Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-30

senSe OF their cheering duty
Fine Record of the First.
There is reason for specially hon.
oring the First division. 1t was the
first large contingent of American
troops to be dispatched to France,
where 1t went in June, 1917, under the
command of Maj. Gen. William L.
Sibert who trained the division for
SIX months in France, prepared 1t for
the front line offensive and took it
into its first fight. Later General 81
bert was recalled to the United States
to become the chief of the chemical
warfare service
Other major generals who at vari-
Gus times either commanded or served
with the First division are: Robert L.
Billiard, w. S. McNair, e. E. Ely, F.
W. Coe, J. w. McAndrews, Charles P.
| Summerall, Frank Parker and E. F.
/ McGlachlin. All of these major gen.
erals will have part in the parade.
1t was part OF the First division
which engaged in the first warfare on
| behalf of America, as an American
| fighting unit under American com
mand. The first American blood of the
war was spilled at Seichprey, and it
| came from the veins of soldiers of the
First division. Seichprey always will
be name and place memorable in
American history.
The First division fought all through
| the war, and it occupies a place in the
| hearts of the French people from
| which it never can be dislodged. The
| sentiment of the French for the First
| regulars is felt not only because 1t was
the first American fighting unit to ar
rive in France, but because also of its
sterling fighting qualities displayed on
many fields.
Mental Unrest in America.
Members of the administration, and
members of congress with them, evil
IDENTIFY are disturbed over the mental
unrest of large numbers of the Amer
/ lean people, an unrest which they de-
clare is hurtful and which they also
| declare is the result of wartime con-
| ditions. Business and labor stability,
some of these cabinet officials and leg
islators think, cannot be secured until
mental stability has been restored.
From the viewpoint of men here.
there are two or three sharp nantes
| tations of this unrest One of them
| shows itself in the inability at present
| of great many of the returned sol
diers to 'stay put" AS it has been
| nT1t hv coo,ahodv MANY nf tboco col
diers want to be where they amt" 1t
| is the restlessness which has grown
out of their life in France; life of
constant excitement and movement of
| black nights under afraid conditions
and of the daily expectation Of being
ordered here, there or elsewhere-a
condition of change which unsettled
men ordinarily stable.
Another manifestation seems to be
the desire among men and women, who
are not soldiers, to let up in their work
and to be temporarily, at least, I'M
willing to work as concentratediy and
as long as they did prior to the break
ing out of the war. This condition is
noticeable among the hitherto steady
workers of the land, and it probably
will take some time, so men here seem
to think, to change this condition.
In part, this sort of thing is held
here to be the result of the hard, driv-
ing work during the war, when nearly
everybody was on his mettle. Washing
ton, however, looks with something
like concern on the evident disposition
| of a part of the American world of
workers to look for a life of semi
ease. 1t is recognized that only COM
paratively small part of the men and
women of the country are affected in
this way, but, as the legislators and
others view it, the part is large enough
to give concern.
Affected by Unrest in Europe.
This latter condition of things is at
| tributed by many to the unrest in GER
tain parts of Europe, where bolshevism
seems to have affected the minds of
the people and to have made them be-
lieve that happiness comes from doing
| the least amount of work possible, and
this naturally leads, so it is said, to
| that further condition or state of mind
| which makes shirkers of men and
women.
| 1t is recognized by the men here who
have given consideration to this condi-
ton of things that when world matters
finally settle down into something like
| normal there may be a reimbursement
of mental conditions and change in
the viewpoint of those who seem to
think just now that work, as work, is
not worth while.
There are men in different parts of
the United States who are engaged in
preaching doctrine of "do nothing"
or, at least, do very little" and telling
their hearers that true happiness lies
in ease. 1t has been said recently by
one studious member of congress that
it is natural for the average man to
want to work, that loafing loses its at
| Effectiveness after it has been INDUCED
in for a short time. This, some others
say, is perfectly true unless loafing is
carried such length of time that the
man loses all his former predictions
for labor and forgets the delights
WHICH accoInpdnS Accompaniment.
So far as the returned soldiers are
concerned it is believed in Washing
ton that the spirit of restlessness with
which they seem to be affected soon
will wear off, Not a bit of unwilling
ness to work has been noted on their
part. The only difficulty has been
that after they have worked induStri-
ously for two or three weeks some of
them seem to desire a change TO an
other field.
States With Spanish Names.
The following state names are of
Spanish derivation: California-hot