The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-07
YANKS RESPECT
gen. PERSHING
Government Now In France Where
Business is Transacted. 49,
GENERAL PERsHING VISITS BOYS
Red Cross Hospitals Established
Where invalids Farm the Land
Exchange Hoes for Rifles
BY HARRY c. EVANS,

HEADQUARTERS AMERIC AN
ARMY IN FRANCE, June 19-The
seat Of the government of the United
States has been transferred to France
and to the place from which I write,
in so far as the transaction of our
governments business in Europe, is
concerned.
And our business in Europe just
now is of vastly more Importance
than our domestic business. No ma.
tion ever undertook as big a job as
our nation has undertaken. No ma.
tion ever fought great war to a
successful conclusion so far away
from home.
Seldom has great army fought in
country where the products Of the
country did not in part sustain it.
Yet here we are a million strong and
millions more coming, backed by
billions of dollars and fields Of sup
plies. Lines of communication are
government in France to Washing
ton, to the granaries and factories of
America, and to the homes and hearts
OF our people.
This city is so full of Americans, of
American made goods and American
business methods that it almost seems
like home Here one can buy the ne
cessities of life from a juicy beef
steak to can OF Tuxedo as easily and
cheaper than at home. There are
more home made automobiles here
than in any city of like size in the
United States. Transportation at all
hours of the day and hight is of the
utmost necessity, for the business at
this base radiates from the trenches
through the central part Of France to
the frontiers and to the Atlantic ports.
Everything centers here Lines of
communication reach in every direc-
tion. Here are the heads of all de.
partments. Day and night the work
never stops.
No wonder Germany Is hurling her
heaviest bolts. She knows that we
are rapidly building barrier across
her path, She knows that unless she
wins within the next few months we
Will have sumcient men here to drive
her out Of France and Belgium, and
that we will either force her to de-
cent peace tearffs or take Berlin.
General Pershing is respected and
loved as a great military leader OF
splendid business acumen and as a
kindly, courteous gentlemen. | was
in a camp yesterday that he was in
specting. The boys in this particular
camp have been under training for
peculiar and speciaN service at the
front and we're ready to leave. Their
long, careful, technical schooling was
ended and the general came for a
last inspection Of their training and
equipment.
He is considerate of his soldier
boys as father of his sons, and he
does not withhold commendation for
good service l have never seen
greater respect shown to man than
the soldiers of this camp gave him.
He came into our Y. NJ. c. A. hut
and inspected it, giving all a kindly
greeting and stopping for brief visit:
"The Y. M. G. A. is doing splendid
work" he said on leaving. After ne
had gohe every soldier and every "Y''
secretary felt they had received a
benediction.
/ visited hospital farm the other
day. AS soon as boy Is designated
"conyalescent" in this particular hos
pital and begins to insist that ne be
returned to the fighting line, he must
turn farmer before he can turn ngnt'
er again. There's hundred acres
in the farm and a part Of the old wall
that surrounds it was built by the Ro'
mans The farm is planted. IN po'
tatoes and garden truck and supplies
the hospital. There are plenty OF
chickens and pigs and a number OF
COWS. A college chap, from Illinois
named Craig, who took a course IN an
imal husbandry at Ames, has charge
Of the livestock. He calls the finest
COW Miss Iowa and the latest pig Hin.
6lenburg, The farm was rented and
equipped by the Red Cross. The farm
is bossed by two graduates OF agrl'
cultural colleges. When man re-
ports from the hospital to the farm
he is classified, not with reference to
his ability as a farmer, but as to his
physical condition. There are classes
A b, G and D. They graduate out OF
class A back into the army. Having
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and reach for their rifles.
Two hourse of every morning are
given to farm work, the balance OF
the day to drills and games, reading
and writing and lounging about IN the
open. The farm house and premises
are pleasing. Everything Is neat ana
clean and the grounds are beautltui
with flowers and shrubs. One or the
glories of France is her beautlful
landscapes. Nothing in Des Mo1nes
not even the grounds of the Champer'
lain home, can compare with the peau'
tiful grounds that surround the aver
age French farm home.
During my visits at army heaaquar'
ters and from there to the line, nave
met, q number of Iowa boys, among
them: oo =
Towner. -, -
Lee Brown, of Bloomfield, son OF
Professor Brown, school superhteno'
ent. ooo s,xth
street, Des Moines.
& q. W. Roy. East Des Moines.
John Leonard, Winterset, son o.
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