The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-05-30
BY WILBUR FORREST.

On the New York Tribune)
Neuwied, Germany.-In many ways
/ the American soldier forced to main.
tain 'Wacht am Rhein" here in Ger
many is to be envieu by those who
have hurried back through the French
winter months to home and fireside.
The homegoers are possibly well
oeased with their lot, but the "stay-
abroads' are beginning to come into
their own.
The American army and the 7. NJ G.
A. have combined into a harmonious
4 partnership here at Neuwied-on-the-
Rhine, which gives full compensation
for enforced foreign service. 1t is
called the Third Corps Recreation Cen
ter and is today operating full blast
for the benefit of morale of some 49,
900 Of Uncle Sans boys composing the
Third American army corps, command
ed by Major General Hines.
Eleven hundred from the First, Sec
ond and Thirty-second divisions come
from their prescribed villages and
i towns Of the occupied area into Neu-
WED every three days to rest, recre-
i ate and see the sights of the Rhine.
"The Third Corps Recreation Center,
made possible by the folks at home
through the Y. NJ. c. A. is the slogan
you may read in Neuwied today. And
the doughboys are beginning to appre-
elate 1t and talk about it.
American army engineers have built
4 the largest Y. NJ G. A. club and recre-
alton hall in Europe-the home Of the
recreating doughboy, in which he
neither worries about reveille nor sa-
luhng. It is here that he first goes
when he arrives from the area, and
ne is told to make himself comfortable
/ by one or all of six comedy American
girls who have come from home to
cater to John Doughboy and he alone,
natty young officers notwithstanding
The boys are invited to make them
selves fright at home" and they lose
% time In doing so.
How the Idea Works.
Follow Mr.. John Doughboy through
. threeday leave in the Neuwied Rec
Feation Center. He packs up his blan-
sets, towels, toothbrush and safety
fazor and departs from the scene of
auty He arrives in Neuwied by yari-
Gus routes-1, 100 of him-and is greet
/ cd BY brass band at the railway sta
uon. A guide conducts him to the big
recreation hall and turns him loose
among potted palms, and deep uphol-
stored easy chairs, divans and "lazy-
packs set lastly in a great room
aanked on two sides by big red brick
leplaces, in which CHEEKY log fires
are burning. He is assigned a place
double-deck bunk and he throws
ns blankets aboard and returns to the
dig room to loaf.
ferhaps he sits down at table and
writes line or two to the folks back
home Then he meets friend and
pays a game of billiards or pool on
uue oyerhanging balcony at one end of
sae room. Or he just Tolls around on
/ time.
Then some one suggests that he
ss'Vh down to "Uncle Sans Hotel'-
me place that used to be the "Hohen-
uU,erh house" Here the Uncle Sam
NJ. =. A. combination serves a meal
~ nlm and his 1000 companions that
mas never seen equaled in the
~ Crockery Suffers Sadly.
8, LUIS "crockery," as the doughboys
ssn " Is in reality an excellent grade
" uerhan china, and as Sergeant J.
- - Seldenfelt, Commander in CHER
h.. uncie Sans hotel, explained,
= ssaAages at the hands of some scores
~. Oerman Mattresses run up to 1
s a. cent a meal, or nearly 100 per
n ~. q month. But 1t is Uncle Sans
~ ana the boys enjoy it.
sergeant Seidenfelt was head wait
No. MOTEL In Cleveland when Uncle
3 ~ ufafted him. His home, however,
d,oan aftford, Conn, and he never
~ the armistice would bring
him !, u RHEIMS with well-preserved
/ Al !, nere to run "the biggest army ho-
. aermany," where nearly 800