American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-07

menace when they get home. That |
part of his letter is almost Identical /
with number of others that have |
been received from the boys "over
there"
France, December 26, 1918.
Was glad to get your long, good
letter, and will try to show my appre-
citation by answering at once.
After the armistice was signed ]
was assigned to the band and orches-
ira, the band and orchestra in connec-
tion with a show gotten up in this
camp for the purpose of entertaining
soldiers, officers, and second lieu
tenants. We showed five nights here
and then went to Tours, distance of
\ 205 miles. and showed six nights
| there Then we returned to camp. At
J ter week of rest the show went to
| Nevers. / was left behind by order of
! the camp surgeon, and two days la
ter was all set to go to Mons hospital
when the Colonel the c. O., heard that
| all soldiers sent to the hospital for
major operations were sent to the
States and operated on and discharged.
For reasons all his own he stopped my
going. So here | am. / don't know
what will be done with me. The camp
| surgeon said, and he is the boss in
this instance, that l shall not blow a
horn nor do any more work of any
kind. Guess there isn't anything
can do but let the c. O. and c. S.
fight it out So in the meantime I'll
try to write some letters | owe so
many that I'll never catch up, but
I'll do my best while / have some time
all my own.
Before the armistice was signed l
was busy day and night. Didn't have
time to read the papers.
/ want to thank you for the Press. II
bas kept me pretty well informed of
most all happenings going on there.
, Truly the home town paper is the
connecting link between army life
, and home life. Anyway, it helps more
than any other one thing. Sometimes
friends forget to write or don't have
time, and we get lonesome, homesick
, and blue, wondering how things are
going back in the "old home town .
! Some who said "I'll sure write YOU
! don't write, as If everybody had for
! gotten you, and maybe they have, all
: but the Press. 1t comes regularly
n / think / know how You feel about
the war, and / don't blame you fol
. feeling a bit put out that the war was
not carried to Berlin. "An eye for an
G eye" | feel that way, but as a civ
. ilized nation fighting for an ideal, We
could not do the very thing we are
r fighting Germany for doing. DOM
i think that she will get out Of paying
y the price. Germany will be made tC
: pay to the limit. For Germany the wal
isn't over, not for years. She will have
q to restore Belgium, Serbia and France
!, pay in full the states and individuals
/, for all their losses. For us, peace II
. not signed but the war is ended.
Germany started out to conquer th'
whole world, but things didn't go al
the kaiser planned. Seems that hi
. partner, "Gott," went back on him
!, Then Uncle Sam entered the big figh
- against the war lord, monarchial au
. tocrat, murderer, beast OF beasts, ant
/, knocked him lose from his throne ant
onto the toboggan of retribution tina
will skid him into the bottom pits o
70 hell. There is another monarch owe
- here that should go the way of bill
~ (small b. and that is His Majesty
!. the Censor, but maybe I'd better no
say any more against him. as he still
reigns supreme and this letter Nigh
: get pretty badly cut up going over.
Guess you know more about tn
war than / do, but believe / can tel
you something of interest about tn
country.
~ France is mainly agricultural, 4
per cent of its population living b
" agriculture. Their methods are ava
Fe behind ours, plowing with oxen, an
sometimes WITH cows. / saw only on
lie man blowing with horses. The farme
s. Is a good worker, and he must b
y, pretty we'll informed in agriculture
Il Everything he has is the result of hi
ed hard labor, not from his bushes
ability. The only business ability b
m has shown is in charging for hi
s. products: and Oh Boy, but he ca
az charge. But as a business man he
IS. nix.
M French land in 1889 was wort
,s about 500 francs an hector $40 a
l9 acre,) and the same land is estimate
ro now at 100 francs ($135) an acr
This is an average. In the Alps II
~ worth 400 francs an hector. in th
cn north ii is worth 5000.
a. The chief products are grain, ps
q tatoes, wine, and garden truck. Franc
ranks third as a wheat growing M
or ton, U. s. first, Russia second, ge
r. many (little q fourth. The gre
o wheat lands are Flanders, Artoi
nc Picardy, Beauce and Brie. Oats al
ds grown anywhere wheat is. Oth'
cereals grown in different parts
er France are rye, barley, buckwhe'
no and millet
N France is the greatest wine counti
nd in the world. producing one third
Of the worlds supply. The yinyardg
Champagne cover 37,500 acres al
Ter produce over thirty million bottl
,er of wine, eight million of which a
EN- consumed in France.
ew The Frenchman must have his VII
he as the American must have his co
las fee and the Englishman his tea. II
ay- Frenchman 0aborer) will have
- quart of red wine with his meal, b
WILL seldom drink red wine duYfl