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Christmas day, 1917, an American
Christmas in France —a Merry Christmas,
full of such creature comforts such as
food, tobacco, candy and presents, but
ust teh same a Christmas every man in
America’s army was glad to put behind
Tim. There was many a firm jawed
tmerican fighting man in France whose
houghts went roaming frer the subma
ines infested seas to “home folks” and a
tome Christmas day—and who took a new
esolve to do this job of democratizing the
vorld in the most business-like fashion.
It would require a modern-day Santa
Haus with an exceedingly, busy span of
eindeer and highly trained repertorial
nind to tell of the Christmas day spent by
ivory American unit now In France. The
>est the United Press correspondent can
’o is to give those back home this series
f Christmas pictures:
Standing in the Snow.
The sentry standing in trie snow outside
i quaint village hotel giving pennies to
hree little French children who had just
inished singing a reai homey Christmas
■aroli An expert on languages might—
just might translate his remarks to thf
youngsters to effect that they’d better
run along home and see what the Amer
ican Santa Claus had put in their stock
ings that morning.
Down stairs in a roughly finished hotel
lining room they draggc* In an ancient
in pan piano. They were clustered
around, singing “Holy Night,” an ex
member of the Minneapolis Symphony Or
chestra was the pianist.
One hundred and fifty Qfficers banquet
ng in a barracks-like structure down the
village street the immortal “Fo-o-r-r-r
t’s Always Fair Weather,” the singing to
i critical ear sounded just a bit flat and
snonthusiastic. The 150 were plainly
hinking of wives, children and sweet
earts back home and trying to camou
lage.
Letters from Mothers.
A Y. M. C. A. barracks —any of a
losen. A group of serious-faced men
oaring paper for Christinas presents,
reading tetters from mothers, “God bless
you and bring you back to me.”
Dozens cf snow blanketed villages, like
he little town of Bethlehem, nestling in
he valleys -and many Americans, bil
’bted in stables Steeping, themselves, in
the mangers.
An American hospital—sick and wound
id receiving bounteously from the Rad
Cross —tobacco, candy—sometimes the re
cipient was sternly forbidden to eat it;
and plent yof real presents from home
folks.
Thousands cf little French refugee
children who learned of Santa Clans for
he first time and got that immeasifrable
hrill that comes with the opening of
queenly bulging stockings. Thousands
more who learned all about Christmas
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Christinas In France
With The Sammies
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TRENCH AND CAMP
trees and who treasured all through the
day the wondrous toys and) candy which
moist-eyed Sammies, getting ready to
fight the Boches. had bought for them.
Plenty of It.
Plenty of turkey and trimmings every
where —even to thousands of American
railway engineers, strung from close to
the front to seaport. The United Press
correspondent is writing this close to the
point where that Minneapolis Symphony
man is teasing melody out of the jangling
wires of that resurrected piano. “Bunch
has finished “Holy Night” now. One ;
hears a shout:
’’Here, can that sentir f ital stuff.
And immediately the pianist had to
slam the ivories like mad to race along
with the bellowing, swelling chorus taken
up by the voice of every man within
hearing: “Good-Bye Broadway, Hello ■
France!”
And so it was a merry Christmas.
AMERICANS CITED
FOR GALLANTRY
Lieut. Frank M. Post , Jr., and Pri
vate Frank A. Ross, of the American
expeditionary forces, have been cited
for gallantry in French orders.
Letters of commendation written them
by General Pershing’s chief of staff
were made public by the war de
partment.
Lieut. Post, son of Mrs. Price Post,
of Tuxedo, N. Y., during a flight at
the aviation school at Pau, found his i
machine breaking into flames, but ,
managed to make a safe landing and
rescued his instruments.
Private Ross, a nephew of Charles
'Cooper of Brooklyn, distinguished
himself by courage under fire during
a recent bombardment. He was “gas
sed”. necessitating his removal to a j
hospital.
KAISER’S HALL OF FAME.
Me.
The first soldier that entered Belgium.
The sailor who torpedoed the Lusitania.
The gunner who fired the first shot at a
cathedra).
The first airman to drop bombs on a
hospital.
The wise man who first expounded Kul
tur.
The genius who originated the idea of
poisoning wells.
The inventor who perfected liquid fire.
The first troops to release poison gas.
—LIFE.
A NEW WAR SONG.
“Have you heard the war song that
the Jews around here are singing?”
asked the door orderly. '
“No,” replied the sergeant. “What
is the name of it?”
“Onward, Christian Soldiers," said
the door orderly.
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