AMERICANS AT THE FRONT
villages. America is aiding France to grapple the most dreaded secondary result of the war—tuberculosis. American hospitals from Devonshire to Salonica are helping to nurse the victims of war. To mention all the forms that active American aid has taken would be to transform this paper into a mere catalogue of names.
Americans are the first to say that the stream of sympathy in the United States has been barely tapped, and that from ocean to ocean; people are eager and willing to do more. "So much remains to be done," wrote ex-President Taft recently, "so widespread and profound is the misery to be alleviated, that every agency should be utilized for the expression of the good will and brotherly love of the American people." Greater things may yet be ahead. Some of us are glad to treasure in our hearts what has been done.
Various attempts have been made to number the Americans in the Allied ranks. Those like myself whose affairs take them into the Allied lines are constantly surprised to find Americans in the most unlikely places. Their speech betrays them, whatever declarations they may have made when joining up. "If you take a map of the United States and go up and down the American lines in France, you will find no city, great or small, which has not sent a flying
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