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THE GILDINGS STAR
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7 A General Quiz ?
The Questions
1. If you are contumacious, you
are what?
2. How many locks has the Suez
canal?
3. In the United States navy
which flag may be flown above the
Stars and Stripes?
4. What great writer's middle
name was "Makepeace"?
5. In what part of his body did
Paris mortally wound Achilles?
6. What is Hedonism?
7. Who discovered Cuba?
8. A majority of our Presidents
have been of what occupation?
9. Who was Lawrence of Arabia?
10. In what year did the regulat
air mail service commence?
The Answers
1. Rebellious.
2. The Suez canal has no locks.
It is at sea level.
3. The church pennant.
4. William Makepeace Thack-
eray.
5. The heel.
6. The doctrine that pleasure is
the chief or sole good in life and
that moral duty is fulfilled in the
gratification of pleasure-seeking
instincts.
7. Columbus.
8. Lawyers.
9. T. E. Shaw, an Englishman
who did much to help the Arabs.
10. 1918—New York to Washing-
ton.
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on which is dried in four minutes
by infra-red rays.
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Historic Rainbow Division Is Born Anew
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
THE other day veterans of
1 the 42nd Division of World
War I held their reunion in Tul-
sa, Okla. Then they went to
Camp Gruber near Muskogee,
there to see the reactivation of
their tradition-rich outfit, to pass
on to the new 42nd Division of
World War II their honored bat-
tle flags and to gaze proudly up-
on the shoulder patch adorning
the uniform of each man in it—
the red, yellow and blue striped
quarter-circle which was the
sign and symbol of a “first-
class fightin' man,” a member
of the “Rainbow” Division.
The reactivation took place at
midnight—the “Champagne hour,”
so called because it was the hour
when the last great German push
of World War I, the Champagne
offensive, began. That offensive,
which started on July 14, 1918, broke
to pieces against the stubborn resist-
ance of those fighting Yanks of the
Rainbow division and from that day
the might of the kaiser’s armies
ebbed until it reached low tide in a
railroad car in Compeigne forest
four months later.
Two Messages,
Before the veterans of the Rainbow
division of a quarter century ago ad-
journed their 1943 meeting, they sent
two messages to widely separated
parts of the world. One was flashed
to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, "some-
where in the Southwest Pacific,” be-
cause it was he who had given their
division its nickname. The other
was the traditional reunion greet-
ings to one-armed Gen. Henri Joseph
Eugene Gouraud, who commanded
the Fourth French army, which in-
cluded the American division, at the
historic battle in the Champagne
sector July 14 and 15, 1918. The
message was sent to Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, commander-in-chief
of the Allied forces in the European
theater of war, to be transmitted to
General Gouraud “somewhere in Oc-
cupied France.”
In the early summer of 1917 a
young colonel named Douglas Mac-
Arthur was serving as “censor” for
news coming out of the war depart-
ment in Washington. Visited by
newspaper men one day, he told
them of the forthcoming organiza-
tion of a new division to be com-
posed of units from 27 states and
the District of Columbia. As the
journalists were leaving, MacArthur
remarked that the assembling of so
many units from so many states into
one diviaion was somewhat like
making up a rainbow. Struck by
the aptness of the expression, the
newspaper men used it in their sto-
ries and the nickname stuck to the
division when it was organized on
August 1, 1917, and concentrated at
Camp Mills on Long Island in New
York.
While the division was still at
Camp Mills, many different kinds of
rainbow designs were used as divi-
sional insignia. They were irregular
in size but nearly all were a half
circle with the three colors of red,
yellow and blue in them. It was
not until the division was engaged in
a major action in the Meuse-
Argonne that the final, official de-
sign was conceived and adopted.
Col. William N. Hughes Jr., who
had succeeded Col. Douglas MacAr-
thur as chief of staff of the division,
determined the measurements, re-
duced the original design to a quar-
ter circle and telegraphed the de-
scription, with the approval of Maj.
Gen. Charles T. Menoher, then divi-
sion commander, to corps headquar-
ters.
It is one of the cherished
traditions of the 42nd that Gen-
eral Menoher, acting on an
omen of a rainbow in the sky,
sent the division into action in
the Champagne operation. From
GEN. CHARLES T. MENOHER
.. . he saw a rainbow on the
eve of battle
Forty-Second Division Added Many Names to Our Roll of Heroes
as a peacetime accomplishment-
his writing the poem "Trees."
