Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 16 | Paris Cafes Quiet, Salt Laker Says

PARIS CAFES QUIET. SALTiAKER SAYS Marc B. Lippman Says the French Capital Has a Sombre Aspect. Joseph Lippman received a letter Tuesday Tues-day from his son. Mare Biaine Lippman, dated Paris, January 1, 191S. In the letter let-ter he suites that he had been in the American hospital from December " to December 30 with a very bad cold, which the doctor thought would develop into pneumonia. Fortunately, however, he escaped that malady. The cold seemed to have settled in his back and legs, and the doctor said it was due to being constantly con-stantly wet while he was driving an automobile au-tomobile for the quartermaster's department. depart-ment. The hospitals, he stated, are filled with men suffering from similar colds. Colonel Stanton bad given him a letter to Colonel Baldwin, a brother-in-law ot Frank Judge of Salt Lake City. Colonel Baldwin is in charge of the signal corps of the aviation branch of the service. Marc was to take his examination on December De-cember 10, but that day he waa taken to the hospital, so that he was not able to take, his examination until December 31. He passed physical examination, but the mental examination would not take place until January 2 or 3. Marc stated in his letter that Colonel Stanton had been very kind to all the rtah bovs, helping them all he could. General ft. Young, who was the recruiting officer for the American -field service with headquarters at 40 State street in Lioston. and through whose influence and aid many of the Utah boys had entered the American field service, had reached Paris and was also trying to get into the aviation service. Marc writes that Philip Allison, Fred G. Redman and Thomas J. O'Brien are ambulance drivers, and "Sam" Williams was taken into the aviation corps as a pilot, and "Bus" Chandler is with the artillery and "Jack" Groesbeck vl"h the Red Cross. Mrs. Hale Is work-in work-in with Mrs. Chandler in the surgical dressing station. Marc continues as follows: fol-lows: 1 am writing in a Y. M. C. A. There are nine other men writing at the same table. Men are reading in the next room, playing pool in an adjoining ad-joining room, and there are more than . 100 men in the building now. These Y. M. C. A. buildings are certainly a great help to the enlisted men, as they give them some -place to go. Last night was a very quiet Xew Year's eve. I was in bed about 9 o'clock. They close tiie cafes here at 9:30. and everything seems dead after that hour. Nine out of every ten women one meets are dressed m black, and almost every man who is not in uniform uni-form has a black band on Ids sleeve, so you can imagine how depressing the atmosphere is. It snowed more last night, so that there are about three inches of snow on the ground and it is very cold. It is very damp and cold here, and with the shortage short-age of coal, the buildings are not sufficiently heated, and scarfs and sweaters are verj- welcome. I Colonel Charles E. Stanton, writing tc Ljoseph Lippman under date of December Decem-ber 24. 1917, from Paris, says, anions other things: We are confronted with a stupendous stupen-dous task, and every man abroad is doing from ten to twelve hours' physical physi-cal work daily, and it is difficult to keep our desks even partly clear at tiiat. The problems In my own line are not only intricate, but of great moment, and I have some satisfaction satisfac-tion in being able to keep my end up acceptably, be'-ause this is the time when each man must put forth every effort within him. When tile spirit moves, send me a line occasionally, as we are a long way from home and news of the Utah people is always welcome.