TWENTY CENTS EACH
THE CADUCEUS «
HAVE TOUCHED THE THOUGHT OF THOUSANDS
USUAL PRICE ASKED SAY
WOUNDEDI MEN JUST
RETURNED.
“Profiteering may be bad liere but
compared with the prices we were
compelled to pay in France and Bel
gium, everything appears most reason
able” said one of the overseas wound
ed men to a Caduceus representative,
last week.
“Naturally we were in a position to
realize that the countries had been at
war for four, years and that prices
would accordingly be high but when
our division first entered a section
and was able to secure a meal of
fried potatoes and eggs for two
francs, about fifty cents, and a few
(■ays later 'at the same place, the
identical dish would be at least four
francs. This seemed to be rather un
justifiable but quite without remedy,'
Several of the boys stated that they
1 ad known many instances in whicn
raw eggs were purchased tor a mini
mum price of one franc and occasion
ally a little more. This was practi
cally the only article of food ' that
could be bought of the farmers with
the exception of the fowl themselves,
as all the inhabitants were rationed
and had almost nothing to sell.
Coffee was an unheard of beverage
and could only be had at the army
messes of the American expedition,
v.’hile the staple drink of the “Tom-
r.'ies” was tea on all occasions and it
is believed that they averaged -well
in the vicinity of eight good sized
cups in the course^ of a day.
Walnuts, beech nuts, plums and
I'lxieries of a like character might be
purchased at a price of one franc a
dozen, while the delightful apple of
which the American soldier Is so fond
often brought to it’s distributor as
high a sum as two francs. Imagine,
fifty cents for one apple and then to
discover that it was of very poor un
satisfactory variety.
SOLD THE WATER.
“Perhaps, what we considered one
cf the worst situations’’ added one of
the brave fellows, “was the astonish
ing lack of good drinking water.
Everyone in France drinks wine and
the soldiers carry it in place of water
ill! their canteens. Even the, Ameri
cans were able to purchase the liquid
at four francs a quart in some places,
while every family of any pretentions
served the beverage in iplace of water
with their meals. One reason for
this, I believe, is the poor quality of
the water, which is brackish and has
a most disagreeable taste in many
parts of the country and the predomi
nance of wine-making by all the land
owners. A good grade of champagne
could be secured as low as $1.50 or
$•> 00 per quart, which was not a price
that was conductive of water drinking.
However, when on the march or
after a long and tiresome hike there
was nothing that held so great an at
traction for us as dui the possibility
of a good generous sip of Nature s Ale
and we were always glad to Pay foi
it, as none is give|i free, pi Nortlm^
J ranee and in B'elgiUTO it is custo-
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-Photo By Toohey.
STAFF OF THE CADUCEUS
Hundreds of thousands of patriots have read The Caduceus at some
time or other during the eight months that the magazine was put out by the
U. S. Army Base Hospital, Camp Greene. The Caduceus has gone into evep
State in the Union and hundreds of copies have been sent regularly to the
hoys “over there.” More than a thousand copies of the paper have been
sold every week on the trains that pass through Charlotte. As many as
12,000 copies of one issue have been distributed.
The Caduceus staff is called to aid in the starting of similar papers in
permanent army hospitals and so the Camp Greene magazine stops with this
issue. For the benefit of its thousands of friends the above picture, of the
men behind the printed word of The Caduceus, is shown. When there have
been mechanical troubles these fellows have worked all night, on several
Friday nights, in order to have “the magazine with the blue cover” on the
streets on Saturday morning.
Reading the top row from left to right we have Private Roy A. Evans,
of Boston, collector and book-keeper; Private Theodoric Neal, of Nevvark,
Ohio, who has been on The Caduceus staff since June as_ advertising
solicitor and “lay out” artist; Private Dudley M. Sarfaty, of Chicago, adver
tising assistant and one of the most active of The Caduceus salesmen;
Private Raymond M. Myers, of Pittsburg, type-setter, and Private Charles J.
Kurtz, of New Haven, Conn., linotype operator and associate circulation
manager.
At the left in the row seated is Corporal Avery D. Toohey, of New
Haven, Conn., who has made “Photo by Toohey” almost as famous as the
organ he represents. Toohey is a practical newspaper reporter and so has
added much to the text of the hundreds of pictures which he has taken for
The Caduceus. Besides his photographic duties and the sparkling feature
articles which have come from his pen, Toohey is official proof reader for
this magazine. . , ,
In the center is Sergeant Verlin J. Harrold, of Warren, Indiana, founder,
editor and manager of The Caduceus. He has written the editcjrials and dic
tated the news and business policies of the periodical since its beginning.
His faith in the mission of the Camp Greene paper is shown in the fact that
he financed the first issues and carried The Caduceus through an early
quarantine on his own funds.
More business men know Ivan H. Law, of Schuylerville, N. Y., advertis
ing manager, than any other member of The Caduceus. He has talked
Caduceus advertising from one end of North Carolina to the other—-and
when he talked he sold add space. The breaking up of the war ruined one
of Law’s passionate ambitions, which was to sell a Caduceus add to the
Kaiser, in the form of a “help wanted” reader, before the Sammies took up
“The 'Watch on The Rhine.”
ir.ary to find the pump-handles, well-
buckets and bucket-ropes removed so
that passing pedestrains will be
obliged to pay a set sum for a sip of
God’s own water, to some “generous-
hearted” farmer.
“Old Boy” P. Node has been a stea
dy visitor In tent No. 1 for the last
week or so. He seems to beam wltt
most favor on Maas and Riley, though
“Touch-the-button” Collins is his most
accorapli.shed ally.