The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-01-14
There Is Not Much Change eY-
cept in the Spaces Between
the Villages.
SHOWS HAVOC UADISTURDED
The Soldier Who Goes Back to His
Dusout in the Woods Is Likely to
Find That Only the Rains
Have Reshaped II.

New York.-To any American COM
Ing back from France these days, the
drst greeting from quondam menu
Der of the A. +. +. is always this:
well, how's 1t look over there?
Changed muchr
To which, after some futile short
lived notion of describing the great
mutilated stretch of France, with its
million discouragements and its thou
sand and one evidences of renewing
life, the returning wanderer must
aeeds answer:
mo, not much"
For the impression that the old bat
tlefields make is of havoc undisturbed,
paralysis uncured, Alexander Wooll-
colt writes in the North American
Review. The soldier who goes back
to his old dugout in the woods near
Grand Pre- Is likely to find that only
| the steady rains have reshaped it, that
| the old helmet the shell-ht blew from
| his head still lies where ii fell two
| years ago and more. The villages of
| tifC ulCucC, Tic OuiN4, thC 'N'''S $3.50
the Aisne look much as they did when
the American troops trudged out OF
them for the last time. 1t is true that
the rubble is gone from the streets
and the litter of stone has been re-
duced to neat piles of assorted pieces
Here and there rough new cottage
has been fashioned from the materials
of it's demolished predecessor. AT in
tervals there are unfamiliar shacks
and barracks. But on the whole, Mont
faucon and Fere-en-Tardenois and Ju
vigny--they all look much as they die
when the Yanks started home. Vau1
that little Marine village which the ar
tillery behind the ninth infantry blew
to bits in the excitement of June. 1911
-Vaux has only one new building. |
Is not much Of building at that-jus
shack Of wood and taxpayer. AM
it is not dwelling at all. 1t Is
buvette.
Where improvements Are Seen.
1t Is in the spaces between the vi
lages that the change is so remark
able. You see it even in the rollin
land of the Argonne and the blaste
countryside of the Chemin des-Dame
has been done.
Visitors to the American graves net
, Juvigny in the spring of 1919 marvele
, to find that the old quarries alon
the ravine on the side Of the tow
. which had once served as division;
, headquarters, message centers ar
, dugouts In time of battle, were the
serving as homes for the first six /,
the returning families, so that childre
were playing with the useless 6;
, masks out in front while Sparta
3 percentages bloomed at cave e
= frances and the weeks wash flapp,
e In the wind.
h Now another winter and anoth
8 summer have gone by. The fields nea
/ by have been largely cleared Of the
I wire and shells and have yielded sor
t. food and a little income to Juvign
h Perhaps 200 people are back in I
town.
It Is because of this scantiness
r reconstruction as far as home hull
t. ing goes that, as you walk along
IS ruined street. Juvigny seems
r serted city. But 1t is hardly that a
s. you reaAze as much with somethi
}; of thrill when In a clearing an
III the rubble, you come upon barra
Oh and catch through the windows
Is ,lnmistakable drone Of childish vote
'e 1t Is school and glance throu
ct the window shows row on row of p
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