Besides Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
who has become one of the outstand-
ing heroes of World War II, the
Rainbow division included in its per-
sonnel others who were marked for
future fame. Among these were
Col. William J. (“Wild Bill") Dono-
van, Brig. Gen. Charles P. Summer-
all, Father James P. Duffy, chaplain
of New York’s "Fighting Irish" (the
165th infantry), and Sergt. Joyce Kil-
mer, destined to be remembered
not so much for his exploits in war
THE RAINBOW
. . . became the insignia of the
42nd division
the time that he told of seeing
the rainbow in the sky front his
bivouac in the Baccarat sector,
rainbows kept showing up at de-
cisive hours in the division’s his-
tory, as if to justify its selection
as the 42nd's talisman.
Before long veterans of our regu-
lar army as well as veteran French
and British troops were joining in
proclaiming the Rainbow division as
one of the hardest fighting outfits in
France. Here is its record, as given
in a series of articles on "AEF Divi-
sional Insignia," written several
years ago by Sergt. Herbert E.
Smith for the United States Recruit-
ing News:
First Taste of War.
It trained under veteran French
soldiers in Lorraine, and elements
of the Rainbow division entered the
front line trenches for the first time
February 21, 1918. This was along
the Luneville sector, at a point north
of Celles-sur-Plaine, through Neu-
viller, Ancerviller, the eastern edge
GEN. HENRI GOURAUD
...to him, each year, a greeting
of the Bois Banal, to the eastern
and northern edges of the Foret de
Parroy. Elements of the 42nd‘s ar-
tillery brigade entered the Dom-
basle sector, also on the night of the
21st, to receive their first taste of
combat warfare affiliated with the
French 41st division. ’
From March 31 to June 21 the
division occupied the Baccarat sec-
tor in Lorraine, moving from there
, to Chatel-sur-Moselle in the Vosges.
; 1 Then came July, with its heavy
fighting in the Champagne and
Champagne-Marne areas. The high-
light of the 42nd division’s activities
at this time would seem to be the
battle of La Croix Rouge Farm. 1
This farm was a low, widespread
group of stone buildings connected
by walls and ditches. The Germans
had made an enormous machine gun
nest of this natural stronghold, and
had defied several earlier deter-
mined efforts of Allied troops to dis-
lodge them from this key position.
The 167th and the 168th infantry
regiments, old Alabama and Iowa
troops respectively, struggled all
day, July 26, against this nest of
horrors. It was practically impos-
sible to rush this enemy stronghold
across the open; endeavors to work
around the edges were thrown back
by flanking fire; an accurate punish-
ing shell fire from the German artil-
lery ripped through the wet under-
brush; gas, made doubly dangerous
by the moisture, swirled about in
terrible gusts.
At last, two platoons of assembled
casuals—volunteers, all, from the
167th and 168th—led by two lieu-
tenants, squirmed their way, for-
ward, Indian fashion, and closed
upon the farm buildings with gre-
nades and bayonet. The raid, staged
at dusk, was successful The 49nd
possessed La Croix Rouge farm at
nightfall, but at a fearful cost in dead
and wounded.
Less than a week later these same
regiments, with their sister outfits
of the Rainbow, were pressing for-
ward toward the Ourcq river. Upon
the 42nd fell the chief burden of the
The 42nd division was made up of
the following outfits: *
83rd infantry brigade; 165th in-
fantry, 166th infantry, 150th machine
gun battalion.
84th infantry brigade: 167th in-
fantry, 168th infantry, 151st machine
gun battalion.
67th field artillery brigade: 149th
field artillery (75’s), 150th field ar-
main attack. It was ordered to
storm the heights on both aides of
Sergy and, in conjunction with the
French on the left, to take Hill 184
northwest of Fere-en-Tardenois.
A Deadly Hall of Fire.
The 168th infantry crossed the
stream under a deadly hail of fire,
to climb by slow stages to the crest
of Hill 212, between Sergy and
Cierges. The 167th meanwhile, had
made its way down the Rue de la
Taverne, crossed the Ourcq, and
swept on up the northern slope of
the hilly country.
New York’s “fighting Irish” of the
165th infantry emerged from Villers
and secured a precarious lodgment
on the slopes on either side of Mer-
cury Farm. Subjected to the same
raking fire that had made this push
so costly, this fine regiment still car-
ried on, plunging forward to the
sunken road north and west of
Sergy.
