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/ Ui' i 1 The Caduceus “Dedicated to the Cause of World Wide Justice.” Published every Saturday by the En listed Personnel of the Base Hospital, Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. Business Office ’Phone 1530 Editorial Office-Barracks li^e, THE CADUCEUS. WE TELL THEM Hospital. Base Five Centw the Copy. Sponsor Lieut. Walter Mytinger Editor & Mgr... .Pvt. Verlin J. Harrold Associate Editors— Avery Toohey Harold Mills Associate Business Managers— Private Theodoric Neal Ivan H. Law. THE TEST It is the testing hour. Along the battle front of Europe the greatest charge' of all time is under way. Steel strikes steel and democracy grips the throat of the blear- eyed war demon. Another epoch of history is being written in blood Our playmates, our school mates of yesterday, are already “Over There”; their set faces lighted by the flare of star .shells by night and their eyes beholding the wild glory of Freedom’s stubborn advancement by day. They are in the midst of the grand, flaming clash, where muscles be come steel and names are made for the scroll of heroes. Their letters are filled with vivid accounts of it all. “It’s hell but great” is theiy comment. It is the testing hour and they are making good. Every man has the fighting instinct. It comes down from distant ages when man survived by tooth and nail. It triumphs over fear and beckons every man of red blood to the thick of the fray. In olden days the call to arms was the summon® for every man to draw his sword and hurry to the front. He marched and toiled and suf fered while the wheels of progress stood still and liarveet fields lay barren. He foraged and starved. Thousands of his comrades perished from disease. The war machine upon which democracy has staked its future is of a different order. It is the result of years of study in the history of military succesees and failures. The new battle organization is a turbine of effi ciency in which cog meets cog in perfect order as it drives against the power of autocracy’s machine. There are departments within departments. Prom the factory to the front the supplies are guarded. From the garden to table the food is watched. Every sanitary precaution is taken. The man behind the musket is trained with no more care than is the cook, the orderly and the clerk. Each soldier with a separate task is taught to perform his work to perfection This is the testing hour for those who are assigned to work back of the front; for those who are left behind when the transport sails.; for those who must toil in an atmosphere of peace while others join in the hand to hand conflict across the seas. The test is in the .ibility of those who toil in the wards, in the kitchen, in the supply houses, to keep on the job without being distracted by the apparent splendor of the work of those who meet the shock of Teuton hate. The best soldier in the present army is the fellow who enters whole heartedly into the work assigned to him. In the modern way of making war there is a nicihe of glory for the lawyer who scrubs kitchen pans; for the sales maanger who helps keep a ward; for the mechanic who walks a guard post. A soldier’s life saved is worth two recruits in the rank according to the system the government has of figuring the cost of training and equipping fighters. In the military ranking the man who bends over a machine gun and the brave ace who peers at the torn terraine from above the clouds are on the same plant with the soldier who bends over a microscope or who stands by a sick bed, ready to give every care to his fallen comrade. In every branch of service there are those who are drawing ahead and those who pull back; those who smile at soldier’s cares and those who grumble; those who stand by their Job and those who .curse their luck There are plenty of men \yho are all enthusiasm when the hand plays; when hats, are in the air; when flags are waving. It is only the tried and true, who feel in their hearts the splendor of sacrificing service for Ameri ca’s ideal, who can smile and toil in days when the parade has passed on; when the world looks away to another field where a more spectacular work is on. It is only the “bully good scout” who can look upon the drab sur roundings of a hospital every day and yet exclaim “this is my job and I am going to strike hard.” It is the- man with the finest vision of the better days to come who can do the finest work while the foe is being beaten back from the soil of Prance. It is the testing hour. THE BIG IDEA “If your business is bogus, don’t advertise because you can not afford to let folks in on it.” Oh the other hand every customer is a friend to a well-founded mercan tile establishment. To those who wish to announce their wares to the public The Caduceus can, assure them that it has won the con/ fidence of every soldier in camp and of thousands of readers of Mecklen burg county. To our firends we state that we have iearned no objections to any bus iness concern we now announce in the confidence of our advertising spaces. PUBLIC STATEMENT OF GENER AL WOOD JUST SUITS US. General Leonard Wood could not have suited the “great brotherhood of arms” better than by his address on “We Are Out to Win,” delivered be fore the men of Camp Funston, Kan sas, on bastiie day. We quote a part of that ringing speech: “We are all here to do our utmost to help win the war, wherever we are sent, whatever duties are assigned to us; this must always be our ultimate objective. A soldier must give the best that is in him, obey orders with out hesitation, carry them out in spir it as well as in letter, remembering that we can only win the war through efficient co-ordination and organiza tion of our strength and resources. “In this great work, each and every one of us has his little part to play, we must play it all together; if we do, we shall win. “The men must remember that the officers are their friends, and the offi cers must remember that the men are placed under them for instruction and entrusted to their care and leadership, and they all must remember that it an invincible army is to be built up, confidence and respect on the part of the men towards the officers, and trust by the officers in their men and unremitting interest in their welfare, are absolutely essential. “We do not want the discipline of fear, hut rather that which is based on confidence and respect, for this is the kind that goes through to the end. Officers who are fit to be offi cers have always looked after the in terests of their men before their own and realized that they must lead and control their men without destroying their self-respect. “Both officers and men belong to the great brotherhood of arms, a brotherhood which in this war and in this country has come together for the purpose of winning the great war which is to make the world a safe place to live in for the weak as well as for the strong. Our motto must be ‘play the game, always ready, al ways alert, always loyal.’ “We don’t know how long the war is going to last, we only know it will last until we win.” PLAY THE GAME. Knowledge is not altogether book learning. 'T'here are two brands of knowledge. One is to know something yoursell. The other brand is to be able to go where knowledge is and get it. Skill Is developed when we contin ually put into practice what vie learn. Courage stands erect and faces front. What you want to do is quite dif ferent from what you can do, if you make yourself like what you must do. No man is a failure until he admits it. Smile anyway. Grey matter should never be wasted in thinking unkind thoughts. BY CORPORAL MARCEE A FRANCK.
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