1919 – Page 2 – Old Magazine Articles

How the ‘Stars & Stripes’ Operated
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)

Written during the closing days of the paper’s existence, the reporting journalist could not emphasize enough how lousy the paper was with enlisted men serving in the most important positions. You will come away with a good amount of knowledge concerning the manner in which The Stars and Stripes crew addressed their daily duties and still made it to the presses on time. Surprising is the high number of experienced newspapermen who wrote for the paper during the paper’s short existence.

How the ‘Stars & Stripes’ Operated
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)

‘The Hope of American English”

Vanity Fair correspondent L.L. Jones cracked open a copy of The American Language by H.L. Mencken:

At last a man has arrived who knows something about English prose style under American conditions…

The rest of his thoughts can be read in the attached review.

A Review of Two W.W. I Books
(The Dial Magazine, 1919)

Dial editor Robert Morss Lovett compared and contrasted two very different First World War memoirs in this article: America in France, by Frederick Palmer (1873 – 1958) and Floyd Gibbons’ (1887 – 1939) And They Thought We Wouldn’t Fight.

The Victory Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue
(Literary Digest, 1919)

Here is a reminiscence of the grand parade following the close of America’s bloody Civil War. It took two days; with the Army of the Potomac marching on the first day followed by General Sherman’s Army of the West on the next. The Grand Review was the brain-child of Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton and was attended by (so it was believed) over one hundred thousand people from the victorious Northern states.

From Amazon: Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

Wilson’s Fourteen Points
(Literary Digest, 1919)

Here is a very simple list of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points can be printed off of a PDF by clicking the title above.

Wilson’s Fourteen Points were ignored at Versailles and the United States withdrew it’s support for the historical conference in favor of two separate peace agreements made with Germany and Austria at a later date.

Click here to read more magazine articles about President Woodrow Wilson.

Read a 1936 article concerning Hitler’s Versailles Treaty violations.

The historian Henry Steele Commager ranked Woodrow Wilson at number 18 insofar as his impact on the American mind is concerned – click here to understand his reasoning…

The Negro in the War’
(NY Times, 1919)

Senegalese, Moroccans, Algerians, Americans – this six page article summarizes the participation of the various Allied units that were composed entirely of Black men throughout the four year course of W.W. I.

‘Black devils‘ the German soldiers called them, when, fighting like demons, they had forced the Kaiser’s shock troops to retreat before them.

Women Can Do The Heavy War Work
(Scribner’s Magazine, 1919)

The essential facts are that women can do men’s heavy work with substantially equal output, without any disturbance of the particular industry, and, when guided by proper conditions, without detriment to their health. How far and how long they ought to do it in the emergency arising from the war is to be decided upon different grounds.

Click here to read about the women war workers of the Second World War.

Sergeant York
(Literary Digest, 1919)

Sergeant Alvin York (1887 – 1964) of the 328th Infantry Regiment, Eighty-Second Division, was one of the great heroes of the First World War. The attached four page article recalled those deeds as well as his glorious trip to New York City where he was luxuriated at the Waldorf Astoria and feted by the swells of Gotham.