The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1918, Page 6

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE’ THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1918. FIRST PICTURES RECEIVED IN AMERICA SHOWING THE ALLIES ON THE MARNE |HEADING OFF HOMESICKNESS IS LO IMPORTANT JOB WITH THE ARMY These British and, American official photographs sh ow allied troops on the Marne and in thé}Ghampagne, where Work of the Y. M. C. A. Is Not so Much with the Morals of the Men as with the Morale—How the Bishop Broke Up Cases of Blues By CLARENCE 8. HOLLAND. Bill Jones ‘and Jack Stevens, late ‘bf.the United States but now of ‘some: “where in France,” sat on a_ bench. They just sat. They didn’t talk, they didn't ‘smoke,’ they. didn’t cuss, You could reach out your finger and touch the gloom that exuded from them. They weren't bunkles or townmates or intimates of any sort, but they had both gotten up with a.gloom and had inevitably sought each other out. It was. just before mess call. A little man with a wrinkled face anda cane and a uniform and eyes that twinkted, watched John and Bill at their occupation of being homesick, and he sidled.up to them. Pretty soon he was sitting on an end of ' their bench—and they didn’t notice him any more than, if. he had been an extra cootie. “The —th have got the best ball team {pn France,” he said positively, apropes of nothing. \ “Fyh,” said Bill Jones. | “They can clean up anything in France. I've been down there a week, and thatioutfitits class.” “Huh,” said Jack Stevens. “Officers keep 'em busy. Say, where you from?” “Michigan,” sald BI. “New York,” said Jack. “Met some New York and Michigan men with the —th,”:sald the little man castilly. . “Who?” sald Bill and Jack at, once. The little man named half a dozen, with thelr towns, Bill knew some and Jack knew some, and hefore they re- allzed‘it they were in the middle of a conversation about Detroit and Utica and Lansing and Long Island, and politics. and-the —th regiment, “Mess, call,” sald the little man, “Ain't. hungry,” sald Bill. “Don’t want to eat.” said Jack, Dispelling the Gloom. “Reminds me of Tom Judkins of Pontine,” said the little man. “Always getting off is feed. Know Pontiac?” he asked of the Michigan man, “Played football there.” “Judkins used to play.’ “What year?” “About fourteen.” “Bet I playeil against him.” "And: so ou and go on, talking ahout the home localities and the home folks and giving the boys a chance to men- tion, towns, and_streets that lay close to their hearts. You could see them straighten up; you could see their eyes brighten; you could feel.a differ® ence in the alr that surrounded them, BIN stood up. 3 “Guess Tl go feed.” he said, and banged Jack on the back.> “Pretty hungry, myself,” said Jack. “Gimme a light before you go,” sald the little. man, ‘without enthusiasm, ‘One of the boys held a match over his pipe and then both strolled off to the Tess: tert with a bad case of home- sickness operated on skillfully and re- moved: without pain—removed by a man ‘they had ‘never seen before, but who would always find a welcome tn their locality thereafter—just why, they would never he able to tell you ... And they didn’t know, nor would {t have mattered If they had, that the ttle man in uniform, wearing a\ Red) Triangle, was that imposing and .awe- inspiring xdignitary known as Bishop of the Church of England back ‘in America. That's his job In France, just talking to the fellows. He has put in ‘months at it. Sometimes of a Sunday, or, in just wanders around looking for cases of gloom and homesickness and talk- ing them back to the cheerfulness and usinsm which is the quality that is xlmost the outstanding characteris- tic of the A... F. in France, Important Job With Army. Curing, or heading off homesickness ‘Mts. da imiportant job in an army three thousand miles from home. Officers, fromthe new. sécond Heutenant up, will tell us that an army which sits on benches and bottles up gloom ts not an army that.will fight. ‘They say ine ona ate stopped the German offensive and started 0 ne of their own. The picture above shows allied soldiers load- the ee ee a sa on the Marne with ammunition. It also s hows the type of light railway in use to brittgjmunitions- from Sa ine ‘ 0 the tee The lower photo shows the boys of t he 42nd or “Rainbow” division, made up of national guards- in the Che nany states, digging trenches in the Champagne f or further defense and erecting a bomb-proof‘shelter, It was e Champagne that the Germans had hoped to make the most headway, but made the least. SW eee AR ACTUAL NONPARTISAN trumental in getting the state ad-| tration and a large part of the} lature committed to House Bill |44, exhibited’ their activities in oppo- \sitiou being veiled or open, according [to the time and place and the char-| to encumber every farm, every home, (ee, of their\ audiences. That sort every sbisiness cea blisnment in tho tthe: eat Gaeaeed uis wore tate h a lo in or 5 Tile. Tatas With ore depe: raotdee fo j been indicted. Others have been con- X menting on a. gigantic! «ome jf, @ lips of scale. The hope that Governor Fraz-|Somy “Wonery ues of the governor of fer and his factional associates could |) pie Tee a Se Ok Rae be relied-on to give the people of th mediately associated with him in of- at eduate deal was dissipated in- lends valeieaer aitsranéoe Ot “tie “phen cai tae