Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16

"Half the Unfded States doesn't know yet that we're in a war!" In this robust fashion did return ed Sammy express himself on the subject of Americas participation in the struggle. He was a hearty, good looking lad, pleasant picture of sturdy young manhood, except for one thing-his right sleeve hung nearly empty.
 We were standing at window in Ward M of Walter Reed Hospital, out at the edge of the District of Column bia. Cur view took in sloping green lawns, winding walks and driveways, and an assortment of brick and frame buildings. Everything looked fresh,, clean and new, Walter Reel Hospital is place of absorbing interest nowas days. Here will be brought the seri- ously wounded soldiers from our ex- peditionary forces, to undergo the miraculous process of reconstruction which will make them as good as new.
 Ward M is long, narrow building, one story high. It is of tropical con- struction, with screened porches at either end, and an abundance of win dows to admit fresh air and sunlight In winter the windows can be sealed up and the steam radiators turned on At this season windows and doors are opened wide, a Victrola buzzes on the front porch, and the men disport themselWegs in cool copvalescent suits.
 Busy as a Beehive
 The military reservation at Walter Reed is busy spot From the window in Ward M I watched double column of men in olive-drab marching down the principal road. Then a group of Red Cross nurses came cut of the doorway of the nurses home. Auto mobiles were spinning down the drive, and in the back seat of one l slpied a Senator's wife with stack of maga- zines piled high beside her. lSammy's comment broke in upon my enjoyment of this charging scene.
 "Half the country don't know that we're at war;"
 l could not give cordial assent to this statement. I wondered why he be- lieved it. Of course, l knew that ev- cry soldier has his times of grumb ling. He looks upon it as one of his
 
 wounded men in Ward M uncommonly stoical It takes courage to be serene when the enemy gunfire has deprived you of an arm or a leg, as in the case of one poor fellow, of both legs. About these bigger misfortunes there was no complaint whatever. The only thing the boys can not understand is why America has not b'uckled down with greater fervor to the business of winning the war.
 Spirit of the French
 "They do it in France" one of them told me. eff you want to see whole nation in arms, go to France. It's not just in the cities. It's in the little country towns. I've seen old women at work in the fields,i women so feeble that they had to walk with a cane when they weren't working. I've seen an old French mother wheeling fer tilizer un to the top of hill. She had to do the work because her men folks were in the trenches. After ev- cry trip up hill she came tottering down, and you might have thought she couldn't wheel another load. She did, though. 1 tell you, the spirit of those French people is the wonder of this war"
 All of the boys had stories to tell Sergt. P--. a Georgia boy, went across with a battery of heavy. artil. lery. On the way over his transport was attacked by submarines. "We got the warning from wire less station" he told me, land so we didn't go into the zone by night. We kept outside till morning, with our convoy of destroyers. Next morning we steamed ahead The first hing I knew you could see seaplanes flying to- ward us from the coast station. Then I looked out across the water and saw the periscopes bobbing around in the waves. There were three of them in all
 \ Clean Hit
 "They attacked us. but they didn't hit us. Then the destroyers took aft CT them. and just about the time the deapla1es came up Threw dropped bombs. and knocked the periscope off one U-boat clean as "a whistle. One bomb landed square on ton of it, and some iof the Anllowy med that when it exploded the was was blown aside so that ou could see the hull oi the submarine. I can't vcuch for that; didn't see it myself Tho othe, two U-brats got away. but the des rovers chased them. They thouehi thev cot hoth of them. hut i. was hard to tell. That submarine battle was about the most exciting thing I saw all the time I was away"