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A TRUE TO THE TRUST SUCH IS SPIRIT CAPTAIN HOPES FOR; CADUCEUS. Where do the avenues lead that penetrate the darkness ahead of us.' We do not know. We have started our journey over them. Ahead are the steep hills which we must climb and beyond an inky sky darkness into which we must march. Only the loyal and stout-heart ed can emerge from out this blackness and gaze upon the valley that lays lighted and smiling beyond this ter rible malestrom of human fiendish ness. Our country has called us. We must come. We must take part in this, the fiercest struggle ever staged between man and man. We have no choice hut to sacrifice our all if necessary on our Country’s Altar of Patriotism. We must help to maintain our own anci the world’s freedom and pence. Are we prepared to enter and en- gage ^in_ this struggle to the bitter (3nd. lliis does not refer to guns, can- non, ships, airplanes, or gat.. Are we prepared physically? Is our mental attitude correct? Have the years oi plenty whicn we have enjoyed deposited in our men tal habitations encrustations difficuir to move? Must some of us be forced by our Government even yet to clean up these chambers one by one? At this critical time it seems almost impossible to conceive .that anyone amongst us is not stripped of every thought hut that of winning this duel with autocracy; yet entirely depen dent upon the response that each one oi us makes is the preservation of our country’s form of government as ivell as the peace and safety of ail mankind. What a responsibility! Think it over and over again. ^ Let it not be placed upon the shoul- uers of a few. It would overwhelm the heavens if it were. ' It must be born on millions of American shoul ders, on every upstanding citizens slioulders tliat it may be oorn success- tully. Miiy the birth of our hospital puD- Iication in such a dark year help out as It grows older to bring about that steadfastness of purpose and clearness of vision, to enable all who read it to see beyond the present distress in the world’s household and to inculcate into the minds of all who turn its IKvges that quietude of spirit which comes from the con-sciousness of faith ful effort, for such is its spirit, that we may he all better Americans. —C'apt. Thomas S. Crowe, M. R. C., Detachment Commander. THE CADUCEUS. APPETITES ARE KEEN PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL EAT 200 . POUNDS OF BEEF A DAY. It is not the failure of appetite that has afflicted most or the soldier pa tients at the base hospital. The sick sfoldiers alone at the hospital eat more than 200 pounds of beef at one meai. By the aid of.the enlisted men the hospital consumption of potatoes at dinner is 400 pounds. If mother baked more than 100 loaves of bread a day she could not keep up with the food consumption of the base hospital. It would be a difficult matter to .grow the 8,000 pounds of potatoes, used in the two mess halls in a week, in a vest-pocket garden. We get some idea of what Uncle Sam is up against on the food' situation when we think of our unit consuming 10 cases of string beans, 100 pounds of su.gar and 24 dozen bottles of va nilla extract in a day. At the present time there are less than 700 patients in the wards of the Camp Greene hospital and 600 enlisted men. While this about half of the num ber held here during the winter, yet the figures of food pounds consumed, when taken in the aggregate, is some thing to cause father to hoe another row in the family garden. , For one meal, according to figures carefully compiled by lieutenants Lee and Wilson, in charge of the food sup ply, the hospital uses 100 pounds of rice, 30 pounds of butter, 40 pounds of coffee, two cases of canned milk and 700 pounds of beef. The amount used for one week com prises the following big figures ■ Sugar .. H)s. Potatoes .. lbs. Beef ■ .. ■ lbs! Butter lbs. Bread loaves Coffee lbs Tea !! ;; lbs! Cocoa lbs. Canned Vegetables .. .. cases L'ruit cases Fish lbs. Pickles .. gals. The Little-Long Company Department Stores 4.000 8.000 3,000 500 3,000 400 200 200 150 50 1,400 75 The loss of our comrade and co worker ex-Sergeant First Class Wycliffe R. Morris, is keenly felt by all of the members of the detachment. He is of the stock- that goes to make the leaders of men. He is now with the 77tli Field Artillery with his ambi tion to be of service “Over There” about to be realized. Fresh milk gals. 500 Canned milk Cases 35 Ice cream gals. 80 Think over the above figures and see that it would strip the entire stock of a modern grocery store. Is it any wonder why the Government urges that che biggest crop be raised that is possible this year. Now take a look at-this enormous, amount of provisions used last winter when the big hospital held many more patients than now: Sugar lbs. 7,000 Pitatoes lbs. 12,000 Beef lbs, 5,600 Butter .. lbs. 500 Bread (2-lb. loaves) .. loaves 4,600 Coffee .. lbs. 600 Tea lbs. 300 Cocoa lbs. 350 Canned Vegetables . . .. cases 350 Fruit cases 80 Fish lbs. 2,000 Pickles gals. 125 Fresh milk gals; 1100 Ice cream .. gals. 100 By Private Fred Fritchle Latest models in Suits, Dresses and Millinery Jordan Bros. Adjoiiiiiiji Dome Tlicalrc. Ice Cream,, Cold Drinks, Tobacco of all kinds. Can dies and Soldiers Supplies All our drinks are iced six hours before being served. COURTEOUS TREATMENT QUICK SERVICE
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