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SAW CLOUDS LIFT REACHED FRANCE ON ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED. DAY THE CADUCEUS NEED TEACHERS Sergeant First Class Patrick Cos grove, former enlisted man of U. S. Army Base Hospital, Camp Greene, reached France on the day the armis tice was signed. He is now located twenty miles from Base Hospital No. 54, which is made up of our former ofhcers, nurses and enlisted men. He explains more fully in the following letter to Mrs. Baldwin, hostess at the hospital Red Cross building: My dear Mrs. Baldwin: "We arrived in lYance on the day which the armistice was signed, thus dashing to the ground all our hopes of seeing service at the front. Since landing we have traveled considerably over the railroads of France and have seen much of the country, Le Harve, Le Mans and Neuers are some of the larger cities we have been in while our present location is a village on one of the hillsides of France. This camp Is a hospital camp and can accommodate Sl',000 patients. The whole is made up of several base hospitals under a headquarters commanded by Colonel Skinner, We are busy at present on reconstruction work making ready a hospital of our own to receive pati ents. How long we shall remain here ij a mystery; maybe a week or may be a year. ■‘All of these different base hospi tals have with them their own Red Cross hut and I have already enjoyed several evenings of amusement pt each of them. They do not at all come up to the fittings and furnishings^ oi you:s at Camp Greene, they re- .stmble 'a “Y” building more than any thing else. ‘‘The weather here is not at all cold but the rain falls almost incessantly. Mud in all it’s varieties covers the earth as far as the eye can see. Walk ing instead of being a pleasure is a drfliculty thereby restraining us from exploring the surrounding country. Our quarters are comfortable and as long as We keep under cover we do not mind the inclement weather. Since , coming to France I have met several men-.and nurses with whom 1 ■\vorked in Camp Greene. Base Hos pital No. 54 is only twenty miles from here and if good luck is with me I l ope to get a pass to go over and see them. Wishing you all the happiness and success in the world, I remain, Sincerely yours, PAT COSGROVE! PERRY WEDS MEN URGED TO TRANSFER FOR RECONSTRUCTION WORK. (Special to The Caduceus.) Waahinton, IX 0., Feb. 7.—Ten thousand disabled soldiers are now being given some .sort of educational work in 43' different hospitals. Thous ands more are on their way and will receive the same help. It is announced from the Surgeon General’s office that in order to han dle properly the educational work in the new hospitals with the vastly in creased numbers of patients- a mater ial increase in the educational person nel is necessary. By a recent order, transfers may be made from any branch of the service to the educational service, in the Med ical Department. Acting upon this, offi cers and enlisted men with special qualifications are being transferred from their present assignments where their services are no longer needed, to the Division of Reconstruction. They are to become instructors or supervis ors of the various lines of school work. They have been attracted to this work from the various departments of the army, because of trade or industrial training and experience that fit them especially for this service. Instructors and supervisors are still needed for almost all lines of techni cal work, but the need is most urgent in the following subjects: _ Agricul ture, carpentry, auto mechanics, type writing, drafting, printing, tractor op erating, machine shop, electricity, and leather work. .A.ny officers or enlisted men who may bo interested in the proposition of transferring to this service should get in touch with the local Education al officer at the Base Hospital, or the Division of Physical Reconstruction, Surgeon General’s'office, Washington, D. C., and full information will be furnished. CHARLOTTE GIRL WILL GO TO LIVE IN NEW ENGLAND. • Another tie between Dixie and New England was bound in the marriage of Miss Nell Ixmise Mundie, of Charlotte, and. Private Sterling E. Perry, of New Haven, Conn., telephone operator at the Base Hospital. The marriage was solemniz ed in the parsonage of the First Pres byterian church, by the Rev. W. A. Lindsey, on Wednesday evening. The couple will go to New Haven to make their home after Private Per ry is discharged from army service. The groom will enter into business with his father. PRAISES MEDICS PERSHING SAYS WERE DEVOTED TO WORK. Secretary of War Baker in a supple ment to his Annual Report to Con gress makes public General Per- shing’afacocunt of the active military operations of the A. El. F. from its orghnization May 26, 1917, to the sign ing of the armistice, November 11, 1918. In that report General Per shing had this to say of the M. C.: ‘‘Our Medical Corps is especially en titled to praise for the general effec tiveness of its work, both in hospital and at the front. Etoibracing men of high professional attainments, and splendid women devoted to their call ing, and untiring in their efforts, this department has made a new record for medical and sanitary efficiency." ' When we read these lines, and re call the some hundreds of officers, en listed men, and nurses of the Medical Corps, who were trained and instruct ed at U. SI. Army Base Hospital, Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C., a feeling of genuine pride of accomplishment thrills us and a fine feeling that those who quietly remained under orders, on duty in the Base Hospitals on this side, were, when preparing these splendid men and women, fully doing their bit in helping to beat the Hun. In the language of that great sea-flght- er of the Spanish-American war. Ad miral Schley, “There Is glory enough for all.” WHEN THIRSTY HRINK PE PSI-COL A CHARLOTTE PEPSI-COLA COMPANY
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