The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-02-06
DR.. GARvIN
RETURNS TO
THE SPRINGS

iiSt iCoOs tCihoh SAsAA W. ~ SO'N-e~
Springs and well known in Canon
City, returned home the first of the
week from England and France. where
he had been during the greater part OF
the past year as one of the general
executives of the Y. NJ. c. A. In the
course of interview published in the
Colorado Springs Telegraph day or
two ago, DIR. Garvin says in part:
1.-The greatest thing / saw while
was gone was the grand British war
fleet aud the greatest impression
have gotten from it all is the wonder
fui patriotism exhibited by our Amer
ican boys"
Dr. Garvin explained at some lelssth
the immensity of the British navy.
81 saw the whole grand feet-more
than 200 gigantic battleships-an-
chored in the Firth of Forth, which
was the fleet headquarters. saw
three long lines of these monsters
strung out in the water like so many
avenues and there must have been 40
ships in each line. All of them lay
with their noses pointed in one direc-
ton. One could not look upon such
sight or step aboard one of those
boats without at once realizing the su-
periority and efficiency of the British
navy.
~For some time 1 was stationed at
Tour, France. This was one of the
biggest training camps over there. 1t
was so large that 2,1S0 officers were
stationed there most of the time. 1t
must be remembered that the Y Sec
retaries were subject to military dis
cipline and had to salute every COM
missioned officer. but were not re-
quired to salute privates. During the
two weeks 1 spent there nearly wore
my right arm off at the shoulder.
When went out on the street in the
evening. the privates would mistake
me for an officer and consequently
would salute. am positive that dur
ing one evening answered more than
200 salutes in two hours.
There never was a scarcity of food
in France When America was eat
ing bread made from so per cent
wheat and the other so per cent substi-
tutes, France was eating bread made
of 80 per cent -four. l had all the
variety l wanted and plenty of it all
the time spent there. One of the
peculiar things of France to the Amer
ican is that the French never drink
water They seem to think all 1t is
good for is to put under bridges. A
Frenchman usually orders pint of
wine with his meal. l asked French
girl why it was they never drank any
water, and she replied in rather sur
prised way, why it has no taste
81 never saw any actual fighting, al
though l did get close enough to the
front on several occasions to hear the
rumble of the big guns. On one occa-
sion was in on a German air raid.
A big shell burst within so feet Of me
but fortunately l escaped injury. That
experience calls to my mind most
amusing experience. There was
number of colored troops stationed at
that particular place. After the raid
one of them ran to the railroad station
and laying sS in American money be-
fore the ticket agent, demanded g
rection, boss. jes' SO hits ticket
saw the proceeding and asked the ex-
cited Negro why all the haste, 'Scuse
me, boss he said, but I jes found out
de meanin' of that T. N. T. Well,
what is it?' inquired. and he replied
Boss. it means. travel. Niggah. travel
THE ravages of Europe have been
photographed and described times
without number, but unless you have
seen the wanton destruction and the
utter desolation one has absolutely
no conception of the desolation. l Wis.,
tied little village just three miles
from Chateau Thierry. Every home
in that little town had been Of stone
construction and the houses were sub
stantially built. After the Germans
finished shelling it. / am positive that
not a single wall more than 10 feet
high remained to tell the story.
saw forests of big trees with trunks as
large round as my body. cut off as
though they had been blades Of grass.
Those big 12-inch shells would come
along and shave them off clean and
perhaps the main portion of the tree
would be carried 100 feet further on by
the terrible force of the blow"
Dr. Garvin was asked about the Y.
NJ. G. A. controversy and promptly re-
piled that it could have served much
better, but he explained that the trou-
BILE was not with the secretaries doing
duty in the huts and in the front line
dugouts, but it was with the headquar-
ters. "If the had had foresight and
Judgment enough to employ at least
three s25 5.0O0-a-year-men and placed
them in New York. London and Paris,
this controversy never would have oc-