Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-07-19
Y. NJ. g. A. SOCIETY MATRoN'
CLAIMS HUNS HAVE won SYM.
PATHy OF yANks
open INSULT TO THE A. or o.
Private Harvey Says "i" WorkcrS
Statements Create Wrong impress
sion and Shows Ignorance

According to letter just received
from e. II. Harvey by his parents
Mr. and Mrs. o. r. Harvey OF thli
city. some u the Y. NJ. q. A. writer
and visitors now mingllng with th,
army OF occupation In Germany are
doing great injustice TO the vete,
rams who drove back the Huns across
the Rhine, One OF these women
writer's has had charge OF u canteen
near Monte Carlo and Bhe has Just
made trip to the area OF occupa.
tion held by the Americn troops
Here 10 part OF what she wrote for
Toledo. Ohio. newspaper;
This morning We listened 10 q
lecture by Col. Taylor OF Pershing's "a
stan. He spoke OF the German pro.
paganda among the American sol.
dIers OF the army OF occupation and
how serious the conditions were up
there. Our boys are biilited In Ger
man homes and the scheme in Ger
many is TO treat our boys royalty.
Consequently our boys are now say
Ing how much better they like the
Germans than the French. as the
Germans treat them better. General
Pershing is so alarmed over the sit
uatton that he has sent officers TO
the different Y. ". G. "A. huts to give
talks and ask for help. He say. the
officers OF the A. T.. II. nave no in
fluence with the soldiers but that
with the American women lies the
influence. Col. Taylor says the
whole trouble was In putting In the
army OF occupation soldiers who had
not done any fighting. The soldiers
who did the fighting are now being
sent home. 80 consequently the Am
erican soldiers In the army OF occu-
patton did not see any OF the hor-
rors OF war or the terrible villainy
Of the Germans.
The largest paper In .Marsellles is
published by German money and II
has published terrible lies about the
Americans In order TO inclte the
French against us. All that Col.
Taylor says Is true. and we hear In
our work dozens of times q day from
our soldiers how fine the Germans
are and that they, our soldiers. hate
the French"
Privnte Harvey. better known to
his many friends In Grants Pass and
Josephine county as ''Chub." entered
the first OF the fighting with the
U. s. marines: was at Chateau
Thierry and all through the big
drive" until the end OF the war and
is now with the army OF occupation.
He is with the Second division. Here
Is what he says In answer to the
above article, written by Mrs. Aaron
Chesbrough. formerly a society lead
or OF Toledo:
II suppose you read a lot of stun
In the papers concerning the man
ner in which we are treated by the
Germans and how much the "Y' and
other welfare organizations are do
Ing for us over here. Well. there
may be some little truth in some OF
the articles, but I think you would
be playing pretty safe II you did not
believe anything you read about us
along that line. am going to send
you little clipping written by
"'Y" woman over here. She accuses
us of being German sympathizers. I
think II Is the most open insult to
the officers and men Of the army OF
occupation that could, possibly be
written and I don't think II could
have been written by any true Amer
lean. Such articles are creating a
lot OF false Impressions on the peo-
pie at home for there are bound to
be some who will believe such
stories.