By midafternoon the weary dough-
boys of the 42nd division were bat-
tling in mortal, hand-to-hand combat
with the Germans in the streets of
Sergy. The enemy troops were of
the 4th Prussian Guard, grim and
spirited fighters embittered by re-
cent German setbacks, veterans
all and determined men.
Twice the Americans were rushed
out of Sergy, but thrice the Yanks
returned, and the third time the
Americans captured the entire vil-
lage. Again the men of the Rain-
bow division had proved to be of
heroic mould.
In the St. Mihiel drive, launched
in mid-September, the 42nd, with
the 1st and 2nd, formed the spear-
head of the attack which penetrated
deepest into the enemy positions. In
the main attack, the 2nd division
captured Thiaucourt, the 1st took
Nonsard, and the 42nd division drove
through to Pannes.
Through the thick of the heaviest
action of the Meuse-Argonne opera-
tion, the Rainbow carried on. It
penetrated the Kriemhilde line,
swooped up the fire-swept slopes
about Romange and Cote Dame Ma-
rie; it seized Cote de Chatillon by
skillful infiltration behind its protec-
tive wire, and early in November,
on the extreme left flank of the
American attack, it began to fight
through Bulson, Thelonne and Ba-
zeilles, on the Meuse, to gain the
cherished final objective—Sedan.
The taking of Sedan, for senti-
mental and historic reasons, how-
ever, was left to the French 9th
corps, on the left of the Rainbow.
On the night of November 10 the
42nd division was relieved, and as-
sembled in the area of Artaise-le-
Vivier and Les Petites-Armoises.
The Full Tide of Victory.
The 42nd thus shared in the full
tide of victory, on the morning of
November 11, 1918. The American
Second army was even then prepar-
ing for a general assault in the di-
rection of Metz, in an offensive with
the famous Mangin and 20 French
divisions. The Meuse had been
crossed, French troops in Sedan in
retaliation for the terrible French
defeat there in 1870; the Germans
were on the run, almost in utter
rout.
Naturally, the Rainbow was one
of the crack divisions of the AEF
chosen to be a part of the American
Army of Occupation. Concentrating
near Stenay, it began the long hike
into the Rhineland on November 20.
On December 14 it took its station in
Germany in the Kreis of Ahrweiler.
Training continued there, on the
steep hiU of the Rhineland, through
the winter and spring of 1918-1919,
until April 5, when the division be-
gan entraining for Brest. On April
9 the first element to sail for the
United States, the 117th Trench Mor-
tar Battery, boarded a transport for
an American port. By May 12,
demobilization had been completely
effected at Camps Upton, Dix, Grant
and Dodge.
“After the storm, the rainbow!”
GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR
... he named it the “Rainbow"
division
tillery (155‘s), 151st field artillery
(75‘s), 117th trench mortar bat-
tery.
Divisional troops: 149th machine
gun battalion, 117th engineers, 117th
field signal battalion, headquarters
troop.
Trains: 117th train headquarters
and military police, 117th ammuni-
tion train, 117th supply train, 117th
engineer train, 117th sanitary train
(ambulance companies and field
hospitals 165-168).
Lights of New York
by L. L. STEVENSON
There is nothing secret about the
operations of the New York Cotton
exchange, the oldest and largest
cotton exchange in the world. All
trading is done by "open outcry”
across the ring. As trading pro-
ceeds and as three o’clock nears,
brokers raise their voices so that
not only are they heard across the
ring, but on the floor below. In a
manner of speaking, they are heard
around the world. The entire sys-
tem of marketing the American cot-
ton crop—the product of more than
2,000,000 growers and having an av-
erage value of from $750,000,000 to
$1,000,000,000 — centers about the
New York exchange and while the
exchange does not in any sense make
or fix the price of cotton, the prices
recorded on it are universally rec-
ognized as the index of cotton val-
ues. So wires carry the transac-
tions not only over America but to
Liverpool and other foreign cities as
well.
Cotton exchange trading is done
on the top floor of a modern office
building. In the center of the floor
is the "ring," an open space sur-
rounded by a circular balustrade.
Brokers group about the ring choos-
ing their positions as nearly as pos-
sible to their telephone booths. Dur-
ing trading, they wear tan canvas
jackets. Possibly that’s suit protec-
tion because they do a lot of rail
polishing when things get hot. Bids
and offers are accepted orally or
sometimes merely by a nod of the
head or the wave of a hand Later,
memoranda of contracts are signed.
