The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 09, 1919, Page 9, Image 9
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ROMANCE OF THE SOUVENIR.
Often Stories of I>aring Are Invented
to Add to the Interest.
The boys in France used to say and
perhaps you have heard it too, that
the French were fighting for terriv
tory, England was fighting for supremacy
of the seas and the American
^ doughboys were fighting for souvenirs.
While I do not exactly subscribe
to the saying myself, it is a fact that
the lads from the States were awfully
keen about laying their hands on all
kinds of souvenirs and mementoes of
the Germans and French and I doubt
\V if among a couple of million Sammies
who were overseas from the beginning
to the end of the war, there were a
dozen who returned without some
German or French article.
French soldiers and French civiltft/na
worp rmirlr tn lparn nf the weak
ness of Americans for souvenirs, and
they managed to secure them in great
abundance to sell to the boys at a big
profit." The tradesmen had German
guns and bullets and clothing and
shoes and in fact articles of every
description which they offered for
sale and the doughboys were eager to
> ^ buy anything "made in Germany."
German money greatly depreciated
on the financial market long before
the end of the war; although the
American souvenir hunters boosted it
up all that they could and many
Frenchmen and even German prisoners
made a good thing out of selling
German coins to the American lads
^ for
several times their value.
' German Buttons.
Absence of buttons from the unlforms
of^German prisoners confined
in various sections of France in which
I was stationed from time to time was
> - quite conspicious. It happened this
way: Americans would capture a big!
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f ' times before they fed them they
s, would cut the buttons off their uniforms
and send the buttons back to
the States as souvenirs to relatives
and friends.
' The other day I was talking to a
certain York county young lady who
was wearing a hatpin, the knob of
which was a button off a German
military uniform. j
She told me that a young friend of
**v' hers, a lieutenant who lives in anothv.
er State had a hand to hand encountgsT
er with a German officer during the
fierce fighting on the Somme. The
PI battle lasted long and waged furiously
until finally her "looey" shot the
M German officer dead and just for
0 * greens cut a few buttons off the dead
Hun's coat, one of which he sent to
.
her and she had it made into a hat.;v
-pin.
took her story in all seriousness
p- and listened to her glowing account
of her hero's adventure and his vicv'f
tory with the utmost respect, al $).l
though I didn't believe a word of it,
.since I had known friends of mine
- to buy German buttons for two francs
? a pieee and cheaper and spend twelve
hours over the composition of a letter
y. <" Which they sent some doll back here
ik the State, and in which letter they
told how they had cut the buttons off
||| the coat of some German soldier
whom they had seen in mighty conflict.
"Is the friend who sent you tne
A,..- ?
; button a first lieutenant or a second
^ lieutenant?" I politely inquired.
V '"Why, I think he is a second lieut
\ tenant," she replied. "I am not real
sure. Is there a difference in lieu
j
tenants," she inquired.
"Yes, ma'am, there is a difference
vin lieutenants," I said.
And then she laughed a happy little
W laugh and said "he is a very brave
r lieutenant, don't you think. And he
. Is so thoughtful to send me the butV
ton." .
The conversation ended there; but
I could not help wondering what non
. com or buck private that lieut. bought
the button from.
But all that is a digression. Most
of the souvenirs expect buttons consisted
of articles of war captured
Corman? in thpir flicrht. You
a. a via* vivammmw 0
3^ v see after the Jerries started to running
towards home, they dropped
everything they could, including
guns, canteens, helmets, ammunition,
surplus clothes and all. Millions of
4pllars worth of this property was
discarded and thrown into rivers and
. . ^
creeks along the roads, in the woods
?just anywhere the necessity for less
weight and more speed appealed
- stronger to the fleeing soldiers. Allied
troops following^ stopped to pick
up some of these articles, especially
the Americans?for souvenirs.
