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National War Work Council ^
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TAKES COMMAND
fllCAAAP GREENE
Major General Joseph T. DickV
man Arrived Wednesday.
| ^'-..Transferred From Camp Custer.
An Army Veteran, He Wears
Five Service Stripes.
MaJ. Gen." Joseph T. Dlckman,
transferred from Camp Custer, at
Battle Creek, Mich., arrive^ in Charlotte
Wednesday morning about 11
, o'clock and . assumed command of
Camp Greene. His transfer to this
camp was-.announced in an Assoclated
Press dispatch last -week, and
his arrival at the camp was expected,
if unheralded.
The new commanding onicer was
r' ' Tnet at his train by Brigadier General
' Swcetaer. whom he relieved in command
of the camp and who himself
^ arrived only a few days ago from
I!-*.'' Massachusetts.
k, General Dickman was in command
* of the Eighty-fifth division of the national
arinv at Cnmn Cimtar when
ordered here. He was unaccompar
; - nled to Charlotte, but will be joined
* In a tew days by Mrs, Dlckman, also
by his son-in-law and aid, Capt. C.
v? W. Foster. No other members of his
staff have been named, but the gen
eral will give attention to this matter
Hfo* -In a few days.
More than six feet and two hundred
pounds of soldier. General Dick-;
man wears Ave service stripes on his j
'"^ breast. He entered West Point in
the seventies from the Fourth Ohio!
district, being graduated v'th the
class of '81, sa that hisdlrst commlsyi
?-. / sion, as a second lieutenant. Is five j
p' years over the draft age. He wears,
' service stripes earned in Indian camvl
palgns in the west, the Spanish war,
? the occupation of Cuba,, the Filipino
f insurrection and the Boxer uprising in <
: .China. So. wherever there has been j
anything doing in a fighting way since j
the general has been a part of the
army, he has been "in It." He natur-1
ally expects the addition of another
I# foreign service stripe before he is very
much older.
A Fighting Family.
As a matter of fact, fighting seems
to" run in the Dickman family, for
his whole famHy is "with the colors."
v 6 In addition to the general, his family
? Is represented by his son, Maj. T. F.
Dickman, of the signal service, now
at Richmond and whom the general
-stopped over to see while on his way
to Charlotte, and by two of the general's
sons-in-law, Captain Foster, his
aide, and Lieutenant Commander
Harrison E. Knauss, who is "tome
where in European waters" hunting
rf- for German submarines.
The arrival of General Dickman in,
dicates that the perfection of divisV*
ional organization at Camp Greene,
something that has not yet been done, ]
may soon be expected, although this
the general was not in a position to
? discuss during this Interview. Neither
was he at liberty to give out any j
kJ .information as to the coming of other
troops to this camp, althugh he remarked
that he had been advised they
had been constantly coming in. He
U remarked, however, that although he
had paid only a brief visit to the
:. camp, he was of the opinion that it
might soon become necessary to clear
additional land for camp sites. There
, were some sites not now occupied, he
said, which had been marked ofT, aqd I
which would probably be sufficient to j
make the camp accommodate as many
as 30,000 men, sis now prepared.
The general said that his transfer
V "t<r Charrette was on very short notice,
and that while he had not been here
. long enough to look around much
and get acquainted, he felt sure he
was going to like his assignment and '
-"Would enjoy his associations with the j
people of Charlotte.
He came to Charlotte by way of j
Washington and Richmond, stopping |
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Printed-Weekly for the Y
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Edition for CAMP Gl
DECEMBE
COMEDIES OF
"You have scon action haven't yoi
I '"Nao. I alius <lkl have tins race.'
"tfWv SPORTSENTHUSE ^
BOYS AT STUNT NIGHT
Best Act of Evening at Building
104 Bout Between "Big Bulldog"
and "Gold Dust," Colored.
| Although the program of stunt
night at Building No. 104 Tuesday,
November 27, did not come up to expectations
due to a short notice that
we had to get up the program, still
a pleasant hoUr and a half was enjoyed
by about 325 soldiers.
Act 1?Queen City trio (colored)
entertained the audience for about 15
minutes with singing, Jolting ' jfnd
fancy steps. This act was thoroughly
enjoyed ,by all.
Act 2?Wrestling bout between Private
Chapman, of Machine Gun Co.,
challenge and accepted by Private
Mits'is, of B Oo., 47th, weighing: 135
pounds. They beetled for six minutes
with no decision, and after a
five-minute rest they agreed to wrestle
for another six minutes to a decision.
Chapman threw Mitsis with
a scissors hold in three minutes.
Act 3?Private Winberg, Co. K, accommodated
with a few fancy athletic
stunts and tumbling for 10 minutes,
which was thoroughly enjoyed
by all, even if he did break a chair
doing one of his fancy tricks.
