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THE NASSAU POST, FRREPORT. N. Y.
FRinAY. JULY .1, 1318
P*«* S
NATIONAL ARMY MEN EAGER TO GET INTO FRONT UNE TO STOP BOCHE
They'll Make the Finest Soldiers In World," Says General Over¬ seas—Soldiers Determined to Fight to Finish—Snipers Take Daring Chances In "Pot Hunting"—Negro Troops Furnish Much of Humor in War Zone.
BiionKh of th«> American Natinnnl •rtnjr has arrived In France to bear out the predictlona that thin army will b« one of the flnpat bodies of iniHtBry nen In the world. I recently went to • section of Frnnre where new tr<K)ps •ro quartered for final tratnlDg, writes Don Martin In the New York Herald. There I savr the Tflnguard of the nili- lloas who were legally selected to serve tbelr conDtrjr. A general who has been alt hla life In the army fairly flowed In admiration of them.
"They are a splendid lot of boys," the officer naid. "They are proud to jt>e hero. They nre sorry for the boys at horns who are not to help In the Ifreat battle for democracy. They want I to get right In the line. Tbey realize the dangers fnlly, but that doesn't wor¬ ry them. They hnve had their eyes opened fully to the wonderful sacrifices France has made. They have seen how the villages are sftlppcd of every¬ thing but the very old and the very young, and yet they have seen how de¬ termined and cheerful the country la. So they are proud to be here, nnd they are going to rauUc Ibo finest soldiers the world has ever seen,"
Superlatives ordinarily are not per¬ mitted by the censorship when refer¬ ence Is made to Americans. A deeply grounded principle of the Ajnerlcan censorship Is thnt America, while glory¬ ing In her own IdcnlLsm and achieve¬ ments, must not forK»»t thnt France and England have been at wnr for nearly four yenrs and hnve set n very high Btnndnrd for Uncle Snm. But the su- perlutlves indulged In by the general were sincere. He nctunlly believes the National nrmy will he ns flne a lot of men as ever stood In a uniform, nnd after seeing them nnd talking with them In more thnn fifty villages I must sny that I think he hns prophetic vision.
All Show Their Mettle. ' To prnlse the National army does not Imply disparagement of any other wing of our niilltiiry force. The mlll¬ tla group has already. In various clashes with the enemy, shown the BtufT of which It Is made. The 104th regiment, which halls from Massachus¬ etts, has been decorated by the French government for Its valor under heavy j fire. All the men have made good^ but , all they have done will unquestlon- j ably be equaled by the excellent army of draft men. The latter have the physique, the Initiative and the spirit. As one of them said, "We're not hero because we're here; we're here because It's where we belong and where we Waat to be," The training they re¬ ceived In the United States worked wondeis in them.
In a little village a handsome young¬ ster in a private's uniform saluted with the grace and snap of a trained Tegular. He hnd the look of the sol¬ dier In every line. "Where are you from?" I nsked. He named a small city In the North¬ west. "Were you ever n soldier before?" "No, sir," he said, smiling, "I never did nnything before but spend father's money nnd get nrre.sted for speeding." "Are you glad to be here?" "I wouldn't be anywhere else for anything in the world," |
Seated in front of a smnll house, a , wrinkled woman on one side, nn aged j man 00 the other nnd two wee chll- I dron ploying on tho ground in front of | him, I paw another young mnn who ' would attract attention anywhere. As j the officer who nccompnnled me ap¬ proached the young man jumped to h(H i feet, snapped his heels togother and saluted as if inllltnrlsm was In his marrow. Re said he cimie from a | small town In the mkldle We.st. I \ asked him about his nffalrs before he I Joioed tho army.
