The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-01

object was to rendezvous with Ameri can staff officers who were going tC take us to see something of the Unit ed States expedItionary force. The guns on both sides were silent, the roads were losing their night tr1tiC Hour after hour sped by. the suns heat increased, but, though we lost our first freshness, we could not lose that feeling of anticipation that we were going to See something wonder ful, to be witnesses of the working of force In history, n sight that tens of years hence we should still be re- lating to our grandchildren, write Godfrey Butler in the New York World
 The approach of our destination was not unheralded More and more frequent on the road we passed the green-gray motor trucks with boys helmeted with n tin helmet different from the French. fatter. more like d soup plate than the casque of me. dieval knight in armor, such as the Poilu wears. Old stagers at the front tell one that you may know the dis cipline of an army from the way 1t keeps Its place on the road.
 Do the vehicles struggle into the middle of the roadway. thus blocking other traffic? Then the discipline is bad and organization will generally be awry. Do the men on the box smartly respond to the passing of an officer? Then. sure enough, the re- lation between officers and enlisted men Is cordial and satisfactory.
 An Orderly Transport Train.
 It was fine to see each motor lorry hug the roads extreme right edge ana every colGmn of these United States transport wagons neatly and regularly spaced, while there never was any shirking, never an intentional and timely glance the other way. "Old Glory" on our car, the United States uniform within, always eliCted \ smart salute from the enlisted man ir charge of every party, from the others d friendly hand wave and n shouted message.
 We approached a village and on the village green we saw q car or two of transatlantic make-unwOnted sight amid the mOtorcars of France. i changed my car and sat with colo nel holding big position on the staff of Pershing. With us his assistant and P0meroy Burton of London and New York, now head of the British war mission in Paris, the latter just back from, and very full of, won derful and minute inspection of the United States lines of communication, which he prophecies will, when al- lowed to be described in print, provide the newspaper sensation of the day in Europe and America.
 We had lonCjSh run in front of us and there was tune to settle down 10 m interchange of talk. It was new to the Americans to get n man from home and we were submitted to the cOmpletest croSS-qucstioning that have ever had to undergo.
 Of every city and community in the United States I could say to each In turn: Do you know how the memory and love of you has been carried overseas? Do you know how the anXietieS, the heartaChcS, the desires fulfilled, the loves and lives and oc- equations of past days that you may have regarded aS over and gone for ever are living once again, re-cnnCted In the memory of soldier men 5000 to 5000 miles away from home. with lit tie prospect of return till war is fin .shedY'
 "An Homeric Company"
 Then 1t was our turn to put the questions, and as the long line of .rees on either side of the roadway dashed behind us we were admitted to the fellowship of the company of United States fighters, worshipped its heroes, learned of Its achievements They are in truth an Homeric com pany. seasoned by frontier fighting, masters of the war cunning of the Filipino or of the Mexican, sons of service, yet very much alive to new conditions.
 Was there not Major x, who. to ES"'i ii'ii .ii' i'''7iii'i'''S 'i tN- curate machine gun fire drove his own auto 15 yards along parallel to and in front of the barrage put up by the company he was training? Or Lieu tenant Y, most daring of most mod ern jockeys who drove his mobile tank down diSused well to demon strate it's climbing powers?
 There was the young quartermaster corps lieutenant placed in charge of a transport from the other side. who, with the help of his minute squad on board, had placed half the ships off cers and crew in irons for the breach of regulation concerning the inter pretatiOn of which there was ground for legitimate dispute.
 On arrival his chief, more skilled in the interpretation of service regula- tions, yet wise in the wisdom of many years service with Uncle Sam, was broad enough to adopt the read Ing of the regulation so drastically suppressed and at the same time to