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OVERHEAR DANIELS’ TALK WITH
¢ AVIATOR, 150 MILES AWAY
Nireless Phone Conversation Is “Picked
- Up” by Convalescents 1n School in
Block—-Norment Among Them.
Wi Daniels was sitting in
{ offioé in the Navy Department,
Wishington, the other day, talking with
i Svistor 150 miles away over Hamp
tor m,” by wireless telephone he was
[yerisard by Hillyer Norment, a patlent
Bt the ¥ Hospital.
amfl m¢ and other convalescent
. Woundled were with Lieut. Francis M.
frowley, Master Signal Electriclan El
fidge Bacon and_others in P-16, the
Witeless station, when a peculiar whistle
%; '8 see what this is, boys,” said
|AI hands were at attention and pretty -
officer heard a voice say:
“Btand ready, sir; the Secretary of the
iߥy will now talk with you.”
"‘Right eway Mr. Daniels’ voice was
ard to m “Hello, is it very cold up
ey when the pilot said that .la
WASs FThner chm{ the Secretary want
10 Bnbw just where he was, 350 he re
jod that he mso l:;ll:‘l uwg. =
ve ng off, Now,
id _the | Becretary, “as Atiington is
e \
;;flu Army Hospitals of
e
. Country.
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861 Mock of the surgeon general's
is heartily in favor
Bf ,-gqmttonul system in vogue at
'Eh6 base hospital. After & recent in
jotion of the work he said that in.
gme phases it was far ahead of any
Bther hospital in the country.
M; are very few things that areé
i6t alveady in use at the school for
the wounded and bringing
M to the condition of health
Which they formerly held.
%5t should be borne in mind,” said
ot Ramaker, the head of the school,
“that its primary p&fipou is not to
vide education for the wounded and
jiek, bt to improve their physical and
Butal condition.” :
% Interest to Work.
LA great deal of praise has been
jyen the government for the way in
oh educational facilities hive been
ißtoviled in these schools, but the
jptain has said that the school tries
(afford a means whereby & wounded
i, say with a stiff leg, oan go to
“fij?“ pl and find away to better
10, by doing something useful and
nterest ggu Ordinary exercises could
“Ibß given, but this would prove tedious,
the occupational method is ule{l. to
Jfhold attention.
i“A man would tire in a few seconds
galisthenics,” he” said, “but put him
“Hip making a to{ for his kid and he'll
ity work all morning.” i
SUapt. Ramaker has made the rule
4 unded and sick men shall not
“We forced to take courses at the hos-
Ipital 3 pless provided by order of the
CiSttending physician as a curative
dproposition. The courses are optional.
& Man does not want to g 0 to &
‘elass he does not have to do so.
*Phe point is” said the captain,
JUthst We. try to make the school so
ftraotive that we have no trouble in
pstting }bo men to come without com-
B |
i The eat with nine lives has nothing
i the Kentucky boy who is the sub
aot of this story. For, when on the
Pth of last' October, he was finally
"* it was after going over the
%o ~".tho ninth time. On that date
j& was one of only three of the orig-~
Binal Company D of the 18th In
fitry who had not bsen hit. That
;fi d been. through some tight
ACeS goes without saving. He is
“% he base hospita}l Is in a good
mmor and is progressing nicely on
e road to recoverw
This is t?' bit of the story of Eula
Sikee of Wallingford, Ky. He has
hln the service of Uncle Sam for
,3 ‘*'\thdree years. lIr; 1916 he en
sted, ne whole year served
| the Wbordc—r. Then in the
PSummer of 1917 he was sent from
xas with his regiment to Hoboken
§ embark for France. The 18th In
: -:;;flved at St. Nazaire June 190,
17, This Ist Division boy was in
Panoe nineteen months and the front
|OB ten months. He saw some very
[ fighting at Cantigny, where his
iy was up in front holding
i the Hun for fwenty-one eo:zo
i days without relief and with,
: . “:w *, 1 = ‘v;fi‘f. ;
e Ju;\g‘:,x o %S%n < ‘ ':; o
abd‘xt to talk and we'll have to get out
of the way.” t
After that the aviatox;!umod his ma
chine in- the other direction and, al
though he continued to talk, his words
were not as intelligible as before. Lieut.
