Washington telegraph., 1919-09-26

/ sentiment Of the French for the First
regulars is felt not only because 1t was
the first American fighting unit to ar
rive in France, but because also of its
sterling fighting qualities displayed on
many fields.
Mental Unrest in America.
Members Of the administration, and
members Of congress with them, evil
| IDENTIFY are disturbed over the mental
unrest Of large numbers of the Amer
| lean people, an unrest which they de-
clare is hurtful and which they also
declare is the result of wartime con-
ditions. Business and labor stability,
some of these cabinet officials and leg
| islators think, cannot be secured until
mental stability has been restored.
From the viewpoint of men here,
there are two or three sharp manifes-
tations Of this unrest. one Of them
shows itself in the inability at present
| Of great many of the returned sol
diers to stay put" AS it has been
put by somebody. many of these sol
| diers want to be 'where they amt It
| is the restlessness which has grown
out Of their life i'm France; Il life of
| constant excitement and movement, Of
| black nights under afraid conditions
and Of the daily expectation Of being
ordered here, there or elsewhere-a
condition OF change which unsettled
men ordinarily stable.
Another manifestation seems to be
the desire among men aud women, who
are not soldiers, TO let up In their work
| and to be temporarily, AT least. I'M
willing to work as concentratedly and
! as long as they did prior to the break.
| ing out Of the war. This condition is
noticeable among the hitherto steady
workers Of the land, and 1t probably
will take some time, so men here seem
to think, to change this condition.
In part this sort of thing is held
here to be the result OF the hard, drlv-
ing work during the war. when nearly
everybody was on his mettle. Washing
| ton, however, looks with something
| like concern on the evident disposition
Of a part of the American world Of
] WI hNAn W Abbh Abi u NV VI HtlLl-
ease. II is recognized that only a com
paratively small part OF the men and
women Of the country are affected In
| this way, but. as the Legislators and
others view it, the part is large enough
to give concern.
Affected by Unrest in Europe.
This latter condition Of things is at.
tributed by many to the unrest in GER
| tain parts Of Europe where bolshevism
| seems to have affected the minds OF
the people and TO have made them be-
! llcve that happiness comes from doing
the least amount Of work possible. and.
this naturally leads, so it is said, to
that further condition or state of mind
which makes strikers of men and
women.
Il Is recognized by the men here who
have given consideration to this condi-
ton of things that when world matters
finally settle down into something like
normal there may be n reimbursement
of mental conditions and change in
| the viewpoint of those who seem to
think just now that work. as work. is
not worth while
There are men in different parts Of
the United States who are engaged in
preaching a doctrine of "do nothing"
or at least, edo very little" and telling
their hearers that true happiness lies
In ease. II has been said recently by
one studious member of congress that
il Is natural for the average man to
want TO work, that loafing loses its at
tractiveness after It has been INDUCED
in for n short time. This. some others
say, is perfectly true unless loafng is
carried such Il length Of time that the
man loses all his former predictions
for labor and forgets the delights
which accompany accomplishment
So far as the returned soldiers are
concerned. it is believed In Washing
ton that the spirit Of restlcssness with
which they seem TO be affected soon
will wear on Not bit OF unwilling
ness TO work has been noted on their
part The only difficulty has been