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THE CADUCEUS.
The CaduceuS afford it s months on the job
“Dedicated to the Cause of
World Wide Justice.”
'Published BJvery 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.
The success of The Caduceus is as
sured.
With each issue the circulation of
our base hospital paper grows by
hundreds of copies.
As a magazine which is being per
manently established, we can afford to
be discriminating in accepting adver
tising.
We canot afford to cheapen our pub
lication by taking business announce
ments of questionable institutions.
Sponsors ^
Captain Thomas S. Crowe,
j Lieutenant Walter Mltlnger.
Elditor and Manager—
Private Verlln J. Harrold.
Associate Business Manager—
Sergeant Artiiur Rankin.
ONE PURPOSE
We have taken on the big job of reducing the world’s greatest
machine to junk.
war
It is such a big job that every patriot in all the United States must
find his work and do that work with all his might. All parts of our mil
itary turbine must act in absolute unison if that engine of power Is to de
velop its full strength.
The tented fields and barracas' rows of our training camps must be
the sacred plats where the sops ot Freedom rally for mutual preparation
for battle. There must be but one purpose; one unfaltering aim. This
government of the people, by the people and for the people must not
perish from the earth.
There must be no misunderstanding about the respective importance
of the several army departments now. Such bickerings must be lost in
the sober work pf crushing the ambitions of tyranny. We must all co
operate to kill Kultur.
There must be no hard drawn lines between “dough boys” and "mule
skinners,” between the mounted fighters of the cavalry and those who ride
the cessions, between the Medics and the Motor Macks. All our energies
must go toward the winning of the war.
There will be a comradeship which time cannot efface alter we have
suffered together on the shell wrecked battle front. Let us start that
brotherhood at home.
It is not the color of the hat cord that counts,
blood.
It *s the color of the
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The Medics of the American army have made their name before all
the world. The splendor of ,their record is based upon comradeship. Their
glory was won and is being maintained in the bandaging of' the wounds
ot the “dough boys”; thei- name was made when they stumbled across a
cannon-swept front, heedless of a reputation, to rescue a fallen flag bear
er; their honor was fixed by silent labor in the ward and on the field.
They are working in their appointed places and will be evenastingly on
the job until Prussianism comes from under the ether dream of world
dominion.
Out in the other training camps our brothers, our schoolmates, our
best friends of yesterday are,at drill and practice; training in their way
to develop the fighting power of a great nation. We know them from
days of old and know, they will make good on the job whatever it is. We
are ready to risk our lives and give of our strength to protect them from
disease and death.
bars.
We want it understood that we have thrown down the departmental
We must all be Americans how.
'I'his week marks the anniversary of
eight months of service at the Camp
Greene base hospital for the 250 sons
of New England, who came to the
camp in October of last year. These
men from Connecticut, Massachusetts
and Maine had been stationed at Port
Ethan Allen, in Vermont, before be
ing summoned to Dixie.
Two applicants for advertising
space in THE CADUCEUS were re
jected this week because we could
not heartily support the business they
represented. We could not afford to
take those adds.
. You can be sure that you are mak
ing your dollars count when .you trans
act business with the firms THE CA
DUCEUS represents.
“The Ethan Allen Bunch” as they
are generally referred to have been
through most of the hardships and gay-
times of the base hospital. They
manned the wards and worked in the
offices and served the meals when
entire enlisted personnel of the hos
pital. They took all the care of pa
tients for several weeks before the
first trained nurse arrived at Camp
Greene. They have been an imp. rtant
part in meeting every fuel and wa
ter crisis that have visited the big
institution.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sheep has paid
many a verbal tribute to these men
who have stayed so loyally at their
post since the first day they arrived
at Charlotte and made the hot, dusly
march to the hospital grounds. Major
Renn has stated that his confidence in
them is not to be questioned.
They have deserved every word of
approval awarded them.. They have
fought every kind of disease and by
their faithfulness, have saved many a
life in critical times, when a bit of
carelessness would have meant
death. They have been the hack bone
of the base hospital and today tney
are keeping up the fine work in every
line of activity.
“The Ethan Allen Bunch” repre
sents the best blood of New Englana.
Their great-great grand-fathers were
signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence and left their bloody foot
prints in the snows of Valley B'^orge.
They are descendents of men who
have always stood for liberty and
the family name has not been dimmed
by the Camp Greene record of “The
Ethan Allen Bunch.”
MOTHER-LOVE.
It is unselfish and everlasting, pa
tient and ineffaceable; it never tires,
never gives up; time can not weaken
it, ingratitude itself can not kill it.
Even in this cold world the mother
will not forget the son whom she has
borne. * * * *. He may have
placed the early wrinkle on her brow,
and sown the silver streak upon her
hair; he may have planted thorns in
her pillow, and made her heart ache
with very anguish for his follies and
his crimes; still she remembers only
that she is his mother. When all her
schemes have failed, when his sins—
as sins always do—have found him
out and dragged him down, when the
hand of sorrow has .bowed him to the
dust, his mother’s hand is there to
sympathize, his mother’s love is there
to pour balm into the wounds that
sin and sorrow have inflicted on his
Contributed.
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