The sun., 1919-09-16
TELLS WHY MEN GET
HOMESICK IN FRANCE.
Soldiers Mother Is Glad to Get
Back to U. s. A. After
Overseas Trip.
SHOCKED BY THE WOMEN
Poor Beds, Eating Facilities
and Clothes Washing Bane
Of Troops Lives.

Mrs. w. B. Arnold of Arkadelphia,
Ark, who went to France in July to
visit her son, Lieut.. H. B. Arnold, SS4th
Field Artillery, returned to the United
States yesterday on the transport
America to expose the true inwardness
Of the war, army life. France and other
related topics.
Lieut.. Arnold volunteered for further
duty overseas on condition that his
mother be allowed to visit him. So Mrs.
Arnold left her other son and three
daughters and made the long journey to
Bassens, the great army supply base
near Bordeaux There and at other
camps near Bordeaux and Brest Mrs.
Arnold saw army life and French girls
and many other things. She said:
Now, to compare the towns and
camps and ways of living in France
with America-well, / never was SO glad
to get anywhere as I am to get back to
New York, and II we can make the
train wen start tonight for Arkadel-
phla.
THE first thing the boys over there
miss In home life is having to do their
own washing. Then, although the food
is all right ate with the boys--linlng
UP with mess pans and eating most any
place does not induce good table man
ners.
"And their beds are not so comfort
able as at home. A boy wants q soft
bed, and he gets Il just right In an
American home. These are the reasons
the boys were homesick-and are home
sick. those still over there. The way
they live they couldn't have a home
feeling"
her girls at home, Mrs Arnold con-
tinued:
I'm sure French girls are not raised
like American girls. Their moral train
ing Is not so good. They are not re-
spected by their men folks nor treated
so we'll as American boys treat Ameri-
can girls.
"As for dresses. we'll, I've seen them
in Paris, and American girls certainly
skirts are simply awful Thank good
ness, never saw the bare legged styles
that would be too much"
So far as the army records show, Mrs.
Arnold is the only mother OF a member
OF the A e. F. to visit her son in France.
Among the 1872 military passengers
on the America was Benedict r. Crow
ell, Assistant Secretary OF War, who had
been settling army accounts with the
French Government He said that all
but a few scattered groups of American
Germany would be home by October 1.
W. p. Kent, American Consul at
Bern, Switzerland. returned to enjoy
his first vacation in six years.
Trade with Germany is being re-
sumed rapidly by France and England"
he said. Americans are also going into
Germany for business purposes and the
difficulties are being removed as quickly
as possible"
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shiI was the wife of Capt Philip Bor-
gicrno, young Princeton graduate vino
went overseas in 1917 and was subse-
quently ordered to Italy In charge of the
American air service. His wife is the
sister of Gen. 0neto Carello, commander
of the Italian army of occupation in
Delmatia. They were married at Turin
in April.
Another bride, the wife of Capt. Rob-
err, O'Connen OF Cincinnati. was accom-
panied by her mother. She was for
nerly Mile. Helene Loizelle of Tours
One hundred and twenty of the 376
welfare workers who returned on the
An erica were women. One. Miss Helen
Con. formerly of the Winter Garden,
were a wound stripe. she having been
gassed in a captured German dugout at
Verpel, in the Argonne, where her unit
was attached to the Seventy Di-
vision. After four months in a hospital
she resumed her work. She was the
only girl in the Isle of Asuwere" COM
pany.