reef ty of the men to whom they ap- tabs patente parscand tie ee to-have, committed. theie eon: - ad been |sciences and their political fortunes. mir PARTY FORMED AT MINOT | jegis (Continued From Page Four) its ‘material interests. They proposed Little Americans Do your bit Eat Corn meal mush- Oatmeal- Corn flakes- Hominy and rice with. milk. Eat.no wheat cereals. Leave nothing on your plate. UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION “In a time like this The Herald knows no party. It opposes and will oppose with all its might the election a loyal citizen of the American ré- public. For that reason this paper is opposed to the re-election of Governor Frazier, no matter on what political ticket he runs. For the same reason it urges the election of S. J. Doyle, who was first nominated by the Dem- ocrats, and who has been endorsed by Republicans wro voice the sentiments of many thousands of their friends in the Republican ranks ny w. ss, Women Relatives Of Soldiers Not For “Home Rule” By GILSON GARDNER. N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. Washington. July 25.—The war and navy secretaries are being asked to change the rule which wars from France and England all women with relatives in the ser- vice. This rule has kept thous- ands of women qualified to go in- war work from doing so. The rule applies rigidly even where the male relative is still in the United States and the fe- male relative is anxious to go abroad. In such. cases the wom- an is barred on the theory that the man might be ordered abroad . and that the two might meet over ‘ oth T banat there. to any public office of any man who] cannot show’a clean bill of health as} any-man is liable to an attack, but they sry, too, that the number and vio- lence of attacks {is amazingly few ‘when one considers the circumstances. 4 JuggesGalloway of New York. said the other night, “The job of the Y. M. C -Awhere. is not. so much with the nioral ‘the army as with the mo- rale.” “The. judge. claims to. know. For mouths he has been traveling around France from camp to camp, night after we in the war zone would-tend to can- fuse the men. Its real origin, howe; ever, dates dack to the experience of the British when’ shortly after the beginning of the war many improper women rushed over from England and their presence had a demoralizing and degenerating ef- fect. To check this a sweeping order was issued barring practic. ally all women from.’ thé. war zone, * St hae A communication has heen. ad- dressed’ td’.the secretary the war by ‘Mrs. Una Gielow Fisher, wife of Naval Constructor C. W. Fisher, calling the. secretary's tention to the need for.some mo! fication. of» this: hard and fast rule. : ia) “This rule.” said Mrs. Fisher, “ig today keeping from active war work thousands of the most cap- able and. willing women. of the country. It is not fair-to assume . that a woman with a male. re tive in service has. not self-re- straint enough to be-able to go on with her war work: withaut in- terferingswiththe duties. cof ner relative.” ye ‘inteht, almost without rest or rellef, talking to the boys about France. -His Job, has been to interest the fellows im the.country, where they are guests and welcome guests, The army declares that the “Y” has ‘bitten off a large contract. Officer-af- ter officer: whom. you ‘meet: on. ‘the streets ‘of Parls will tell you ‘how im- portant he believes the “Y” is to the effectiveness.of: our. military—and then | he will poinf ‘out: where the “¥” is fall-| ing down in_his -estimation. . Almost everybody. you meet can tell you where the “Y” or the ‘commissary or ‘the Red Sross or. ‘this,’ that~and, the. other, is falling down: In this country’ you ‘| have to earn:praise, and to eafn it you ave to work’-for it. For instance,’ part of the. service which the “Y¥” performs for the army. 1s running those country:stores which pass under #hé*noms de guerre of. post exchanges. and .canteens.. Here is -a fertile field for:criticism,,eporadic, and local and individur® criticham, but critt- cism whick must be’ answered before the highest ‘efficiency can be’ reached. : Then Bill Gets Sore. Bill Jones goes to his quartermaster. anid -buys a package of cigaréttes. He pays for it less.than he paid in Amer- iga..:-Next, morning he drops.:into *2. “y” cariteen and buys the same sort} the evening he-preaches, but mostly -he |, aiid he 18 “sore. Not only 1s We-gore, but he ‘exerts the fine old American privilege of kicking about it aud of alring. his soreness. The burden of his complaint is that the “Y” is try- ing to make money off him. The Investigator hears of it and asks the reason why this should beso, The “Y" purchasing department tells you that the army commissary, departinent transports supplies to its posts free of charge. It pays no freight on steamers from America; it pays no cartage or truckage in France. That huge-item of cost does not enter into commissariat considerations. This cannot be so with the Y. M.C. A. It has to pay for freighting its commodi- tles across the ocean, and frelght rates are not on the bargain counter at this writing. It has to pay railroad freight in France; it has to pay for its motor transport. The wonder 1s, we are told, that chocolate, or cigarettes, or hand- kerchiefs or what not can be had u8 cheaply here as they are had. The regrettable point is that “Y” canteens have to, enter into