Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-04
FRENCH BELTTTLE
LODGE PACT VIEW
]. Henry Scattergood, Now
in Europe, Says League
Must Win Out
SENATOR TOO RADICAL


Little notice Is taken in France OF
Senator Lodges fight against the league
OF nations, writes J. Henry Scattergood'
Philadelphia business man and proml-
nent member of the Society of Friends
who is directing department of the
tr,.iends' reconstruction work in France.
Mr. Scattergood. who has been ABROAD
since last December purchasing supplies
from the army for reconstruction work
and directing home rebuilding in the
yerdun area, has written letter tull
Of observations of European conditions
to Mrs Scattergood, at &5l" foWetoh
avenue. 1t was written in the railroad
station at Toul. while hundreds of lanNs
were passing and repassing around MN
He warns that the revolution III Ger
many Is just beginning urges that an
possible speed be used in getting the
homesicl Yanks back to the states
felIs of the unwillngness TO work OF
Jruropeans. and says the war has made
more problems than 1t solved
He gives a hint that moro social
ehanpes may be looked for in Europe IN
some nations that have thus far WIN
stood any new developments in the 'h-
sernational and soclal oruerS' Nh'" NV
understanding of hnancial ourue''S
caused bv the war becomes general
.,uoy lamcntable It seems at this
iuncture for Senator Lodge and others
~ he throwing monkey wrcncheS into
tha pears, ." he writes. 1T is taken
& in Europe as meaning that America Is
,puch divided. But it Is encouraging 10
and that the league-of-nations IDEA mas
made such headway in France; 'hat
senator Lodges views are generaiE
given very little space in the French
7 ,avspapers now. and that enlightened
European opinion sees the ne" oppo'-
tunity more and more
Two TrainIoads Fed in i5 Minutes
His letter. which is dated March n.
is as follows:
ar started a letter two days ago from
paris. but was interrupted by interviews
and then suddenly found ! had to leave
that evening for Neufchateau, IN the east
n of France, to see some Cnited states
army officers about materials which we
need in the Verdun area. SO YESTERDAY
wss spent on trains and at Neutchateau
and today again on trains on my way TO
T,Iormont (our new headquarters in the
yerdun area). ] have an hour before the
connecting train leaves for Bar lie Due
Hundreds of 'Yanks' are all around us
Z tvnical scene. There is a constant string
IN one door to the canteen and out an
Z other. each fellow getting his can full OF
z hot coffee and a sandwich. He pays
trine il he has the money, otherwise it is
given. ,,
"Besides cold corned beef and hard
bread it is all they often get on jour
ney from one place to another.
Last evening at Neufchateau, while
was getting supper at the A. II. G. sta
tion canteen, 1 watched a girl felt sure
/ knew hand out coffee and sandwiches.
She proved to be Ruth Gibbons, of Hav-
erford Meeting. and she. had just fed
1900 boys In forty-nve mlnutes-two
trainloads. One feels for these fellows,
and all of them sick and tired of the
army and all anxious to get homo and
back to their usual work.
S "Many towns like this one, and most
OF those in northeast France. are full
of Americans. This applies TO the sec
tors taken over by the United States
from the French. In every little village
: they are stationed: with too little to dc
now, and tired of the French and the
French of them.
To-day I have seen Russians. who