"I was In tne lunilxT buslnesa," the ' private re.|oln<'d. "I was getting along ' pretty well—hnve ii wife and two chll- | <ren about like these here (pointing to 1^0 two nenr his feet), but even if I knew my buslnes.s was goln.ir to ruin I wouldn't go back If they'd let nie. I'm here to stick it out to the finish and you'll find all the boys the snme way." , The spirit of all is, as this young ¦ lumber dealer snid, IdenticHl. The men are here to flght for France nnd demo- ; cracy. Thoy understand exactly what the Issues are. They understand pre- c»>»ely why the ITiiited State.s came in- i tc the wnr and they will be disappoint- I ed if pence conies before every allied aim has been achieved. i
Aiuoug the flrst ten thousand Na- | tlonnl army men who came here to fill I iu various units may be found men rep- | resentatlve of every branch of cltlr.eu- i ¦hip. I saw motorraen, farmers, bank clerks, architects, lawyers, manufae-1 turers, brokers, commission men, car-' penters—In fact, everything. Thers | wore men with names suggestive of •very natioaallty tn the world. I
These particular soldiers are Id Bortheasteni France, where they are going through Intensive graining to «t|alp themselves for the front line. I Bnipsrs In tho Tronchoa. Far off there was a slight movement Close Ul the ground. Two snipers wors tratching. "Oo ou shoot," said one. "it's your tarn," aa^d the other. Tbvre was a sa«p of ths trigger. "You Magod him all right—that's tftree In two duys."
Perhaps thla sniping might tsdinl>
Cftlly be called munlef. The snipers don't call It that. They call It pot hunting. I have talked wi^ several and have been on the line with a few. They wouldn't any more shoot a song bird or a magpie than they would kill one of their own officers, but shooting Frits across the line—that's another story. It Is dangerous business, too. Many a sniper Is sniped himself. Some of them camouflage themselves and stand for hours in range of a thousand rifles. There Is a young American of¬ ficer from Massachusetts who Is assign¬ ed to technical woric, who spends a day and a night each week on the line sniping the enemy. He does It be¬ cause he likes It. lie Is an expert rifle shot and he enjoys the hnr.ard8 of his worlc and gets satisfaction from killing Uuns.
The two best known Hun snipers are Black Fritz and Crazy FriU. Black Fritz Is dead. Crazy Fritz was wound* ed, but whether he is dead Is not known. Bluck Fritz harassed the American sector for weeks, Ue was a good Hiiot and put bullets now and then through a soldier's armor bat. But one day he was spotted behind a log and a bullet struck hUn between the eyes.
"He was a handsome chap," said a sniper, "and had buuutlful hair, blonde as a girl's aud combed back like a col¬ lege boy's."
"If he hud blonde hair why did you call him Bluck Fritz?"
"Because he hung so much crepo on our doors."
There Is another Ilun known as Foollsb'Frltz, nnd a rather pretty story may be told about him. Ue Is not a sniper. The men in the trenches can¬ not tell Just what he is. Terbaps, they have figured, he corresponds to an American football or baseball mascot. He is a mere youth nnd he takes dan¬ gerous chances. lie might bave been shot a hundred titues, but the Ajneri- can snipers haven't the heart to kill him.
"One day," snid a sniper who has watched him play urouud like a kitten, "he crawled up over the top of the trench nnd went over to a log and lay on it. He was there for an hour sun¬ ning himself. I bad a bead on him all the time, but what's' the use?—a mere kid. Another time a new sniper here saw him and was Just about to pick him when I said 'Nothing doing.' We can't exactly understand what it means. About two weeks ago I thought I'd give the youngster a scare, so I put a bullet in a very small tree about a foot from him. Ue scampered out of sight like a frightened puppy. I often wonder if be or anyone else knowa that he is living in the shadow of death. Maybe the Germans figure they learn somethiqg from it. However, you'll never catch me killing that kid." Negroes Furnish Much Humor.
Humor gleams frequently through the grlraness of war und much of it comes from the negro soldiers from the United States. A particularly dark skinned private was overhauled re¬ cently by a militnry policeman. It was on a country road and the soldier was ambling along with his military outfit as well as about 150 pounds of sou¬ venirs of France.
"Where are you from?' asked the po¬ liceman.
"Me, sab? I'se from Alabama."
"Whereabouts in Alabama?"
"Don't v.- jw, sub, exactly, but I'se from Alabama."
