I Mrs IT W EH I IAS LEARNING TO SIN Song Leader Barlow Conduc Song Services in Y. M. C. , A. Buildings. -> The soldiers at Camp Greene 111 to sing and are delighted when thi get a chance to throw off the form "if-- restraint which pervades Amerlct civilization, and fill up their husl lungs with good, fresh air. Lari crowds of Americans do not sing : foreign gatherings do, because the is a timidity, an innate modesty th forbids them making what they thlr is "a show of themselves." At Can . Greene, however. It Is quite dlfferer Mr. Barlowe Is making weekly visi '? . to the five national guard bulldinj aSfef'. teaching the soldiers new songs, j ?5 soon as such Interesting parodies ; the one quoted below are learned, tl ? boys get into It with a spirit that contagious, and before they know themselves, they are singing or whi tling or patting their feet In "tin and tune" and in fine spirit r Here is what happened at the bull lng next door to the postoffice Thur I Aav nio-ht of lnnt wpfk At 8:30 o'cloi a battery of brass bands, one insit 1 ' and one outside, began a joint concei If : By 7 p. m. about 900 men were crow B/- ed into the building, and Mr. Baric Tv?v began his "song fest" At the begi ?- / ning, the boys were afraid to let o JT- their voices, but a few remarks Ilk a "You make about as much noise . a flock of oysters in the rain" ai ./ "Have xou consumption or the pip A loosened their tight throats, and t] ") troops nearly yelled their heads ft V Small, compact pamphlets, contalnii the words of the songs, were pass ' 'V out and added greatly to the enjo ^ Mf ment of the singers. After an hour this informal singing, Mr. Barlow w forced, by appointment, to go to t I next building to put on the same sc I V&k ' ot Pr?8ram for the 800 boys waitii Pj for him there. teT-v-' Whan interviewed by the "In Trent jCj-r'-; and Camp" reporter, Mr. Earlow sai LI. "European armies are singing as th - inarch and fight, and I am sure th j - Americans can beat them at all thri Napoleon said the morale of the arc ['a . counts as three to one. Sir Dougl J Haig says that a singing army is [I : winning army. So it is essential th I wii lpnrn tn nine ns well as shoot. T! *,* effort of singing .on the spirit of ? I 1 troops is tremendous. The sparkle j their eyes and the smile on their fac show that they enjoy it. Let us ke< aSfe" . them singing." Here is one of the many songs ? i.y.^ troops at Camp Greene are elngii ( E5? v every night: "LETS GO." . Tone: "Dixie." In khaki suit and army visor, . AU aboard to can the Kaiser, Look away! Look away! Look awa Germany! In Kaiserland he reigns alone; We'll push the Kaiser off hi* thror flfaPr-v Look away! Look away! Look awa Germany. Ifo-'i We're Off to can the Kaiser, In Kaiseriand we'll take our stai w? can the Kaiser. - Let's go. let's goblet's go and can ti Kaiser. "I Let's go, let's go, let's go and can tl Kaiser. ? "WATER CARNTVAL" BY BOYS AT CAMP GREEN fife/;. : The eighth squad of Company has for its members, Corporal "And. Anderson, First-Class Private "Chucl - Parsons, and Privates "Noisy" DLxo <" : "flockey" Hotchklss, "Kid" Routt< *Tat" Young, "Georgie" Goode, Doi ' der, and "Joe" Cledhill. 1&X With this aggregation of sick 1L detailed, and drill-hardened soldle Sfe there takes place every night a grai ifree-for-all. "Kid" Reutter, fro j/a . ; Vladisvostok, usually gets a little rii . into F Company street Parsons, t! J-.V" strong man and aggressor, usual HWj? performs such feats of strength. J tf v'--> the Oregon boys know of Parsons ij -T7, the Washington high school halfba< and he seems to keep up his reput s . tlon. For "Kid" Reutter has only iv-;' ' half of a back left; the rest is shov ~i-\ up to his neck. One night not long ago a wat JT;", carnival took place. The main pa ; ?'?: -- ticipants were Downer, Corporal An< _ and Chuck Parsons. First Down r " came in drenched, but he didn't see , f-<< to have enough, for he picked up v WP~ bucket and went after Corporal And The next thing that the squad sa *Hc?\ was the inside of a bucket Down BHKa was on the warpath. Everyone iJ&Lv the tent got his share and what w left went to Chuck. Parsons w j?}'\ - ' either too lazy or wanted a bath, f he let the Incident pass unnoticed ai %f i ' that's something for the eighth. T1 '': only night that peace reigns is whi " everyone stays out until "taps." Thi :if?$*.- and only then can a man pass into tl s I " ' land of the forgotten without gettli f half murdered. SELLS WORMS TO SOLDIERS AT CAMP Gl John Triday, of Paw Creek, Has I Quicker Way of Making Monk ey Than Picking Cotton. John Friday (not Robinson Cruso's J, man), a negro of Paw Creek, Bays -catching worms at a dollar a piece "P for tha soldiers beats picking cotton. John made $12 in less than a week .. gathering "borny-heada" and taking them to the soldiers. That Is, John's 9jr wife, who picked cotton, caught the. al worms, and John, who worked neartn the camp getting more money than' rv he ever made, brought them to the nnd rpralvod hf? dollar Roiece. 5? It all came about this way. The as soldiers did not know what persimre mons- were. When they saw a tree t of nice luscious yellow plums, they plucked and ate. Then the soldier ik who had eaten a persimmon persxAdip ed a companion to eat also. And thus persimmons have been Introduced to the Western boys, and suffice It to say, " the 'slmmon made an Impression. 