| Show ARE OVER THERE FOR FIGHTS SAKE yankees as eager to get to front as boy Is to G go 0 to circus Y M C A MAN LAUDS MEN american soldiers full of pep and keep huns guessing tells how men were rushed to line washington they are over there for the fights sake in three months in france although I 1 encountered thousands of american soldiers end talked personally with hundreds I 1 did not meet one who just ns as keen to get to the front ns as well as a boy Is to get to the circus any pacifist pro german or other nondescript laboring under the impression pres slon that the american troops tire are fighting because they have to rather than because they want to would be quickly disillusioned after a chat with t it I 1 ralph W harbison pittsburgh bu business man member of the national war work council of the Y SI INI C A and head of a commission depre representing benting that body which has just returned from a special mission to france mr harbison spent ag hours with the rainbow division under heavy fire in a certain one of the american sectors this used to be fr a quiet part of the front mr arc harbison explained that Is it was quiet until the yankees came aang the troops who had previously held these trenches there had been less than a score of casualties in over a the bobbe moved about pretty much as he pleased ord really led a placid life keep huns guessing now things are arc different yankee In ingenuity gennity Is fairly outdoing outgoing out doing itself to make life nils miserable erable tor for fritz arltz worrying him hill is the dally and nightly pastime the thing that you cannot got get away from Is the high morale orale ir of our men it fairly exudes from them they have lots of pep tire are up on their toes every minute and are sending over ten shells for every three that hat come our way these americans also seem to have a monopoly on initiative they keep fritz altz on the jump and have nut him gues guessing qIng all the time but tile hie filing that makes you prouost proul proud wt st ta Is that they tire are pim placing ing the game gaine like real sportsmen n and in their condei conversation R itlie and conduct ill ct ven even in tile the front lines reflect the liokhe t ideal of america today I 1 the ill Oe termination annl vill or of it alir imen men ur sir harbison aid were re 11 well vell 11 illustrated rated in the story of 0 the grim private ire he was encountered in one of the forward Y 11 C A stations located in it a shell torn village at the t lie end of a communication trench and nd his grimness was in striking contrast cont st t to 0 the gayness of the men around him h m fritz got my corporal yesterday he explained ile he was also my best friend ills his fists clenched over the rifle in ills his hands habits bul birt I 1 go back into the trenches at four in the morning im going to get three bodies boches my corporal corpora was worth more than that of them but three will begin to even things up tip ire he got them it was shortly after mr harrisons Har visit to the rainbow division that general persby 11 put nt at the disposal of the F reach french the entire military resources of america ica over there mr fr fill giai 11 bison encountered some of the american divisions as ast they licy being rus rushed led to the front to fill what diat ave w now know to have been almost a breach in fit the allied title line Y M C A beats the troops in this sudden of troops troop mr air harbison said the american Y 1 M I C A made a remarkable record in rine one instance orders came to a certain tain american devison div lson to proceed at once to a point miles distant the brigadier general in command informed tile the divisional Y til C A secretary fourteen Y M 1 I C A auto mobile canteens were immediately loaded with chocolate food tobacco and other supplies when tile the troops t oops arrived ni rived tit at theli destination they found the Y 11 C A men the same ones that hart had served them before in the tulle mile distant camp awaiting them with huge quantities of pot post exchange supplies find ami several thousand gallons of pit piping hot coffee and cocoa which was waa given away free |
