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.
*
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Ly AT SUNDAY SERVICE
[' The Y. M. C. A. service Sunday
evening. October 14, at Building No.
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tinued courtesy.
The address of the evening was fjj
made by Chaplain McDonald, of Idaho.
Speaking on "The Manhood of If) III ll|
Christ," Chaplain McDonald thrilled II Vjl HJl
the audience of 400 soldiers with as
animating a discourse as has been
heard in this building thus far. That |)u In |((
Christ is no weakling, that He believ- lljl n WI . rtj
ed in men, and that His sincerity
drew all men unto him was expound- fflll llf] TO
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lasting influence on the mon who are
soon to take active part in the great
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