Show I ill S. S MEN SAIL n SA A IT S I I BACK TO FRANQ FRAN FRANI f j I I Former Doughboys Promote American Trade Trad and Aid Ally J By r S I I Paris Feb 1 Men Men of tho the A. A EJ E. E are aro coming coming- back to France Not ot disembarking in gray ra filu flits flits' I olive drab from gigantic troopship I hut tnt quietly unostentatiously unostentatious garbed arid and holding In their j hands n the bayonets of oC war but the tho commo r cial chal commissions which aro arc the wi w i Ions Jons ens of oC commerce i 1 Men fen who ho fou fought ht as doughboys In hat t I traps rat-traps of or the tho men pushed tho stars Stars anI and Stripes s ahead I all the allied banners in the tho drea forest of or tho the Argonne onne men who s 's over the top at It Chateau Thi Chateau Thierry rry aj i i St. St acea ace of or the air with two five l YC ten enemy planes to th credit and engineers whose fi iI glimpse of or tho the tremendous needs of or France were gathered In tnt t construction of or tho A A. E. E F. F rail artillerymen who put over tho the b brage braso brage rage ras-o at Verdun September 2 Ins 1918 ij a Q M. M officials who learned French the wide flung bases of oC the the- S. S 0 p. Si thousands of or them arc returning to tot tOol t land they they- fought in as the bearers of at American business la in rope rop Incidentally cashing In on t long long- w weary ary months they spent for I t Isako sako sake of or civilization away from th ft homes and affairs of oC loved ones Iea cs With Ith Habit When the great war ended Neves oTi ori ber 14 H 14 1918 it was only the the- signal the tle beginning of or another vital Hal WI wa the tho conflict of or modernity against Ha h hIt fl It lt Two million Americans In Fr Fran realized as the they thoy had never ne' realized b foro fore how backward tho the old world w wand wand and how v adan advanced ed their own A Abrought brought face taco to face faco with the mIr mi workers from oVerl overseas millions Frenchmen comprehended the sa u tru truths Now tho the aftermath has com come Eve Eves where hero France Is waking Tip up ET hide bound Is Js getti Jolts It ft never nc experienced before j Is to be substituted for tor coal conI on Frt Frel railways a a revolutionary when might not havo como come for tor e had not the Americans shown the w If Tho The ports of or Havre re Bordeaux and ani Sj Nazaire are being modernized with Imported front from Pittsburgh a Chicago Chicago because because the French foiw tou that the tho American method of or load and discharging vessels was just ab aba abi I twice as rapid as their own t For years rears Paris has been men menta mena every year ear b by floods In 1910 11 th Ih tho sands of or lives sero lost in an tion which It Is feared may bo be reps repe ed this year Yet not a thing thins has hu b I done to prevent pre a catastrophe wh wb I enough rain or snow makes certain Americans American lo 0 o Be lIe Consulted j Tho The French policy of at has reigned supreme until supreme until now no now w WI WIthe the government c hrs has discovered that the Mississippi America met and C a far tar greater reater problem thana thaDe Seine and that thero there is no reason France Franco cannot tb do likewise Accord l ly h American engineers are to be bee c suited and the first step In the rl d direction direction-a a a drainage canal Is canal Is to constructed as aa soon as th the neW neTt eb cb j ber votes yates the tho necessary funds fund How America Is Is' invading th the Fri Fr business world worM Is la clearly shown In latest bulletin of ot the American n Cb C tier ber of or Commerce giving the tho iner of members since the armistice No I Ithan Ithan than largo large American merican firms e es offices in Paris last Jut year n s nall nall sall all with representatives es who once I Ithe the khaki 1 In the tho defenso defense of ot right Among these firms ar art arc five fhe Ameri Amer banks s not counting counting- those in France Franco before the tho war Further It Is Js estimated that that than 1000 American physicians physician d dIsta fats Ista and lawyers have Settled In 1 since tho the armistice nearly all aU of y members of or t tho A A. A E. E F. F |