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Show AMU SOLDIERS GIVEN JM CAR" Were Sherman Participat ing Now He Might Modi fy His War Definition. s Nothing1 Is Left Undone to Add to Comfort of the Fighting Men. By tlie Associated Press. PARIS, Nov.' Ifi. "Treat 'cm rough" 1ms Irecn tlie slogan of the United States tank units, referring to tho enemy, but "treat 'em well" was the motto in regard to the American expeditionary force. Never in history have lighting men on foreign service been treated so humanely as have the soldiers and marines of General Pershing's Per-shing's crusaders. Never have such tremendous projects been undertaken to surround the fighting fight-ing men with the best homo influencos as have been brought to high perfection in connection with American soldiers and marines in France. With many other outworn theories, the old idea, that men hail to bo deprived of every human comfort in order to develop them into good fighters, has gone by the board. Napoleon's "Old Guard" never relaxed re-laxed at the movies. Washington 's men at Valley Forge had no warm huts in which to gather socially. Unselfish men and women never accompanied Wellington's Welling-ton's grenadiers into battle to give them hot drinks or bar chocolate, with which to stay their hunger. Grant's and Lee's armies never were provided with tons of athletic, paraphernalia or with high-class high-class vaudeville and other entertainment whilo campaigning. If entertainment, education, recreation, recrea-tion, athletics, religious solace and a hundred creature comforts had been supplied his men, Sherman might not have been so sweeping in his statement. state-ment. Pershing's force has had all those advantages. Seven Agencies Aided. In addition to all tho provision made by the government, American soldiers and .marines have received through seven recognized agencies tho many small comforts and considerations which remind a fighter that his country's people peo-ple have been constantly in their thoughts. Take' a modern big battle, for instance. in-stance. When American soldiers go into action tho uniformed field workers of the Young Men's Christian association, associa-tion, Knights of Columbus and Salvation Salva-tion Arrnv go with them, distributing bar chocolate, cookies and other small, fl handy eatables which may tide tho boys over if thev pursue the enemy so rapidly rap-idly that the field kitchens cannot keep up to them. As tho Americans went in to clear the St. Mihiel salient, the Y. M. C. A. alons distributed to them nineteen mot( truckloads of eholocatc, cookies and t bacco, following it up through tho bf tie with thousands of gallons of h drinks. Army airplanes distribut thousands of packages of tobacco a cigarettes for the Knights of Colu bus to front line fighters out of res of pedestrian workers. The Salvation Army lassies tributed thousands of doughnuts i pies through the lighting. Newspapers Furnished. Strange as it may seem, Ameri soldiers in action have time to snc a glance at the news and demanc dailv. The Y. M. C. A., K. of C. Salvation Army workers distributed lions of Paris editions of Ainer newspapers through the Argonne, . Mihiel and Chateau-Thierry cngaf-incuts. cngaf-incuts. To the men on rest or in hi pitals, and even to those in the trenche these workers furnished tons of maga zines and books supplied by the Ameri can Library association. in tho "huts" maintained in the war zone bv the Y. M. C. A., K. of C. and Salvation Army the soldiers find physical, mental and spiritual relaxation or'refreshinent in the form of sociability, sociabil-ity, entertainment, reading, writing aud religious guidance. I Theatrical entertninment is furnished for soldiers by routing first-class American Ameri-can entertainers over " the hut circuit," as well as arranging amateur shows. The best, newest movies are shown at the Y. M. C. A. an.l K. of C huts. The Jewish Welfare board, which doo3 similar service in home training camps, will put in hut service iu France where it will not overlap the existing hut services. Furloughs Provided. A complete educational system has been furnished by, the Y. M. C. A. for every man, from illiterates to those capable of grasping a professional or technical course. Kest leaves at famous seaside or mountain resorts of Franco have given the fighters a complete sevou days' recuperation evory threo months. Throughout the war zone the "Y" has furnished funs of a,thletic apparatus and hundreds of physical directors to de-ve'P de-ve'P wholesome snorts. While the soldiers are in America they have flic ndditioual benefits furnished fur-nished by the War Camp Community service whbh "surrounds camps with hospitality. ' ' obtaining for soldiers and sailors invitations to prhato homes, to public entertainments and private parties, par-ties, which arouses civic responsibility to remove from communities all vicious or profiteering elements which preyed on armies iu other generations. Information Infor-mation booths, low-priced hotel accommodations, accom-modations, theater tickets and nthletic contests also have been provided. A place where a soldier can meet, his mother, wife, sister or sweetheart as in their own living room is the best contribution con-tribution made in home training camps by the Y. W. C. A. and National Catholic Catho-lic War council with their hostess houses. In France this organization does for the American women war workers, work-ers, nurses, telephone operators and the French women munition workers a service serv-ice similar to that, and one for men bv the other agencies. Tile purpose of ail this is to keep American fighters normal, nor-mal, human Americans while increasing their lighting rfl ieieticy to tnko to them tlie bet -i n due nees of the Ameri-' Ameri-' cau huino. |
