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BOOKS WILL HELP SOLDIERS MUST HAVE EVERY CHANCE. The base hospital library h^s joined in the big movement to help the boys who are to go back into the ways of trade in a short time. Books on edu cational subjects are being provided by the war service of the American Library Association as rapidly as pos sible. Marie Fox Wait, in charge of the library, which Is In the Red Cross building, is arranging the volumes so that they may be easily accessable to soldiers who wish to study on technical or general subjects. Books are now available on the sub jects of: Your Job at Home; Where do we go from Here; Lure of the Land; &rpentry; ' Seamanship • Rail- Toad, Engine^firig; '■ ^Eaiineerr ing; Business; Advertising and Sales- . manshlp; Bookkeeping and Account ing; Machine Shop ’ Work; Automo biles; Journalism; Sheet Metal Work; - EUgctrical Work; Rapid Communica tion; Telephony, Telegraphy, Wireless Banking; Foreign Trade; Drafting; Civil Service. “SIR, DICKEY” THE CADUCEUS HAS BIG JOB BUTTER IS FINE PERSONNEL OFFICER RUSHED mEALS ARE CHEAPER IN FRANCE. For actual hard work, it would be a difficult matter to find any camp office more burdened with It than is the Camp Personnel office and the busiest man of them all is Captain Lewis A. Hasty, personnel officer for Camp Greene. It is his team of men that compile and arrange all records relative to changes in rating, enlistments, promo tions, deratings and above all at the present time, discharges. Now that the demobilization of the army and the section of it at Camp Greene is under wav Captain Hasty Is “one the go’ from reveille to retreat and usually long after. CHAMPION SONGSTER DUBBED LIEUTENANT. His ability as the champion feath ered songster of Camp Greene has won for “Dickey Darling,’’ the bright canary in the hospital Red Cross building, the commission as lieutenant from the Red Cross officials of the camp. The active songster is to be ad dressed as “Sir, Dickey,” according to the order at the Red Cross build ing. . The canary came from New Jer sey where the bird was purchased by Captain Sid Darling in response to the desire of Mrs. Baldwin, hostess of the Red Ctoss building, that a song bird be added to the charm of the place. It had been agreed by the manage ment of the Smith-Wadsworth Hard ware company that a cage would be furnished for such a songster if a bird was brought to the hospital. “Sir, Dickey” has been at the Rod Cross building for several weeks and has ably won the honor which has come to him. He misses no opportun ity to sing. He makes rare bird har mony to the music of the piano. ^^®n Cook Calatri sings in Italian Sir, Dickey” warbles in perfect latin .ac cent, it is declared. “The butter over here is fine writes Captain Grover Wilkes, M. C formerly of the U. S. Army Base Hos pital, Camp Greene, but now station ed with Camp Hospital No. 52 m France, in a letter to Major Joseph H. Way, in charge of reconstruction service of the base hospital. “Meals here are a third cheaper then they can be bougnt in Charlotte or New York,” Captain Wilkes con tinues. “There is plenty of food ex cept a slight sugar shortage.’’ “The women do all the work, ^u seldom see a Frenchman who is able to carry a gun. They are along the bat tle line. The stories about the women being attractive is true.” “In the fields they use the same ' old two wheel carts that have been lumbering over their hills for centu ries. The wheels are at least five feet The people do not seem in much of a hurry.'They drive thel- horses tandem and never two abreast.” “The climate is considfe’'ably warm er than it is near Charlotte but it has rained some every day since I can remember. The mud Is the worst proposition. It has the Camp Greene of last winter stopped.” “The land Is very fertile and five acres makes a big farm. The people treat us very nicely. “Most every city has a street or a park named after President Wilsco. SET 900 PLATES GETS LEAVE. Corporal Joe Lawlor leaves today on an eight day furlough. This is the first time smiling Joe has left us In fourteen months. Ho wiR spend his time with “relatives” at Salem. Mass. —Photo By Toohey. CAPT. LEWIS A. HASTY. Capt. Hasty arrived at this station to take charge of the personnel office early in July of the present year com- iQ- here from Camp Grant, 111. He was a student at the second officers’ train ing camp at Ft.- Shreldan receiving his commission as second lieutenant of infantry on Nov. 27th, 1917 and served with a machine gun battalicn at that station for some months when he was commissioned first lieutenant on the 2nd of June, this year and was transferred to the Adjutant general’s department. And as a reward for his earnest and efficient efforts here he was promoted to the grade of cap tain on October 8th, last. burns hand Sergeant First Class Arnold Gold stein secretary to the commanding ' officer, seriously burned his right hand On Tuesday when he was putting a bucket of water on the office stove. He spilled a portion of the water and the steam enveloped his hand, Infiicting a painful wound which makes a neat bandage necessary. RED CROSS BUILDING SEAT OF FESTIVE JOY. During the afte-noon and early evening of Thanksgiving day there were 900 plates of baked turkev. with trimmings, set before the the Red C’-oss building at the base -hospital. Many friends of the Red Cross from the city of Charlotte as well as enlisted men and nurses fronj the hospital attended the informal open house. In the evening there was dancing.. .. ^ ’ .. The building was tastily decorated by use of Streamers and flowers. The large tables were arranged to form a cross in the center of the big parlor. The menu for the luncheon was; Turkey Potato chips Celery Olives Cheese Sandwiches Orange punch Sherbert Oranges Apples Bananas GOES HOME. Sgt. Ray Derwort of the recon struction department of the Base Hos pital is absent on leave during which time he will visit in his former home at Lima, Ohio.
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