Life — February 6, 1919 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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To the Doughboy With a Low Bow A a whole, the American perform- ance in the war was a huge sue- cess, but there it the details of it that one is lots of complaint No part of the nyanagement recalls has ped criticism, and got off lightly its z. The waste was any part of it tum is surely enormous ship program, the airplane pro- € program, all fell at prodigious ex- m, the ordnan ore or le: The best done things of all the draft and the training. They ‘aulty too, but they got out the en and made them into soldiers: And such soldiers! Ting-a-ling. That is the bell on the office table hoy, fetch a large bouquet! 2 American soldier, accept. this large bouquet! There is more good to say about you, and less to complain of, than about any- «else these States contributed to Wherever you gone le yourself wel- Please. lease, i Bless you, son! © war have ou seem to have t When you have been sent in to at it in the way come fight, you have gone that made Marshal Foch say to Ge cral Pershing, “Your men have the Devil's own punch.” You fought i sistently, and could not he denied; you died hard, but cheerfully: wherever go one hears of your incorrigible kindness, as when Editor Chapple, just back fr There is no soldier like the Amer- makes himself wherever he is. He is m France, says ican doughboy. He at home more to build < of the American character among the people of Europe than the diplomats can ever do. The dough- boy is the real American ambassador to the nations of woman dragging a heavy load on the street and he just naturally walks over and lifts it from her shoulders. He is as unaffected in his simplicity doing up an under urope. He sees a in the streets of Coblenz or Paris as he is when at home in New York or Oshkosh. And he certainly wants to come home. That is a good notice. Come home, gallants, as soon as convenient, and get hack into your places here; not neces- sarily the places you left, but as much better ones as can be afforded. We are going to need you. You have traveled and seen things, and inspected LIFES GALLERY OF OLD MASTERS. 1. AN EX-SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY (AFTER BELLINI) European habits, and one is curious to sce what you will think of the new outbursts of reformatory zeal in your own land. The great glory of the war in all the countries engaged seems to collect ahout the private soldier. There have been splendid generals, Foch at the head of them; officers have been of all sorts, so far as competence goes. As to breed, in the last year of the war they had come to he like ours, of very much the same breed as their men, lar, * Be- It was the and as we say in the vernac lieve me, it is some breed.” French poilu, admirably handled to he sure, who made good “They shall not pass” at Verdun Captain von Schwink, German staff officer, quoted in the Times, bears witness that it was the unbeatable British infantry that put the crimp in the German program to break through to the sea in the spring offensive last year. Try as they would, the Germans could not get through the British Third Army. So the German comicbooks.com