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M AM U S HOY WHITESFROM KELLY FIELDS(continued from page 1)KING AN EXAMPLE FORAMERICAN HOI'SEW1 VESantino camp where all new men are held for two weeks to make s#re they carry no disease. \\ e were first stripped to the waist and a medical officer examined us and then taken over to the supply tent where we were each given a bunk. In the meantime our tents had been hauled up so we pitched our bunks and crawled in ready to call it a day s work.The next morning we were assigned to regular tents and a corporal I was assigned to each squad. Our daily program was laid down 1 y the commanding officer as follow's:First Call 5:15.Reveille 5:30.Breakfast 6:00Policing tents and company street,6:30 to 7:30.7:30 1st drill period.8:30 2nd drill period.9:30 3rd dTill period.10:30 School-guard duty and mil-jitary courtesy.11:45 Dinner.2:30 Drill.3:20—5:15, free for washing clothes or anything else;6:00 retreat.9:00 lights out.11:00 tattoo.Each squadron has six cooks—3 on 2 4 hours and off 24 hours. When the food is ready to serve it is placed on a long table and every one lines up and as we march past it is dished out to us. We ate out in the open sitting on the ground and when, a “Texas Tommis’ as we call them came along we had our food wfell flavored wf,th Texas.During the summer the temperature stood around 120 in the day time but fortunately, a breeze always came up at night and we could sleep with one blanket over us comfortably. It wras very hard at first to stand the extreme heat but we gradually became accustomed to it.The section of Texas we are in is very level, sandy, and not a tree in sight. We found lots of cactus, prick-ley pears, persimmons and occasionally we ran across horn toads and rattlesnakes. WThen one of the Texas sand storms came up as they do about two or three times a month, it is almost impossible to breathe. When we saw them coming wre would make sure our tent ropes were secure, lash the tent flaps to the pole and lay on the cots, hoping the tent would last the storm through without kissing us goodbye. It was very seldom there would be any rain with the storm other than a sprinkling. The sand w'ould drift in the same manner that. snow does in a blizzard i in the north.We were in the tents about six w'eeks when wre were moved to the wooden barracks. This was a big improvements over the tents, as we had a bath house and a place to wash our clothes and a mess hall where wre can sit dow’n to tables and eat our meals.The bunk house is about 200 feet long by 20 feet wide andaccommo-dates 150 bunks. They are one story and 71 of them in a long line side by side make quite a good sized town. They are electric lighted and make very comfortable quarters.The eats in the barracks are quite an improvement over what we got in the tents, where wre got liver and rice, stew% beans and cabbage. Tn the barracks the mess sergeant does his own buying. Tie is given the regular ration allowance and must keep his cost within that amount.We are given guard duty generally once a week. This is for 2 4 hours and the detail is divided in three sections named reliefs, and each man is assigned a post with a corporal in charge of each relief. The first relief goes on for two hours, the second for two hours, and the third for the last two hours, making two hours on and four off. We go on at 9 A. M. and are relieved at the same time the next day.There are some very funny happenings told of the sentries on guard and I will describe a couple. One sentry on duty challenges a person in the usual wav, “Halt, wiio’s there?” “ChapHa)in” comes the answer. “All right, Charlie, pass on.*’ The other, a sentry challenges a party and the answer comes, “Officer, with wife and daughter.” He replies “Advance officer, Jnark time rwife and daughter.” A word of explanation to the above. A sentry can advance only one person at a time to be recognized as otherwise it might be used as a ruse to overpower him.San Antonio is six miles from the camp and automobiles run back and forth all the time the charge being a quarter each way. It is an interesting old town of the Spanish period. They have itheir old missions and the famous Alamo, wrhich is now a historic ruin. Their parks and Mexican section are also points of interest. The city is the center of a military training circle. Kelly Field, the aviation ‘training field in one direction, Camp Travis, the National Army Cantonment, and Ft. Han Houston, an army post for artillery, cavalry and infantry, in another and Camp Stanley and Leon Springs, Officers Reserve Training school in another. Practically the only people seen on the streets or in the places of amusement are men in uniform and they are leaving lots of money n San Antonio. There are probably 100,000 men in the various camps.Kelly Field is a concentration camp for all the men in the aviation