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FULL SCHEDULE THE CADUCEUS. MISS ICE WATER BOYS AND BOOKS DRILL, STUDY AND SONG MAKE DAY FOR HOSPITAL. Awaiting orders to leave Camp Greene is no loafing matter for the personnel of Base Hospital No. 54. Prom reville to taps the officers, and enlisted men are kept busy by a pro gram which has been outlined by Col onel Henry Page. The real day’s work starts for the officers at 8 o’clock in the morning when they go through a brisk move- uifnt of setting up exercises for fif teen minutes. At 8:30' o’clock is the call to drill. The bodies of officers and enlisted men are divided into nine squads. For an hour the groups of men march across the drill field despite the ris- in a temperature of the .-summer day. The officers in charge of the squads are; Major McCrae, squad one; Cap tain Shoat, two; Captain Zinner, three; Captain Ray, four; Captain Meyer, five; Captain Harvey, six; Captain Ferdelman, seven; Captain Dawdle, eight, and Lieutenant Hartsell, nine. , Community Singing. Before each lecture period the entire personnel joins in a rousing song. Pri vate George Ryder is leader of the male chorus. “Where do we go from here, boys, is one of the favorite tunes for tli^ song saturnalia. Other songs which are called for when Private Ryder asks for favorite numbers are “Good-Bye , Broadway, Hello, .F'rance,” “Over There” and “There’s a Long, Ijong Trail.” “If the Germans could only hear them sing,” said a member of the old detachment on Thursday morning, when the .strains of “There ’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight,” crashed from the Y. M. C. A. hall. Two Lectures. There are two lectures daily for the officers of the newly formed unit and one lecture each morning for the en listed men. The morning class from 10 o’clock until 11 o’clock is for'both the officers and enlisted men. Colonel P'age or one of the medical assistants delivers the lecture. The subjects deal with phases of hygiene, sanitation, infectious and curable diseases, practical medical problems with which the men will have to deal across the sea. From 2:30 until 3:30 each afternoon the officers attend a class on medical complications. The lecture or quiz is conducted by officers of the detach ment, who deal with subjects upon which they have specialized. French Class. All the men are expected to know some French. The officers under Cap tain Meyer, who have been following a volunteer course for several weeks have a fair knowledge of the lan guage already. They can converse quite fluently in French. The French classes are on between 3:30 and 4 o’clock each afternoon. Cap tain Meyer is conducting two classes tor officers during the day, as he has taken on an evening class for officers who have not followed the course. Sergeant Pindat is in charge of . the HEALTH ORDER ALSO BARS MILK AND ICE CREAM. Ice water with our meals is a halt forgotten luxury since the order pro hibiting the use of ice in water has been placed into effect. The officers, nurses and enlisted men have suffered alike as in no case is ice to be used in water or in direct contact in cool ing any other liquid in Camp Greene. Patients of the hospital also miss their milk ration, which was furnish ed upon purchase at the post canteen, as no milk is allowed to be brought into the camp. The mess halls are able to make limited use of the li quids by importing condensed milk. No ice cream from Charlotte is com ing into the camp. Ice cream cones were very popular at the canteens and the frozen cream was one of the dainty parts of the Sunday dinner at the hospital. Fruit is being substituted for ice cream on the mess menu. The exten sive use of fruits in hospital rations is being encouraged by officers be cause of the health value of the nat ural food. Berries and watermelons have added to the dinners for three days of the past week. Camp officers hold that care in the use of all food matter cannot be over drawn at this season of the- year. Since ice is very apt to hold germs and since the precautions in treating milk and preparing ice creams in Charlotte have not been thoroughly investigated the ban will be . held against these products until, camp officers are assured that they can be no possible source of illness. The bill of fare at the U. S. Army Base Hospital, Camp Greene, was not altogether wrecked by the “no ice nor milk” order, as the following menu for Sunday dinner will show: Roast beef. Mashed potatoes. Brown gravy. Spiral grass. Cucumbers, Cocoanut cake. Pears, Lemonade, Plenty of bread. TEN-DAY LEAVE. Privates .Tack Peldger, Francis Mills, Roy Evans and .lohn Woodman left on last Sunday for ten-day fur loughs^ beginners’ class of enlisted men. The work of shaping up the Base Hospital No. 54 outfit is having tell ing effect as was evidenced by the showing of all the men at the weekly inspection, last Saturday morning. Colonel Page was much pleased by their appearance. “1 have been inspecting companies for twenty-one years and I have sel dom looked upon a better group,” was the colonel’s comment. Captain Thomas J. Nelan, whose work as detachment commander has been the cause for favorable comment, gives much credit to the non-commis sioned officers of the body, who have BASE HOSPITAL LIBRARIAN GIVES HER IMPRESSIONS. Marie Fox Wait knows the wants of folks as well as she knows books. The way she has scented the spirit of the U. S. Army Base Hospital, Camp Greene, in the month and a haif that she has been stationed here is portrayed in the foilowing article written by the librarian herseif. (■ boon working hard at the drill and instruction courses. The question has been asked, “What do the soldiers read?” The answer is, “Everything.” Why not? They read the books they like; those that suit them. Wearing khaki does not affect their literary taste or their lack of it. The army is composed of “all sorts and conditions of men, and a librarian realizes how greatly tastes differ. There is a demand for “kid” books as well as for the classics. The reader of Alger, Optic and Henty must have books suited to his mental develop ment and can not be expected to en joy Henry, James, Ibsen and Macau lay. Pajamas and bath robes are effect ive disguises and even an officer’s uni form is no indication of the literature he reads. It is only after conversa tion, when by voice, manner and lan guage there has been some revelation of the individual, that It is safe to rec ommend a book. The library is thoroughly appreciat ed. During the first weeks some ex pression of pleasure and satisfaction was heard every day, showing that there had been a need for just such a place of rest and recreation. After two months, its benefits and pleas ures are more taken for granted, but the fact that some men come every day and some several times each day is proof that this collection of books is not only helping to while away the tedium of days of convalescence, but that this enforced waiting by the roadside has added to their fund of knowledge. Of course, the books of fiction are most in demand. Patients in a hos pital wish for something to pass the time and the easiest method to ac complish this seems to be the reading of an absorbing story. Detective and mystery tales are very popular. Ad venture stories are never long on the shelves. Zane Grey, Rex Beach, Rob ert W. Chambers, Jack London, Op- penheim, McCutcheon and Harold Bell Wri.ght are constantly in circu lation. But there are many other tastes and even the Harvard classics receive their share of attention. Re quests have been made for the Greek philosophers and the works of Shake speare are frequently read. Some Study. Niot all reading is done for amuse ment. There are many men whose belief in preparedness is most prac tical. They realize that this spare time can be put to real use in fitting them for greater skill in their work Continued on page 12
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