The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-29
American Soldiers Are
Eye Openers

ping sent by R. E. Brumby of Frank
| lin, taken from the Cobb County
| Times, Marietta, Ga, Mr.. Otis Brum-
by, editor, brother of Mr.. R. E. 1t
is letter from France, sent to the
Times by Lieut.. Lindley Camp. 1t
tells of the fine reception received
by American troops in England and
France, and in its entirety is an in
teresting recital of conditions cover
there" The text of the letter fol
lows:
We sailed on April Is and the trip
across was fine, and on more than
one occasion the monotony of the
trip was broken by hair splitting ex-
citemant. We had the pleasure of
seeing all the principal cities of Eng
land and some of the most historic
parts of the country. My regiment
was the only American regiment to
ever stage asformal parade and fe-
view in LJadan and the only "for-
eign troops" ever quartered in We'll
/ lington Barracks in the history of
England Cheering thousands greet
ed us and Old Glory was much in
evidence throughout England. After
the reveiw we were entertained by
! the American ambassador in the good
old American way. 1t made us feel
mighty good and did lots of good to
know we were still among friends,
even though thousands of miles away
from home. Personally | had some
time Il London, but not near the
time enjoyed on Broadway just few
weeks before.
! The English impressed me as being
very dignifed, and while marching
through Picadilly / heard the familiar
sound of "Give 'em hell, we are with
you" l knew it didn't come from
any Englishman and upon looking
around I saw the tanned face of an
American sailor The old Ga. Tech
battle cry sure did sound good Eng
land is a wonderful country and
every available inch of ground is in
cultivation and it looks like one big
garden. The ladies are doing all the
work and you never see young man
who is not in the army. France is
even prettier than England and /
cannot say enough in praise of the
French people. An American soldier
is the ticket with them. Nearly all
/ of the men are beginning to speak
French and it sure does make you
| feel funny to spit out bunch of
French after much effort and then
have American slang handed you in
return.
/ We are fin tents in the prettiest
place | have yet seen in England or
France. 1t is an ideal camping
ground. The scenery is an exact
duplicate of the Tate home in Tate,
Ga, also it brings back many pleas
ant memories of VIM. Hollands
house-party there last summer. The
French girls are very pretty and
friendly, but they cannot compare
with the sweet Marietta girls in amy
way. These people have many funny
customs and / am here to tell you
that Cobb county man would never
become accustomed to them if he
stayed here lifetime.
The American soldiers are eve
openers to these people, for they are
paid many, many times the salary of /!
Any other soldiers here, and you can
imagine how careless they get with
francs and centimes. Airplanes are
as thick as fiivvers in Cherokee coun-
ty, but | am still trying to see. them |
all.
An English company put on show
for US Saturday afternoon and it was
fine and all thoroughly enjoyed the
first show over here. We have band
concerts and everything is made Just
as pleasant as possible. On Sunday
mornings we all attend open air serv-
ices by our chaplain and they are fine.
He was formerly pastor of a Meth
odist church. The band furnishes
music and the good old hymns that all
know certainly do sound good.
Last week we received gift of
American tobacco from some friend
in Texas and that did the whole
bunch world of good, for we had
been celebrating" seven tobacco
less'days week. You can imagine
how popular Texas is with these men
and officers now.
Wish l could write you something
about the war, but, of course, I cam
not. Am convinced that Sherman
was right. We see effects of it every
nd /