The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-04
A Trip Through
the Louvre With
a Party on Leave
Shows Those at
Home Must Mind
Their P's and O's'
BY N. E.
( , GU old folks at home, you rich
business men, you had better
y mind Your P,s and Q,s because
By N. E.

x on old folks at home, you rich
business men, you had better
= mind your P's and Q's, because
when the doughboy gets home he is
going to give you a surprise: there'll
be things doing, not Just mere kicks"
about the way he has been treated.
They will come, too, as a matter Of
course, but they will not last long, and
In the end, with mother near and a
piece Of pie or two, the dear. big boy
viii soon become his same old sunny
self again. But now that the war is
! over-at least, we hope 1t Is over-the
doughboys by hundreds of thousands
are getting that long waited for ticket
Of leave. and they one and all make a
bee line for Paris.
Paris is the one spot on earth which
the American soldier most wishes to
see, and Gen. Pershing understood that
when he insisted that every boy should
be given a chance to see Paris before
sailing for home. Otherwise, just think
of the humiliation. to come to France
to fight, to risk ones life and then to
sail back across the ocean and have to
admit to thousands of admiring friends
and relatives that one had never seen
Paris!
Now. the doughboy Is a thinker, al
though lot of people might not give
him credit for It, and II a few may
have slipped into Paris and not really
profited by it-well. that was not their
fault, rather 1t was a lack of fore
thought on the part Of those who in
the stress Of other war duties did not
have the time to arrange matters. All
the average American boy needs is
some one to lead him in the right d.
rection, as he rarely goes deliberately
of on the wrong track. He is out to
get information, and the kind of in
formation he gets will depend on who
gets to him first
The "Y's" Good Work.
Well, this time It is the Y. NJ. c. A..
and il there are any who have never
before taken off their hats TO this or
ganization they may do so now. The
''Y' has organized what they call a
sight seeing department, but this is
really poor and inadequate name for
what many are ready to say is the
very best thing the "Y" ever did.
The organization has stationed men
at all the five railroad stations in
Paris, there are day and night shifts,
and they lay in wait for the unsus-
pecting doughboys as fast as they ar
rive. The same are promptly piloted
to the hotels regularly requisitioned
by the army. the Y. NJ. c. A. or the
Red Cross, and from the time when
they have had a bath. a shave and a
full meal they are led about Paris on
schedule time, from one sight to an
other, from one museum to another,
rom Versailles to Fontainebleau, to
the theatres and so on and so on, I'M
til. tired and dazzled by all they have
seen and heard. they once more take
the train to return to their headquar-
ters.
They may not have seen some OF
the things which they had secretly in
tended to see when they got to Paris
but they have seen things they haC
never heard of before, things worth
seeing, and they have listened to tn,
fascinating stories OF French histor,
and art.
This sight seeing department, a new
branch grated onto the parent stem
began timidly about two months ago
{, the powers did not believe very strong.
= ly in Its utility and at first the none,
was doled out ErudEingly-thsrea are 9,