section and they are sent from here to the training schools both in this country and in France. There areRuler of England As Careful Not to Waste Bread as Any WorkingWoman.England has been in the war longer than America. Over there they know more of the need for conservation of food than does this country. And from necessity all ' save, from the woman doing a man’s work in the shops, to the King himself. This story is told of the King:King George has the loaf brought to the table and lie slices off the bread as it is needed. At the end of the meal no slices are left over.This is not a new custom in England, and in many households of both rich and poor :t is carried even further. The- end of the loaf is spread thinly and evenly with butter and this buttered slice is then cutoff and served.To the end that similar food-thriftmay be introduced in the homes of this state these questions may properly be put to every household:Do you KNOW that you are notwasteful?How many slices of bread wereleft over yesterday? WThat did youdo with them?How much butter did you scrapefrom the butter dishes?How much food w'as left on the plates? What did you do with it?Do you cook more than is needed? What about the half cup of milk left over? Did you throw it away or did you use it with soda to make quick breads, corn bread or ginger bread?Do you save the fats left in thepan after frying?When your vegetables reach boiling point do you turn dowrn the gas flame or turn down the damper in the range and save fuel?the'OMEN CAN DO IX GREAT WORLD WARFrench Correspondent Tells of Work of Scotch Women—Active in Hospitals.On a wild and almost impassable road in the Macedonian mountains a correspondent of Le Figaro of Paris reports that he met an automobile driven by a gracious and smiling young woman, one of the staff of the Scottish Womens’ Hospital, with headquarters at Salonica, one section of wiiich is in these mountains.He visited their encampment in n wild and desolate spot on the Cerna River, wThere all the activities of the hospital are carried on in the open air or in tents; there are five ambulances and three touring cars, dormitories with stoves for cold weather and mosquito bars for hot days, where they cjfre for w'ounded Russians, French, Serbs, and English, and had even some Germans and Bulgarians. There is a well equipped operating room, kitchen, laundry, and further off, tents where the Scottish women sleeps—when they have a chanceThis hospital was founded bv wo-men and all posts are held by them, not only nurses but doctors, surgeons, chauffeurs, orderlies—the only thing a man can do is to be wounded or sick. The ambulances go over these frightful roads clear to the first line, to bring back badly wounded men that wrould otherwise have to be carried on mule bek for 12 to 15 hours.The personnel is made up of the best families of Scotland. When told that they were doing a great work they replied—“What {Is wonderful about it? This war is for everybody. Our husbands and our brothers are doing their part, we are doing ours.” Some American women are already doing the same things as those of Scotland. There will be more of them as this countrys share in the war is enlarged. As missionaries, as teachers, the American women have | girdled the earth, and they can be depended upon to take the Red Cross Uniform to the most distant spot where humanity is to be served.IThe Sons of Veterans announce a meeting for next Monday evening, ..ovember 19th. at the K. of P. hall, to which all the old soldiers, members of the Women’s Relief Corps, all other similar organizations and all patriotic citizens are invited. The meeting is complimentary toCivil War Veterans. There will be campfire talks by Rev. Dornblazer, Roger Phelps and Frank Atkins and music will be furnished by H. A. Clark.The White House Millinery Department advertises all Trimmed Hats at % off.several kinds of squadrons, namely, Construction, service, repair, supply, and provisional and men are assigned according to their trades.But is it not all work ,and plav enters also. There is friendly rivalry between the squadrons in baseball soccer, basket ball and football. The men practice after supper and occasionally are excused from drill for that purpose.The second liberty loan was ably supported by the men of our camp. The 10,000 men in camp took $850,000, we believe leading all other camps in amount per capita.It wouldn’t do to close without mentioning the good w^ork done by the Y. M. C. A. found in all army comps. They furnish many diversions for the men such as boxing, wrestling, movies, lectures, etc. They also furnish the men with writing materials, free of charge.T think I have covered most of our life and happenings here.As ever, Your SonHarry L. Dabler.
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Fri, Nov 16, 1917
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