New-York tribune., 1918-01-05
French Instructors Find u. S.
Men Ideal Artillery Pupils
Admire the Adaptabity and Spirit Evinced by YOUNG
Soldiers Enlisted in Cause of Civilization-True
Americanism Behind All Types

i1tertwined With the history Of 81.
United States. These seven v1uny ra Inc
ere Of the sort that gladden. the bess.s ss
They. arc high grade types of the bs..
youth America produces, VINO hav.
carved tiny inches for themselves ;s
coiicge football. / met others who ar
sons or grandsons Of men Who hsr.
helped make the United States a ora..
nation, all common Sammies, with he,s
and there an exception who happensS
TO be an embryo officer.
'It Has Famous History"
was walking down a muddy 6.,.
with one who comes from the old horasa
town between the Delaware and v.hs ths
Schuylkill. and he met another vonns
chap, who, 1t seems. had bu. recently
arrived. "'y
member that game you famed me tw;ce
in succession ?" '''Se
Sure / do, --. And th;n,, !,
could do it again"
Not the time of year, old chap an
swered my companion, "but when ~.
robins come next springtime I hone ~
show you, perhaps. that I've got nv ~
eye back" my
Then followed an argument as to n.
respective merits OF famous college he.
teries and the prowess Of certain coj.
lege football teams. WIZ
Later my companion pointed ont -
me onctimc newspaper reporter WIN
has to-day some reputation as Nv
author, and he told me OF another wboaa
he had never seen before the other I.. J...
out of bathing suit; for this last va,
and IS known as some champion sw;m
mer, whose favorite stunt was IN y.
half-ganors from diving board.
AS we continued our walk I ma.
among the mass Of trim youth pass;rn
me one who called me by name ~
held out his hand. l recognized him as ~
q clerk IN a certain cigar store in W.,.
fhlla ladelphla. who had served me msny
a. time with my favorite brand .;
cigarettes. N VI
Game over on this job" he said, "b..
cause | wanted to get mixed I'D in il
Remember how we used 10 tall ~
france in the days gone by? And how
you told rne many interesting things
about this country? Well, here am
and some time l hope 20 loos, some n.
them over myself"
All Typical Americans
There is nothing in line OF class
about the artillery camps. The boys
come from every walk in American life
the rich and the poor. the rich mans
son and the son of the man without
riches, all banded together in com.
mon cause. all eager and willing to give
tneir ilVes II need be for right and
civilization.
All the material in this training armv
IS equal in that respect. There are
many types, OF course, but behind every.
thing else is their sterling American.
ism. AS see them at all sorts Of trainin,
.TorS, as | saw others at top training
IN the trenches before the Boche, fell
the stuff of which they are made, and
then as now I heaved a sigh of regre,
mat we had not begun earlier to make
the best army in the world. It's a long
slow and at times eHasperating JOB, de
spite the enthusiasm and earnestness O
the the pupils in brown, and at times fee
lmpatiencSe and pray for the day wher
al in bunch, hhaki-clad Sammies i,
all branches of modern warfare, will b,
on the Job beside the poilu of Franc
and the Tommy from all Britain an,
her colonies. ~-'