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ptorial Btafr: Brooks Shackley, Paul
& Whitaker, Robert D. Goodwin.
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| THOURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1918,
@ The Spirit of Billy Watters,
i “Billy” Watters lies dead in
Fance, but somehow his friends
jre cannot help feeling that a
12&¢ his is still with them,
il of encouragement, full of
pe and full of that indefinable
gribute that made him a leader
- g
'can/ say that the thing
ic ;‘;g_rxbmp‘ted Col. Sweezey
the 13th Infantry to say as
atters presented himself at
pdquarters for surveillance,
w 28, I like you; I'm going
P put you in the toughest com
iy in this regiment,” was not
| fesult of ‘the younger man’s
eo, d ey
perent patriotism. Rt
fhere was something in the
it of the future lieutenant
gh pleased the colonel tre
pdously, and Watters was
ged in the “toughest com
mse the colonel knew
_‘x_";_g_aptaip would have to
ymmend Watters for the offi
fß training. school purely in
[ valiant son of Mary-.
il made friends of every man
his Mghest company,” and
en the time came for him to
’ nere ‘-Wa_s gqneral SOrTrow.
e was thirty-eight years old,
ried to a lovely womfan, and
,mo interesting chil-.
fen. But the desire to serve
gountry was such that he vol
jered his sword and hand to
"Sf the war. And in his
"e his life. :
jis nobleman, for such he
i though titles or knighthood
“his, gladly ended his
hly career, as did the early
.of Lord Baltimore’s
bin the defense of his own
ith and home. And America
Maved because he and thou
_others died to save it.
|
.In Appreciation.
v n have been informed
#Pop” Wilson and Dr.G. W.
- are about to leave
) Meade for other lines of
fiotic work. ;
joth these men, one a white
Mtive secretary in O hut and
pther a colored executive in
f¢ mén who are representa
of the highsst type of wel
“workers. They have the
rest: of soldiers at heart;
‘possess the enthusiasm and
jtion to 'put programs inte
B¢, and they lose no oppor
%o keep men on the right
,‘” Bg r . A- $
Bgoes without saying that
of these secretaries has left
Blible impression upon the
pof those with whom and
¥hom they worked. Soldiers
® back'home and recall al
§ that these men gave them
ething to think about, that
ed the very vital things in
existence. It was the kind
jof both that seemed to.
i and hold the affections of
fit may be said of tach
Ecpuat. 10 minjsie -not
e fi;“?flm# o T
i ERGAE TROSREL . - -2
3bo e e
“ATTENTION!"
SOLDIERS, ! |
Col. C. 8. Hoffman, assistant chief of staff, is chairman, and Capt.
R. C. Dove, camp exchange officer, is treasurer of a committee which
has been appointed to receive voluntary contributions from officers,
“non coms” and privates who feel that they would like to help make a
success of the united war work campaign for $170,500,000, which is to be
conducted all over the country during the week beginning November 11,
No pressure will be brought te-bear upon any soldier to give to the
fund. He will merely bg given an opportunity to contribute if he cares:
to do so. It is not intended to alter the fact that the huts are the con
necting link between the home and the Army.
Assurance is given by the united war work committee in New York
that the money given by seldiers on this side of the ocean will be used
for work among our soldiers “over there,” among soldiers of our allies
and among the men in prison camps. It is a chance for the boys “over
here” to help the boys “over tgere." 7
Every cent of money needed for the work in the camps in this
country will be given by the people “back home.”
oN N - P N o R R ee S o A R o A O Bo N P PGP PSIOUS AL
W
HUNS ARE GIVEN “HELL"” BY |
- ® ® ' b iks . -
Former Meade Soldiers Domg Great Work
for Gen. Kuhn, But He4vy Casual
y L .
ties Include Eleven Ma] ors.
e
That the 79th Division, :which pre
céded the 11th at Meads, is making
history in the closing of the “two
neck bottle” of Gen. Foch's special
design is borne out \by Gen. March and
the letters which have been received
teling in an intimate way of the
excellent and blood-curdling work
which the former Meade soldiers are
doing. :
The Ist Army, of which the 79th is a
part, 18 now closing on Sedan and
the fighting is perhaps more severe
than. on any other portion of the
whole western front. The Germans,
according to reports of Edwin L.
James, New York Times correspond
ent, have & few fresh divisions in
readiness to throw into the breach
and they are offering very determined
-resistance. He admits that the Amer
icans have been thrown back at sev
eral Important river crossings, but
that the holding of commanding ar
tillery posl:lonn deces not enable the
‘boche to hold against the onslaughts
of the Yankee warriors,
. Majors Buffer Heavily.
