The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-26

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 Americans
was accorded the young German.
When you hear about how the
An erican soldiers are being democrat
lied by drink, you just discount that.
l visited twenty-eight different places
and saw only one case of drunkenness
You can also discount all those ru-
mors about vice too. The American
authorities are doing everything they
can to deal with that circumstance
and are doing excellent work. l had
fine talk with General Pershing be-
fore 1 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"
II must say a word about the sail
ors. They are giving a splendid &C
count of themselves. They have a
dash that I 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 talked
with a Frenchman, a public man down
at American Headquarters. he had lost
eight sons, killed in battle. And the
way the French have stood their losses
has been perfectly amazing.
1.-The French women are looking
after the crops. You see no signs of
despair among them at all. However,
there is one thing the French will do.
They will fight until the last German
is driven off their soil
stood ona night 0DnOSfte the
road which troops were marching by
the hundreds to take their places in the
trenches. The impression was most
uncanny in its effect of a certain un-
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. In
deed 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 thou
sand of them in the fighting lines
about which Germany raised such
howl and said we We're turning loose
brutes to fight them. They are just
as we'll behaved as any Of the Ger
man, French or English soldiers.
There are Christian Indians on that
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
eithar Tommy. looked at them one
time when five hundred Indians were
at their prayer meeting and he turned
to me and said, Amt 1t paralyzing.'
st 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.
bat they are there. standing the cold
climate to which they are unused
and fighting just as hard as any
other soldiers.
1.-The women at the canteens and
elsewhere are patient beyond descrip-
ton. The presence of women in the
canteens will stop the grouching and
also the swearing, at least while the*
are there There are women over
there, some under thirty, who have
worked at every kind of occupation
There is one met who had beer
everywhere and had even nursed
typhus patients. You never see any
suggestion of hysteria. The American,
French and English soldiers all swear
by the women when it comes to think
ing of their sheer devotion"