The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-31

shing's work Of the coordination Of
the various departments hitherto scat
tered at random about Paris has still
been going on. Although the direct
result may not be apparent to the
casual observer. it is the French gov
eminent which has keenly %appreciat-
ed the American chieftain's ~endeavors
10 gather together all the loose ends
of his organization and centralize
them in one body.
After our declaration of war mis-
sicns from the United States imme-
diately began to pour into France
Each one was official" but BEN OF a
different accomplishment. There
were the Sanitary Mission. the Red
Cross Mission, the Forestry Mission,
the Surgical Mission. The French gov
eminent received them all, but with
increasing bewilderment.
They represented America undoubt-
eddy, but what had been gone over
with one mission had to be repeated
with the next. There were endless
conferences, receptions, and then more
conferences and receptions. Now all
is changed. Anything officially per-
tanning to the war as far as the Unit
ed States is concerned emanates from
81 Rue de Constantine. The missions
all pass through staff handling and
are treated accordingly.
During the past week the staff Of
ficials have also been ito school" to
a certain extent, under the tutelage
OF some of the best masters of trench
warfare. They have held numerous
conferences with the French officers.
who are to be their cOnferrees, and
have had all the finer shades of the
wal game explained.
They have been most apt pupils.
the French declaring they have never
seen officers more eager to learn or
quicker Of perception. This week the
officers Will pass from the theoretic to
the practical and, for the most part,
Will be sen to the front, where they
will see the French troops in action,
will have a chance to observe the
ground maps, to offer suggestions Tor
attacks and be shown wherein the
success or failure of their estimates
might lie.
Patriotism among the Americans in
France has reached a fever heat with
the coming Of General Pershing and
his forces. At the same time their
patriotism has taken a practical
course, without which some of our de-
partmental officers would have beer
hard put to it to carry out their work
IN France.
When the war department did not
sec its way clear toward sending any
sum of money to France for the use
OF the department men, or, to say the
least, when the department men could
not get any money or authorization
from Washington to engage civilian
clerks to do the fast accommodating
work of the bureau, a number of Paris
Americans stepped into the breach.
From seven in the morning until
midnight. from six weeks before the
arrival of General Pershing to his
coming, they worked hard. All of
them are men who have sufficient to
have enjoyed themselves in taking life
easy about Paris instead of sitting in
a stuffy office, cooling kilograms, do.
ms copying on a typewriter, or even
running errands for the bureau. Not
II of them has received a cent fOl
his labOrs, nor so far has the wal de.
partment acknowledged the work done
in any manner.
But practical patriotism continues
to be the word in Paris, where Ameri-
cans + sacrificing their time, their
pleasures and their money to do al
they can to help win the war.