The Coconino sun., 1918-11-15
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 ITEMS OF INTEREST - ABOUT OUR BOYS OVER HERE AND "OVER THERE"
TWO YEARS TO
 BRING MEN BACK
 FROM WAR ZONE

At least two years will be required to complete demobilization of Ameri- can troops in France, according to es- inmates of allied military leaders. eral T. Coleman Dupont, who has just returned from two months visit to the western front where he conferred with high officials in each of the al- lied governments, brought this esti- mate back as the minimum expecta- tion of army officials. Military of ficials have been urging us to think in terms of a long war;" said General Dupont, "and now they are equally in- sistent that we begin to accustom our selves to thought of long demobiliza- tion. Theye is an immense task ahead of our forces when peace is declared. As one of our generals said to me, Tell the people back home it will be two years at least, before they see us all. We have, years work to un- tangle barbed wire that has been strung back and forth across France
 "lt must never be said of America that she left the task half done," Gen. eral Dupont continued. "We owe ev- erything to France, and our men will have to stand by until they have done what they can to set her on roads to restoration, and while they stand by over there, it is going to be tremen- dously important we stand by them over here.
 "This fact gives double importance to the United War Work campaign, which am glad to find so we'll under way. No one who has not lived with our boys can imagine how vitally inn portant the service of these seven or ganizations is; no one who has stud jed history of other wars can over state their importance in the period of demobilization. The civil war de- stroyed careers of hundreds of prom ising young men. It turned them back into civil life, weakened and pur- poseless. This war must not do that Boys who have sacrificed so much to win it must come back stronger and better men than when they left. l found war work agencies in France laying statesmenlike plans for this trying period. Every hut in France is to become university classroom on the day peace is signed. Under di- rection of leading educators and busi- ness men from this country, the boys will be given every educational ad- vantage. Entertainment and recrea- tional work will be largely increased, for with the coming of peace not merely part time, but all of the time of our boys will have to be provided for. United War Work agencies will need every cent of their S170,500, ,000. Yes, and millions more. They will need to send thousands of additional workers, women workers, especially, for the influence of one good woman in representing the American home over there is more potent than the in fluence of any man no matter how capable. If the American people stand by through demobilization, as they have through the months of fighting, our army will have made the most splendid record of any army in history. Men in it will come back not deteriorated by hard experience of war, but strengthened, more eff cient, more resolute, better, more use- full and more successful in every way"
 General Dupont views are endorsed by military leaders of the United States and the allied nations.