| Show MI 1 1 02 3 iti 0 c I 1 vice el great C 0 organization a 1 ai Z to 0 be e Com c composed co 1 Dosed 0 s of american veterans of gret great war Is being beina formed in france by LLOYD ALLEN special staff correspondent lelman has br 1 sea newbill newmill 01 union ARTS comrades in 11 ice ad adopt ato ns as tue the 1 1 nama a lor the two end ad a half million 1111 strong strang I 1 it th hint will take it its place 1 in american america affairs I 1 na the ul at tamate suc successor calsor to the road grand army ot of the republic and the united confider Con feder laca as comrades in service icell iu a brief will be tile the name of at the soldiers organize mile ahat is ie being formed him here tn in france ill bv the american buy boys ot of the expeditionary expedition ry forces the democratic many army that put pep into the great war at the american america lads ad that hot turned the ill tide bee at chateau thierry kilderry and the boreal ot of the argo argonne a to say nothing thing of the st millet salient and I 1 thereby here by save gave the nor huns their knockout blow throughout the Is length ath and breadth of fran france the first chapters of if the new 17 anz society 1 have a ve b been bg organized A 1 z e a by choy members r oe t alie li e am american r acm e expedition n e d 1 tk m ary force with ill of the chip let lain s baru bureau of general headquarters four welfare organizations tm have aided the work mork the young ai alens he a christian association the jewish welfare board the th koichi knights of columbus colombo and ad the sal 81 atan attn anny alloy in principle calmness Con nades in service benlee Is strictly and ad n lan ian its program now tailing a shape bilm 1 is altruistic the leaders leader ad as well il ns na the men enrot led a are inking t the a attitude it ade that service to the amer lean co im government honert or humanity h will not t mity aill eino end with but th that each b end and every man who mile wore more the uniform during the war days cars will find in amer ame le ica or wherever hr he a happens to be located cat C it plenty of opportunity to serve ill his fellow roan man in the days davs of place peace A As fl a name me comrades 1 in Ser service received its first official recognition whon when president wilson here in parts paris for the th pence peace conference attended the first meeting of the held in the a palace de glace early in jinn or ary ry the palace Is a big maine amusement ement pavilion operated for the ape special let bens bene fit of american soldiers on team leave or stationed in paris thousands of americans american 1 in laci uniform form visit the place every night might entertainments are held with programs resembling the old fashioned home talent productions featuring american per performers formen either professional or amateur audiences audience of turn out ont got for tile the tuning exhibitions ft htwa it was dr 0 D foiter of the T M C A who first suggested the name of t the he order Us de got the idea one day in america while hll riding through garv ind 1 on 1 a 1 train on 01 one of t the h e sidetracks trem a squad of soldiers was we ing 19 ammunition from fram a box car into so army my true 1 in tile the sund squad was a negro driver several event white little men of strict strictly le american ancestry and a couple of foreigners foreign cri him here are comrades in the service of america e doctor foiter faster thought the best part of the phrase talk stuck 1 in his mind bee because am a it fitted perfectly the PI plans a he had been considering tor far forming so an after war sold soldiers lere or g entla every company to ta orgon org on ev bv the time the last regiments leave rr france nee it Is believed that every corn cord any will it have the skeleton or of no an or incitation affiliated 11 with th M the at much organization work ile has already it d been by it the soldiers themselves and by the welfare work era who ho ae are earnestly atly pushing the idea orean overcoming dag sectional In balle Is 11 one of 11 the aims of if Cmur comrades ades in service 1 l taking up tile the putt patriotic work of the grand at army iny of t the he republic I 1 in the he northern states t st end and the united confederate veterans in the south 1 Is another plank pinch in ill tile the platform in americas america we cau can export expect to add one 11 ove and possibly two mon cat national ional days day of to our calendar of fete doya day november 11 which chich will all ably ly be known as Andi armistice day and april A pin 6 the anniversary of our declaration deca I 1 la of war against lt germany 0 on rm these dav I 1 as well as on in july 4 co corn rude rades 1 in service will be men a who wilt will take a prominent part I 1 in the general observances of the date data they are the men m mho ho ma made good in the hi bust all bithe a ness of crushing rush but prussian militarism bull m they nrc e the men who suffered and who we wn gl glory ry at the task it la on the blata immar for commom in service livreri I 1 to ianke areal ties day and it july fourth at leahla least two tem red letter days day in their starly acly program plans are well alt under way tor for the se establishment of a national american america NI h if ile ar 4 AO YIV YI r 14 1 4 1 9 K ir A V atilt 1 1 k ftp la V kr T T Z 74 11 1 a y S I 1 e 4 magazine devoted to 0 the interests intel ats of comrades in service men in tile group of welfare in par farla who are mapping out th the magazine gazle a pro pec gram rind bile believe e a large section of tile the publication should humid be devoted to a hi hla tor korv of the various divisions that el their clum to france to form a part of the american expeditionary force or ce remained in the american camps prevented from taking a more active P part rt in the war by the sudden collapse of germ granv here in pence france comrades in I 1 service la Is beginning its actual existence alete C as a a series arl of soldier a clubs with the men electing their own officials and taking