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I Under The CamouTlage
INTIMATE WAR EXPERIENCES AND
OBSERVATIONS'*^ F
LOWELL MELLET
(Inlted Press Staff Correspondent)
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LONDON, Dec. 10.—Looked in at
No. 1 Victoria street today. That's
an address American readers are
likely to become familiar with if all
that is predicted for the amplified
Labor party proves true.
Found Arthur Henderson, secretary
and executive head of the party, in a
big, attractive room that had the ap
pearance of a board of directors’ room,
such as one might expect to find in a
big. prosperous, long-established busi
ness concern. The resemblance dis
appeared on closer observation, how
ever, for the furniture is scarcely the
sort usually occupied by a coupon
clipping gathering of that sort. The
chairs grouped about the big table, for
example, are more like those one finds
in a police court: they are well worn,
■ too. as is the table itself. One can
imagine the table has been well
pounded by very solid fists and the
(chairs badly twisted by sturdy, earnest
, t°rms during the seventeen years of
i the Lahor party’s life.
Henderson himself is the sort of
looking man one would expect him to
be. having in mind that he once was
an ironmoulder and has been many
v ar3 a labor leader and political war
rior. He is true to one type that at
tends American Federation of Labor
meetings. He speaks in the same vig
orous manner, with a voice calculated
to overpower by its strength if not by
its argument. Which is not sayit g
that it lacks argument in his case, any
more than in the case of the excellent
A. F. of L. speakers.
Recollection of American labor lead
ers came back instantly. First there
was his instinctive silence at the out
set, the pulling of his head down and
the cool challenge in his eyes, while
seemingly he sized up his interviewer.
Then the abrupt plunge into assertion.
After the manner of one who says to
j himself, “Well, we’re In the right and
there's never any harm in speaking
the truth.’’
Having made the plunge, the Labor
party's leader let himself go withou
reserve. He became eloquent. As h
talked the vision arose of a great po
litical force working great changes in
England and the British empire—for
the Labor party’s aims are not con
cerned merely with this one island
The four and a half million men and
.women with which it starts was seen
to grow into a majority of the coun
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.(flocking to it from offices and comfort
! «ble homes; with England's “intellec
| tuals” finding in it a machine capable
! of translating their ideas into facts
! and this "machine" gathering to itself
the brains to safeguard its interests.
It was to be not merely the organized
labor party but the true democratic
party in British politics.
“The Labor party is anchored to the
,trades-union movement." he continued.
“The things it will work for are things
this movement has sought to obtain—
has worked for consciously—for a
long time. We are only making a po
litical program of the thing they’ve
wanted and always will want until
they get it—an equal opportunity to
share in the world's blessings. Sound
political economy is the basis of our
program. Given the votes, we’ll prove
our case.”
Trying to Solve a Mystery
There’s a mystery at No. 10 Downing
street. There’s been a strange disap
pearance from the prime minister's
j residence. Haven’t been able to get
to the bottom of it yet, but can offer
certain facts that furnish at least a
clue.
When I went in to see Sutherland,
Lloyd George’s secretary, this after
noon, a strange doorman opened the
door. I asked what had become of
the boy who always before had opened
the door. It was as surprising to find
a stranger on that job as it would
have been to find No. 10 Downing
istreet wearing a new coat of paint,
something which the house never has
done, judging from its appearance.
The new man looked mysterious, but
naid he didn’t know.
I asked the middle-aged messenger,
who had been there a long time. He
likewise looked mysterious and said
he didn’t know.
I asked Sutherland, with the same
result, including the look of mystery.
Now the former door-boy was not an
ordinary door-boy at all. For one
thing, he was never very serious,
while a regular door-boy is always ter
ribly serious. The one who has dis
appeared was very friendly; after we
had become acquainted through his
inquiry regarding a friend of his in
jWatertown, N. Y., whom I didn’t hap
t
pen to know, we had many interest- i
ing conversations on the war, politics,
American buffalle?* and various
things. Perhaps it was the fact that
I once lived In New York city, which
is adjacent to Watertown, that made
him so friendly, but in any event he
usually did his best to entertain me
while I waited.
A contributing factor, no doubt,
was the fact that I nearly always
called at his tea or lunch time, though
I called at widely varying hours of
the day, and most people are good
natured at that time. This boy, with
a sandwich in one rosy cheek and an
other in his hand, was a sight to cheer
any visitor. Of course, important vis
itors were not likely to see him thus,
for if a peek through the window re
vealed that it was Sir Edward Parson
or someone like that, he simply swal
lowed the sandwich that was In his
cheek and hid the other one under his
chair before opening the door.
T come to the clue: One day for
my amusement he took from the hat
rack a shining silk hat and adorned
himself in it. Parading back and forth
across the ante-room, he whispered:
“This is Lord Rhondda's!’’
There was a sound of important per
sonages coming down the hall. The
boy got the hat back on the rack just
in time for Lord Rhondda to miss see
ing him do it.