Although millions of dollars worth
of cotton in the form of future con-
tracts, are bought and sold in this
informal way, disputes are rare. In-
cidentally, no matter the hubbub
about the ring, experienced brokers
not only distinguish prices but also
the voice of each of the other trad-
ers.
The instant a member makes a
sale—the exchange has about 450
members—a clerk standing nearby,
raises a white-gloved hand and re-
ports it by sign language to another
clerk seated on a rostrum. The
rostrum clerk, a telephone trans-
mitter constantly in front of him,
gives the price to a marker stand-
ing on gallery before the quotation
board. Even as the price is being
posted, a telegraph operator on the
rostrum flashes it to the cotton tick-
ers which carry it to offices all over
the country. From telegraph and
cable offices on the floor, direct
wires run to leading cotton centers
in this country and abroad. Around
the trading floor are batteries of
telephone booths with private wires
to offices of exchange members. The
demand is for the utmost speed in
the execution of purchases and
sales, in the confirmation of trans-
actions and in the dissemination of
prices made in trading.
Being densely ignorant as to all
financial transactions, Robert J.
Murray, who was three times presi-
dent of the exchange and who was
recently succeeded by Eric Alliott,
had much trouble in trying to make
me understand what it was all
about. He finally succeeded in show-
ing me that the exchange serves as
a medium for divorcing price risks
from the handling of cotton and cot-
ton products and for the assump-
tion of the risks by those willing and
able to carry them. Also by dis-
seminating prices, it aids both buy-
ers and sellers. And there was pride
in his voice when he added that
since 1915, not one house dealing
exclusively in cotton, has failed with
loss to customers.
A number of the members of the
exchange have come up from three-
dollar-a-week office boys. Those
grouped about the ring, Mr. Murray
said, represented in all about 500
years of cotton experience. Up un-
til recently, the exchange was all-
male. The second World war has
caused girls to be employed as
pages and reporters. The exchange
hasn't lost by the change, the offi-
cials agreed, the girls being quick
to learn, attentive and accurate.
The New York Cotton exchange
dates back 72 years. Previous to
visiting the trading floor, we had
luncheon at historic India House and
there was much talk of the past.
Present were President Alliott, ex-
President Murray, Secretary Tinney
Figgat, William Jung, four times
treasurer; Ben J. Conklin and Ar-
thur Pertsch, of the board of gover-
nors: Lieut. Col. Keith L. Morgan
and Arthur C. VonStein. To me, the
most interesting recollection con-
cerned the time when the exchange
was in India House and in the center
of the trading ring was a gold fish
pool. Now there are only crum-
pled papers.
Bell Syndicate—WNU Features.
Spends Part of Lunch
Money for War Stamps
REEDSPORT, ORE. - Mrs.
George Taylor, worried because
her eight-year-old son came home
famished each day, asked if the
25 cents she gave him each morn-
ing wasn’t enough for lunch.
"I’m getting my money’s worth
all right,” he replied. "I spend
15 cents at the cafeteria and buy
a 10-cent war stamp every day."
Pread ON THE
HOME FRON
Ogg
WYETH SPEARS
TODAY’S living room is often
L furnished with streamlined
pieces that have served a more
humble purpose. Almost any plain
washstand or dresser may be giv-
en long smart lines by adding
open shelves at the ends. Here a
top of plywood with a plain mould-
ing around the edges extends
Y FRAME
OLD WASHSTAND •----M -I ,
WITH SIDE SHELVES, NEW
TOP AND 4"BASE BOARD L
MAY St USED IN LIVING ROOM, •
DINING ROOM OR ENTRANCE HALL UY
across the stand and shelves. By
adding a plain baseboard and a
coat of paint the piece is finished
with a modern air. The paint
should match the woodwork and if
old hardware is removed to make
way for simple new drawer pulls
the screw holes should be filled
with plastic wood and sandpapered
before painting.
The diagram at the upper right
shows how to make the wall deco-
ration from a remnant of flow-
ered chintz. If you use an old
frame, the chintz picture may be
given the appearance of an dil
painting by applying several coats
of varnish, allowing plenty of time
for each coat to dry thoroughly.
Note: The remodeled washstand is from
Book 10 of the series of homemaking book-
lets prepared for readers. Book 10 also
contains more than 30 other things to
make from things on hand and available
materials. Booklets are 15 cents. Address:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills
New York.
Drawer 10
Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 10.
Name................................
Address..............................
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