Evening star., 1918-08-20
ALTERS THE VISION
!. OF FIGHTING MEN
Mar Brings New Angle From
.: Which to View Affairs
'tBack Home"
TOPICS IN THE U. S. CAMPS
BY HERBERT COREY.

AAH<kNoESAtA SOAs
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, July Sit is interesting to
observe the effect the new experience
has had on the Americans abroad
They have begun to think on many
subjects formerly they accepted as
part of life. just as they accepted the
sun and rain. They will be dangerous
to- the professional politicians and
: office runners when they get home
Black hair and q yawp will not pass
muster with them. unless backed by
something more substantial than a
handshake and a smile. The neW
angle Of vision is aiding them to see
things differently.
Taking Senators to Task.
Senator Blick hadn't any right to
say what he did in the Senate yester-
day" said a man, looking up from
his hometown paper. He isn't think
ing Of US. He's defending his own
party"
: sBut Senator Black hadn't any right
. 70 go after Blick the way he did
either He just made party matter
out Of this war"
Those sitting around noddeo tneir
rs That's right they agreed. They
hadn't any right bringing their repuoh-
can-democrat quarrel into this thing.
Politicians who try to play politics
with issues in which the lives ana
comfort and safety of these boys are
1nvoived-or who put petty party
advantage ahead of the country
needs-are hereby warned that they
are skating on thin ice. The boys
don't get to see as many newspapers
as they once did. For that reason,
/. perhaps. they think more about what
they read. They are daily marking
down prices on men who were heroes
; TO their daddies. Some of their own
:, heroes have fallen. too.
- Doesn't Like jess.
.The big stiff." a young lieutenant
burst out at mess yesterday. why
don't they make EN- go to war-or
"who?" asked every one.
"Jess willard" was the reply. And
all the rest of these make-believe
The talk went tho round of the
table from the colonel to the mess
of the glove fighters at home in the
same spirit. it developed 1t was
/ somewhere between contempt and a
ipassionate hatred. Mind you. these
.,aoldiers are in danger of their lives
Jevery day-almost every minute OF
place. and figure out how you would
feAl toward men who haggle for the
money prize to be gained by a harm
less bout with stuffed gloves.
why don't they make pick-and-
Bhovel battalion out of these scrap
6ers?" some one asked IF they're
afraid to take a chance on their lives
hhey can at least be made to work.
"A man muscled like Jess Willard
ought to be able to break a lot Of
lfock in day"
When Time Hangs Heavily.
When there is nothing going on in
tie Army, there Is distinctly nothing
going on. Time hangs heavily and
the man of intelligence finds himself
forced into thought about things he
has not considered before. Reddy
Perkins sat in the Salvation Army
tent the other day and watched eager
volunteers pare potatoes and wash
vegetables and do this and that
around the kitchen. There was to be
. dinner that night. and the boys
all they could.
you oughtn't to do that" said
Reddy. when one of the army women
was about to throw away morsel of
meat You ought to save that"
She agreed with him. but she did
: not know what to do with 1t.
I've been watching my landlady
down here" said Reddy. "On the
level, she can make a good meal of
things that my mother'd throw away.
I've been writing homo to the old lady
:. about it. and the other day got an
answer from her. She's trying It her.
sself."
Learning How to Farm.
It Is not only in cooking that the
boys are learning from their French
neighbors of the day. Many of them
are farmers by birth and preference
and their eyes are being opened to
, the possibilities of ten acres. One
finds them fussing around with the
/. old peasants. learning how to train
to.make q tiny garden bear crops in
rotation, SO that there shall always
be fresh vegetables on the table. The
good roads movement will be given a
> tremendous impetus when these boys
get home. They have discovered what
PA wrote that he had to borrow
$500 on mortgage" said a kid the
;other day. I've just been writing him a
letter bawling him out
Why? ! wanted to know.
Hes got ten acres in the woodlot
that he might as well SELL" said the
boy. He could get $500 for it and
mebbe more. If he'd been French
man. there Is enough down timber and
little stun in the rest of the lot to
his life. There is no use wasting
wood the way we do. We're a lot of
fatheads."
Not So Far Wrong.
That may not have been either
fifaI or respectful, but it is fairly
frue- The French peasant economies
wood to the last inch. No land is
thrown away in fence rows. either
The men see where France does
things better than they do. They
likewise see the many ways in which
we do things better than France does
Sometimes the men Of the two coun-
tries do things differently but equally
we'll. The men see that, too. The
foreign experience has broadened and
educated them. Most Of all, it is
teaching them to think for them
selves.
Il 4 too early as yet to say wha,
have to deal with them had hest re-
spect this warning. Bosh and decla-
NATION will not pass at the old value
when the boys come home.
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