The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-09-05
By LOWELL .MELLETT

by LIZ W E1l<l< 4
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
r With the American Army in France.
Aug IL. (By MaiL)-The gene a.
never batted an eye as he p, onoanced
this verdict on his own division:
They're the best division in
France. Sir,"
Thus. calmly--he didn't raise his
voice and he didn't bang the table
with his fist-he gave his men credit
for having won the keenest compe-
,ition of It's kind that France has
seen. This is the competition be-
tween the divisions. 1t has been un-
der way ever since there have been
as many as two divisions over here to
compete Each Is striving TO prove
that in organization and in spirit II
leads all the others.
'.Ill tell you why" said the general
These tar-heeis and Tennessee noun
tain lads of mine are all real Ameri-
cans ! don't suppose more than
dozen of them ever saw a foreigner
until we came over here. You so and
look them over and see II I'm no.
right"
Which we did. Several companies
OF them Were passing the generals
house at the moment. They trudged
along easily under the pack thai some
soldiers consider so heavy They
were cheerful and unwearied.
AMERICANS ALL RIGHT.
"wheah do we go from heah?f ask
ed one of another.
The other replied that the captain
had called for volunteers TO storm the
brewery in the next town. He d;dn'.
smile and the others who heard 1t
enjoyed II without smiling. And the
British Tommies working on the rrad
put Them down, no doubt. as some
more of those serious Americans
They looked just as good as the
general said they were. But when we
visited one of their camps half an hour
later the first man to whom we we-c
introduced bore q name as German as
Luderdora. That might seem to re
futc the generals theo.y. II this man.
a captain. had not talked with dra VI
that comes from being born in the
land of cotton.
On n hiii-slopc close by target pfNs.
tsce with mschinegsns vas under way.
Every now and then there came
purst of excited cheering. II sounded
like ball game. That was one OF
the reasons this was the best division
in the army. the captain explained:
there was keen competition among
the men themselves and instead of
keeping this feeling bottled up IL was
encouraged In every way. OF course.
he said. there wasn't much real neces-
sity for teaching his men TO shoot.
since they came from n section where
everybody knew how to use a rifle
a man who couldn't hit a buzzard in
a tree top Mt half n mile. was eonsid.
cred community disgrace
GOOD AT YELLING TOO.
The yeIls of derision and deiigh,
continued from the hill slope. They
forccasted n new experience for Ger
man troops when they meet that bit
Of civii war frightfulness known as
the rebel yell.
They looked mighty good. these
Southern boys. However,
''rli tell you why our division has
the lead over the Others" said a
New York colonel. We've been di.
vision for twenty years; we're not a
yearling outfit. like the rest. We've
worked together for n long time. and
came over here together. And now
we've got an alright. fighting divls.
ion.
That was today. Day before yester
day IL was the general commanding
certain iliinoisans. The exact argu
ment he offered in support OF bis con.