The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-07-25
Nv CLARENCE q. HOLLAND.

of the United States out now VI sumo
where in France" sat on a Dench'
They just sat. They didn't talk, they
didn't smoke, they didn't cuss. o
could reach out your finger and touch
the gloom that exuded from them.
They weren't bunkies or DOMINATES or
intimates of any sort, but they had
both gotten up with a gloom and had
inevitably sought each other out. IL
was just before mess call.
A little man with a wrfDkled face
and a cane and a uniform and eyes
that twinkled, watched John and Bill
at their occupation of being homesick,
and he sidlel up to them. Pretty soon
he wal sitting on an end of their
bench-and they didn't notice him any
more than If he had been an extra
cootie.
'.The til have got the best ball
team In France" he said positively,
apropos of nothing.
Huh" said Bill Jones.
"They can clean up anything In
France. I've beer down there a week,
and that outfit is class"
T1uHs Sdlu JdNh 0iNNthSH
"Oficers keep 'em busy. Say, where
you fromf"
Michigan" said Bill.
"New York" said Jack.
"Met some New York and Michigan
men with the -th," said the little man
casually.
"Whof" said Bill and Jack at once.
The little man named half a dozen,
with their towns. Bill knew some and
Jack knew some, and before they re-
allied 1t they were in the middle of a
conversation about Detroit and Utica
and Lansing and Long Island, and
politics and the til regiment.
"Mess CALL" said the little man.
saint hungry" said Bill.
"Don't want to eat" said Jack.
DIspelling the Gloom.
"Reminds me of Tom Judkins OF
Pontiac" said the little man. always
getting off his feed. Know PontiacF
he asked of the Michigan man.
"Played football there"
"Judkins used to play"
"What year,"
"About fourteen"
"Bet / played against him."
And so on and so IN, talking about
the home localities and the home folks
and giving the boys a chance to men
ton towns and streets that lay Close
70 their hearts. You could see then
straighten up; you could see theil
eyes brighten you could feel a differ
ence In the air that surrounded them
Bill stood up.
"Guess I'll go feed" he said, an(
banged Jack on the back.
"Pretty hungry myself" said Jack
"Gimme a light before you GO" SAT-
the little man, without enthusiasm
One of the boys held a match over hi
pipe and then both strolled off to tn
mess tent with a bad case of home
sickness operated on skillfully and re
moved without pain-removed by
man they had never seen before, Blu
who would always find a welcome II
their locality thereafter-just why
they would never be able to tell yol
. And they didn't know, nor woul'
II have mattered If they had, that tn
little man In uniform, wearing a Re
Triangle, was that imposing and awe
inspiring dignitary known as Bishop
of the Church of England back !
America.
That's his Job in France, just talkin
TO the fellows. He has put In month
at IL. Sometimes of a Sunday, or |
the evening he breaches, but mostly h
Just wanders around looking for case
of gloom and inconsistencies and talk
ing them back to the cheerfulness an
enthusiasm which is the quality tina
is almost the outstanding characters
tic of the A. e. f. In France.
important Job With Army.
Curing or heading off homesicknes
is an important job In an army tire
thousand miles from home. Officers
from the new second lieutenant III
will tell us that an army which sit
on benches and bottles up gloom |
not an army that will fight. They sa
any man is liable to an attack, bu
they say, too, that the number and vic
lence OF attacks is amazingly fey
when one considers the circumstance
Judge Galloway of New York sal
the other night, 'The job Of the Y. n
C. A. here is not so much with tn
morals Of the army as with the me
rale."
The judge claims to know. FL
mouths he has been travelling aroun
France from camp to camp, night aft'
night, almost without rest OF relic
talking to the boys about France. III
Job has been to interest the fellow
In the country where they are CUES
and welcome guests.
The army declares that the "Y" HI
bitten OF a large contract. officer a
ter officer whom you meet on Il
streets of Paris win tell you how IN