GROWING PROBLEM
NINE HAVE GONE BACK TO THE
SOIL FROM DETACHMENT.
Filling the breach made by the men
who are being granted farmers’ fur
loughs is growing to be a problem it
the detachment office. Nine of the
base hospital soldiers have been
granted six weeks’ leave by the gov
ernment. Two of the men are taken
from the administrative offices and
the others from wards.
The men who are going back to the
fields, in order to aid in cultivating and
iiarvesting the grain, are to be watcn-
ed over by the government. It is
understood that they are to put thmr
full time in work on the farm or be.
returned to their military duty at
once.
THE CADUCEUS.
A CURE FOR BLUES.
WARD D-3.
We had a very interesting proces
sion Sunday. Starting at this ward
the line of march extended down the
"D” row and finally ended at Isolation
No. 3, where our popular patient per
sonnel was interned for the durtion
of the mumps. We are now closing
np shop for just one good and all sut-
ficient reason, namely: We have no
more patients. Our ward surgeon.
Captain Cornog, has been assigned as
understudy to Captain Crowe at de
tachment barracks. Miss Sheely, our
former nurse, is now on duty at B-2.
The w.ardmaster, Sergeant Collie^ is
assigned to duty at C-3. Private First
Class Tondrean is doing duty at D-3,
and Private Derwort has as yet not
been assigned to his new duties.
Ward D-3 will now make its exit
from the Ward page until such time
as we receive some new panents.
And so now with many regret we will
say; “Au Revoir.”
—J. II. CCollier, Sergeant Medical
Department.
When a fellow’s feeling blue
And he don’t know what to do.
It is then his thoughts will always
turn to home
To the dear one that it waiting
For his. weekly letter staling
He is well'though he is far across the
foam.
He will never forget his mother *
For he knows there is no other
Who can love him with a loye so good
and true.
Then he takes his pen and paper
And writes, God bless and keep her.
Till he just forgets that he was feeling
blue.
It’s the only way to do, boys,
And when jioii feel that way,
' Just think of one that always thinks
of you.
Sit down and write a letter
And you’ll find you feel much better
And besides you’ve tilled that feeling
they call blue.
—By Private G. B. Butler.
SUNSHINE LETTER
Major Renn,
Base Hospital,
Camp Greene, N. C.
To Whom it May Concern:
This is to certify that I, Ijouis Gins-
burg, of Dorchester, Mass., do hereby
express my appreciation of the effi
ciency, thorough-gong organization
and altogether splendid work which i
witnessed at the base hospital. Camp
Greene, N'. C., where my son, May
nard J. Glnsburg, formerly of Harvard
University, was operated upon. _
Surgeons, nurses, and orderlies are
highly skilled, sanitation is perfect,
food is excellent, and general sur
roundings full of quiet and pleasant
•good cheer. .
Very few hospitals in civilian life
that I know of, could compare with
the general excellence of this army
organization, whether it be in dde-
quack of equipment, attention to de
tails, or skilled personnel.
L. GINSBURG.
Wy^RD A-8.
Private Hoskin, a full-blooded Sioux
Indian, is longing to hear from his
discharge so he can go back to his
tribe in North Dakota.
I have heard of people getting fat
on square meals but Private Lind is
doing it on light diet.
WARD B-2.
We the hookworm patients of Ward
B-2, have decided it best to wear shoes
from now on. Some one has suggest
ed that these shoes have good soles.
We are for safety fli st.
We regret very much the loss of cme
of our day nurses. Miss 'Turner, who
has been transferred *0 night duty in
Wards B-5 and 6.
ISOLATION—3.
W. 0. Benson assistant bandleader
of the famous Fifth Maas, band la
leaving us after a seige of sickness of
six months. .
Miss peet has gone to tailoring. She
has fovored the hoys with a little oi
her art in that line. ....
Wardmaster Greenbaiim is training.
He has taken on all his patients and
he is trying hard to _reduce._ Greene
baum used to box quite a bit in his
younger days. He was Known as Hi
Greene and has trained with Frank
Mackay of Revere Mass.
Pvt Juddis on the job again.
Life in tbe isolation ward is dull
and though many of the women bring
things from town, a man who is quar
antined for six weeks has to have
something to amuse himself ^Mh. The
wardmaster has devised different
methods to make the boys ^
now life is not so hard and unbear
able.
ROW ON ROW OF COTS
INSIDE OF WARD C-8
two furnaces with which J® ®‘*and^ Tu^er. The officers are Lieutenants Lee and Miner. At the light
The two nurses are Misses Archer ana ruiue ^
of the picture is Clayton Welch, one of the orderlies in the ward.