Show to b b C t. t Js wr r n I y ya r i. i 6 r Nc s. s y r a 7 Rt ye c I t r t b nS kot T a Z x I w k t Uh J p d r Y N K r N W y 4 d n I r. r r t Y t 4 e r k k A 3 t w d ro e l' l a C f 5 w 4 Why I 1 Want to Go lo Go Back to France First Prize E Essay In the American te Legions Legion's lou France Convention Context Content Written by bT Robert of Now New Briton In I to go back to the land of romance once more more to to march down the sweltering roads again with th the memory of ot a car carefree tree gang saner of ot doughboys tramping along t to the songs of ot Dinky Parley oo i-oo oo Good by Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way Hello France Prance and dear old Madelon 1 I want to be part of ot that dust-covered dust column once once nce more to live again the things that made it hell yet made us love it too too lines lines of ot sweat streaking down dusty faces and necks dangling hands swelling g up to numbness as pack straps tighten across the shoulders noisy mess wagons with clanking cla pans rolling along In the rear a passing outfit of ot Frogs trudging out of ot the lines for a rest ambulances ambulances Jammed with muddy blood bloody grinning Yanks going back to Blighty and Blighty-and and the distant boom of ot big guns j J J banging away over the hills In front of ot us Id I'd like lIJe to crawl back into a certain cramped and water-soaked water dugout up near Toul and watch it t rain rain rain I want to lie He once more In a wheat field below the old chateau In en Conde and watch for tor Jerry heads popping popping pop pop- ping up and down In the trenches across the Marne I want to live again the night of ot July 14 H when they poured up through that field to wipe us out and to see se if It the same same little trench is still sUIl there where we found Ed and Charley four tour days later leaning over their rifles on top of ot the parapet Just as the J Jennies had knocked j them oft off T I want to ll live all rill th the 1 tn n. n t i bursting shrapnel shrapnel shrapnel- and X t- t to th h hear r ft it whistling n t for Its victims to hear the frantic cries o of gas repeating down the line to lie He listening to the dismal moan of ot G. G I I. I cans cans going over to wake up the boys from Berlin I want to crouch there in my dugout listening and wondering ListenIng Listening Listening Listen Listen- ing to the dull heavy boom of or far-away far cannon rumbling through the night Listening to the drip drip drip of ot the everlasting rain out in the darkness I want to lie there wondering wondering- t a always wondering wondering what what Its It's all aU about I want to see French hills French field French sky French people once once again I want wan to see the kids kids to to know that they've learned to smile since the war I want to go back to France on once e more not more not to seek new Joys or thrills but to revive the dreams o of old that ar era au fading rading wi with th the Years years tt I I I U By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE A. A E. E F F. F Is mobilizing mC again Buit But Bu t it is s the second A A. E. E F F. F which which- is s planning a trip a abroad road and this time tim e L II the slogan Is On to Paris I 1 instead of ot On to Berlin All over th the e United States members of at the American Amer ican Legion are making their plans to revisit the land over which they fought ten tell years ears ago ngo and to attend the annual Legion convention which will be held in Paris September 19 to 24 2 lIts l. l Its It's a very different A A. E. E F F. F that thatIs thatis thatis is going over In this year 1927 from the one that went over In the year 1917 1017 Then its m members crossed the Atla Atlantic tlc in crowded troop ships their sailing clouded with wWi the profoundest of t secrecy every mile nine of their journey beset by the dangers of at the submarine- submarine Infested water For the folks foUs at home there was wasa wasn a n long anxious wait walt and then finally word came back that these boys of ot theirs had arrived safe safely Y Somewhere In France This year they'll be going over on palatial steamers like the Leviathan the Republic and the President Harding and Instead of f the folks back home waiting anxiously for word from them some of at these folks will wm accompany them on this gala trip For the sweet sweet- of ot 1917 1017 are the wives s of 1927 and they're 1 si tt J 4 1 t a I It a a o n 1 i L Lk JJ k r a al l I L r l v t t t tC C Some Familiar Scenes in France That Await wait the Second Coming of the A A A. E 1 J. Madame 1 Coupon the Washerwoman E. E ii F. F who paddled ont out hundreds hundred of It wn was Madame of shirt hurta and socks sock and suit ulta of American underwear soldiers soldier w who o panned paned through for tor hundreds hundred of ladder v which points to the abode of or those on their way to the Front Shea She's standing on OD a n hundreds 2 ONLY of men ON FOOT TOOT MAY l THEY TilEY CROSS Such Such 1 is I. the Arch de