sh everything. It is the free
institutions of the country that brought us victory, not the so called
'education' gotten in the barracks.

"I admired the national army man in fight, because I loved him as a
citizen. And unless he changes as a citizen, he will not change as a
fighter. To me the citizen and soldier are synonymous. A good citizen
makes a good soldier, and vice versa. Let the American citizen remain as
free-loving and self-reliant as he is now, and he will make one of the
best soldiers in the world. Let him lose that freedom loving spirit, and
he will have to be Prussianized.

"I have my greatest respect for the national army man, because I have
seen him at his best. In the moments of gravest danger he has exhibited
that courage which is only inborn in a free man. And when I saw that
courage, I said, He does not need any 'education.' Let him remain a free
man, and God help those who will try to take away his freedom."
SGT. J. KANT, Co. "M" 339th Inf.

From distant Morjagorskaya, hundreds of versts, walked a bright-eyed
Slavic village school teacher to say goodbye to her doughboy friend who
was soon to sail for home. But to her great joy and reward, Nina Rozova
found that her lover, George Geren, of Detroit, had found a way to make
her his wife at once. One certain sympathetic American Consul, Mr.
Shelby Strother, had told George he would help him get his bride to
America if he wanted to marry the pretty teacher.

Blessings on that warm-hearted Consul. He helped eight of the boys to
bring away their brides. In this volume is a picture of a
doughboy-barishna wedding party, Joe Chinzi and Elena Farizy. On a boat
from Brest to Hoboken, among one hundred sixty-seven war brides from
France, Belgium, England and Russia, Elena was voted third highest in
the judges' beauty list. And John Karouch saw his Russian bride,
Alexandra Kadrina, take the first beauty prize. The writer well
remembers the beautiful young Russian woman of Archangel who wore
mourning for an American corporal and went to see her former lover's
comrades go away on the tug for the last time. They had been to the
cemetery and they looked respectfully and affectionately at her for they
knew it was her hand that had made the corporal's grave there in the
American cemetery in Archangel the one most marked by evidences of
loving care.

One of the last duties of the veterans of this campaign was the paying
of h