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PLANS PROCEED thanksgiving day will be KEPT IN CAMP Peace will not change the Thanks giving day plans announced tor Camp Greene. The abandon of all labor fdr the day will be the more complete because 01 the allied victory, it is given om. The camp will enter into the joy of America’s greatest Thanksgiving day in the fullest spirit. Mess officers are making arrfingements for an elaborate menu for all companies in the camp as a matter of keeping up with a part of the day’s traditions. Melvin Sheppard, Camp Athletic Di rector, is expecting the athletic fea tures of the day to be even more hotly contested than was originally sup posed. There are a number of entries for the inter-company relay race, which will be held in the morning and in which teams from nearly every or ganization in camp will compete. Five men will make up each team and by running a half mile each will cover the distance from camp headquarters to the Charlotte city hall. Prizes will be gold, silver and bronze medals to the men of the first, second and third teams to finish in the race. The con testants will wear regulation army uniforms. In the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day a foot ball game between a Camp Greene team and an army team from some other camp is being arranged. THE CADUCEtrS. COVERS CAMP t'se peace bells ONLY CHAPLIN A BUSY MAN. Chaplin Joseph Ryan bears the dis tinction of being the only militwy chaplain at Camp Greene and being ' a conscientious worker he is kept oc-,' cupied from morn until night. He makes his home in the officers’ row in the rear of camp headquarters, where he is always in readiness to ren der spiritual assistance to any one. His mornings are always occupied by making the rounds of the wards at the base hospital and the remainuer of the day he spends In assisting at the various K. of K. huts. RESUME PROGRAMS. The resumption of the regular pro gram again this week at the Bnse hospital Y has been received with pleasure not only by the men but by the nurses. Tuesday night they were ente tained with movies, Wednesday night also with movies and Saturday night an illustrated lecture will be shown. This lecture gives a repro duction of many of the scenes in the fighting zone and has been given over the camp this week, in all the Y huts. Its chief Interest is to enlighten the soldiers on the work and show them that the money they are giving goes to make the load lighter for their fel low comrades. Every cent contributed in this campaign by the army camps Is given to the work of the soldiers over there. RESUME ACTIVITIES. Activities at the Red Circle Club for colored soldiers, at 404 E. Second street, conducted under the auspices of the War-Camp Community Se'-vice have been resumed since the lifting of the quarantine. The building is now equipped with reading and writ ing rooms, game rooms, and there are also sleeping accommodations for about twenty men. Since the men have been pe'mitted to come to the city, the building has heetn throng ed eve-y afternoon an devenlng. At the Community House, near by^, the women relatives of soldiers are mside welcome and entertained. Phoio by Tooliey CHAPLAIN RYAN. Chaplin Ryan has been at Camp Greene three months, entering the service on August 5, 1918, and pro ceeding direct to this station. He is an ordained priest, having studied at St Joseph’s, Dunwoodle, _ N. Y., and was connected for some time with at Jerome’s church in his home, New Y’ork city. , Next week in every Y building p the camp special efforts will he H\^ue to give super-talent shows every night possible an announcement of whicn will be made at each building. BEAR A SWEETER NOTE THAN MERE HILARITY. Peace has come! Our warfare o’er. Sweet the call at dawn’s glad break ing. Dream of battled fields no more. Days of longing, nights of waking. -There is a fine bit of sentiment in the interpretation of the peace whis tles and bells by S. B. Fitbgerald and which appeared in The Observer of Tuesday morning: “The throats of the big whistles and little whistles of America are an nouncing the advent of world democ racy. But that is not the loudest note that rises above the din and clamour of the hilarious noise-makers. I hear first of all the weeping of women— weeping for joy, and though it courses through the voice of throats of fac tory whistle, and rings out in the bells, it is the voice of love spent for a purpose. The mother hears it in the foot fall of her son’s return; the wife knows she is not to be left des olate; the sweetheart kisses the pic ture of her lover again and again. “And again I hear it, a fainter, sweeter note—sweetest of all. It comes from the homes where there is a golden star. “I listen again and I hear—for the demonstration grows louder—lan guage that seems to me to mean that it is the vengeance of God that He wills to pour out on the heads of Gei’- many for crime. Across space and time comes the cry from the millions of women and children who have suf fered from the hands of the ruthless Hun. I rejoice for many reasons, but the chief cause is that God’s voice of justice Is loud enough to silence ev ery cry of distress, and that in the exercise of His love, justice and mercy are proc aimed.” • GIVE PROGRAM. The usual weekly p’-og’-am for the Soldiers’ Club, 516 S. Tryon street, has been resumed since the lifting of the quarantine. This includes the Tues- day evening free dancing class for en- listed men, the regular Wednesday and Saturday evening dances in the pavilion and the Sunday afternoon at, home hour and concert. Several hundred men in uniform called at the Club Monday and in the evening there was dancing, although the attendance of girls was sniall, due to the counter attraction of the city demonstration over the Peace Decla ration. The attendance of dies also small at thi Wednesdsjy evening dance, but the full quota of membe-s holding dance badges is expected for the dance at the ^vll- lon on Saturday evening November 16. Every white enlisted man in Camp Greene and the city of Char lotte is Invited. RETURNS. Cpl George Williams is again with us after a short'absence while visiting with relatives in Massachusetts.
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