Crittenden record-press., 1918-07-18
Gigantic Things Being Accom-.
pIished by Men From
United States.
SPEED AsTON|SAES FRENCH
immense Structures Spring Like Magic
From 0round-Troops Slated for
Three Months Training Go
Into Service.

with the American Army In France.
Americans In Frnncc who ARE fnmll-
Tar with the gigantic things Uncle
sam II doing here sometimes wonder
~ the people who are subscribing for
Liberty loans and giving their full
moral support 10 the national govern
ment fully realize what their money
aud their support are making possible
over here In France, writes Don Mar.
tln IN Tie New York Herald
The rule Of the army Is that Amer.
teams must not bonst. In simpler,
hnckwouds language, Americans must
saw wood and let the other fellow do
the talking. Consequently the folks
back home get only frngmentary pie.
lures Of what Uncle sam. three thou.
sand miles nwny. Is accomplishing
Forests IN places have been cleared
away 10 make room for sidings. lm-
incnSc structures have come almost
IKE magic out of the ground. Rail.
way tracks have been laid so swiftly
that one could almost see them extend
themselves. To see thousand hardy.
eager young Americans working In an
Isolated part of frunce is sight to
be encountered many times any day.
And the work he's just begun
Building Lines OF Communication.
only few weeks ago while driving
along n welI.known highway OF eastern
France saw young engineers survey.
lns along u distance of perhaps TWEEN
~ miles. They we're young college
men. A few days later they were thir.
~ miles further along the road. and
where they had been were gangs of
men digging holes and unloading coils
~ wire fron ;rtrks. Next day tam
arack poles were scattered along the
route What I saw nlong this 5O.mile
strip was merely duplication Of whnt
was going on In every 50mile sector all
the uhy from the coast TO the from,
the. Now there is q fully-equipped
American telephone line.
This Is Just an Incident In the enor-
nous program Of organization aud
preparation which the United States
T. carrying out. n We lack perhaps
ia the long military experience OF some
81 the other nations. no one can ac
= Mse Americans Of lacking IN quick or
sanitation and achievement in con
strurilon work. France Is maryeling
NJ the speed with which our engineers
and their bands OF men have pro
grrssrd with their mammoth tasks
She knows now. although she really
never doubted. that the United State,
IL in the war to finish and is deter
mincd TO prosecute II with the same
vgor she has every other conflict sh'
has ever engaged In.
American soldiers. ns Secretary Ba
krr predicted, have been pouring int,
France for several weeks. They ar,
distributed In Villages where until nov
no American was ever seen. One hai
hut to see the gigantic barracks hcinI
erected here and there along the lin,
" communications Ia realize that stu
pcndous things are In the immedia;, {,
future A. one point thirty one-stor.
frame buildings, each 100 feet II
Irng,h, were built In two weeks. Nov
they are flled with soldiers gotnl
through intensive training for servic,
at the front,
So ms the Americans are gradual!
coning 10 realize that somewhere bncl
home there has been wonderful spee'
and eacicncy In getting men across III
Atlantic. the people of France are be
ginning TO understand thnt Uncle Sar
has Q vast army here already. Ho'