The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1918-11-22
cobb COUNTY Y. M. C. A.
SECRETARY GIVES GOOD
DESCRIPTION OF WORK
Beautiful Farms of France
Are Vividly Described
Az n. Fl. Green, Former Cobb Coun-
tv Boy, Testifies to the Clean Lives
Our Boys Are Living, While Fight
ing Old Glory's Battles

We publish below a most interest
;na letter from Mr.. H. H. Green, who
;laY. M. C. A. Secretary in France,
~ his kinsman, Mr.. A. N. Mayes, of
Lost Mountain.
Mr. Green was in business in Car
+arsville just prior to leaving for
lance. but he was born and raised
- Lost Mountain in Cobb County,
and his letter is of unusual interest
at this time:
Mr.. A. N. Mayes,
Marietta, Ga, U. S. A.
Dear Newt:
Your letter of August 22nd, re-
coived Oct. 18th and l can't begin to
ton YOU how very much it was ap-
oTeciated. Have had very few let
+ors since I have been here. Receiv-
~ INV first one from Charley the
dow yours came. We get no news
from the States, so you can guess
letter is more welcome than ever be-
The only trouble with letters is
lack of detail. I've had two or three
mention some happening, as though
knew about it. | haven't seen an
American paper, let alone home pa
ner since leaving New York, August
18th, The papers don't seem to get
here through the mails.
In my 81" work | have numbers
of magazines, some of them as late
as a month back, but you know how
much news one can get out of a mag
azine. I have become reconclled to
the inevitable land don't think about
Il | have hazy memory of having
once lived back there at place called
Cartersville. It all seems like
dream. l have to pinch myslef some
times to realize that l am "some-
where in France" The night before
last went to sleep to the Emusic OF
cannon" l could hear the shells
singing over our heads from our
batteries back of us.
We moved last night and | came
into headquarters for supplies. l
tramped six miles through the ram
at night, along a strange road, by
myself, to a town l had never been
in before. I found real bed. This
morning | walked to another town,
because the railroad bridge had been
blown up; and got a train to TINS
Mace. intended going back tonight,
hut it is cold and raining, and l have
mt fully recovered from the Spanish
Influenza, so may wait another day.
Tho Snanish flu is epidemic and a
number of people are dying. The phy-
sicians don't know how to treat 1t.
This is a wonderful country and
| wish l had time to tell you ABOUT
it. The people are not farmers out
Gardeners. Every farm is better
kent and cultivated than the best gar
den YOU know of in Georgia. Inc
entire country looks like big park
Grants Park would look like mo
Mans Land" by the side of it. There
isn't gully" in France. Every toot
of space is taken care OF. All the
Ground that is cleared is produclng'
Every foot that is not cultivated IS
sodded in clover and grass, Whlch
thew cut for hay, when from four 10
six inches high. This is the case un-
der all trees, even including frult
trees. They grow fine wheat oaCs'
rye, barley, etc. Irish potatoes III
great quantity.
No corn is grown here. saw
some in the south. They grow lotS
of apples, pears, ounces, plums, ana
berries. They also grow sugar oee'S
4Loro ic No Cl1par mere.
The finest gardens you can thlnK
of, with beans, squash, beets' cav
bage, caulifower, cucumber letIuIe'
tomatoes, and they are having plenty
of all of these now in this sectloh;
Where I came from they have naG
frost, but this is higher altitude ana
they had no frost yet. NJ Shoulu
be here to see the flowers. I've never
seen any, anywhere quite SO lovely Ely
Dahlias, and in such rich colorS' Ve
never seen equaled. Every, garden
has flowers, dahlias, chrysanthemumS;,
geraniums, roses, peoples, plnks' anu
many kinds that have never sec"
before.
The French are very thrifty anu
IIQuSUrlOuS. HCy W.
tiful country and stay here. you sec
very few French in America, or any
where except right here at home.
No Young men on the farms now
of course, just the old men ana en ne
women, but they are doing the work
by working all of the time. Iney
don't stop for Sunday, and l supPose
il is all right, with the precious CROP s
the life of France-to gather: one
can't blame them The farmers GpeaS-
ants live in small villages ana Gu,
tivate the surrounding lands. Inc
houses are all built of stone, ana are
covered with thin quarrled STONE
slate and tile. Most of them nave
been built for years and years
saw in a little village a few days age
three houses in a row with the dates
cut in stone over the door. One was
1881, another 1747, and rlght ne"
one built in 1915. A great many
4 people have large houses, and keel