Evening star., 1919-04-27
BY KIRK MILLER.
Formerly of The Star STAFF, Now With
the A. f. +. In France.

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the A. f. +. in France.
IS-SUR-TILLE. France. March 60
1t Is difficult perhaps for those of US
who happen to be the possessors of
, a few dollars worth of liberty bonds
to draw q r,ental picture for our
selves OF exactly what our little mite
is doing for the cause of lasting peace
and enduring liberty.
Considering the dollars spent daily
by the United States government on
the upkeep of it's fighting forces at
home and in France during the time
when fighting was actually q part of
the daily menu and during the pres
ent interim while the battlers are
making table-ssde weight at the DUAL
dOrsay, the individual loans to the
government of Mr.. Smith and Mr..
Jones and Mr.. Brown seem SO fnsig
nificant compared with the total cost
that perhaps many patriotic money
lender in America today questions
Americas quartet of liberty loans
were Of any material assistance in
securing the victory.
To these doubling Thomases who
have been unable secretly to satisfy
themselves that their monthly pay
ments in behalf of their liberty bonds
ald the worlds liberty have been COLI
lectively or separately of any vital
help to their Uncle Sam in assuming
Americas debt for freedom, the ques-
ton might properly be asked: Have
you ever heard of Is-surTille"'
Has Become Big Center.
Before the war Is-sur-Tille was
French railroad point probably as in
significant as the most subordinate
division point of any of the great rail-
road systems of America. Since the
war started. and more particularly
since April :, 1917. Is-sur-Tille has
sprung to the distinction of being one
of the largest centers for Army sup
plies of all descriptions in France
and no doubt the very $50 bond that
you. dear reader, bought. found its
final usefulness via the route of Is
sur-Tille or one of the other numer-
Gus sources of supply for Americans
in France.
To be. sure. Is-sur-Tille is only one
of these huge headquarters for United
States Army sustenance. but it is a
prominent one, centrally located be-
hind the sector defended by the
Yankees. and is more than a fair ex-
ample of the connecting link between
your war loan and the late Emperor
of Germany. who was and is the tar
get for every spare American dollar,
every idle French centfme, all avail
able Italian lire, and each otherwise
unemployed English half-penny.
If your loan to the government was
not consumed somewhere in America,
it's francs to hardtack that 1t paid a
soldiers salary or brought him a set
of hobnail shoes or a candle or tooth
brush or leggin lace or a dish of
slum somewhere here in France.
Everything a soldier fights with, lives
in, sleeps in. walks in, eats. drinks or
L. e.. kl@
your money. He got it at one of these
Is-surTillies here in France in the
last analysis and from your generous
purse in the first diagnosis.
1s-surTille is one of the American
expeditionary forces largest depart
ment stores on the left-hand side of the
Atlantic. Here every need of an army
may be satisfied. whether it's three
ton truck or compass. can of corn
willy or a pound of ten-Penny nails,
a slide rule or a pair Of pliers, a can
teen cup or a pair of socks. or half
million of any of these articles men,
toned.
Possibly an order for half-millio,,
trucks could not be filled at any of
these Is-sur-Tilles. but if that num-
mer were required it's pretty sure
bet they'd be parked today along
these railroad sidings. built by Ameri-
can engineers and checked to the
equipment brought from the French
ports in American brewed box cars
on American rolled rails.
Answer Every Call.
The foresight of the dollar-a-year
men at Washington and others Mas
seen to it that these A. E. F. depart
ment stores can answer any and every
call that may come to them from the
American soldiery in France; and
they have been able to do so only
and yours and yours and yours!
II you have never been touring in
France in one Of those dinky little side
door Pullmans familiar to the resident
membership of the A. E. F. and had. a
merciful cup Of steaming coffee handed
Is-sur-Tille, Chaumont, Leon. Tours,
Dijon and at many other Red Cross
bases, then you can have no modern
conception of the term Good Samari-
tan" While you take on your warm
Java and hot cross buns, your engine
takes on water and pressed peat; then
the two of you go on your way rejoicing
and feeling that the Army isn't such a
tough place after all.
You also often reflect on what a vast
amount of money you have wasted in
your lifetime for travel comfort, when
bed of straw in a box car and your trio
Of Army blankets, together with the
elixir which you have just drunk, is
making you quite as comfortable inside
and out as you ever were in your cosiest
Pullman.
If you don't get this cup of cheer at
Is-sur- Tile. you get it at one OF the
others Of scores OF relief stations
throughout France: yes. and England
and Italy, too; but along the western
font that the Americans infest Is-sur-
rille is so central and the wayfarer can