The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-22

men. who are arriving in Washington
from the other side are afflicted, II AZ
Fiction is the right word, with the de-
sire To continue Ito get move on. IL
one dared use the Hun expression
even in translation. this would d"
called wanderluSt. Every soldier WHO
saw service abroad has ii. and hulI-
dredS of thousands Of those who Sa"
service only i'm the camps of the United
States have ii.
| met a brigadier general OF the
United States army on the street Il day
or two ago. The last time | had seen
him was on the edge of the ArEohi."
forest in early November last. where
he was in command of his brigade.
When met him in Washington l
asked him how he felt.
Well" he said, 81 feel as if | must
do something. | cannot stand sim
Last night in my dreams | climbed
Mount Faucom again and this morn
ing feel as if | should like To repeat
the operation in reality
| have asked soldier after soldi""
how ii affected him to get back into
the humdrum of American life, or rath-
er To get back into the approaches
To such Il 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-
prgv which was stored up on the
Meuse, in the Argonne or on the
| NeSle.
Taking Magazine Men to the Front
| went 10 France in the early sum
mer of 1918 as major in the gas
ard flame service. In France | was
assigned to duties which for con
| siderable time detached me from hc-
tive participation in anything when
| the gas service was doing. one day
orders came from ChaumOnt detail
! ing me To the work of taking Il 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 Nc
Cures Magazine; DIR. Albert Shaw
editor of the American Review of Re
views, and Alfred Holman. editor OF
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 Call.
1t was quickly discovered that cell
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 ut Dom
remy to Hatton-Chatel from which
they viewed the artillery battle be
tween the Americans and the Huns.
II is not my intention to steal an!
of the magazine editors stuff. lie
them write il as they will. but there
are q few things upon which they vii
not touch and which from the psyche
logical point of view are worth recital
On the day of the visit to the i'm
mediate front we mOtored into Fire
I'm the ST. Mihiel sector. At this de
moIished village two roads crossed ant
as American traffic along the road
was heavy the Huns decided to pa!
particular attention to that point.
All Cool Under Fire.
The editors were i'm little hut
hastily erected. watching two womer
y Miss Scott. daughter of Gen. Hugh /
| Scott of the United States army, an
u Mrs. Walter Farwell of Chicago, |
their beneficent work of dealing on
hot chocolate and dOughnuts to in
American soldiers coming out from Q
{, going into the line. All at once
heard a sound which was familiar {
n my ears from previous experience.
/ knew that q German shell had hurs
! close to us. The two women preser
y knew II also, for they were equal
u familiar with the noises of such ii
tie disturbances!
The editors may or may not hay
e known what that noise was, but the
= learned soon enough, for sOmebOd
q told them. Flirey was under bon
= bardment Instead of showing a sig
e of tremOr the magazine editors an
: the brace of newspaper men with thel
y seemed moved only by the idea this
here was something really wort
l. while. One of our batteries was ST
IL toned hundred yards or so in froI
Of the hut 1t opened In reply to ii
e Germans. The magazine editors wei
getting a touch of real war on II
e American sector. just as they had bee
L given n touch of the same thing c
II the British and French fronts
q II is not my intention to tell vel
4 much more right here of the eyper
ID ence of that day Mt the immedia
81 front. hut that night when we hi
VI returned to the American guest hOu,
at Neufchateau. and had dined, Il
alarm sounded for an airplane raj
Ie I was the ranking army officer presel
% and in sense was in charge of II
le party. I asked the editors IL tn,
ID would like to seek safety in the ca
g which had been prepared as refu
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