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Now that they've started with bread tickets in Paris, they might do well in some other parts of France to begin issuing rain checks.
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The peanut crop in the States is reported to be small this year, which probably accounts for the decline in the number of pacifists as well.
ON THEIR WAY.—By CHARLES DANA GIBSON
Reproduced by courtesy of "Life."
TO THE FOLKS BACK HOME
To the fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, wives, sweethearts, and friends of the men in the American Expeditionary Forces:
We hear that you have been regaled with some alarming stories about us of the A.E.F. and our conduct here in France. In fact, some of those stories have been relayed to us, and if they weren't so far from the truth we might be inclined to get really mad. But knowing the authors of some of them—for some of the hysterical stripe have really been over here—our first inclination is to laugh.