The Monticellonian., 1919-03-21

women who are actively engaged h It in some capacity or other.
 The soldiers, officers and enlisted men, who are arriving in Washington from the other side are afflicted, if af- fliction is the right word, with the de- sire to continue ito get move on" 1T one dared use the Hun expression even in translation this would be called wanderlust. Every soldier who saw service abroad has it, and hun dreds of thousands of those who sa" service only in the camps of the United States have 1t.
 I met a brigader general of the United States army on the street a day or two ago. The last time had seen him was on the edge of the Argonne forest in early November last, where he was in command of his brigade. When I met him in Washington l asked him how he felt.
 Well" he said. q feel as if I must do something. 1 cannot stand still Last night in my dreams l climbed Mount Faucom again and this morn ing I feel as if I should like to repeat the operation in reality"
 I have asked soldier after soldier how it affected him to get back into the humdrum of American life, or rath- CT to get back into the approaches to such life, for many of these sol diers are still undischarged. From their answers one knows that they all feel as if they must hike some where or throw a few hand grenades in order to work off the surplus en- ergy which was stored up on the Mouse, in the Argonne or on the Vesle.
 Taking Magazine Men to the Front.
 I went to France in the early sum- mer of 1918 as a major in the gas and flame service. In France l was assigned to duties which for con siderable time detached me from ac- tive participation in anything which the gas service WAS doing. One day orders came from Chaumont detail ing me to the work of taking q party of American magazine editors to the front north of St Mihiel.
 Among the visiting magazine editors were Edward W. Box, editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Ellery Sedg- wick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Charles Hanson Towne, editor of Me Cures Magazine; Dr Albert Shaw, editor of the American Review of Re views, and Alfred Holman. editor of I the San Francisco Argonaut. There were two newspaper men in the party, Lucius W. Nieman of the Milwaukee Journal and F. w. Kellogg of the San Francisco Gall.
 It was quickly discovered that edi- i tors of magazines are just as keen for news and impressions as any reporter in this land of ours. They insisted on getting Into the details of everything and in three days they must have secured material enough for scores upon scores of articles. They saw everything in that part of the Ameri- can sector which they visited. from the birthplace of Joan of Arc at Dom remy to Hatton-Ghatel from which they viewed the artillery battle be tween the Americans and the Huns.
 It is not my intention 10 steal any of the magazine editors stuff. Let them write it as they will. but there are T few things upon which they will not touch and which from the psyeho- logical point of view are worth recital.
 On the day of the visit to the inn mediate front we motored into Flirey l In the St Mihiel sector At this de- molished village two roads crossed and as American traffic along the roads was heavy the Huns decided to pay particular attention to that point.
 All Cool Under Fire.
 The editors were in little hut, 1 hastily erected. watching two women, Miss Scott, daughter of Gen. Hugh L. Scott of the United States army. and Mrs. Walter Farwell of Chicago, in their beneficent work of dealing out l hot chocolate and doughnuts to the American soldiers coming out from or going into the line. All at once heard sound which was familiar to my ears from previous experience. I knew that q German shell had burst l knew it also. for they were equally familiar with the noises of such lit l tie disturbances
 The editors may or may not have known what that noise was, but they learned soon enough for somebody told them. Flirey was under bonn | bardment Instead of showing a sign of tremor the magazine editors and the brace of newspaper men with them seemed moved only by the idea that here was something really worth while. One of our batteries was sta toned hundred yards or so in front of the hut It opened in reply to the Germans. The magazine editors were getting a touch of real war on the American sector, just as they had been given touch of the same thing on the British and French fronts.
 It is not my intention to tell very much more right here of the eyperi- ence of that day at the immediate l front. but that night when We had returned to the American guest house 1 at Neufchateau. and had dined the 1 alarm sounded for an airplane raid i l was the ranking army officer present and in sense was in charge of the 1 party. I asked the editors if they would like to seek safety in the cave which had been prepared as a refuge in case of air raids. Not man of i them would move