. A brief history of the Stars and stripes, official newspaper of the American expeditionary forces in France . sTaps With This Issue. The story was afitting sequel to the editorial entitled To TheColors, which had appeared in the first issuemore than a year before. Their pledges inthat editorial fulfilled, the staff of The Starsand Stripes emerged from the obscuritywhich they had assumed and obtruded theirown views and the personalities of some oftheir members on the readers of the Editorial Staff solemnly pledged that thepaper, when folded away should remain amemory of the past, th
. A brief history of the Stars and stripes, official newspaper of the American expeditionary forces in France . sTaps With This Issue. The story was afitting sequel to the editorial entitled To TheColors, which had appeared in the first issuemore than a year before. Their pledges inthat editorial fulfilled, the staff of The Starsand Stripes emerged from the obscuritywhich they had assumed and obtruded theirown views and the personalities of some oftheir members on the readers of the Editorial Staff solemnly pledged that thepaper, when folded away should remain amemory of the past, their contribution to thememory of the men who had read it and diedfor liberty, as well as to those who had foughtwell and returned home to enjoy the fruits oftheir victory. However, there was one man who was onthe original staff of The Stars and Stripeswho did not bind himself to this pledge, andcoming home before the last issue was pub-lished overseas he began publishing an Amer-ican edition of The Stars and Stripes inWashington, D. C. This newspaper, stillcalled The Stars and Stripes is still First papers off the press starting for the men in hospitals. American Red Cross. These were distributed by the A Brief History of the Stars and Stripes 39 Pictorial Supplement The first, and of necessity the last pictorialsupplement published with The Stars andStripes appeared with the final issue. Aespecial Baldridge cartoon entitled TheDawn, which showed American soldiers, theirtask completed, with arms outstretched to-ward the glorious West whence they hadcome. The photographs depicted the changeswhich came about from the time the firstAmerican outfit arrived in France to thedeparture of a transport from Brest with thefirst contingent of Yanks homeward bound. The arrangement of the cuts was the workof Hal Burrows, an artist, whose Joan of Arc,in one of the later issues had caused suchfavorable comment. The American Edition Joseph L. Heffernan, who had been in chargeof th
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