In regard to the attitude of the soldiers to the league of nations, Lt. Bessee said: "There wasn't a great deal of heavy-weight thinking among the boys. Their chief topic of conversation was 'When do we eat' - and when do we go home?' But I think that the general sentiment is not friendly towards it at all. Most of the boys felt that when France, England, and the United States entered into treaty to protect France in case of encroachment by Germany, even the makers of the league did not have much faith in it, as a preventer of wars and they felt it could not be very valuable document if the framers of it took a step at the beginning that discredited it. That treaty spilled the beans. It makes everyone feel that it wouldn't be safe to have any too much confidence in the proposition.
"No one thinks the French wonderful people now. When the boys went over they had Frenchmen up on a pedestal. But that's all over now.
"If I ever go back into the service I'd rather go as a top sergeant than as a commissioned man. I would be making more money in the end, and I would have a better time and have more interesting work to do.
"In regard to welfare work there is no question that the Salvation Army made the big hit with all the A. E. F. 