"Where you going to?"
"Well, I don't 'xactly know, sah."
"Where you coming from?"
"The last place I 'member, sah, 's Barleybuck. Seems to me the train I was on went while I's buying a few things to tnke back when I go."
"Do you know where you nre?"
"Can't'xnctly Pay I do, sah (looking around with the feigned erudition of an astronomer), hut I reckon i'se some- whore in Frnnce."
The negroes amuse the French peo¬ ple. The big Mack boys swing along the country rouds singing or smiling. They frequently organize a quartet Ip a cnmlon nnd If the work in which they are engaged isn't vitally Important stop beside a road to "put over" a few di¬ minished sevenths, better known as barber shops. And they know how to do It. They are hupity-go-lucky wher¬ ever found.
CAPTAIN "SKIPPV" STIRS THINGS UP ON LINER
BAN ON LOAFING
Orders Against It Issued to the P«ac« Offlcers.
Loafers will no longer find Wabash, Ind., a haven for them, under orders issued recently by Sheriff Vrooman to every peace officer in the county. Thoy provide for the arrest and sentence of every man or*boy In tho county, DOW oat of ¦chool. who does not work.
Tbe public In general Is asked to help prevent loafing during the war with Oermany and Austria, and Is ask¬ ed to co-operate with the officials by tslHng them whenever a loafer la foood. Tho sheriflT promisea to see that the men either go to Jail or to ths state farm.
Tough to Be Bumpod. **Tbe war Is produclug a slang all Its own," writes a Y. M. 0. A. secre¬ tary overseas. "In Kugiund, for ex¬ ample, when you bear tliat a ship wss •bumped' yea know It was torpedoed."
Plans Big Program of Sports, but
Ship's Commander Figures
on Safety First.
In America Cnptalh ".««klppy" wotild get credit for being a "self starter," or perhaps a "stem-winder."
He does nut smoke, nor drink. He Is twenty-one, blonde, pink cheeked and rushes about bareheaded always, like a schoolboy at picnic. And the flrst day out he started the good American school girl game of skip¬ ping the rope, thus winning his title.
But he Is a "go-getter." He got on and off of Oalllpoll. No boy's cam¬ paign that for the offlcers and men.
"Sklppy" has gone out and got a war cross for bravery. He also got himself a captaincy in the British army; and he has come safely through three years of war.
Outside the smoking room—It Is n^t on record that he Infests that spot— the captain has been Just about the I life of the party. He started gallop¬ ing promenades with nurses, stealing them right and left. Starting also dissensions and mutterings among tbe less fortunate.
A few days later he was collecting a "buck" from everybody and pre¬ senting n purse to the band. It was he who discovered the ship's "grama- phone" and had It carried abont deck. At the same time he was organizing "sports" and making a speech to the Inssembled American ofBcers, enlisting their old in mustering out tbelr tal¬ ent ..¦¦¦¦, Ol. .....
"We'll have pillow fights, tug of war, potato races, you know; no end of fun," he said, "and we'll give some prizes—a wooden spoon or some such rot." '
It was going great guns when the captain of the ship explained it wouldn't be safe to try to crowd the entire ship's company at one spot on the boat. Plans have been changed nnd the movement goes forward now | for a mighty concert In the first cabin j dining room.
CELEBRATES 48TH YEAR
Baptist Sunday School has Appro¬ priate Exercises with Chnrch.
Last Siinday morning .June .30, the f<^rfy-«igiith anniversary of the found- ! ing of the Rockvil e Centre Baptist ) Sunday School w«<« celebrated by the i scliool and the church. |
The exercises, in a com'ljination .«6r- I vice, opened with .sacied music by the i choir. I
Pastor Johnscn, ofTiciatinjr, made a ' .sliort introductory address, and .John I S. Dorion of the Hempi^tead Baptist I Church reviewed the founding of the j Rockville Centre Sunday School. He wa.s a mem'ber of the school in its | early days. The absence of Deacon I Kydcr, founder of the school, who; .lied a few month.s ago, was felt keen- | ly. Mr. Dor.on had been a close friend of the deacon, and he spoke feelingly of this relationship.
