Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13
NO MORE POLITICAL SOLDIERS IN FRANCE
BY Corey.
BY Herbert Corey
nth THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE

with THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE
NJ July Sit is interesting to observe the
w effect the new experience has had on the
Americans abroad. They have begun to think on
many subjects formerly they accepted as a part
of life just they accepted the and rain They
will be dangerous to the professional politicians
and office-runners when they get home. BLACK
hair and yawp will not pass muster with tnem'
unless backed by something more substantial than
a handshake and smile. The new angle Oh VISION
is aiding them to things differently.
Senator Bck hadn't any right to say what
he did in the senate yesterday" said a man. look
ing up from his hometown paper. He isn't THINK
ing of u.s. He's defending his own party.
That's right" said his neighbor. But Sen
ator Black hadn't any right to go after Blck the
way he did, either. He just made party matter
out of this war"
Those sitting around nodded their heads
gravely
THAT'S right" they agreed. They hadn't
any right bringing their Repubhcan-Democrat
quarrel into this thing. This is everybody's war
Politicians who try to play politics with is
sues in which the lives and comfort and safety
of these boys are involved-or who put petty
party advantage ahead of the country's needs
are hereby warned that they are skating on thin
ice The boys don't get to see as many newspa-
pers as they once did. For that reason perhaps,
they think more about what they read. They
are daily marking down prices men who were
heroes to their daddies. Some of their own heroes
have fallen, too.
DOESN'T LIKE JESS
THE big stiff" a young lieutenant burst
out at mess yesterday. why don't they make
em go to war-or shut up?"
"Who?" asked every
Jess willard" the reply. And all the
rest of the make-believe scrappers."
The talk went the round of the table from
the colonel to the mess waiter. Every one had
been thinking of the glove fighters at home In
the same spirit it developed. 1t somewhere
between contempt and passionate hatred Mind
you, these soldiers in danger of their lives
Put Yourself in their place, and figure out how you
would feel toward men who haggle for the money
prize to be gained by harmless bout with stuffed
gloves.
battalion out of these scrappers?" some one ask
ed IF they're afraid to take chance on their
lives they can at least be made to work man
muscled like Jess Willard ought to be able to
break a lot of rock in a day.
When there is nothing going on in the army,
there is distinctly nothing going Time hangs
heavily and the man of intelligence finds himself
forced into thought about things he has not con-
sidered before Reddy Perkins sat in the Saliva
ton Army tent the other day and watched eager
volunteers pare potatoes and wash vegetables
and do this and that around the kitchen. There
was to be dinner that night, and the boys were
helping out the army women all they could
You oughtn't to do that" said Reddy, when
one of the army women was about to throw away
a morsel of meat. You ought to save that
She agreed with him, but she did not know
what to do with it.
1--WE been watching my landlady down here"
said Reddy ION the level, she can make good
meal of things that my mother'd throw away
I've been writing home to the old lady about 1t,
and the other day got answer from her. She's
trying it herself"
LEARNING HOW TO FARM
1t is not only in cooking that the boys are
learning from their French neighbors of the day.
Many of them farmers by birth and prefer
ence and their eyes being opened to the pos
sibilities of ten One finds them fussing
around with the old peasants learning how to
train pear trees against the wall and how to
make a tiny garden bear crops in rotation, so
that there shall always be fresh vegetables on the
table. The good roads movement will be given
fhnca hnxyS Unt
They have discovered what good roads are worth
to a community.
PA wrote that he had to borrow five hundred
dollars on mortgage" said kid the other day.
1--WE just been writing him letter bawling him
out"
Why" / want to know.
Hes got ten in the woodlot that he
might we'll SELL said the boy HE could get
$500 for 1t and mebbe more. If he'd been
Frenchman, there is enough down timber and lit
tie stuff in the rest of the lot to keep him in fire.
wood all the rest of his life. There is no use
wasting wood the way we do. We're lot of fat
heads
That may not have been either flial or respect