Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-06-12

1 klck-hOp-klck ana so on all down
the line. Then the "boys" went on
with their task.
der what had happened to him for all
his buttons were gone. The Ameri-
cans took him down to the evacuation
hospital and gave him good medical
attention. The men found out that
| he could play an accordion so they
found one and gave it to him. When
this German prisoner saw that every
one was kind to him, he wept and said
that he had been told that as soon as
the Americans got him they would
rush at him with jackknives and kill
/ him.
| Later on l was at the funeral SER
vice of a young German boy. The
chaplain said, This boy is just a
youngster, we are not fighting him,
and so the same kind of a burial ser
vice as is given to our own Ameri-
cans was accorded the young Ger
man.
when you hear about how the Am
erican soldiers are being demoralized
by drink you just discount that.
visited twenty-eight different places
and saw only one case Of drunken
ness. You can also discount all those
rumOrs about vice, too. The Ameri-
can authorities are doing all they can
to deal with that circumstance and
are doing excellent work. | had a
fine talk with General Pershing be-
fore | left and he said, The one thing
that we want most to do is just to get
rid of all the evils that might be a
danger to the American boys we have
over here
Il must say word about the sail
ors. They are giving splendid ac-
count of themselves. They have a
dash that | think no other sailors can
surpass.
"The French are the people Of the
future. By their own statements one
million three hundred thousand
Frenchmen have been killed. | talk
ed with a Frenchman, a public man,
down at American headquarters. He
had lost his eight sons, killed in
battle. And the way the French have
stood their losses has been perfectly
amazing.
'The French women are looking af-
despair among them at ALL However,
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They will fight until the last, German
is driven off their soil.
Il stood one night opposite the road
up which troops were marching by the
hundreds to take their places in the
trenches. The impression was most
uncanny in it's effect of certain I'M
conquerable might in the way they
carried themselves. They simply can
not be conquered.
1.-The great genius Of this war has
been French from the beginning. The
best railroad man in the United States
has said that the way the French have
handled their railroad situation is
simply beyond understanding. Indeed
everybody admits the supremacy of
the French in this war.
"Then there are soldiers there from
the other side of the world, the In
dian soldiers that we do not hear so
much about | mean those soldiers,
between sixty and one hundred thous-
and of them in the fighting lines about
which Germany raised such a howl
and said we were turning loose brutes
to fight them. They are just as well
behaved as any German, French or
English soldiers.
There are Christian Indians on the
west front. They have their prayer
meetings, sometimes five hundred in
attendance, and they do not need any
rowing bishop or minister to lead
them either. Tommy looked at them
one time when five hundred Indians
were at their prayer meeting and he
turned to me and said, Amt it par
alyzing!'
Il also saw Chinese soldiers, about
sixty thousand of them, going into the
trenches to fight. They may not be
dressed in the slickest of uniforms,
but they are there, standing the cold
fighting just as hard as any other sol
diers.
THE women at the canteens and
elsewhere are patient beyond descr1p-
ton The presence of women in the
canteens will stop the grouching and
also the swearing at least while they
are there. There are women over
there, some under thirty, who have
worked at every kind Of occupation.
There is one I met who had been ev-
erywhere and had even nursed ty-
plus patients. You never see any
suggestion of hysteria. The Ameri-
can, French and English soldiers all
swear by the women when it comes
to thinking of their sheer devotion"
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Eastman left
Thursday morning for Kiel, Wis,
where they will visit for a month
with their daughter, Mrs. c. W. Bait