18, Some ripe ones were found, and the ts boys liked the taste of the ripe ones and the fun of the green ones. - Consequently, they hung around every I1? 'slmmon. bush or tree in sight. I? One day when Troop A, of the if Washington cavalry, was on a hike a- to drill grounds, one of the boys fouad ae a 'slmmon bush and also what he called "a big monstrous worm." He d- seized the branch and took It to drill s- grounds with him, and laid it aside, sk But when he went back, the worm ie had disappeared. (He did not like rt. the idea of- being put In alcohol and d- kept as a souvenir.) The soldier ask>w ed a citizen If tobacco worms stayed I n- on persimmon trees. With a descriput tlon of the worm, the citizen finally ie,. analyzed him as a "horny-head" that as is sometimes found on cotton, ad "All right," said the soldier, "I'll get ?" some of the?e 'shines* to get me one." he "What is a shine?" asked the citiff ; xen. j.. ag "A negro," was the reply, ed "is that what you call them out y- West?" queried the citizen, of "Oh, no, I hear you people call as them that in the barber shops," was he the answer. rt That was the last of it until one ag morning early, John Friday knocked at the citizen's door and left three eh worms and said he was to get $3 for d: them. The soldier had ordered one ey worm, but. John had assumed that if At one worm was worth a dollar, three ?e: worms were worth three dollars. Oh ay learning that one soldier would give a as dollar for them, he had shown the a "curiosities" *to some soldiers in anat other camp, and he was given an he order for twelve worms. he , ? NOTES FROM 146TH ? FIELD ARTILLERY he ag Capt J. P. Matthienson has returned to the command of the battery, which he left about two months ago, while a unit of the second Ids ho infantry, in mobilization camp at Boise. Capta'.n Matthienson spent a month at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, taking on a iy new "issue" of musketry and bayonet drill, which, it is thought, he will be detailed to pass on to infantry ofti1C. cers of the 41st division. Ly The evening of Captain Matthlenson's return, the "Idaho" band opened ?. a serenade of the regimental camp with a pair of selections in C battery street. A happy coincidence. Second Lieutenants Sleis, Powell, j Phelps end Reynolds have augmented , , e tht roster of C battery, having recent- I ly completed their reserve officers' he camp course of training and beep assigned to C battery. Duty Sergeant Langworth. more recently the "Incinerator mess sergeant." reports the boarding up of the ser|E geant's tent, using in the operation only a cross-cut saw and an axe. "Kid Citizen," otherwise W. Roman E Whalen, is the happy possessor of a V" "blue eye like O, Tou Kid," acquired k" while serving as shock absorber for in> the punches of the mighty "Mitch." I 5r' The Kid is clever, all right. The recovery of Sergeant Van Curler arid Private George Prior, from op" erations undergone in Boise, is progreasing satisfactorily. ld The process o? transforming the infantrymen into artillerymen is going forward steadily, although to k? date the rations of artillery drill have ! X been rather light and the ultimate ~ callous has not grown to visible pro"r portions. The members of the bat tery, However, are displaying a Keen a" interest In this?to them?new angle of the war game and promise to make proficient students of elevations and . deflections. " Tho C battery admirers of the mess I~ call have undergone the pangs of a /- superabundant gladness due to the m addition of Harlan "Ginger" McPhera son and John M. "Paw" Bradley to [v the artistic staff of the mess hall; God bless our mess fund. er Private Vernon J. Smith has been in appointed battery clerk. He always as was great on figures, as A number of C battery men have or been detailed to special duty. P. H. id Craadall is dispensing Joy in nickel be lots at the regimental canteen; Sam sn Small is "censoring" post cards at the an regimental postofflce; and Bill Bllhe lips and Howard Kent are on duty ig at the regimental commissary. Corporal. Oscar Seaman Is on the 1 trail of a mysUry. He want* to know who pat the A battery goat in hie ditty box. And A battery wants to know who took the goat in the first place. It waa at first thought that the corpora) had raided the larder and was holding oat a little butter on the mess sergeant but subsequent developments proved this suspicion wrong. Somebody said the goat "horned in" bat outside assistance is suspected, although it was apparently an inside Job. Anyway the occurrence is still a battery joke. * IDAHO CHAPLAIN SPOKE Ly AT SUNDAY SERVICE [' The Y. M. C. A. service Sunday evening. October 14, at Building No. * FC Something C TRY' Y. W. C. A. ( 237 SOUTH TF H I F For your sto Dri H I F In bo 5< Bottled with Mid Pure Healthy At all C H I F See us for Canteen and Mesa McCray Refrigerat Butchers' and Cooks' Ouaranteei Blocks The only Butchers' Supply Charlotte Scale 61# West T Phone The Servi Discriminai Cotton Suits Woolen Suits Overcoats Army Hats Cleaned and R band \la?r D"kVi/-ir> konH iKr pa llfcYY 1UUUU11 UU11U i House equipment including U ors and Ice Chests i Knives, Cleavers, Saws, Meat Ij 1 W House In North Carolina. & Fixture Co. VjPQ rado Street ce for the vjLting Soldier Cleaned Dyed IxF ...$ 75 *2.50 iJl I eblocked, including sweat \vgCj $1.00 ^ O CEQ ide Company 11 jsivc Dyers and Cleaners 11 II Phones 1191-1192 GEO ihi'i"" ,