The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01
PERSH|NG LOvER<
BY HIS SOLDIERS
OUR BOYS HAVE GREAT ADMiRA-
TIoN AND RESPECT FOR
THEIR COMMANDER
HOW OUR ARMY FIGHTS AND LIVES
Supplies Shipped Across The Sea For
Army And Farms Titled In France
To Furnish Fresh Foods
BY II. c. EVANS
Copyright 1879

Headquarters American Army in
France-The sea- of the government
of the United States has been rams
ferred to France, and to the place
from which | write, in so far as the
transaction of our governments bust
ness in Europe is concerned.
And our business in Europe just
now is of vastly more Importance than
our domestic business. No nation
ever undertook as big a job as ouI ma
ton has undertaken. No nation ever
fought a great war to a successful con-
clusion so far away from home.
Seldom has a great army fought in
a country where the products of the
country did not in part sustain it. Yet
here we are a million strong n mil
lions more coming, backed by billions
of dollars and fields of supplies. Lines
of communication are open from the
headquarters of our government IN
France to Washington, to the gran
aries and factories of America, and to
the homes and hearts of our people.
This city is so full Of Americans, of
American-made goods and American
business methods that it almost seems
like home. Here one can buy the ne
cessities Of life from a juicy beefsteak
to a can of Tuxedo as easily and
cheaper than at home. Their are
more homemade automobiles here
thar in any city of like size in the
United States. Transportation at all
hours of the day and night is of the
utmost necessity, for the business ut
his base radiates from the trenches
through the central part of France to
the frontiers and to the Atlantic ports.
Everything centers here. Lines OF
communication reach in every direc-
ton. Here are the heads of all de-
partments. Day and night the work
never stops.
No wonder Germany is hurting her
heaviest bolts. She knows that we
are rapidly building a barrier across
her path. She knows that unless she
wins within the next few months we
will have sufficient men here to drive
her out of France and Belgium, and
that we will either force her to decent
peace terms or take Berlin.
General Pershing is respected and
loved as a great military leader Of
splendid business acumen and as a
kindly, courteous gentleman. l was
in a camp yesterday that he was in
speeding. The boys in this particular
camp have been under training for
peculiar and special service at the
front, and were ready to leave. Their
long, careful, technical schooling was
ended and the general came for a last
inspection of their training and equip
ment.
He is as considerable of his soldier
boys as a father of his sons, and he
does not withhold commentator for
good service. l have never seen great
er respect shown to a man than the
soldiers of this camp gave him. He
came into our Y. M. C. A. hut and in
spected it, giving all a kindly greet
ing and stopping for a brief visit.
1.-The Y. M. C.. A. is doing a splen-
did work" ne said on leaving. After
he had gone every soldier and every
"Y' secretary felt they had received
a benediction.
| visited a hospital farm the other
day. AS soon as a boy is designated
"convalescent' in this particular hos
pital and begins to insist that he be
returned to the fighting line, he must
turn farmer before he can turn fight
er again. There's a hundred acres in
the farm and a part of the old wall
that surrounds it was built by the
Romans. The farm is planted in po-
tatoes and garden truck and supplies
the hospital. There are plenty of
chickens and pigs and a number Of
COWS. A college chap from Illinois
named Craig, who took a course in
animal industry at Ames. had charge
of the live stock. He calls the finest
cow Miss Iowa and the latest pig
H%indenburg. The farm was rented
and equipped by the Red Cross. The
farm Is bossed by two graduates Of
agricultural colleges. When a man
reports from the hospital to the farm
he is classified, not with reference to
his ability as a farmer, but as to his
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