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(By Sergeant Ray J. Derwort.)
SILVER LINING.
THE CADUCEUS
that he had suffered very much from
thirst. He also offered me a cigarette
hut not being a smoker I declined. We
remained in the shell hole together
about an hour and a half when the
stretcher bearers, who had been fol
lowing our advance, came along and
took me out. I waved goodbye to my
friend the enemy after exacting a
promise from the bearers to return
and get him. I am not telling this to
take up for the Germans but merely
to show that even among the Germans
there are some who. are human.”
We hear so much of the German
barbarity that an instance of kindness
from one of them is so unusual as to
be interesting. The following is a
story told by Corporal George C.
Leven of the kindness shown him by
a German who he found in a shell hole
in which they had both taken shelter
after being wounded. Corporal Leven
tells this story for just what it is, to
show that even in the worst there are
some good.
‘‘On the morning of September 29th,
1918, my company had orders to go
over the top. We started the ad
vance in a Veritable hell of rifle and
machine gun fire, and had hardly got
ten out of the trenches when ‘Jerry’
let loose a barrage that fairly rocked
the earth with its concussion. Al
though men were falling in groups all
around us we continued to go for
ward and had advanced about half a
mile when we encountered some ma
chine gun nests and had to step and
dig in until we had silenced them
with grenades and rifle fire. Wb
again took up the advance and had
gone about a mile when 1 was struck
by shrapnel and rendered uncon
scious. When I awoke the shells and
bullets were falling like hail and I
knew that it 1 wanted to ever see
the U. S. again that I had better seek
shelter. I crawled into a nearby
shell hole and was waiting for help
to arrive. Some of my comrades go
ing to the rear for first aid induced
me to try to get to the rear. I had
hardly gotten into the open when I
was struck with a piece of shell and
my leg broken near the knee. I knew
that I‘could not possibly get to the
first aid station without assistance so
I crawled into another shell hole to
await what might come. I soon found
that I was not the only occupant of
the shell crater for when I raised up
in the hope of seeing some stretcher
bearers I was quickly pulled back into
the trench and looking around 1 saw
a German who was wounded about
the same way that I was. He made
signs to tell me that it was too dan
gerous to look out and as neither
could understand the language of the
other we had to converse with each
other with signs. I was suffering in
tensely and the loss of blood was be
ginning to tell on my vitality for I
soon started shivering. When the
German saw my plight he took off his
overcoat and gave it to me. I re
ciprocated by giving him my canteen
to drink from, which he did, showing
Mr. W. A. Alexander and son Hugh,
of north of Charlotte, were here -Sun
day visiting with their cousin, • Oscar
C. White, who is a patient in D-1.
Miss Ruth Montgomery of Kannapo
lis and Miss Hortense Butler of Char
lotte were visitors with Ernest P.~
Capps and Grover Danenberg Sunday.
Thompson, Sheehan and Capps were
the guests of Mr. Rose of Charlotte on
a very enjoyable auto trip about the
city Sunday afternoon.
Sergeant Toms, who is just recov
ering from an attack of influenza, has
been granted a ten day furlough for
the purpose of visiting his former
home, Wilmington, N. C. We hope
the short vacation puts you on your
mettle again.
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CHANGES FOR THE WEEK.
Arrivals: , Thomas, Comer, Shee
han, Leven, Houck, Keesler, Corbett,
Danenberg, Rogers, Capps, Watts,
Thompson, White, McCrory, Herlong,
Horton, Alley, Lane, Williams, Simon,
Johnston, Pressley, Bailey.
Departures: Danenburg, Houck,
Johnson, Brown, Watts, Thompson,
Corbett, White, Sheehan.
EVEN DOZEN DEPART.
Twelve more furloughs were issued
during the past week and the major
ity of them went to the men who were
transferred to the base hospital from
the lower camp some months ago.
The men and their home states were
as follows: Edwin Hirlinger, Indiana;
Walter Willis, Massachusetts; Sergt.,
Elmo Toms, North Carolina; Walter
Maruwiller, Morris Popelsky, Charles
Rohrbach, and Dudley M. Sarfaty,
New York; Alphonse Grondin, New
Hampshire; Sam Felkner, Edmon
Jobe, Roger Jones and William Par
ker, Mississippi.
DIETITIAN TRANSFERRED.
It is with a feeling of regret that
the hospital parts with two of its
oldest members in the persons of
Miss Clara M. Richardson and Miss
Florence Dizard, former diettitian as
signed to the patients’ mess. Miss
Richardson had been at the hospital
in its most trying times, those of last
winter, when it was difficult to se
cure supplies but nevertheless the
diets were always arranged for and
ready at the proper hours. Both of
the women were transferred to de
barkation hospital No. 6 at Grand
Central Palace in New York City.
Miss Flora Briggs of Washington,
D. C., has been assigned to assume
their duties at the mess kitchen. .
LURE OF THE LAND
LIBRARY HAS BOOKS TO HELP
SOLDIER FARMERS
ACK to the Land move
ment which the govern
ment is promoting among
the returned soldiers has
brought another problem
for the American Library
Association. Miss Marie Fox Wait,
librarian at the U. S. Army Base Hos
pital, Camp Greene had ordered from
the library supply depots manj vol
umes on farm culture and the argu
ments favoring the farm movement.
The librarian submits a readable dis
cussion of the subject and which ap
peal includes the names of the vol
umes on farming at hand:—
“Good food, good air, quiet, health,
freedom from wo^'ry, the conscious
ness of doing a work that is vital not
only to the United States, but to the
whole world looking to us for food—
these are but part of the farmer’s
“income.”
“Dr. Wiley tells all about it in his
book “The Lure of the Land;” and
Bailey’s “Principles of Agriculture” is
a good book from- which to learn about
the laws of science that make a suc
cessful farmer.
“The application of business prin
ciples to farming are thoroughly ex
plained in Warren’s “Farm Manage
ment,” a book that is useful to every
farmer, and one that will especially
appeal to the business man who is
going into farming.
“Soils, crops and animals, are the
important factors in farming, however,
though business principles are neces
sary for success. Books like “Soils,”
by Lyon, Fippin and Buckman; Van
Slyke’s “Fertilizers and Crops,”
Plumb’s “Types and Breeds of Farm
Animals,” and “Feeds and Feeding,”
by Henry and Morrison, are practical
for.study.
“What you raise on your farm will
depend considerably on the location.
Here are a few books that suggest
possibilities: “The Corn Crops,” by
Montgomery; “Productive Orchard
ing,” by Sears; Washburn’s “Produc
tive Dairying.”
“Even if a man has only a small
plot of land, books like Corbett’s “Gar-
try Husbandry,” by Lewis, will help
den Farming,” and “Productive Poul-
feed the family and some of the neigh
bors.
“And there are many books on sim
plifying farm work, on farm machin
ery, tractors, irrigation, farm buildings,
marketing, cattle, bee-keeping, fruit
and flower growing, and other special
subjects that may interest you.”
FROM B-6.
Probe to Patients—“Have you ever
seen a ground puppy?”
Patients—“No. What do they look
like?”
Probe—“Like an eql.”
Three patients in unison—“Do they
have four legs like an eel?”
Probe—“Yes.”