Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-02
MEN IN ARMY SUPPLY SERVCE
 WERE REAL HEROES ASSERTS REV. FRY ON RET ETURN FROM WAR WORK
Manfuy Stuck to UUnromantic Tasks Behind Lines When All Were Wild to Get Front; Postwar Talk of U. s. Enormous; Returned Bisbee Clergyman Tells of Year and Half of Work With the
 "Y' in France

quite another matter. When these came everyone took to cover, for there was far more serious danger"
 There was little excitement at Versailles or in Paris when the Ger mans signed the treaty, said Rev. Fry The people held a celebration in Paris that night and sang and marched, but the wild, spontaneous outburst of joy and enthusiasm which characterized the signing of the armistice and the cessation Of actual killing was lacking.
 The showing which the American troops made in the allied victory parade in Paris on Bastile day, July 14 of this year, was a glorious one, according to Rev. Fry, who was anI eyewitness.
 "The sentiment of the French was naturally in favor of their own na tive heroes, marching with flags and regalia denoting the sectors on which they had defended their country and it's homes against the invader" said Rev. Fry But after this local pa triotism the Americans came in for the greatest applause. It was gen. uine applause, spontaneously called forth in sheer admiration of the ap- pearance of the American picked troops From a military standpoint their showing was the best in the parade They were truly splendid"
 The biggest problem confronting the Y was keeping the men contented after the armistice was signed, as all naturally wanted to get home. Many and arduous were the tasks of service before the Y workers during the long months since November last. while the army was being de- mobilized, with large percentage of the men necessarily held to per form the tremendous postwar tasks confronting the American army.
 9The armisticel caught American war activity at high tide" said Rev. Fry. "The Germans knew this, which was one good reason why they were so willing to sign. The amount of supplies pouring in at the time of the armistice was enormous. Cleaning up and strengthening things out after fighting ceased was task of almost incredible dimentions.
 Every man in the service of sup ply wanted to get up to the front during the actual fighting, but they all knew they had at big and neces- l sarv duty where they were and stuck | to their posts. When the fighting ceased. however, and they knew their | last chance for actual combat was gone. they became restless and ! wanted to get back home. They had | stayed back building barracks, dig 1 ging ditches, handling supplies ana performing other unromantics duties | for many weary months always with a glimmer of hope that some day they would get their chance in the first line trenches. When the armls- tice came this hope was gone. Yet man yof these unsung heroes were
 forced to remain at the central rec ords headquarters at Rourges untll
 September 1, or nearly year after the war ended, and even then some
 of them were sent to Paris TOT TUT thr service.
 "The Y did yeoman SerNlce III iui nishing amusement to the men to
 counteract their impatience during
 these long months. Meanwhile men
 were being steadily sent home D!
 thousands. One week we would DC
 in a spot which was lively camp
 of thousands of American soldiers
 the next week it would be like
 graveyard
 The shipping of supplies and mer
 was at it's height when tlshtihe
 stopped. said Rev. Fry, and had the
 armistice not come when it did the United States would have in te"
 weeks launched war on scale liI'i'
 dreamed of by the people at nome
 The Germans knew this. and Sehse' inevitable and utter defeat.
 Rev. Fry secured his dlschdre'
 from war service on his arrival II New York from overseas on Septem . Der 15. He has since ben m Lo' Angeles with his family on Vlsi' l returning to Bisbee from the Calltor nia city last week. During ms aO
 serte at the front his pulpit wa = occupied by Rev. Allan krlchDaull l who left last week for Ohio.