Show fu U. U S S. S Soldier Is Credit to His Mother By Rheta Childe Dorr DorT C I J your envy for fOl I have vc had a week cek with the tho first lean Amex soldiers to spend their leave ve in ill Alx Abc J Jes Bains Men of ot all an nationalities fresh fr from m the lr trenches or the cold and mudd muddy training train train- ing inS camps have been Budd suddenly nl tra trails trails- ported to sunshine warmth and free free- dom dam There are aro few officers hero here and no restraint upon the men Despite that in the tho hotels of or the town every Amer- Amer AmerIcan merlean mer- mer Ican lean has shown himself a man man a soldier sol sot dier and a gentleman I Intoxication or disorder were nowhere in evidence The behavior of or the American soldier sol sol- sol sol- dier tiler is a credit to the American moth cr or said a French general to me For POI this fine record one can credit also the Y M. M C C. C A. A which has expurgated expurgated gated rated the red light district hung the town with French and American flags s S and leased for tho the soldiers' soldiers benefit the Casino once n a gamblers' gamblers paradise Tho The M. C. C A A A. has gone far toward making Aix lea les Bain Baina nn an American Ameri Anion can cit city At the theatre orvey orye night there arc are free tree movies There also art are plenty of or nice girls with whom the can cin dance The won won- i and with amusements day ly and there Is la no chance for tor mischief Tho American soldiers W wio lO when i the they first arrived thought Franco France on one great mud hole hoJe today tollay while whilo gazing gazing- a at t the mountains and vineyards of ot Savoy Savo declare France a country worth lightIng fight light ing for The Tho natives here quickly learned t tr tl like Americans Many of or the here while convalescing con pal around with natives who have invented a wonderful won won- pigeon pig English which both seem to understand I have talked with French officers officer here who say fay that American soldiers soldier soon will be bo breaking records record in lor tory lery work and in bomb and grenade throwing But Dut one one or 01 two of or thc these c officers expressed ex expressed expressed ex- ex pressed fear tear for tor discipline Our discipline is Js all right declared declared de de- dot do- do t dared a young corporal a I Harvard Harvar man but the 1 French do know II not ou our om crazy raz wa ways 8 yet Wo We had llad a little In our bunch bunc h hc back bick c of or the Ole lines fines who ho ran an elevator levato Jn in Philadelphia before the draft On Ono One day when he had beon boon placed in an exposed sentry post a Hun sniper trie tried to pick him off oU The returned their fire tire an and seemed quite happy Prett Pretty soon tw two Hun machine gunners turned turne l their the typewriter him him on i i Xo No fair Calr yelled the woJ Oj but hut th the I Huns thought it was and kept o ozi on I firing tiring 1 i The drol dropped his rifle beat bent ti l I across No o Mans Man Land and smashed one gunner gunnor in the head with willi witha a rock roele Then he kicked 1 the other gunner Ii In the jaw picked up the machine gun sun and beat it back with his trophy He had seven bullets in him When we reached him the French captain ba bawled lcd out the for lack laele of ot discipline and told everybody tho the op was an imbecile I notice though the captain went to the hospital every day to see sec him Men leave Aix Abc dally daily after atter a happy w week The They cheer and laugh laug-h as they the climb into third-class third trains on their way back to the front and the mud mueI of or the trenches and to the dark hazards hazar s sor I of or war var With spring spi-Ing drawing nearer every eVely day the tho American soldiers are aro cheer cheer- ful iii There Is no brag bmg nor bluster I simply splendid courage e and ind high hope bope Tell Toll the folks s back home not not to worry said one stalwart boy bor as he boarded hoarded a train for tor the front Tell Tel them thorn not to grieve Every fellow who dies 1103 will vill account for six Huns Hum first and Uncle Sam nure sure gave us a n grant grand blowout before asking asking- us to fight |