Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-02-27
1t Has Become Largest and Most
Modern of Debarkation
Points.
SANITATION ALMOST PERFECT
Every Facility Is Provided for Car
ing for. Camp of 10000 Men of
Whom Large Proportion Are
Wounded or Siek--Men
-. Will Be Fed and
- Housed.

reused.
BreSt. France-Brest, the ancient
town of Finisterre that juts out into
The Atlantic ocean, is destined to live
hong in the memory of the American
soldiers that came to save the alice
nations from the iron heel of Ger
many. From its ancient ramparts the
people of France will see the last OF
the stalwart doughbOys that traversed
the Atlantic ocean to aid them in
suppresSing the expansion of TeutoniC
aUtocracy, writes Louis SeibOld, New
York World correspondent.
During The next eight or nine
months more than 100000 of the
100000 fighting men that were sent
by the United States to vindicate the
principles Of democracy will find their
way through Brest back to- their
homes. Consequently, the Brest that
knew, the legiops of Caesar and the
Egeeds of the. Phoenicians will always
figure prominently in the historic mar
ratives of the soldiers who will EN-
bark TO recount their deeds on Eu-
ropean soil
D.; City. Not Much to Look At.
Brest is not very much to look at.
The most striking thing about it is
Ats mud. 1t is sort of mud that
sticks TO ones memory as well as to
ones clothes
There is no other mud in the world
!, like that of .Brest. 1t, is always pres
lent, for, with the exception of very
few days during the year.. the low
ering skies of bleak Finisterre are.
..:niomenturiIy freShehing up, because it
always seems To rain. i'll Finisterre.
j.. At, first. il. is disagreeable. this mud
of Brest. but, like other things in life.
Familiarity breeds contempt for 1t and
,[Ihlres zone to stAe, disadvantages of
:. always having it, about ones person.
One of the bravest spectacles to be
witnessed, with the mist that nearly
! always. conceals the sun and fertil-
.,iges the mud, is that provided by the.
American girls, who now number. sew
eral THOUSAND, that have come over
|seas 1'to administer ~to fhe wants of
pthe American. boXs who have. come to 1
fight for Americas principles. Sone
of these girls gently reared and more
accustomed to luxuries" THAI to Phi I
walton, have become so accustomed to-
the mud that it is difficult to dis |
socate them from memory of it,.
= Recalls the Golden Gate. :
: BfeS is natural port This is
the precise term employed by the
technical men of the army and navy.
Coming in fr6n,--ths Atlantic" trans.
ports eastern bound enter the grim
rocked harbor, whose ,outside aspects
are not dssimilar to those of the
Golden Gate at San Francisco 1t IS
a valuable marine terminus, WHICH l.
the French have used for many cen
turtles in which to shelter from the
depredations of the hostile fleets that
preyed upon its commerce.
There is deep water, through the
gate and in the harbor itself, which
spreads fanlike in an almost COM
plete, oval, confined by ramparts that
rise from 100 to 800 feet along the
shore lines.
The United States engineers and
marine experts. after comparing theT
advantages of other -harbors, decided
that Brest was best suited TO the pur-
pose of the western democracy asked
80 transport its fighting men to assist
in the crushing of Germany. In all
the population of the Venerable
Breton town is about 5000. The ne
,Cessities Of war have doubled this,
and at intervals it becomes three
times as much. But the influx of ::
Stipulation with the restless and i'm I
patient Americans has exercised lit
Tie influence on the ancient burg ="
= The city's hotel accommodations are
just as primitive as. theytwere' a cen
furry ago, with the exception that there
ere now electric lights instead Of tai
low dips in one of the hOstplries and 4
ma elevator which groans under the :.
weight of two persons.
Other than that things are pretty
much as they were before. Ancient =
firms. ana customs prevail generally :
TO the Inconvenience of the energetic
American and provide excellent ma.
ierial for moving picture artists. The
wafer supply-the one paramount
problem to be solved by the American
anglneers--is obtained by ancient
processes. There is no sewerage sys. N
lem. The'suggestion of making one for a.
Brest as they have provided at Ha- q;
iana and Manila nearly precipitatcd a II
revolution. IL
Why Waste Useful Material? \
A new sewerage system was all II
light in its way, declared the leading In
,itizens If Brest; whose ancestors run 1t
,nck to the time of the Roman wars ii
,ut what was the good of wasting In
rood fertilizer material through the
Introduction of modern. sanitary de- ql
ices? In
Confronted with this problem which ne
hey were not, nble to answer to the III
abstraction OF Brest, the American eli
Engineers. holding the advantages of wi