Now, according to the law of aver
ages, Lord Rhondda was bound to,
catch the boy at K sooner or later,
wasn’t he? Then, suppose he caught
him not only with the silk hat on, but
with the sandwich in his cheek! Lord
'Rhondda is food controller, and under
the defense of the realm act he has
almost unlimited powers.
I don’t say I’ve solved the mystery,
but there are certain logical deduc
tions that seem almost unavoidable.
Jk.
HOW HE HUN DOWN
STORY OP THE SWEATER
Red Cross supporters who have
listened to various versions of the
! story told about a woman who discov
ered that her sweater had been sold
by the Red Cross, and who have since
listened to accounts of socks being
bought from the Red Cross by loggers,
but who have finally had the pleasure
of reading about a public apology made
I by the man who started the sweater
story, and about the energetic but fu
tile efforts of the Red Cross to secure
evidence indicating the sale of Red
Cross articles, will be entertained by
an article published by the Northwest
ern Division Red Cross Bulletin. The
letter is taken by the Bulletin from
the Pennsylvania Red Cross Clippings:
“Dear Editor: For weeks I have
been on a mad quest. I have been
trying to find the original human being
who sewed the five-dollar bill in the
sweater, etc.
“Three days ago I traced it to the
‘friend who told my friend.’ Today I
•exulted in finding my quarry. My
postmaster—whom I asked to become
one of the ten million new members—
said: “The thing that hurts the Red
Cross Is this-’ And then I under
stood him to say that his mother had
sewed a five-dollar bill in a sweater,
etc.
“ ‘You’re just the man Pm looking
for,’ I said. ‘Six million Red Cross
members, the intelligence department
of the federal government, United
States district attorneys—all have
been trying for months to unearth the
priginal knitter of the sweater. Give
me your mother’s address; it will
make her famous!’
“Alas! The same answer was forth
coming—‘It wasn’t my mother. It was
a friend of hers who had a friend who
told my mother’s friend-’
“And so I submit these few lines
in the hope that your readers will
commit them to memory and quote
them to the next gossip that repeats
the story of the five-dollar bill in the
pocket or sleeve that Red Cross sweat
ers don’t have:
“Absolute evidence have I none,
But my aunt’s charwoman's sister’s
son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a housemaid in Downing street
That he had a brother who had a
friend
Who knew for a fact when the war
wound end.
“Yours truly,
“A Friend of the Red Cross.”
FALLEN SAMMIES WILL
BE BURIED IN FRANCE
(United Press Staff Correspondence)
WITH TfIE AMERICAN EXPEDI
TIONARY ARMY, France, Jan. 15.
t Ry Mail.) Someone who knows
should have tipped off the Purple
f’ross that It can't be done. The cam
paign of that organization aiming to
transport back home the bodies of
soldiers killed in action is causing
nothing but regret in the army.
7 he Sammy, the backbone and sub
stance of the army, is sorry the grue
some side of this fierce war business
has been shown in such cruel details
to his family back home. Mother
and Dad are worried enough anyway.
The absolute proven futility of the
proposition makes army people—of
ficers and men—rather impatient at
the well-meant propaganda of the
Purple Cross.
The working plan is understood to
be this: To provide a corps of men,
physically unfit for fighting but brave
enough to face shellfire, who will col
lect the dead from hell-swept battle
fields and from No-Man's Land. To
enhalm the bodies and send them
home without cost to the individual
families.
It is understood that the Purple
Cross wants either a government sub
sibdy or permission to raise a fund
euch as the Y. M. C. A. fund Also the
organization wants official army rank
for its officers.
The subsidy or fund and the rank
for officers would come anyway if the
big plan of the Purple Cross were
recognized. But the scheme looks ilke
a loser if sentiment among the people
most concerned in its operation will
have any weight in the matter.
First of all it is a terrible task to
collect and evacuate the suffering
wounded. In the British army the
medical corps stretcher bearers have
a greater per cent casualties than any
other branch.
It w’ould be a waste of splendid man
power to expose such brave men to
such a great danger in order to collect
tne aea«. tney would nave to ue
strong men to do the work at all. And
if they're strong enough, armed with
their unselfish courage, why shouldn't
they bring in the living who still have
a chance to pull through'’ it may
sound callous, but in the military mind
such a labor as the Purple Cross wants
to perform is regarded as unnecessary.
From a sentimental standpoint t ie
idea doesn't appeal to our soldiers it
all.
A Toledo boy-—gas expert now; ci\ ii
ian three months ago—summed up
the soldier’s view of the sentiments
involved. Said he;
“Anyway, 1 don’t want to tie sent
home if anything happens to me. Bury
me where I fall. It will be a blow to
my mother but she will always lie
proud of me and that pride will help
her to get over the shock.
“Now, if that's the case. Why
should someone carry me home after
about six weeks and make my moth >r
go through it all again?”
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