Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-23

do something, but alarmed at his poV' erty of abilities.
 Gan you preach?" he was askeo'
 "NO!"
 Gan you sing?"
 No" o,,
 "Can you run a motor carl" l
 "No.'
 What can you do?"
 "Nothing that know of. I'm just one of the idle rich."
 "Go out and fuss around feW oays and then come back" he was told.
 That night he met up with a western sergeant who was in Paris to see the town, and who had started to view the sights through the bottom of glasSA He was half seas over and ambitloi1 to be submerged. The member or the idle rich inveigled him into con- versation, furnished him cigarettes and a light. Pretty soon, by sheer personality, he persuaded the man to go to bed without finishing off his evening artistically. In the morning the sergeant came around and corner ed the idle rich man.
 "Bo," said he, "you done me favor last night. I was bound for trip to In Bad. Any time you want anything of me, just drop around"
 The Idle Rich young man made tracks for headquarters.
 Eve found my job," he said. ] can make friends with the men,
 GO to it." were his orders. Now he is somewhere recuperating because he wore himself out working for his boys. He had to be victimized by strategy to get him to rest. His regi- ment was moving, and he was told he would have to come to Paris for few days while they made the change. It was the old way to get him from them and the story goes that until that regiment was assured he would be sent back to them there was excite ment and high talk They just nat urally weren't going to go off with out their pal. He is the sort who rep resents the thing the American army is demanding of the Y. M.. C. A.
 This has been about men up to date. Now there are men in America who think women should not be sent to work with the A. D. F. in France; among those who have seen what is going on, there are few of them. Did you ever step into big. bare, i'll fur nished room-may be an uncomforta- ble room-and suddenly see on the wall beautiful picture or on the shelf a wonderful piece of old china That little object imbmediately made that cold, uninteresting room a place where you desired to be. And that's how it is with the right kind of wom en in canteen in France. All she has to do is to be there, be natural, Joe impersonal, and she has made a hun dred men better fighters for democ racy.
 One biz thing that must be impress. ed on folks back home is that these women are safe-safer than in theil own home town. A woman in a can. it their job to look after her. There , never was an old maid aunt who coulG chaperone a young woman the way g regiment of ,Yanks can do it. Some. how she represents, so much to them She is not girl but symbol. She means to them all they left behind in their homes. I'd each of them sht l means little bit of mother, of sister of sweetheart. t
 A few weeks ago girl was sent te a distant canteen on motor truck It was raining and muddy. They ar l rived at their destination in the mid dle of the night. in murk, and down pour. The driver of the truck wa, reluctant to leave his passenger il l the iblackness at what seemed tn, | wirld's end. He feared for her safet, perhaps. But his orders compelle, him to leave her at a certain cross roads. He made long journey bacl to base, and another trip to the local ity. He arrived in early morning There he saw the strange girl. in strange world, surrounded by strang men, working over a damp-wood fir to make them hot chocolate-and tn men were worshipping. Literally the were already at her feet. For she ha the something woman needs for thi job. From that mnute the man wh offered the smallest direspect to he would have been a poor risk for al accident policy.
 1 One important point to remembe
 back here is that the A. ID. F. is tn
 finest, most upstanding. tw1o-fiste aggregation of regular men that tn
 world has ever seen in an army.
 few-fortunately very few-have tn
 idea that our army Is surrounded b depravity and temptation and s likel to sink into vice and debauchery
 Nothing could be further from tn
 truth. Just a few statistics. As fo
 the morale of the army. listen to this There have been only 46 attempted dc l'sertions from all the hundreds ( thousands of men in the army. The at
 thorities directly in charge of thi