Crowley said that this was sometimes
the case, although the aviator did not
always have to face the direction in
which he was sending the message in
order to be hear® :
It was regarded as a very unusual
‘“oick-up,” as talking by wireless is not
generally indulged in nowadays except
a8 an experiment, especially at such a
long distance.
In the wireless telegraphy, however,
things are quite different, and on the
same antennae used for telephone the
boys here have picked up messages com
“ing from Liverpool and even from mrr..
Getting messages from New Orleans
a simplé matter. Sergt. John W. Rowe
is one of the instructors in this branch,
in which the wounded are greatly in
terested.
‘Work is now being done on the in
stallation of a plant which will send
messages principally by ground waves,
the new theory being that 95 per cent
of the waves go through the ground and <
only B per cent through the air, even
with the old apparatus.
A e B SRR S SRS
Lieut. Travers Served in American
Engineer corplkAlthough
a “Canuck.”
Slipping just as he was boarding a
ship to come back to the United States
to do instructing, Lieut. Travers, engi
neer officer, now at the base hospital,
fell and hurt himself so badly that he
" will probably suffer many months more
‘before he can obtain comfort and his
release from the khaki, .
He was hurt in October, 1918, at St.
Nagaire. He fell astride of a plece of
lumber and was injured intermally.
After arriving in this country he
spent several weeks at the Walter
Reed Ho‘lfiltal, Washington, and then
came to Meade. ?
His automobile is the onos‘“ufo
saver’ for him. He drives wherever
he likes, and whenever he does not
want to drive he “tinkers.” He 18 get
tl# 8o clever at it that he may de
cide to give up his orange grove
fown in Florida and go to smithing
in one of the several lines laid down
in the bobdks on that subject.
Orange Very Costly. .
“It costs so much to raise oranges
now,” said the lieutenant, “that I may
have to give it up for a while, The
fertilizers necessary are way up in
price so it is almost prohibitive to try
to raise a crop. We have to put two
tons on every acre.”
Now that is not very good news for
tt other hospital patients (that
oranges are going to be higher prob
ably), but it is interesting as leading
- to the reason why Lieut, Travers hap
pens to bé in the American Army, al- -
though he is a resident of Ontario,
Canada. He owned the orangé grove
in Florida when the wWar broke out,
and was associated wgth the Miami
Traction Company. He enlisted as a
private in the Flying Corps, but was
sent to the engineérs and was later
made an officer. He was a casual the
whole timé he was in France; that is,
ne served as relief for wounded offi
cers at the front where engineers were
usually to be found. o
Speaking of the “flu” in France, he
uIJ he had been talking to a nurse
ono day, when she complained of bel:s
sick, sald she felt tired and show
many symptoms of the dreaded dis
ease; within ten minutes the nurse
| was dead on the floor beside his cot.
s SR A A,
| “R. A’s” Good Work.
We have all seen, read and heard
of the wonderful work of the_ Red
~ Cross nurses in this great war. Now
- let’s .turn and see what the physio
.~ therapy aids of the reconstruction
. department are doing under the di
rection of Lieut. Stewart.
: We have come to that period of
, readjustment of industry and labor
. wWhen our great nation must be put
- upon a nofmal basis' again. But be
.~ fore than can take place, the physical
' reconstruction of man power, which
. is the most important aspect of re-
L adjustment, must be accomplished.
Some of the men who answered
' their country’s call and went across
the great pond to fight for freedom
' and democracy have come back phy
' sically unfit to fill their old posi
tions. Who is going to fit these men
i to go back to their old jobs? Why,
it's the “R. A's,” that busy bunch ok
' girls in the blue uniforms, who have
. always got a smile for you when you
. come for treatment., They never tire,
" because their job is to get the kinks
' and stiffness out of those arms, legs
. and backs. This, they accomplish by
- baking, by electric or hydrothea
' peutic treatment, by massage or cor
- receive orthopedic exercises ,as each
' individual case may require. -
b 2R {ou have ever been around the
y physical reconstruction demtment
' @nd seen some of the cases that come
sSO ,fia_figw tment e e [; n
Miss Huger, Head of Ramaker’s
Aids, From New Orleans, Where
& .
