The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-01
|SCHWAB Is HOPEFUL
| OF NATION'SFUT
PROUD OF AMERICA
He Believes There Is Little
Hope of Exports for
Some Time
AGAINST 'DRY LAW"
Schwab Believes Workman Should
Have His Daily Glass of
Beer
AGAINST "DRY LAW"

The White Star liner Olympic ar
rived from Liverpool and Brest Mon
day night with 1884 troops and 124
civilians on board The troops were
chiefly colored, and included the
365th Infantry complete, 124 officers
and 3,515 enlisted men, who did good
work in the fighting near Metz, where
they were under shell fire from the
big guns in the German fortress.
Charles M. Schwab, Lloyd B. San
derson, and many of the civilian pas
sengers on the liner, as well as the
ships officers, spoke in the highest
terms of the good conduct and morale
of the colored troops on the voyage.
They were allowed to walk on the
promenade deck all the time, but
never interferred with the space re-
served for the deck chairs, the officers
said.
Several of the n-commissioned
officers in the 365th were university
graduates. There were from go to
70 cases of influenza in the hospitals
on board all the way from Brest and
there was one death from pneumonia
on Sunday night.
Charles M. Schwab, chairman of
the Board of Directors ef the Bethle-
hem Steel Company, who was Direct
or General of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation during the war until last
December, when he resigned, return
ed in the best of health and spirits
after visiting the American, French,
and Belgium fronts and the occupied
territory in Germany.
In an interview given as the Olym-
pic steamed up to her pier from quar-
antine, Mr.. Schwab said that, taking
a broad view of what he had seen, he
returned prouder of America and of
what her sd had achieved in the
war than he mad ever felt. He said
he did not believe, there was much op-
portunity for export trade between
the United States and the allied
countries in Europe for some time to
come. They needed breathing space
to get back to normal conditions.
i Mr.. Schwab, however, was very op-
timistic about the business future OF
this country and said he talked with
President Wilson at Brest, who held
the same hopeful views. In the gen.
eral description of his trip, which be-
gan on Jan. 1, when he left Hoboker
on the George Washington, he said;
ssI spent three weeks on the trip
to the battlefronts in automobiles
placed at my disposal by Winston
Churchill, General Pershing, and
Marshal Foch, because I wanted to
see for myself the conditions in the
devastated regions in Northern
France and Belgium. I visited the
/, battlefield Of Chateau-T Thierry and
|heard the accounts of how the Am
erican soldiers and marines had
fought there, and it was some fight,
and made me feel ten times prouder
of being an American than I was be-
fore; I also went to the Argonne, ST:
Mihiel and Verdun, and was deeply
impressed with everything ] saw.
"The American soldiers have made
hit everywhere they went in France
and Belgium, and heard nothing but
praise of them. I met General Perish
ing, whom I knew before, in France,
and found him in good spirits. He
| is well regarded by the military and
civil officials of the Allies with whom
he has come into contact.