if you onty take advantage of
BRAND NEW SPRING STYLES
worth $3.00 and $3.50 each.
Three for
$ 5.75
Fancy woven madras, domestic and imported
finished and mercerized effect.
33, 34, 35, 36 inch sleeve lengths.
Three for Five Seventy-five
crepes, silk
Neck sizes up to 19 inch.
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REMEMBER, BY ALL MEANS, Our Great
Factory and Dealer Co-operation
SALE
of Men
s and Young Men
s
Regal Shoes
High Krade, snappy fall anti winter styles that dimnif tilt
$11X50. YoZ Choie.* 8 ' 00 ' $8 ' 50 ' $9 ' W ' * 9 ' 50 ' "*
se;
at
$ 6.75 •
Pair
English models, mediu
in tan or black leathers.
m ^ oc d models, broad toed models«
SMILE UNDER A NEW
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SPRING HAT
We low have
and most complete
vicinity.
ready for your selection one of the finest
assortments ever offered to the
of this
men
ALL OF AMERICA'S BETTER
Stetson's" at $7.00
Sehoble's" at $5.00 and $6.00
Connett's" at $5.00 and $6.00
Let us he
represented
MAKES
are
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it
your hatter.
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SNELLENBURG
THE STORE ACCOMMODATING"
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