THE CADUCEUS.
9
PLAY FAIR
GIVE YOUR COMRADES CHANCE
AT FURLOUGHS.
Editor’s Note—^N'obody Is better
suited to write on the subject ot fur
lough extension than Sergeant First
Class Chester F. Leighton. He has
taken his furlough. He went to his
home in the north of Maine. He was
able to be with his people less than
a week until the ten days were up.
He did not wire for an extension. He
did not believe in taking th^it advan
tage of the other fellow. He tells
why in the following article;
AN IDEA
At the present time the furlough
situation is one of the big problems
of the detachment.
The detachment commander is is
suing furloughs on the basis of the
length of time that a man has been
in service at Camp Greene and it is
very easy for a man to see approxi
mately when his turn comes. With
that point settled the next thing that
confronts us is, the length of fur
loughs and extension. Out of the iliSb
men in the detachment, there are very
few who cannot make a ten-day fur
lough long enough to carry out his
purpose.
The detachment office receives tel
egrams daily from men on furloughs
requesting extensions. The purpose
of this article is to set the extension
seeker to thinking about the other
fellow as well as himself.
When a man has a ten-day leave he
goes home and has, as most men ex
press it, “The time of my life.” The
time passes very quickly and the first
thing that confronts the man is that
the time is drawing near to return to
Camp Greene. At this point an exten
sion seems the only thing.
When you are on furlough and the
extension “Bee” gets in your bonnet,
will you please sit down by yourseii
and think of the men who have slav
ed shoulder to shoulder with you
through the long hard winter, who
are just as anxious to go home as
you were and who have business
equally as important as yours.
Uo you think that your mother
would ask you to remain longer if she
knew that you were keeping some
other mother that much longer from
seeing her son?
With the present number of men in
the detachment it will be impossible
for every man to get .a furlough be
fore the hospital Alls up with patients,
if very many extensions are granted.
In the army game we have all got
to pull together, you have got to con
sider the welfare of the other fellow
at all times. Don’t forget that your
extension holds the other fellow back.
Give him a square deal; don’t expect
an extension except in absolute emer
gency.
BY FIRST CT.>ASS SERGEANT
CHESTER F. LEIGHTON.
The other day whilst in the base
hospital library my attention was at
tracted to a magazine ^ bearing the
title “Carry On.” A closer scrutiny
informed me that it was “A nfagazine
on the reconstruction of disabled sol
diers and sailors.”
Just at present that classification
includes myself and naturally it com
manded my interest.
The illustrations were extremely in
teresting. Some of them showed pa
tients wearing the same uniform as
myself, that is pajamas and bathrobe
by which we can judge that they are
still convalescent, and they were busy
at some interesting and educational
occupation. The pictures were respon
sible for this idea.
There are men in this hospital who
are compelled to be around for months
during convalescence, and who find the
time hanging heavy on their hands.
A good many of them are men who
would appreciate the opportunity of
increasing their store of knowledge,
but anyone who has tried . studying
alone knows that it is uphill work,
and that progress is so slow as to be
discouraging.
Why not. inaugurate a system of
education for those , fellows who care
to apply themselves.
The hospital library contains quite
a few good technical books and the
man who ' ould like to learn French
or brush up on his mathematics or his
physios would be able to turn his idle
hours to good account.
It has been my observation that the
most objectionable feature of hospital
confinement and by far the hardest
thing to beat is the monotony and this
looks like a good antidote. '
—By H. M. .Iordan, Ward C-7.
THE RED CROSS.
Whenever my eyes rest on the Red
Cross my heart beats quicker.
The Red Cross is humanity’s noblest
emblem.
The Red Cross is Pity, and this is
the tenderest part of human service.
It is a faithful pledge of protection.
The Red Cross is God’s glowing
covenant.
It is the symbol of kindness and
care.
The Red Cross paints, while the
storm is on, a rainbow of hope for rhe
fallen hero.
It is the human hand with a touch
of home sweet home.
The binding up of one wound has
more glory than the shedding (jf a
sea of gore.
To be in the service of the Red
Cross is to help humans up the hill.
The Red Cross remakes men that
might become public charges.
Tt salvages the wreckage of the bat
tlefield.
—By Corporal Marcel A. Franck.
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BACK FROM THE FARM.
Private Lawrence Bartlett of near
Portland, Me., has returned to duty
after a six weeks’ farmer’s, furlough.
SERGGEANT RETURNS.
Sergeant George Vickery returned
on Wednesday from a farmer’s, fur
lough of eight weeks, which has been
.spent on the broad acres of Maine.
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