competition with commissariats which possess all the advantage, ; The commissariats cannot begin to supply the demand. The “Y” canteens are n necessity. Both are selling at the figure which to each is the lowest’ possible, so when your son writes home and tells you it looks as if he were be- ling stung by the “Y” canteen, just think it over, and you will see. Personality That Counts. Then it comes to the matter of the. Personality of the mai who ts running the canteen. There are men in France who have the ability to get 80 close to the soldiers that when they say, “Jack, this is the fact. We've got to do it so because—” Jack believes him and is satisfied, because Jack knows that man ig.on the spot to-do everything in his power for the soldier. But there are exceptions, ‘and there must be exceptions when thousands of men are picked hurriedly for emer- gency employment. Men land in France without fully understanding understanding France or that splendid organization, the A. E, F. They come with enthusiasm, but without definite knowledge of what the army wants of them, and until they adjust themselves to. conditions, they are apt to come to much grief. One thidg few men realize until they have. been here'a week or two, and that is that they are an istegral part of the A. B. F, and that they are work- ing under the authority of the military —not as they suspected, on their own hook,or, forthe Y. M..C..A.. Their joh is to do as they are told, and to do it quickly and exactly. That they can learn, and do learn, or they hear the approaching. footsteps of grim retri- bution. Most of them learn more— they learn what real service means. ‘They learn to forget their own egos and to love humanity as exemplified by an army of bully young men in khaki, Hundreds: of men are landing here monthly to take. up some service un- der the Red Triangle. They are of all sorts and from all environments. It appronches the marvelous how they are made to fit. Predchérs have ar- rived filled with ardor to evangelize. They find their true service can best be done by driving a motor truck. Bankers come and ‘speedily find out that they can do the best job getting up entertainments in some lonely but. what is expected of them, and without ; ey Finds Hie Job. ~~ One rich and useless bachelor struck these shores filled with the desire to do something, but alarmed at his pov- erty of abilities, “Can you preach?” he was asked. “No.” “Can you sing?” i “No.” 4 “Can you run a motor car?” ¢ “No.” “What can you do?” “Nothing that I know of. I’m just one of the idle rich.” bs “Go out and fuss around a few days and then come back,” he was told. That night he met up with a west ern sergeant who was in Parls to see the town, and who had started to view the sights through the bottom of .a glass. He was half seas over and am- bitious to be submergéd. The mem- ber of the Idle Rich inveigled him in- to conversation, furnished him cigas rettes and a light. Pretty soon, by sheer personality, he persuaded the man to go to bed without finishing off his evening artistically. In the morn- ing the sergeant came around and cor- nered the Idle Rich Man, “Bo,” said be, “you done me’ @ favor last night. I, was‘hound for a trip to In Bad. Any time you want anything of me, just drop around.” The Idle Rich young man made tracks for headquarters. ~ “Pye found my job,” he said. “TI can make friends with men.” “Go to it,” were dls orders, and he went to it. Now he is somewhere re- euperating because he wore himself out working for his boys. This has been about men up. to date, Now there are mea in America who think women should not be sent to work with the A. E. F. in France; among those who have seen. what Is going on, there are few of them. Did you ever step into a big, bare, 1 furnished room—may be an uncom- fortable room—and suddenly see on the wall a beautiful picture, or on &. shelf a wonderful plece of old, china? That little “object immediately made that cold, uninteresting room a place where you desired to be. And: that’s how It is with the right kind of wom- an {n a canteen in France, All she has to do ts to be there, be natural, be impersonal, aftd3she has made -of a hundred men better fighters for democ+ racy. Best of Chaperons. . One big thing that ust be {m- pressed on folks back home ts thes these women are safe—safer than in their own home town. A woman in & canteen shas a ‘whole regiment who make it their job to look after her. There never was an old maid aunt who could, chaperon a young woman the way a regiment of Yanks can do it. Somehow she represents s0 much to them. .She {s not a girl but a sym: bol. She means -to' them’ all they left behind in their’ homes. i ‘ One important: ‘point {to remember back jhome:is that the A. E. F, is the finest, most jupstanding, two-fisted age gregation of regular men that. the world has ever seen In an army. A few—fortunately very few—have the idea that our atmy.is surrounded :by depravity. Nothing could be farther from the truth. : The army fs proud of itself and re- sents imputations against its decency. Officers resent it and men resent It. A captain in the regular. establishment sald the other day: “Every mother in America ought to. know that her son is safer in our army than he ever was at home.” Which was not more than bare truth. Never Quite Satisfied. 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