Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-12
HONOR GUARDING
 WORSFN WAR
Thousand Soldiers in Peace Mission Squad Busier'n the Delegates of the Allies
By EDWARD N. THIERRY

A- u tN- E. A Staff Correspondent. Parisl
 It's an honor to be a member of the soldier guard at the headquarters of the American Peace Mission.
 But it's frightfully hard on the right arm
 An honor guardsman does more saluting in 15 minutes than the aver age dOughbOy does in a week
 Generals Of all descriptions and col Onels and majors and captains anu.
 ieutenants run in and out all day at the Hotel Crillon. where the Peace Mission lives and works It's almost as bad at No 1 Place de Ia Concor6e. That's next door to the CrillOn. The peace mission occupies the entire two buildings
 The CrillOn was a topnotch hotel. operated right up to the time Presi- dent Wilson arrived Then the Uni
 An honor guard rdoes more saIuting in 15 minutes than the average dough- boy in week
 ted States took it over. The other building used to be a hotel before the war Until last fall il housed the American Red Cross.
 Guards are on duty day and night at all the doors They salute me chsnically, just like autOmatons.
 There are plenty of real officers And also a mere correspondent breeZeS in every now and then. wear ing a uniform It's the sort they had to wear at the front, just like an officers uniform save for the shoulder insigna- Maybe the correspondent is wearing an OvercOat- The IuckIesS sentry can't tell whether the new conner is a lieutenant or a colonel He snaps off a salute
 Then he preceives it's a mere cor respondent He cusses to himself and wishes he had his salute back
 Its wOrSe'n war" he says
 Anybody not in uniform having busi- ness at peace mission headquarters has to flash a pass Otherwise he'd have about as much chance of getting into the Hotel Chiffon as a safe blower trying to get into the United States mint
 The peace mission honor squad com prises 1000 soldiers. They were de tailed from almost every organization in the A E. F.
 At first it was thought 14O men would be sufficient But the demand was heavy Besides sentries, the mis- ] A soldier takes your picture before |. ycu can enter peace headquarters. sion needed clerks. linotype operators, 1 oroerlleS, StenOgraphers, hotel man agers. filing men. cooks. mechanics, ] cigar salesmen, electricians, private i secretaries and the like
 Everything is run by soldiers. The i peace mission even has its own photo graphic room Anybody getting a pass to enter peace headquarters has to 1 have his picture taken by the soldier I 
 The directory of headquarters looks ! like that of skyscraper back home 1 On every floor one stumbles over 1 hundreds of clerks and secretaries, l pounding typewriters, holding confer | anees- putting papers into files, taking papers out of files or racing upstairs I and downstairs with messages and I 
 It's just the same at the headqua<- -ers Ofsthe British peace mission and he Italian peace mission The Brit sh have taken over all of the Hotel | Majestic and the Italians the Hotel Edward VII
 The French mission is quartered in government buildings
 The actual place where the peace delegates meet, Versailles and the ouai d'Orsay- are the least lively of aH