It is learned- that eleven of the
twelve majors in the fo infantry
regiments of the 79th ave been
killed or wounded. This is sufficient
to show the valor of the troops, par- -
* ticularly the officers, and the extent
of the casualty lists which may be
expected to come later. ' g
‘Majs. Peppér and Putnam of the
313th Infantry and Maj. Allen of the
314th -Infantry have been kmlod. Maj.
Fred Patterson of the 316th ‘lnfantry .
ha® been wounded three times, once
in the head. Maj. Effringham Morris
of the same regiment has been trans
ferred to the 313th Infantry. He was
mnd%:horfly‘ after his transfer.
The 31 Infantry, it is believed, is -
now in command of Col. Noble J.
Wiley, who was a major when the
regiment left Meade in early July.
Gen. Kuhn has congratulated his
troops upon their splendid showing,
and the order was signed by Lieut.
Col. Steinmam who was a '‘major in
Meade. Capt. Jay Cooke, one of the
staff officers of the division, was.hold-
Yng the rank of lieutenant in Meade.
It was his grandfather . who is credited
with'-having played a large part in
the financing of the federal govern
ment in the civil war, "
.“Billy” Watters of Gen. Nicholson's
staff, 157th Infantry Brigade, has been
killed, according to letters recelved
by friends. He was a first lieutenant
and one of the-most popular men in
‘Maryland, his wife being-the daughter
of Columbus . O’'Donnell Lee.
D. C. Men in Thick of It.
District of Columbia soldiers, who
miade up a large part of the machine
gunners of the- 79th; have been
through the hottest part of the con
flict, and Maj. Stuart Janney, a bat
talion commander, has been com
mended for bravery in action. Writ
ing to his wife, serving on the execu
" tive staff of The Washington Star,
Sergt. . Cassard Schroth, Company C,
312th Machine Gun Battalion, says of
.. the fight: £ : '
“Guess you know that we took part
in the recent drive. It was surely
" a perfect hell that we went through.
But we were victorious and it was a
wonderful sight' to behold. Our ad
vance was magnificent, and the pris
oners ' were unlimited. The sights
along the battlefield are very different
_from those along F street in the
capital. &
“I have seen sights that would turn
your hair gray and others that would
turn it back to Ats natural color. I
am a much wiseß boy and when 1 get
back will be &ble ta entertain you for
. months with stories of what I've seen.
¢ N
Saw Hospital Shelled.
° “The. Germans are barbarians. I
witnessed the blowing up of an Amer
jcan hospital by their artillry and I
was not 200 yards away. - I have been
under direct hoche artillery fire and
. have had a mehine gun- fired at me
from a%vairplano'ntty feet above my
.head. e got our kitchen up to the
front, which had never been- dene be
fore and for which we, received high
praise. ¥ -
“In one German trench we: found a
. whole case of American cl?,r- The
‘stories about the beer gardens. back
. “of the German lines are true and we
saw. the bathtubs. Py
. . “Tell your dear mother and father
:;h:‘t"l hog:kt.o be home 500 ".33
3 g . i 3 B | 2 ’ P
V& w.{* t,, LBl w_ :‘”m—,“
£3 gy 2 B 3 ‘ ¥, ?}&Se I BaFN
e SRR o e B “mII;
_batlly, captured three. towns *H fwa
days. We were shelled out of our
positions by the mjost wicked fire, but
only .lost a littla sleep. 1 received
thirty of your let and, believe me,
they were like angels from heaven.:
Hun Overcoats for Wounded.
_Dated October 38, the following let
ter was sent to his father, Judge
Dunn of Baltimore, by Harry Dunn of
Company A, 310th Machinge Gun Bat
tsalion, and published in the Baltimore
un: ;
“Hello, Judge! Here I am, still alive.
I suppose you saw where the 79th
Division was in action last week—
indeed, we were very much so. I sup
pose the papers were full of the
names of some poor fellows who Were
killed, but we gained our point and
drove them many miles tq the rear.
“Oyr trucks arrived and we went
right to the front. They injured so
many of our men all the trucks were
turned into ambulantes. I made many
trips with the wounded from the very
* front to the fleld hospitals. The dirty
Germans even bombed two hospitals:
to which we were taking the injured. .
