El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-08

COMEWHERE In France. July s.
- Il was in a talk with q United
States captain that I learned OF the
Psychological effect OF white bread
on the American soldier. He spoke
Of the wave Of self denial which was
sweeping over America, as it swept
long ago over France and England,
in the giving up OF white bread, in
order that the soldier should have the
benefit OF the wheat products.
NOW. black bread is really more
uourishluE, when you come down 20
scientific facts said rlhe captain
but our men at home were brought
up on white bread. and they think Of
it as necessity when they realize
that the people at home are sacriflc-
ing their own tastes, and giving up
their daily bread FOR the men over
here, it awakens a certain moral
sense IN the soldier feeling OF
'noblesse obige, as it were, which
makes them better men and better
soldirs.
so I would have all the people
in America keep on with this sacri-
flee, and let Us have the white bread.
even while I myself. and perhaps
many others, like the war bread quite
as well
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captain about the war bread
Even when mixed with cOrnmeal It
seems dreary diet; but il is what
all OF us who are not soldiers are
given, and we see no white bread
save on wonderful occasions when
some soldier friend invites US 10
mess Even then We have guilty
feeling that perhaps we should not
devOur our slice Of white bread 50
greedily.
No Waste Land in Prince.
Every inch Of territory is cultivated
En- France. Such beautiful little gar
dens as one see everywhere: and the
gardens and fields are all cared for
by women Very old men and some
wounded soldiers one sees at times
working IN the gardens. but the wom-
en- are the chief roilers.
And the women OF France have
kept up so many OF the industries.
in shops and factories. and vehicles
attractive French girls I have seen
here drives hospital ambulance Il
IS two story vehicle. and when I
saw her start of from the railway
station she was conveying four
wounded men, two IN each story OF
her ambulance. 70 the hospital. They
had Just come from the emergency
hospital I'D at the front.
We were three American women
that day going about together and
as a troop train Of American soldiers
came in and stopped at the Red Cross |
canteen for coffee and sandwiches |
After their lunch they went back 20
their big trucks and sat in clusters OF
perhaps a hundred men on each truck,
waiting for the train 20 pull out and
hurry them 10 the front
IntroduefI0ns Not Needed.
over here we never wait for intro
auctions The uniform and our com
mon language makes US feel &C
Quainted.
Approaching the groups. I asked {
che boys where they were from. we
are all from Wisconsin" one Of them
answered That was my native I
state" I said. and off went their
caps and we talked until their train
Ivhistled- So gay and staIwart and I
handsome they looked, and so eager
were they 70 get TO the battle zonet /
We have waited a year for this"
they said, and we can't get there
TOO soon"
After the long train pulled out we
turned away with Jumps in our
throat, and right facing US stood the /
French hospital train which had lust
come in from the place where these
american boys were going. Stretches {