r'; f
/■ s
i
?
r
8
THE CADUCEUS.
The Caduceus
“Dedicated to the Cause of
World Wide Justice.”
Published Every Saturday by the En-
listed Personnel of the Base Hos-
Pital, Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C.
Business Office 'Phone 1530
Editorial Office—Barracks Five, Base
Hospital.
Five Cents the Copy.
Twenty-five Cents per Month for Mail
ed-out Issues.
Sponsors J Ci^I’tain Thomas S. Crowe,
I Ueutenant Walter Mitlnger.
Editor and Manager—
Private Verlin J. Harrold.
Assistant Editor—
PWvate Carl F. Bissell.
Associate Business Manager-
Sergeant Artuur Rankin.
Caduceus advertising is a widening
circle.
Our new base hospital magazine is
growing in circulation by leaps and
bounds.
To the thousands more who will read
our publication this week we wish to
deliver a word for our advertisers.
We are building our advertising sys
tem upon the same solid basis that
we are constructing a permanent mili
tary magazine. We have enrolled a
list of merchants who are progres
sive, courteous and fair. We expect
you to receive respectful Consideration
when you deal with them.
It will pay you to take note of the
products of those who tell you of their
wares through The Caduceus.
ANSWERS CALL OF TAPS
Taps has sounded for our late
comrade. Max Webb.
He is one of those whose mil
itary record is written before
reaching the battle terrains. His
journey towards the war front
was halted by a fatal illness.
But he went down in the uni
form of a soldier. He had been
in line. He had known the thrill
of being one who stood against
the rule of might.
We have passed our resolu
tions of respect. We have fur
nished an escort to accompany
the remains to the saddened
home in Springfield, Ohio. We
will place his name upon the roll
of those who died in the ser
vice.
“THE BEST OF LUCK.”
THE NEW MEMORIAL DAY
wwt I® “T and wonderful meaning in the national Memorial
uay which has just passed.
lasting and pray
er. It was a different message delivered in a distinct spirit. It asked
for a revwiil of the Puritanic faith in divine guidance. It pled for a dem°
humbleness and trust which were properties of our
flrmandTrue.® this grand republic were being builded
cUn difference in the Memorial day soul this year was felt from
den “ keeping the mandate of Presi-
dent Wilson It seems indeed the final evidence of the complete reunion
of every section of our country.
The holiday vivacity, which had grown more and more to be the a*-
mosphere of Memorial day^ was lost this year. The occasion was a Holy
Day, in fact To every citizen it meant more than the closing of banks
party“lf St ‘he ball game, the gay’
Columbia stood with bowed head while her heroes of every war pass
ed in spectral review. ^
In that spirit host marched Washington and Ethan Allen and Paul
Revere. The French patriot, Lafayette, was there. Our heroes of the sea
—John Paul Jones'and Perry and Dewey were there. Every unnamel
hero who sweat in the hold of a shell-battered hulk, who suffered in tL
foot weary marches, who stood With the “embattled farmers” or who
gave his life in some unmarked spot in the fight for Liberty in olden
days, marched in that grand procession of our patriotic dead
Out beyond there were the ghostly panoramas of Bunker Hill Valiev
Forge, Saratoga, Kings Mountain, San Juan Hill and the scenis of ocean
conflicts—memory pictures of hours when Freedom was sore beset but
stood fast for principles dearer than life.
■ In the quiet hours of the day, which had been sobered from its Insti-
• wtions of waste and wanton daring, it seemed that the shibboleths and
battle cries of other years were wafted back to steel the purpose of the
new warriors for humanity—
“Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute”
“Don’t give up the ship,”
“My only regret is that I have but one life to give for mv country
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
“My country, may she always oe right, but right or wrong, my country '
Give me liberty or give me death.”
The roses which Columbia heaped upon the mounds of green on
Thursday were more fragrant in their sentiments of love and gratitude
than on any former Memorial day. Through the mist of tears the “Queen
of ^ance crosses of her fallen patriots on the hill slopes
For every Anierican our goddess of Freedom gave the pledge anew
that none of the holy principles for which her sons have died in an v
war .shall be lost. ^
For the keeping of that vow we dedicate our last dollar: our last hit
of energy and if need be, our last drop of blood.
Such ia the spirit of the new Memorial day.
It is a cheery “good bye” that we
give to the IbO of our comrades who
are moving to Allentown, Pa.
The rank and file of the company,
which was called away, had been at
the Camp Greene oase hospital but
a few weeks. But they had made
, good. They had gone into strange
work in our hospital—into the wards,
the laboratory and offices—but they
took up their tasks cheerfully and
with spirit.
They gave the hospital something of
wholesome good cheej which can nev
er be lost. They have the stuff which
is not cowed by frightfulness. Nearly
all of them hailed from the fertile
plains of Ohio and before the war is
over we expect them to add to the
lustre of the Ohio war record.
These men expect to be at Allen
town but a short time. They have
weir eyes set oh that shore where
Pnissianism wages its fiendish con
quest. We expect to hear from them
when they get “over there.’
And so it is a cheery “good-bye,"
mingled with envy and well wishes,
that we post to our tent mates of yes
terday.
made us welcome.
For their very kind reception of The
Cadu^ceus into the realm of journalism
We thank The Charlotte News and The
Charlotte Observer, both of which
newspapers gave our base hospital pub-
iicatmn the most generous considera
tion in their Sunday morning editions
of last week.
ONLY AN ESTIMATE.
It is estimated that the following
week-^^^^^^'^ fo*" furolughs during the
^?-dler, Lamoureaux, Kramer
Shaw, iV^rln, Lewi.s, Gibbons^ Miles’
Hanley, Gr^am, Drake, Adams Akins’
Dengley, Inman Tooh^’