It sure was a é’lght. We had to move
what we could again, many poor fel
lows dying on the way. Two nice fel
lows died on my truck, but they surs
were pleaséd to know that they ha
g:tten some Germans before they got
them. :
‘“The Germans fight dirty. They fight
behind trees, and when we get up to
them they come out and cry ‘kam
erad’ and give up. You Bhould have
seen what I did to nine prisoners, The
truck I had was a five-ton Pierce Ar
row, with no top to it. I had seven
wounded men-in it when it started
to rain. I saw nine ' prisoners and
~'stopped them, I said, ‘Rousmit”with
your overcoats,’ and I took their coats
~ away from them and put them on our
men to keep them warm. Wasn't that
great? I think it was fine. It was cold,
anyhow, so I put one on, too, and
kept warm myself. s
r “Say, Judge, the Red Cross people
are sure doing fine work. They are
right up on the line, giving first aid
to our men who are injured.
‘“May you live t 6 enjoy many more
birthdays. I saw it in the overseas
paper of The Sun.” ni
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E-HUT NOTES.
While some of the soldiers of this
(IiP;lslon may never get a crack at the
uns, those who took part in, likewise
those who saw, Wednesday's gunnery
exhibition are entitled to the assurance
that the brand of marksmanship put up
was not the sort to ever let the Hinden
burg "line work -west again. Squads
from the 17th and 7ist Infantries and
the 31st, 32d and 88d ‘Machine Gun Bat- .
talions represented this area. 3
One of the one-pounder crews drew
the warmest kind of praise from the
many high military’ men present, when
it scored a direct hit on the third shot
fired. TR R :
Mechanic Magee of Company I is pret
ty well versed.in thé rules of evidence,
but why in time any oneé‘ should send an -
old war horse like him a volume eof
‘“Love Letters of a' Rookie” has' him
badly puzzled. p R :
Announcements at’7ist Machine Gun
‘mess: o
" Cook Pue—Any one-"desiring a dis
charge go get a cold."
Sergt. New-+Members of this outflé
who have the blues are hereby instructe
to turn them in to the supply sergeant
- Scene—Around the stove in Company
D barracks. - - 14
Time—~6 p.m. Friday.
" Characters—Corps. Young and Moore,
Sergt. Brooks, -who -is' lai@ up with
rheumatism contracted: in ‘the Flanders '
trenches, and a “Y" man. - :
Sergt. Brooks has just received a hox
of chocolates. A private,© name ' un
known, comes by, sees chocolates, takes
one and passes box.to each of the quar-
tet—except Sergt. Brooks. - '+ = "
Y’ man—Seems to be -common prop
erty‘v £ ‘
Corp. Young—Oh, yes; this is just
one big family.
&orp. Moore—lt's a big family, and
a happy one, too, but-thereglkely to be
a death in it if some fo don’t let
other folks’ property alome.. o
Headquarters company men, especial-’
1y the horseback squad, presented a-very
Ku Klux Klanni;h~apgannce on Sat-’
urday mornigg when they came out in
germ masks. i ; {
A plan is under way to held a -memo
rial service at “E’” Hut on ovember 10
: togt d"mmory\ot the men_ of thig area:
s lives were taken .by the recent:
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Yankee Doodle Minstrels of Lieut.
Stauffer Are Big Hit
in CC-Y. o
NI A H T
Here's the bright side of having had
the “flu.”” Who said bright side? Well,
it’s all in the way you look at it. For
instance, the Yankee Doodle Minstrels
played a date at Y‘ M. C. A. CC last Wed
nesday night, and only “flu” conva
lescents were admitted. Several of the
boys said that the enjoyable evening
made, up a little bit for the days spent
in the hospital. Correct! That was the
sole object of Lieut. E. H. Stauffer,
athletic. officer of .the 11th Battalion,
154th Depot Brigade, in arranging the
appearance of the. peppery Yankee Doo
dle boys.. .. ¢ ,
The program opened with a number
of popular piano numbers by Walter
Sobey, one of Hartford’s most vorutne
soldier boys. His selections were as
enjoyable as ever. The singing, behind
curtain, of old plantation melodies,
brought the bunch e{lo attention and with
the raising of the curtain the eye beheld
the half circle of entertainers. ‘They
were costumed in a snappy green and,
red outfit, every man in black face.
Following the opening overture Charles
Country and William Meredith, garbed
in fatigue outfits, were introduced.
Country put over a great turn on his
end. He knows how to tell a joke and
he loosened up in fine style every minute
he was on. d} \ g
Al Greenbaum did the ‘gentlemen, de
seated,” act with his usual smoothness
and his cross fire stuff with the ends
went big. A little later Harry Levine
and William A. Jones were introduced
as the outside ends and they kept things
humming merrily. The ballad numbers
of the show weré exceptionally pleasing.
