Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-09-16 | Page 40 | Calls Vice Menace to U. S. Troops Abroad

GALLS CALLS VICE MENACE TO TOS TO'S S 'S u. u s. s TROOPS ABROAD k t rw SS Y S By International News Service ST. ST LOUIS Sept 15 Europe 15 Europe is overrun by vice and immorality This Is the statement of the Rev Elmert T. T Clark of St. St Louis who has Just returned from a six months' months visit to Europe where lie he studied moral conditions as affected by the war American soldiers in France and England are menaced by a vast horde of unattached women he said It ItIs Itis Is easy to see the causes the causes the great number of refugees the laxity in home ni matters on account of ot the great press of other things Everyone claims to be the wife of or ofa ofa ora a soldier away at the front Many really are at home lonely and un un- un- un provided for except for small pensions pen pen- and they drift onto the streets 5 and into saloons Thousands of soldiers come back 5 from the front to find their wives utterly different This Is is' a great menace to our boys at the front Then there are the casualty lists In Tn Paris I was accosted by a pretty litle woman with every evidence of refinement Why In in the v world orld are you In Inthis Inthis inthis this position I asked herShe her I She wept when she answered I I saw the casualty list the other day My ily husbands husband's n name me was there the grim reason There are thousands of others Just like herIn herIn her In In the eyes of French women Americans are heroes now These women will desert a Frenchman In a second to go to the side of an Ameri Ameri- can I myself have been accosted innumerable in in- innumerable numerable times by women i delighted at their discovery that I was an American The American soldiers set France mad with hope Rev Mr Clark said j. j L In the minds of both England and andt t France victory has been made cery certain y tam tain by the entry of the United States it