In Paris Americans American In the French warning to the approaches of or the tion lion must mint heed this capital for the American warning warning- too There Legion conven conven- are ora plent plenty for tor their benefit A la is n D person who does doell of pIctou which are ore being erected of either cither on an n pled pied In cx cx ex who n-ho go goes on foot signs n. other words word n 0 person are 1101 the visitor Arch to de In or de and request the go across it on hoen shoes snappy no matter mutter how iron much Allans And your old oll make dog nrc are tr fretting 3 Abbe ROMAGNE Abbe Ernest Cure Core The rond road to the right following the direction of the church at nt Sous oft Faucon n of th the military arrow on the tree trIO cemetery where lends lend re ret rest t the bodies to the of n nt at lon lent t American orle ordered ed hot abet tin nil n spy py 11 but about nn an hour before American war nr dead The TIle Cure Cur alibi the time set net for tor wm was 0 given elven for tor him 1101 him to fRee face by German the n a 4 9 LE FOUR FOUn DB DG PARIS Once priest and h he wan 1 ed firing squad Quod nn on Once upon n time Iel lation of TOO Here It la III today leFour our de Paris was quite n village TUIe nothing having except the bane bus of n population board hn hn a n rood road been erected erect erected cd Just to marker nt at the the right of ot right A where the old new signboard signboard sign sign- erected and one stood tood may be seen een In the A picture monument too too hns Fria been 5 lluy Huy some maps before start you TOU given ghen any members member of ot ont oat looking for tor the Eightieth stood nine Bette Ridgel e division Is III the along the going banks of the Agron back to revisit river the town respectable place and didn't hn have n chamber which was vaa about ns nil much fuels heard of ot of ot commerce but It cues Then It took tonic as Dill Its u. nel neighboring wAa n the tile role of chief stopper villages of Verpel can enn see Nce ce of of ot shells fired by bT and Thenor- Thenor the I when you OU co O o brick back tOda today Eightieth and this In is what C. C Until L Until I last summer ummer the shaft haft you yon youcan In I near the dugout of ot of the crown cro the German cemetery prince of In the I Is III Bavaria wn WOlf was Ar Argonne onne forest somewhere here In the United b Staten An by n ex American n 2 marble eagle engler B r A Now i. i il t Argonne In 1018 carried army officer w the tile n eagle I InDr It off oft ns nil who fought n a his hJ souvenir ms W way T through g h TV th the loing t to Paris too And some mothers are going And when they get to Paris hC how v different It will be from H 1917 17 also Then It was u a matt matt- of at only a n few hours' hours leave and even those hours were spent under the watchful e eyes es of the M M. Ps P.'s This year eal they are going back bak with the knowledge knowl knowl- edge of ot seven days s of ot glorious freedom in the French trench capital of ot living at nt some of or the best 1 hotels at moderate prices American Legion lon officers in charge of at the arrangements for the convent convention on have engaged five lve classes of at hotels and ond will wUl give the boys a week in Paris at ot price prices prices' ranging from tram 10 to 49 19 for tor room only for 5 y the seven seyen days As for tor the matter of or M M. Ps P.'s B there h No passports will be requIred for members embers wont won't be any ot of the Legion attending the convention and el enjoy joy complete cC they will freedom Identification S have been certificates tes accepted b by all instead of ot European Europe n countrIes passports Z thus avoiding visas visas' charges of any kind Since such 0 or heretofore are unknown to the f Paris po police pollee t the boys 4 v will have only to flourish them to get French authorities Although past any ties will appoint the Legion author assist the French special units in ea each h group to police force crowds Legion n officials In handling the tho fact that at ot least are ore counting upon the third one gates who arc arc- going of ot the delegates dele dele- will be the female wives or 01 relatives es other of or the real M. M s P of or men They will wUl be tho the this A. A E E. E F. F while it For Is in that POI is the reason Palls s I that heeding most of at them the slogan On are ns na the winner of the prize to Paris Robert nobert McKenna McKin- McKin reason for tal essay contest going Is given whose whoso for all of at them when he above has e expressed It going back indicated that to r vIsit the they are ore adventure ld of scenes of or the their greatest lives to tot too And they're to rend read certain names going back which on the stand in long white crosses tau faucon can at nt St. St l rows at ot the at ot Mont sous sous and at at atthe the Somme Marne For 1101 these at Su Suresnes their buddies are ore the certain names oj ot A. A E. E F. F members of at who the went Vent to France tIrs' tIrs to stay I |