She Is Noted Painter.
Because her father lost a leg fn the
civil war and afterward devoted a
large part of his life to. helping
wounded soldiers in the same condi
tion, Miss ¥mily H. Huger of New
Orleans is now head of the occupa
tional aids under Capt. Ramaker of
the Base’s vocational school,
“] want to help the’soldier who has
paid the price all I can,” said Miss
Huger, “therefore 1 serve ,here as I
find full play for my sympathies and
what little ability I may possess to
bring the wounded man back to health
and happiness.”
And’ don’t make the mistake that
‘Miss Huger is not possessed of great
ability. Those who know her will tell
you differently. They have seen her
toiling late at night at all sorts of
problems and have seén her busily en
gaged at making a boy smile who had
not smiled in a long, long time. s’
S Miss Huger is a painter of land
capes. She is a first cousin of Frank
L. Polk, counselor of the State De
partment, and before coming to Meade
served at the Walter Reed Hospital
in Washington, :
Not From Boston.
One of the peculiar things about her
is the fact that she is often mistaken
for a resident of Boston, although her
life has been spent in the south.
Another amusing thing in connec
tion with her is the way in which her
name is mispronounced. Sometimes
she is addressed one way and then
another. The correct way, according
to her own statement, is “U-G.”-
Nothing could be simpler, yet how
many boys who have recently return
ed from France would pronounce it
that way? A
The truth is that Miss Huger’s fam
ily is really French; that is, by direct
descent. When her ancestors came to
this country they were Huguenots.
They wished to divorce themselves
from everything pertaining to France
and therefore changed the way in
which they pronounced their name.
“Yet there is not a woman,” said
Miss Huger, “in my family who is
not whole-heartedly in favor of the
French people. They adore La Belle
France.” :
o. T A S T
PRUWSED F“R “BAS["
—T——-—_—. .
At a meeting at the Base Hospital
on March 7, called-by Capt. G. W.
Ramaker, chief of the educational
service at the Base, athletic activi
ties for men at the Base and thera
peutic calisthenics were discussed.
Capt.. Ramaker, Lieut. E. D. Mec-
Donell, recreational officer at the
Base; Mr. B. S. Walton, camp athletic
director; Mr. Sampsell of the eRd
Cross, and Mr. Harris of the Y. M. C.
A. were present. :
The matter of laying out a new
athletic fleld that will be larger and
-better than the old one on the hill
for the detachment was taken up and
the plans for such a fleld are now
under consideration. ;
Provided the big new field now
under consideration materializes, the~
athletic activities of the convales
‘cent men at the Base will be re
stricted to the old fleld on the hill.
Activities in this quarter will be
looked after by Mr. Sampsell, who
has but recently resigned his com-
migsion with the artillery. The
volley ball court is already in use
and a tennis court is now under can
struction. A golf course is also un
der comstruction. The latter i 8 high
ly recommended for the orthopedic
cases where walking is prescribed.
Convalescent men are prohibited by
an order just issued from participat
ing in sports with the detachment
men, as the latter huik!es would
naturally fire the ambition of the
convalescents beyond their ~ endur
,ance. All convalescent men will carry
a card describing their disability and
the exercises to be avoided and will
not be allowed to participate in any
sport contrary to the h‘ttructions on
the card. All cards will have to be
.shown before play is started.
All athletics will be under the gen
"~ eral direction of Mr. Walton, who
- will, in addition, arrange the calis
thenic lessons for the classes now be
. ing formed. These classes are belng
_formed by the placing of men of
like injuries in tlxefi same class, and
the exercises for ch class will be
~_different, according' to their needs.
. Mr. Sampsell and Mr. Harris will in
- struct these classes.
- It shpuld be remembered by the
. men at the Base Hospital that when
. athletic goods are needed for a short
- time they should be borrowed by the
. detachment men from Mr. Harris at
, the “Y” and by the convalescent men
. from Mr. Sampsell at the Red Cross.
] os e e |
| . ’
1 Served .in France; Hurt Here.
: Just back from “overseas,” where
~ he had helped to defeat the German
. army, Private Isaiah Long, 3d "Casual
Detachment, 92d Division, was run
, over by a heavy Army truck at the
. corner of Portland road near the post
office Monday afternoon. - 5 i
PATIENTS TRADE MISS e
. BOWMAN'S BEST BOOKS
Hospital Library Needs Result in Bring=
ing Extra Worker Here. .
