Arizona republican., 1918-09-06
Thirteenth InstaIIment Chapter " (Continued)

m Parls on leave of absence. The Req oross had one single donation of one million dollars to be devoted to a club Tor American soldiers in Paris. The Y M C. A. had started to equip two CT three great Parisian hotels as clubs The Red Cross had money donated for certain other recreation purposes in camp. The Y. NJ. C. A. believed it should control the camp and Parisian recreation activities of the American | troops
 We stated our case about as briefly as It Is here written, and in three mln- utes. In two minutes more General rershlnS had assured us that thera | would be no need to spend money fo, notels or clubs in Paris, that few sol diers would be given leave to go to farls, and that the lavish expenditure or American money in Paris would be pad for Americas standing in France. And then he allotted the recreation problems of men in the hospitals to the Red Cross, and the recreation enter- prlses for men outside of hospitals to the '. M. C. A.
 Picture of Pershing
 1 He was brief, exact, candid and final He stood for the most part, as he talked; spoke low, fumbled for no word. and looked into his hearers eyes. The politician looks over their shoulders We spoke for two or three minutes with him about the work of our troops this winter, and were impressed with the decision of the man. He seemed-3 perhaps onsciously-afraid that public opinion at home would demand that he put our men into the trenches 10 hold their own sector too early. He evidently believed that during our first winter the men should go :n by squads ana perhaps companies or later in reg mental units for educational purposes. working with the English and the French learning the trench game But We felt clearly that he believed strone ly that it would be spring before VIC should occupy any portion of the line ourselves. There was a firmness about him, not expressed in words. No one could say that he had said what we thought he had conveyed to us Yet each of us was sure that the general would not be moved from his decision. lie breathes confidence ill him into peoples hearts He never seems confi- dential; though he is entirely candid Again one feels sure that there is no court around him. He seems wise with his own wisdom, which is constantly in touch with the wisdom of every one who may have business with him. He will not be knocked off his feet; he will do no military stunts. The American soldiers will not go into action until we have enough troops to hold our part of the line and we will not start an offen- sive until we can back it up. This all came glowing out of the firm. kind, wise, sOldierly face of General Per shng. and it needed no words to verify it. Superfluous words might have con- tradicted the message of his mien; for they might have added boast to simple statement.
 A Mercy Trust
 It is all so orderly, so organized, so American. this thing we are doing in France. It is like the effective manip- ulatiOn of a great trust. The leader ship of the American forces in France in the army and in the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. is made up of men known all over the United States; the names of those leaders who are sol diers may not be mentioned. They haze Edropped out of American civilian If. so quietly that they are scarcely missed Yet for weeks we lived in the hotel with one of the prominent figures in American finance who is working eighteen hours a day buying supplies assembling war material-food fuel INiOliiIS up scores or i11llcS D barracks, building railroad from tide water to the American headquarters equipping it with American engines freight cars, and passenger coaches sinking piles for the first time in harbor which has been occupied fo TWO thousand years. and unloading great ships there which were supposed to be too big for that port. He is tn, marvel of the French. Hundreds lik' him are over there lending a hand They are about to handle in a year :ir army half as large as the other allie have been three years building. Houses furniture. fuel food. guns. ammunition clothing, transportation, communica tion, medicine, surgeons. recreation- the whole routine of life for a million men and more must be provided in ad Van"" by these organizing men Thi work. so far as these men consider Il is purely altruistic. They are sacrific ing comforts at home. money making opportunities at home, and they ar working practically for nothing. payin their own expenses. and under the cen SorS wise rules these men can have nO even the empty husks of passing fam, For their names may not be mentione in the news of what the Americans ar doing in Europe Yet wherever oii
 
 these first class men. Their sincerit and patriotism may not be questioned
 But they are getting something ret out of it all. The renewal of youth i their faces through unstinted giving beautiful to see. They are going into new advepture-a high and splendi adventure, and while many of the1 may snap back after the war to the ol egoistic individualistic way of lookin at life, their examples will persist, ali their lives, when they go back to til old rut, will never be the same liv, that they were before.
 A Regeneration
 But here is story, an America story which has in it the makings .)f hero tale. It came to us in Paris, b by bit. We saw it and no one told
 to us. Yet here it is, and it should bt gin in form. Once upon a time America when the people were chans ing their gods. a certain major god finance named James Hazen Hyd head of great insurance company, fe into disfavor; and the people, changIr their gods. cast him away. If men hs been serving the old gods they wou have said, "Go it while you're young to the youth. but instead they said Ill pleasant things So he went to Fran and vanished from the map, but he q not entirely understand why he "; banished. He. had done nothing tn other young gods did not do and was amazed, but he faded. He lived
 Paris as an exile, not as a god. and couldn't for the life of him tell win