Among other things I sent home a
German helmet picked up out of the
m Rhine river. I didn't pick it up myP
self. I never got into Germany. But
a friend of mine rturning from conv
voy up into Germany brought back a
~ whole automobile truck load of helmets
and other accoutrements of the
Germans. He sold them like hot
cakes and realized a goodly return
for his enterprise.
Rings From Coins.
French souvenirs were almost as
much in demand as German tokens.
Notable among these souvenirs was
the French two-franc piece. The
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SUGAR SHORTAGE THREATENED.
Head of Sugar Hoard Says Still
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Washington, Oct. 3.?Told by
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sugar equalization board, it was practically
certain that unless some legislative
action was taken immediately
sugar prices would increase after
January 1. the Senate committee investigating
the sugar shortage today
requested W. A. Glasgow, counsel for
the food administration, to formulate
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The committee made its request
after Mr. Zabriskie had testified that,
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of the sugar crop September 23, Zabriskie
said. He added, however, that
means might yet be found to obtain
the Cuban sugar if legislative action
could be had immediately. It would
be necessary also, he said, to make
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gar equilization board, which automatically
goes out of existence December
31.
The Young Naturalist.
Little Jimmy was fond of giving
realistic touches to his reading lesson.
He had been corrected repeatedly
by his teacher for adding matter
that was not in the book.
The lesson was about pigs one day.
Jimmy read the concluding sentence:
"And the little pig said, "Wee, wee,
wee, wee, wee, wee,?." Just then
teacher interrupted him.
"Jimmy, read that last sentence
again. Can't you see that in the book
there are only two 'wee's'?"
Jimmy looked up defiantly.
"Teacher," he declared, "there never
was a little pig that said 'wee,
wee,' just twice, and then stopped!"
American lads wanted them to make
j silver rings. The coin is slightly
smaller than our fifty cent piece. By
beating them down with a hammer
they may be fashioned into a very
'beautiful ring. Thousands, perhaps
hundreds of thousands of these coins
were made into rings and sent home
and brought home by the American
soldiers.
Indeed the supply of French twofranc
pieces disappeared at such a
rapid rate because of their conversion
into rings that the problem was one
which caused much embarrassment to
the French government, which seriously
considered the idea of discontinuing
minting any more of the
coins.
German prisoners made big money
fashioning toys, etc., out of bits of
wood and iron which they sold to the
American souvenir fiends.
' I know an American second lieutenant
who purchased a German pistol
from an American soldier who
found it on a battlefield. The lieutenant
paid 500 francs for the weapon
and he told me that he woifld
gladly have paid twice that sum to
obtain it.
Many American soldiers brought
back pictur'es and jewelry, etc., to
their girl friends. The articles?most
of them would sell in France and
Germany in times of peace for a few
francs, yet the purchasers paid many
times that price?old rule of supply
and demand, you know.
All Kind of Prices.
There was no uniformity of price
for these souvenirs. This French
tradesman had a beautiful bead handbag
for which he received fifty francs
from an American officer. The merchant
next door perhaps, had one
indetically like it which he offers for
forty francs and a third merchant
down the street has one for which he
asks 100 francs, despite the fact that
it is just like the others.
Oh, it didn't take the average Frog
more than three shakes of a sheep's
tail to get on to the fact that the
average American doughboy over
there had absolutely no regard for
money and that it was simply a matter
of relieving them of it, as best
I they might. And they did. I'll say
they did!
But in conclusion, I am going to
I put some of the girls wise to a thing
or two. When some ex-buck private
orlieut.handsyoua line of talk about
his personal heroic stuff and pro|
duces a bunch of buttons or a German
pipe or pistol or cigarette case or
something else in proof of his statement
that he captured it from some
Jerry in hand to hand combat, you
just ask him right easy like how many
francs he paid for the souvenir and
in what French town or village he
bought it.
You see I have been over there ana
I happen to be on the inside of a- lot
of this kind of stuff. Maybe I have
handed this line of talk to a girl or
two myself. I am not saying about
that, however.?Lewis M. Grist in
Yorkville Enquirer,
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