Evening star

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spoken language is a*Creole, patois, so

different from the French of the small I

culti laffi class that no Frenchman

could understand them. By compari- j

son the American Expeditionary i

Force doughboy, with his rudimentary j

vocabulary and his amazing pronun- j

ciation. would be a wizard in his un-

derstanding of French. In addition, j

the Creole patois rarely sees print, i

The word man, for instance, is J

“mouin,” possessing not the slightest

resemblance to the French word, j

"homrae."

The peasant, or gook. as the Ameri- I

can marine dubs him. is not only

hopelessly illiterate, but equally in

articulate. Under the. influence of our j

occupation he is no longer the help- j

less victim of impressment into the j

armies and bands of robbers who j

roamed through Haiti, destroying his j

little garden patch and burning his i

home while he hid in the hills, but free j

to work his gardens, and bring its

produce into market. He is content

and immeasurably better fed and i

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, I). MARCH 28, 1926-PART 5,

clothed, and free clinics and dlspen

saries administer to his ills.

To illustrate his depth of the inar

ticulate I might recite the remark

made by a ranking officer of the gen

i darmerie, which is under officers and

non-commissioned officers of the Ma

j rine Corps. “Os course he’s content.

I and would not have the old regime

back under any consideration. Y'et,

I if I ask a peasant if he knew that th»

j United States had worked this magic

1 change for him, it would mean nothing

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1926). Washington, D.C., 1926-03-28. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1926-03-28/ed-1/?sp=81

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1926-03-28.