Pete Whalen rendered “A Little ;Lump
of Sugar’ with satisfactory resuits,;re
sponding . with g ,couple of extrs -eho-.
ruses. David Fokesman did justice ito
“Relgian Rose’’ and worked like one
-of Neil O'Brien’s d?endahlu. Charles
fxfu tx‘endered “Daddy Mine"” with fine
ect. : ’ %
Endman Meredith lost little time in
catching the audignce with a lively
"ndmoll:e of “js‘t’rut;e{;fl Ba,ll."m;whlb
‘Harry zzed things u sing-.
ing “Dlxll%o%q’ht‘edn.". Lev?no x\w_t
lot of lifé into his number and ‘the
chorus gave him.some fine assistance.
Speclaltle%" ‘introduced included ..one
string violin solos by John Windfelder
and he proyed himself an entertainer:of
the first rank. LK He played - ‘“Rosary"
and “Sunshine of Your Smile” in:a man
ner that had his hearers applauding
for more. A dancing turn by ! Sam
Dramm went over, with fine resultsc A
distinct hit was registered by Jack Rice,
who sang “Oh, How }f Hate to Get; Up
in the Morning.” ere’'s a boy: that
has personality and he did a fine tura,
besides lending a top tenor to the cho
ruses like a veteran that he is. - .
The Yankee Doodle Four, the four
_melody boys, Bockman, Jones, Milhol
land and Gfeenbp.um, closed the show
with several .sure-fire.hits. This com
bination has some harmony that' would
be hard- to. duplicate~. They are .stars
for finding the ‘‘close omnes’ and they
brought down the house as s ‘their
custom. s i
Mucr credit for the success of the
show is due Willlam A. Jones, 42d Com
pany, 164th Depot- Brigdde. He was a
member of the Duquesne Comedy Four
and is right at home when it comes
to putting on the gre;e paint. Walter
Sobey - ‘tickled the ivories for the per
formance and again proved that he's
a one best bet in this line. Sergt.
Grant Geist, 42d Company, 154th Depot
Brigade, kept things on the move in
the capacity of stage manager.
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“When the Rain Beats on My Tent!
RICHARD E. DARE, Co. M, 724 Infantry.
Wl\\Ql_ the -rain beats on my cadivas, :
How my ‘memory brings up scenes
Of the past that's half-forgotten, .
And it furnishes me the means <
Of rambling reund the country"
Qn my tng”: of pleasure bent. . 1
1 don't need to leave my quarters
. When the rain beats on my tent.
g As a ‘raw recruit the blunders :
' 1 pdlled off to learn to drill o fa
. Ya thé handling of my rifle, g
“For 1 surely- had the will, .
But the practice and the knowledge ~
Sometimes eamé, but mostly weni !
All those memories come stealing-- '
: ° When the rain beats on my tent.
" And the day I flrs{ tried sick-call,
Just to see what it was like,. e f 13
For I had not much ambition |
To go rambling on a hike, gr
. And the doctor gave me ‘‘C-C's""—
- .They for punishment were meant—
Oh, my memary sure keeps busy ok
* _When the ;uh; beats on my temt. : -
Soldiering sure has 'its drawbacks, :
v . - -Specially w}'nq the rain beats down,
/ot the “Flu” has quarantined us s
. - “80 we cannot go to town. ' G
. +Bo I waste n?'.tpne in wishing Ll
. - When my time for sleep was-meant,,
And I fall asieep a-dreaming
. , When the rain beats on'my tent. :
e S e s e J
' 'Ubiquitous Girl! © =~
There ré pret 1s i r
That: onte wpon he foame” "
For I've made love in Labrador,
In Cairo and in Rome;
f’ve kissed the girls of London town,
__ And sweet to kiss were they, -
But Burma girls gre just as sweet, '~
s And Frisco g’irl'a jos . gay! :
" There're always ‘e¥és to & gl
R Toet pcetah e 7. ¢
There're lips the mah who's bold to kiss,
And waists to fill an arm; )
The maids are fair in Argentina,
-~ And dnlnt{ in Japan, o
There're girls to love in all the world
.- .M you're the preper man. - :
And whio's the Thirest of the fair? ..
