Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
ONLY ONE WAY FOR HUNS
TO co NOW IS EASTWARD
Letter OH Conditions
"Ovcr There"
PRAISES FRENCH PEOPLE
Big Stone Gap Soldier Graphically
Describes Suffering OF French and
What They Have Endured for the
Past -Four Years.

! The following extracts are from
letter TO his mother by Sergeant John
Allen Goodloc. Company G. Fiftysixth
United States Engineers. A. Il. T..
somewhere in France" The sergeant
is son OF state Senator j. NJ. Goodloc.
OF Big Stone Gap. and his letter is in
tenscly interesting as succinctly and
graphically portrayinE situations and
conditions over there" and for its
ringing note Of optimism and superb
loyalty. Sergeant Goodloc says:
Il have not written TO you as often
as should since l have been in France.
but We have been shifting around so
much that it has been hard to find
chance TO write, and again there is so
little ! can tell you about myself IN
regards 10 where I am and what am
doing, on account Of the censor, that
it has n tendency to make a fellow
want to give up the idea OF writing
letters.
II cannot tell where landed. where
| have been. where | am now, how
long l have been here. so YOU see
about all / can say regarding Johnnie
is that | am in excellent health and
enjoying myself about IS we'll as II is
possible for any SAMMY TO enjoy
himself when he is between the Kaiser
and deep blue sea 1000 miles across.
and he don't know how long lie is
going 10 be there.
FINDS WORK HARDER
THAN IN TRAINING CAMPS
we all work very hard. much
harder than We did in tho States. for
c in oct ,irc
the other day: All this war is for
now is 10 Kill Huns, and the quicker
we Kill all OF them the sooner we Will
set back 10 Gods country
Il am now in probably the most in
tcrcstinE part OF France, and am in
the most interesting branch of the SER
vice in the United States Army. SO
am very we'll contcntcd.
France is a wonderful country, and
/ am already in love with 1t. The
French architecture and customs re-
mind me very much of Spanish coun-
tries. The French people are a Won
der people, and deserve nothing but
The highest praise. They are. as a
rule, small and look SLOW but il is
the little French Poilu' who is stop
alag the Hun to-day. and he is the
only one who can hold him, except the
'Sammies.' when they have a chance.
IT is almost unbelievable the way the
French have sacriiiced everything and
the hardships they are undergoing
every day. and Yet they arc always
cheerful and have plenty of hope. The
women do all forms of hard labor, and
IL looks quite strange TO an American
TO SEQ them labor like men. yet they
do tho work and get the results.
The French people are the most
polite people in the world, they are
big hearted and meet the American
with open arms. They seem 10 have
great faith in the Americans AS SOL
diers and friends, and / think they
may we'll have such faith in them. for
] don't think that the sammy YOU see
running around carcfrec in the States
Ia the same sammy you see in this
War-strichcn France The welcome he
receives by the French warns his
heart, and nc is at once in sympathy
with the French He sees the Hun as
the French see him. and he seems To
al! at once realize that if he is not
stopped now he VIII some day be in
America and America will suffer as
France has suffered for the past four
years. When man realizes this. his
HE does not mean anything to him TO
give for the cause. and believe what
| tell you, when the Huns run up
against the 'Sammics after they have
established themselves along the front.
they are going TO run up against some
thing far worse than the French. and
VIII soon learn that the Sammy is
even worse than the little coated
french 'foilu' who is holding him
back to-day. There Is only one way
Tor the Huns to go now. and that is
east and they are going To get started
bci"re many months pass"