"You may be right."

And so it is all over France; where I have worked in some twenty
hospitals--from the first-aid dressing-stations back through the
evacuation hospitals to the base hospitals--and have found that the
reaction of our boys to wounds and suffering is always a spiritual
reaction. I know as I know no other thing, that the boys of America
are to come back, wounded or otherwise, a better crowd of men than they
went away. They are men reborn, and when they come back, when it's
"over, over there," there is to be a nation reborn because of the
leaven that is within their souls.




V

SILHOUETTES OF SACRILEGE

During the last year there has come into French art a new era of the
silhouette. In every art store in Paris one sees wonderful silhouettes
which tell the story of the horror of the Hun better than any words can
paint it, and when one attempts to paint it he must attempt it in word
silhouettes.

The silhouette catches the picture better than color. Gaunt, naked,
ruined cathedrals, homes, towers, and forests are better pictured in
black silhouettes than any other way. There is nothing much left in
some places in France but silhouettes.