Rev. Edwin B. Richmond, a former pai^tor of the church, and a warm friend of the Sunday School, gave a history of it fro.n the day it was founded. He described the first meet¬ ing in the old railroad station, which is now an Italian dwelling place. He pictured its early struggles for exis¬ tence when on y ten or twelve schol¬ ars could be mustered to the impro¬ vised school on Sunday afternoons. He de.tcribed its gradual growth until today it is one of the foremost organi¬ zations on Long Island.
THFMTRES
THEATRES
PLAZA THEATRE
GROVE ST., FREEPORT
Telephone f IS-IT
For Sale, To Let, Wanted.
FURNISHED ROOMS to let; phone Freeport 1261-J. 21
WANTED—Position for general of¬ fice work and typewriting:. Teleplione 2«,W.
Program for Week of July 7
SUNDAY Oflyle BUckwell •ndEvelyn Gf««- ly tn liCnp to l%iiii«>
BURTON HOLMES TRAVELCXJUE
MONDAY-ChafletCh»pl(n in A Night Out Bfy*nf Wishborn In KIddor * C:o. A But-
Incn Bromide tn One Dose Mitinee 3.30 P. M.
TUESDAY-Harry Morey and Florence Dejhon
In The C^l^olden <ioal MACK SENNETT COMEDY-The Pull-
ninn ltrl«le
EDNESDAY-M.ry Piekford in AI'Lins, by Bret Harte
SIDNEY DREW COMEDY
Matinee 3.30 p. m.
THUR.SDAY-H.nfr B. Walthall In Hiiiii- rfriini Hrown
CURRENT EVENTS
FRIDAY-May Allison In The Winiiinr
of Uent rlc« PICTOGRAPH CARTOON.
SATURDAY—
Three Acts of High Class Vaudeville Jack Piekford In Mile a Minute Kendall ALICE HOWELL COMEDY—In Dutch Matinee 3 P. M. Evening 7.15
SUNDAY-Ethel Clayton in .Journey.s KuU BURTON HOLMES TI^AVELOGUE
FOR SALE—A good farm mule and a large dog. A. Ruhe, telephone
81'2-M.
WANTED—Furnished room with board for gent.eman, Gerdelman, 72 Pearsall Avenue, Freeport. 1-22
FDR SALE—^Men's women's and children's bicycles. 25 Russell place, Freeport, N. Y. 1-21
REFUSED NATURALIZATION
Austrian Has Two Sons in the Unlto9 States Army.
Anton Kugler, forty-one years old, of St Louis, -who has two sons in the military service of the United States, has been refused final naturalization papers. He is a native of Hungary and came to St Louis in 1904.
One of tbe sons, Rudolph, eighteen, is an enlisted man In the regular army. The other, Frank, sixteen, is with a hospital unit in Georgia. Both enlist¬ ed with their father's consent before the elate of war with Austria-Hun¬ gary. **'
Kugler was deeply affected when in¬ formed that he could not become nat¬ uralized while the country wns at war with this native land. "I want to be an American 1" be cried. "I have given my boys to the country,"
HOW REIMS WAS
BATTERED BY SHELLS
USED C LOTH INTG—Will buy men's clothing, 47 Kaiiroad avenue, Freeport. 4-20
FOR SALE—2 good work horses; 2 horse wag'ons, harness. Frank B. Wood, 131 -Mlantic avenue. Ocean Side. 2-19
WA NT EiD—Position for general office work and typewriting. Tele¬ phone Freeport 235-J.
GLICKMAN
Photographs of Distinction
SPECIAL OFFER FOR SUMMER MONTHS One Large Cabinet Free With Each Dozen Ordered
Home Portraiture and Commercial Work
a Specialty
13 Railroad Avenue Freeport, L. I.
Studio Open Evenings and on Sundays Telephone 84J-W
WANTED—One or two children, between the ages of 3 and 6, to board. 43 Blake avenue, Lynbrook. 1-69
High School graduate wants posi¬ tion for summer near or about Free- port. For particulars, P. O. Box 18.