a large urge part in forming the program of their individual chapters general convention planned delegates to a general convention for far instance to be held in paris paria fur for the purpose of completing organization on a large scale Is are an choden from the va S mus units aulds scattered through france by the time the convention Is called it la Is the plan to have organization work camp completed eted in all of the army groups with wilh the possible exception of at tile army a of occupation along the german border in a great many wava the business of starting comes comrades 1 in service as a an active force in the american many army con can be cl considered Is as a kind of if tom bocon Se majam activity it Is a kind of con can at ell g ik between settle actie e service and return to civilian lire life a program of education has been bee launched here by the army officers and workers as a a stepping stone toward the time when tile the bids bid the arm good by dur ing the war days tile soldiers were con can ceded principally with training alms anil I 1 adjusting themselves to liv lh ing g the army y life they were not able to keep help abreast of the tion news of the d ly partly because they had enough to do learning to become soldiers and also so be because ones they had small leml alty ity to read tile the dall papers kupers and em cur rent cut magazines N now that demobilization looms head ahead se as tile the next big milestone on the soldiers soldier 8 program he la Is acquiring tn in 1 formation on uch such subjects a aa mi alie league of nations I 1 universal mil hill rare training suit and klic kindred dr it hilija tant not problems problem ot of the dav all of tile the welfare groups 9 ups the Y id C A till the satiation Saho tion army tile jewish welfare board and the knights of columbus are assisting sla tim in 1 whatever 1 11 ter manner they can in this thi educational ducat ional campaign urged t to inform themselves you are areal about eart to return home the welfare elfer lecturers is tell ell abu mall en encel and you or are going to be qu ques flamed frequently by fie people who 1 have ove remained at home about condi comil in beanie i ranie about aill universal rund military training ing about half adf ft a hundred topics of tid this great sea era have yon latea m been gathering gatherl acco accurate information 1 in bt about ill these subjects are you going to be able to answer uncurl questions fully and the soldier 1 Is inclined to agree with the lecturer that he has not I 1 been able to keep up to the scratch on out mat outside many army life and he agrees a that it is up to him to learn nil fi he can and tell it to his Amerl american mi fric friends when he returns to the unit united it states this on obvious mum as ad it ma mat wem scam this idea of getting information formation ot if becoming acquainted cati minted with problems of the day any la is welcomed by men moped cooped up in m nimy my camps thinking only of that that day when they will get back to america sometimes it happens that a 1 sol I dier gets his first definite idea of the responsibilities he Is to assume as a a citizen directly from fl thess these lectures lecture he H commences to realize that he 1 la scheduled to become became an important fig ure 1 in american political affairs he em as more fully that he be 1 Is a broader man ot 1 broader vision isi thu than when olien he be left aller america co he had be been to too busy training and traveling to think thick a great deal about his remote fu future I 1 ure during the period ot of war at now h he e i la getting his bis beadi bearings ef again and the a welfare men are an en managing him to develop his bis ideas to round manal them out by observation and reading and by study and means are an being provided far or study here hen in F france a the welfare boards are building up big educational machines moie mine than 2 men during the first weeks ot of the peace conference 1 in paris were more enrollee enrolled in bl the hundreds of educational classes i in the army camps of 01 I 1 ranee TI thia IS A work ork was going IS ou all over th the country it y A list 1111 of the schools mim would I 1 it ile be a I 1 start report on the dillo disposition of the american troop in I 1 france ile because an the there m was some a kind or of school choi 1 in virtually very every map camp boffl officers re are instructors A army al officers men cat trained in the a rams sc sciences lemose and t na as instructors tem can it was waa beyond tho the abai ability of the Y M V 0 A or mr any other welfare if organization to in provide the nee sar alchu teachers from their own comparet comparatively hely small personnel person nels so while alle the american DOS bs waited patiently top far the ships ship that would old take them back home they studied by the hundred the thousand nd and began bean their preparation for far return to to am canihan nf alte ahem it if the ideals blends of comrades colorado in sets service or are realized they will pamfil still maintain much of the fellows fell fellowship owl of eliat helped to it defeat flat germany ahm are many men in prance who believe americas america B great suit and lasting alof benefit from the war s mill ill Is he i a b better 11 stion of the duty each american owes ones to his 9 and ad his hia corn com la of abut a better ter understanding a or of the id liunas 15 of america and of a wiping milling out of much class prejudice and ad sectionalism and comrades 1 lo 10 se service sele le to in a edition addition to being a great after it r fi the war or inguld ahm such as the tha G A B i lead and U C V will mill perpetuate thoas these results of war which bring brine out abe S I 1 finest traits fruits of clar character acter headquarters it littera for conclude 1 ID service was qa 1 in france fins but as won soon as a goodly proportion of the american america army amy is sent cut home h head at quarters etc 1 is to be moved led to some a large american city probably will W ill aton |
