New Britain herald., 1918-04-04
MISS WILSON LAUDS
 AMERICAN SOLDIER
Presidents Daughter Says They Are Fit Because They're Fine

New York. April 4.-"American boys are so fit, and so fine! I admire them moro than have ever done be- fore in my life. They're not fine be- cause they're fit, they're it because they're fine,-hecause their spirit is splendid, and brave, and devoted"
 Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of President Wilson thus sums up her
 opinion of the fighting men of the
 United States, after having seen thou sands of them, in the camps where she has been singing under auspices of
 the Young Mems Christian Associa-
 tion
 Nothing else has ever given Miss
 Wilson so much joy as singing for the
 men in uniform. She had just gotten
 through leading hundreds of sailors
 in the strains of "Over There" when
 she made the statement at Cape May.
 New Jersey. She was on the point of
 setting out on a concert tour for the
 Y. M. c. A. that will take her to camps as far west as Colorado, and as far south as Texas.
 'I am singing for the soldiers be-
 cause it is the thing I can do.-my
 part in the war" she said. Every one ought to have some share in the
 war and this is mine. It has been a
 delight to me to sing for them
 'fWinning the war,-that's the great
 thing now What l have seen of the soldiers and the sailors in the camps
 I have visited convinces me that our
 American men are the sort to win a
 war They will not do it alone, of
 course, but they will do it with the
 allies. This is indeed world war of democracy, a war of the peoples. II know they will fight as Ameri- can soldiers should. These men are
 just average Americans But they prove that the average American is a wonderful person. They will win be- cause they are fighting for the right, which means everything to men of their spirit.
 "They will fight better for the fact that each one of us is standing be- hind them, doing what he can to have some part in the war. They will cer- ! tainly fight better because of the Y. M. c A. the enlisted mans club, and his wartime home. In whatever camp I have been since l have been 1 singing for the soldiers. I have seen | how much the Y. Nj. C. A. means to them.
 l Miss Wilson has a high opinion of
  l pliment. Their enthusiasm in listen 1 ing to her and in singing with her, l and their naive expressions of appre- 1 citation have given her a great deal of 1 pleasure. When she sang at Camp 1 Merritt. Tenafly, New Jersey, the sol l diers who were not able to crowd l into the Y. M. C. A. building clung
 to the roof, and peered in at the win 1 dows to hear as much of her songs 1 as they could. More, more!" called the sick soldiers at Camp Upton, Yap- hank. New York, after each song. As l she was leaving one of them eX- 1 pressed the gratitude the men in uni 1 form feel, when he called after her, l Thank you, Miss Wilson!'
 l She is accompanied on her tour by | Mrs. Ross David, her personal friend who is her pianist and chaperone, and l by Melville A. Clark of Syracuse, New l York, harpist, who organized com l munity singing in the camps around 1 Syracuse. With intermissions for con- 1 certs of her own, with which she is
 paying all the expenses of her trip the tour will last until the end of May