1-20
WANTED—Girl, high school grad¬ uate preferred; resident of Freeport. Glick.'ran photo studio. Railroad Ave¬ nue, Freeport. 1-22
B.\RG.\IN for quick buyer—7-room house, ground 80 .\ 170, within 5 min¬ ute?' of depot and trolley, $3200; for particulars apply E. Green & Co., 40 Gralfing pl'ice, Freeport. 1-21
GAS RANGES
FOR S.->. LE—$2.')0—Largre, roomy roadster; self starter, electric lights, newly painted and in good condition. Franklin (i. Hill, Merrick, L. I.; phone Freeport 484. |
W.\NTED—Hotel help, waitresses, , chambermaids, man for porter, house ' and kitchen work. Apply South Shore , Hotel, Rose street and Long Beach ' avenue, Freeport 1-21 -
FO'R S.\LE—Two-seated surrey; can be enclosed; top buj^gy, sin;rie I harness, farm wagon, greatleman's 1 riding saddle, also a large collection of finest tools. 157 School Street, Ocean Side. Telephone 98-W. 2-21 ,
This extraordinary photograph shows liow grevlously Reims has been battered by the latest enemy bombardments. Ecrevisse street shown here ts cluttered with ruins, nnd along Its entire length there Is not a house left standing uninjured.
Here's the Dope. One of the men employed in the rope walk at the Gharlestown navy yard has written tbe following lines, and a copy of them has been posted nenr the rope plant, where It is at¬ tracting much attention from snllors and civilians:
HERE'S THE DOPE. We make the rope That rings the bell That sounds the knell That sends tbe Kaiser Back to Hell.
LOST—On -Monday, July 1, be- \ tween South Bay avenue ami Mer¬ rick road, Freeport, a small leather purse, containing between fifty and -Ixty dol ars, also a Yale latch key. ' iSuitable reward for return of puriie with contents. Finder please phone Freeport 714-W.
To The Stockholders of The! Baldwin Water Company
Notice is hereiby given that tht' an- | nual meeting: of the Stockholders of j the Baldwin Water Company will be j held at the office of Wil.iam H. Ray- j nor, 87 Merrick Road, Baldwin, Nas- j sau County, New York, Friday, July 26, 1918, at 8 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of electing seven directors for the ensuinjar year and two inspectors ! of election to serve at the next An-1 nual Meeting, and for the transaction | of such other business as may proper- j ly come before the meeting.
Dated Baldwin, N. Y., June 29, 1918.
E. B. ROSE, Secretary. |
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Our Vulcan Tank Water Heaters are the most dependable Hot Water Heaters of this type on the market.
Get busy with your order before we have to tell you that our stock is exhausted.
The Nassau & Suffolk Lighting C<
GEO. MacDONALD, President
Offices at Hempstead, Freeport, Rockville Centre, Mineola
Carp, Not a Submarine. West side residents at Union City, Mtcti., were terrified recently by a re¬ port tliat a Oerman submarine tuid | been sighted In tbe St. Joseph river, at Union City, Mich. Tbe first farmer to reach tbe river, armed with a shot¬ gun, found a Oerman carp instead. Ue ' clubbed tbe fish to death with tbe butt of hla gun end dragged it 1 jui«. It weighed 86 pounds, j
MENENDEZ
BeUmore Long Island
Closing Out Sale
75 Carriages and* Wagons 75 Top and open bLisiiiess wag>uina for bakers, bubchara, grocers, etc. Wag- u«B, haad'Oiwde, new aiMJ •ecosd haM Surreyta, buggies, runufoouts, with aad without rubbtv tires. Guali or easy payments.
FRED Mi£NENDBZ Successor Oglvui ft Go. Teleptkone Co«kneotioii, HsIbiKMre, L. I. 4tS6
Hardware and Suppli(
COMPLETE LINE OF THE BEST
ARTHUR WHITEHOUSE
91 South Mahi Straet
Freeport, N.