5.000 Books. e
There is not much doubt about the
future of the library at the vocational
schodl at the “base.”
More than 5,000 volumes will be at
the service of the patients through the
arrangements made by Miss Bowman,
the representative of the A. L. A.
These will be stored on the shelves at
the school reading room and in the
Red Cross house.
About 2,000 books will be of serious
nature.
Some of the boys are studying Span
ish grammar; others are probing into
the mysteries of economics; others are
delving into Homer’'s Odyssey, while
some of the Italians are taking with
m
Red Cross Program.
Red Cross activities this week
in connection with the convales
cents at the Base Hospital include
the following program at the Con
valescent House:
Monday—Home talent; vaudé
ville.
Tuesday—Movies. ;
Thursday—Dance for overseas
men. -
Friday and Saturday—Pending.
W
.
R. Hayes Hamilton Speaks.
_ Some of the boys who heard R.
Hayes Hamilton, the camp enter
tainer and lecturer, speak this last
~week in the wards of the base hos
pital will recall the series of ten
lectures that were given under the
auspices of the Y. M. C. A. last win
ter. Mr. Hamilton is now with the
Red Cross, doing lecturing and en
tertaining almost exclusively in the
wards, reaching the wounded boys
who cannot get to the entertainments
at the Red Cross House. Eighteen
wards were reached last week with
the first. series of travelettes, en
titled, “Washington and the Adiron
dacks.” The lecturer closed the week
on Sunday evening, when he delivered
a very fine lecture at the Red Cross
convalescent house on the “Yellow--
stone National Park,” using beauti
ful hand-colored slides and motion
piotures to depict the scenes in this
wonderland.
gt
Mr. Hamilton was one of the most
active camp entertainers during the
War, dolivgflnc his picture talks for
the Knights of Columbus and the
Y. M. C. A. Under the direction of
Mr. Gifford of the Tidewater district
the lecturer only recently made two
tours over this district before going
with the Red Cross.
Sergt. Maj. John D. De Witt, Red
Cross worker in Ffance, lectured
here for the “Y” this week on ‘‘One
Hundred Per Cent Americanism.” He
was in the National Guard of New
Jersey, but was too old to go over
seas, so joined the Red Cross and
saw much hospital service on the
other side. ‘
m—
" Red Cross Dance.
On Thursday night, Mareh 13, the
Red Cross gave a dance for the men
of the medical detachment at the Red
Cross Convalescent House. The affair
-was greatly appreciated by the men.
Private Mills was heard to ask Joe
Brannigan: “Say, Joe, lend me two
bits, will you. I. want to go to the
dance tonight and haven’t any to
bacco.” .
Chaplain .Jenkins of the base hos
pital held commuifiion in the base “Y”
on Sunday. A large number attended
the service. A chorus of the ladies of
the reconstruction department, as
sisted by some of the men, helped
make the service attractive. The
choir was directed by Mrs. Stearns.
A new member of the staff of the
“base “Y” {8 James Ferguson, who
served eight months with the Ameri
can troops overseas.
ot T i S 4
Who Really Fought the Hun?
You’ve read about the gemerals in this Euro
pean war,
They've talked about brave colonels and of
many, many more;
You've heard about the gemeral staff, about
the battles” won, .
But when you analyze the talk, who really
fought the Hun?
Who lived in lousy trenches in mud that ;u
nigh knee deep?
Who manned the blooming fire step, with
others sound asleep?
who went out into ‘‘no man’s land,”” made
prisoners of the foe,
And toted a blooming pack around wherever
they did go?
Who worked for thirty bones a month, while
wifey howled for more?
Who lived and died in slime and grime, whose
feet were aiways sore? -
.~ Who went across at zero hour to get filled full
‘ of shot?