s 1 think ehé Nves In Fraice, -
‘m:” R \aa "" :' LN "3' :’-‘&5
5 . of'all the girls in &ll the wvorld,
TRENCH:
WIFE OF GEN. Bt
:
Her Husband Se
Troops—Red G
'HCI'Q oy
The wife of Brig. Gen. Burp ¢}~r
Ohio troops pow in France is the new"
receiving hostess at the Hostess Home |
in Meade..: Her husband is a West
Pointer and an old friend of Col. Stim~
son’of the 3ist Field Artillery. '~ %
The boys of 20th Company, sth De
velopment Battalion, had a celebration -
several nights ago of the gran e
“non-com” . jobs to members of their
company, of which Lieut. Henry Vache -
is commander. b -
Maj. Amato, the Italian-born head of
the battalion, told the fellows that he
wanted them, as Italians, to make
their barracks attractive and to have
people say: “Why, that’'s where the
Italians are quartered.” S
The major then told a little story of
how he was riding on 'a train from
Texas when a lady next to him was
saying that she felt distressed because
her son in camp was in a tent with
two Italian soldjers. He spoke with
her a while and then asked how s%; |
, Wwould like it if her son lived in the
same tent with him. . bt L
“Oh, that would be fine,” she said. * =
“But, I am an Itallan, too,” repliéd
the triumphant major. LI
et gt i e
A feed was furnished for the 20th *
boys by First Sergt. Louis Milanesi.:
The following took part in-the boxing
contests staged afterward: . by
Marechese, Frank Bonjorno, A
Perunna, Vincenzo Guacci, Cofp. An
tonio Cairillo and Victor Chablos.
Lieut. Connolly, 63d Infantry, is.&
Texas congréssman who cmfiow
Meade several weeks ago re ‘E C
his part even’to the extent of: b
" & buck private. The congressman ;
a good impression, soon mastered
drill regulations and had the com .
- sion all tuekéd away in his vg- :
- before he-btd-"been in camp very long.
In the Machine Gug Company ‘of the
63d Infantry is Private Hutcheson,
who went to the Chicago Art.
tute and learned something about
painting. He is doing some cartoon ;
which will shortly be seen in T., M
T #6329 ,b 8 ":" 2Rk e
Incidentally, in this same comphny
" is a felloWw named Corey from thed .
Oregon wéods. He is_more thiil. six .
feet tall and weighs 245 pounds.. i
Corey moves'icross the barracks floor
the boys say.it reminds thcm-@t-'t“f?
great Friség “earthquake. -aOPy o
Not 'long ‘dgo somebody put & big'
iron ball ‘the mattress of -hig cot -
and it to _‘film‘ one hour and & :half
to discovef.that anythlnf wWas:’
with his bgd- When he did “get: wise™.
+~ the ball was seized and hurled across
the room—time 11:30 p.m. :
They say.when this lad gets bask of
a machine. gun those in the rql?fw
not see the gun. Nobody has yet Sug- -
. gested, however, that he be used as
camoufiage. for the piece. Pit
' £ i o 0 N ol Rk B
Lieut. Ogijvie, aid to Gen. Gaston,
‘ csmp-commzn’der. is ‘on leave recoyer
. ing from a bad leg, the renflt\‘fhbou X
A kickegi, .by his :horse during
equitation :exercises. The officér is
very popular: about headquart:“; 4
. 'his absence is noticed very de o
: M -
; The Pep of the 63d. : =~
. BY CORP. G.. C. SCHAUB, Co, O, &4 Infs |
" As we sit on' our bunks mear the window, . -
: And gaze at the drlnlln‘ rain; ol
. We think of the times that are coming, ;
: When blood ceases to flow again, o
l Ou‘rv training fln camp is llmostth ended,
re rea to go across e Zed 7
We ?wfil show yKahgr Wilhelm (h;.{‘r“’
That his dream of world conquest can’t pay.
The 63d-is going.to battle, ¥y i
They'll hit the boche real soon, <
And send them all into Berlin :
To the strains of a good Yankee tune. 5
We have given up mothers and sweethearts, ;
And have left-all behind in this land, %
But take it from me and my comrades :
We are sure going to call Willie’s hand, -
Now before I wind up my story, o e 4
1 would like to add just one more word,
That the backbone of ofir great' Army -
I the pep of the old Sixty-third. vk & ;
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You Never Can Tell.
You can’t tell much about & soldier
at Camp Pike by his name. White
happens to be black, while Green is
white. hittle is over six feet tall, and
Small weighs close to 200 pounds.
Long is short, Merry is a grouch, and
Poor gets a big remittance from home
each month. Oleson says 'he “was
born in Ireland, Murphy was béfn in
Rome, and Walters is'a Cherokeée In<
dian. Hanna isn’t a lady’'s man, while
Bruin is engaged to three girls now.
Singer can’t sing a note, whilé ‘Stfong"
. spends most *6f his time jin thé hose
| pital.—Fveheno~a ———