, stimando che ogni libero cittadino possa, in ogni
circostanza, apportamente esprimere un giudizio sullopera del proprio
Governo senza rendersi colpevole d'indisciplina ne dar luogo a malevoli
interpretazioni."

The letter written to General Di Giorgi was as follows:

"Carpi, Italy, April 26, 1919.

"His Excellency,
General Antonio Di Giorgi:

"I have been in the Y. M. C. A. service in Italy since September 28,
1918. I am fond of the people of Italy and at all times have been
justly and fairly treated by them; and the officers and soldiers
constituting her great army have been especially kind to me.

"I have just had read to me from the journal Il Resto del Carlino La
Patria, addresses said to have been made by certain representatives of
the Y. M. C. A. at Bologna. If they are correctly quoted, they do not
express my views.

"As a citizen of the United States, with President Wilson the head of
the nation, I do not in Italy or elsewhere criticize his expressions. If
he speaks for the nation, I am controlled by and concur in those
statements.

"Most respectfully and with sincere regret, I am,

"John Smith.

"N. B.--I concur in the sentiment expressed by Mr. Smith.

"Edw. R. Clarke."

On April 26th in an interview, after the delivery of his letter, Mr.
Smith asked General Di Giorgi: "What would be the punishment of a
soldier who criticized his king as John Calhoun had President Wilson."

"Mr. Smith, you must excuse me from answering; I am not a politician,
but a soldier." (The general is considered one of the most astute
politicians in Italy.)

A major who was present said: "We would turn his face to the wall and
shoot him in the back."

On April 28th Professor Black sailed for America on a three-months'
vacation, a very inopportune time, as the Y work was in a chaotic state
and his more than two hundred subalternate secretaries exposed to
personal danger.

General Treat, Commander of the American forces in Italy, after an
investigation, ordered Saylor stripped of his uniform, and he was sent
home. Before he left Italy he was made a Cavaliere. His friends among
the Italian officers, who had repeatedly enjoyed the hospitality of his
Fiat, dubbed him "Sir Knight of the Highway."

He returned by way of France and attended the first convention of the
American Legion in Paris. He returned on an American transport with
several thousand soldiers. As he looked at these boys he thought of the
vast