-~ 1f so—who got an unknown grave in some
rat-ridden spot?
| Who -brandished the bayomet, who threw the
hand-grenade,
Whe dug the blooming trenches, who admin
istered first aid,
' Who got the gas the Huns released, who
‘ faced the liquid fire,
. Who semaphored the messages, who cut the
{ darn’'d barbed wire? g
) Who siept with rodents in their .bed, who ate
% the Army ulm';‘ oy " =
it 3 the sni pos as
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A i e BSN e Fige
Tot the Huske o
zest to the reading of Dante's Inferno.
Miss Bowman is putting out on an
average of seventy-five books per day
and the average is constantly rising.
Large numbers of magasines are
given away in the wards. g o
So busy has the library been thal
the A. 1. A. has provided Miss Bowm% :
with an assistant, Miss Hoyer oof
Chambersburg, Pa. She is also mak
ing gfod use of Private Shamelia. of
‘t‘hol edical Corps, who acts as or
erly.
The soldier takes the roller book
stand through the wards while Miss
Bowman talks with the patients about
the books they need and the ones she
thinks they ought to have. s
“You take this one, Johnny, and I'll
take .that; then we'll \trade”—that I 8
the way the boys fix tp a “deal”
when Miss Bowman comes around.
eR T B AA S A
, g
Capt. Ramaker Has Remarkasble
Operation Performed by Lieut.
Howard Warner. i
To have the half of one’s thumb.-;i;’
cluding the bone, torn away, with buf -
a thread remaining, and thgn to have
that thread serve as a means of save
ing the whole thumb is unusual, ye§*
it happened to Capt. G. W. Ramaker,
head of the vocational school of the
base hospital. : ’
The captain was riding in an ams
bulance. He alighted and as he did so
his thumb was caught in one of the
ugly hooks that support the stretoh
ers. His thumb was torn, as stated,
because of the weight of the cl’.-,"‘
tain’s body, which was thrown upen
it He suffered intensely, but plactd
,the torn member back into place,
wrapped a clean handkerchief about
it and told the chauffeur to §o back
with him to the hospital at once. =
Before many minutes had expired
Lieut. Howard H. Warner, a_formes
surgeon of the University of Marys
land Hospital, Baltlmor:‘ was stitche
ing the thumb and placing the
in position so that it would
properly. A small splint was prov ¥
Bone Knits Slowly. =
It was seen ve soon that the
thumb had mume?\ normal growth,
and it is probable that the operation
will be entirely successful. Physis
cians believe that a new nail will be
developed in course of time and that
the bone will knit slowly but surely.
The flesh is healthy and the circula
tion as regular as possible under the
circumstances. e
“I regard the operation as a very
extraordinary one” said Capt. Ra
maker,” and I think Lieut. Warner de
scrves a lot of credit for his skilliful
manipulation of the torn llgwflttl.,,
Certainly I am very grateful for what
he accomplished.” :
As the captain usually directs .
erations in the school with his .
hand and the accident occurred to his
left, his friends declare that his ges~
tures will be as emphatic as ususl,
despite the misfortune. He keeps om
smiling just the same, and ally.
more than ever since he realises how
fortunate he was in escaping 88
easily as he did. ”
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. : 1':"” ‘ ~v
.~ Edward Graham of Company I, 318th
. Infantry, is back in BB block, after._
-spending several months in France,
- and he says the bravest fellow he
.~ ever saw at the front was Second@
‘Lieut. Johnson of his company. 4
= “Johnson fought the Germans with
out fear,” he said, “and the men be-.
' hind him realized the fact and pushed
. on all the harder because of the lead
~ership of this young officer. His home
is in Harrisburg, Pa.,, and I was told
later, in the hospital, that he was
' made battalion commander before the -
. close of the war.” i
Graham was gassed and shell
' shocked, although he remained in the
- line until Qctober 26, a month after
" the capture of Montfaucon. His regi
ment, he. said, was pretty “cut
, up, as was the 316th Infa} but
the 314th and 315th were not o badly
. used. S
Red Lion, York county, Pa., is the
home of Graham, and he hopes to get
there some time next week. He a*‘
> to be a cigarmaker, and he wants fo
get back there .and make a few
. smokes for the boys still in the Army.
Liut B, i Grab, “wi
eu vis, “c ) de=.
: gl‘t.red that :;xc officer was supe *’*’
g&' A:&fl“"-’%, 490 T,c‘we em P ) ;.‘ & = -