Act 4?Boxing bout of three rounds
between "Big Bulldog" and "Gold
Dust" (colored). This was by far
the_best act of the evening and many
cision was rendered, as both were all
In from the efforts to please the,<
crowd. '
Act 6?Boxing bout of three rbunds
between Corporal Bernard and Private
Keating. This bout was good
but did not furnish excitements, as
both were frorii the same company
and they boxed with brotherly love. ,
Private Mike Eleck, of Co. C. chal- ;
lenged any one in the house at 135 i
pounds for boxing bout with no ac- .
ceptance8. i
Private Saxynsky, of Co. K. challenge^
any one in the house at wrest- j
ling at 140. pounds, also' found no <
opponent.
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. M. C. A. by Courtesy of
lie ?bscrtor
tEENE Charlotte, If. C.
R 4. 1917
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J-REBUKE OF SILENCE"
SUBJECT OF SERMON
Mr. Albert B. Coe, the educational
secretary, gave the religious message
at his building 108 last Sunday evening.
Mr. Cue's subject was "The
Rebuke of Silence," basing it on the
text from Luke 23:9, "And he answered
him nothing." The message
waa characteristic of the man for it
was earnest and thoughtful and made
a deep impression upon his hearers.
Mr. Coe leaves the army Y. M. C. A.
work this week to nnter the United
States army. He 'will be stationed
at Fort Monroe. He will be greatly
missed at Camp Greene by the soldiers
he served and by his fellow "Y"
secretaries. He was very popular
with the soldiers and was a secretary
of exceptional ability. His billow
workers at building 108 held a farewell
supper in his honor last Wednesday
and wished him Godspeed in
the heroic work to which he has responded.
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LIBRARY BUILDING FOR
CAMP GREENE STARTED
A free library for the boys at the
camp BUUI1 Will uc ill uiromuuii.
The Camp Library association is going
to build a library one block from
the water tank No. 1. Mr. Goodrich,
whose headquarters are now In the
K. of C. building, will be the chief
librarian. The building will be completed
in about three weeks.
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NOTES FROM Bf ILDIXG_l
On Friday night, November 23, the
men of the 4th and 7th infantry were
delighted with the program given by
Dr. Clarence T. Wilson, Mr. .Frank M. j
grave the inen a real message about
intemperance both in drinking ahd in
the mural life. (Although North Carolina
Is a "dry state" there is a great
abuse of soft drinks).
The Warlngs were both entertaining
and Instructive in their songs,
which consisted of Dr. Wilson's mes'Jgt
put to rr.usja
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ARMY NEWS
? FOR ARMY MEN ||; iMUH
THEIR HOME FOLKS ?
N?. 9 l|l|
ILL HAWKINS J '
GOES 10 FRANCE, iff
Camp Greene Y. M. C. A. Secretary
to Serve Abroad. \
Conference to Be Held in Atlanta ill I llll
to Reorganize Staffs in
the Southeast.
L. K. Hawkins, camp secretary at
Camp Greene. who waa relieved to ko If
to Boston to direct the Y. M. C. A. t J
war work fund campaign in the Bos- /A
j ton district, has been relieved of duty sN^nl
fat Camp Greene to go to France. He
has an assignment of six months service
abroad, and will sail about Dc- lOl 11^
cember 8th.
Another^ member of the Camp HVi / [U
Greene secretarial staff who will go fTlBH
to France is L. A. Morhous. No. 105 III
j building secretary. As to what wan Hpl-lil
| done with the remaining? members of ;B Dgfll
I the Camp Greene ste.ft who went to Jn II .
I New "York for a conference on for|
eign service work held Wednesday. I Jm
nothing has been heard here. fe B
When Mr. Hawkins left for Boston. J3T *
J. E. Day became acting camp sec- II B fly
retary, but about three weeks ago was S.B HI
called to Somerville. Mass', his home. H |p J
I by the serious illness of his .wife. He Ikfl B
j returned to Camp Greene Friday leav- JjL
ing Mrs. Duy much improved. I *
; During the absence of Mr. Day, 11. II H
iC. Northrop, accompanied by Dr. T. B JR
Mi. Thurston, of Montclair. N. J . re- -gfl
[Tiglous work director at the camp;
I A. E. Bagley. camp physical director, M WJJ ID
'and II. M. Thurston. No. 108 building Hlf U
J secretary, left for Atlunta, southeast- WW
] ern headquarters, to attend a confer'
ence at which reorganization for this m.
' department will be n.ade. Keorgani- FWE3BR
| zatlon -is made necessary by the call
rancement of the secretarial forces for I
the camps in this department will
j probably be affected. AmoiiK other ? wlW
| things, a permanent camp sec retary \
j Hawkins, will be probably named. ,?\ I
| It is expected that something like
I1 125 to 150 secretaries now at the various
army camps will go to France
immediately as a result of the last
SOLDIERS ADDRESSED BY \VLx_
MISSIONARY TO INDIA k iC*
Dr. W. G. Elmore addressed the T jT Q|^
religious meeting last Tuesday even- * 'A t|
ing at building 108 giving his well- "
known lecture entitled "The Conquest j
of the Travidians." He has been a 'TJa /
missionary in India for 17 years and IIR
described in an interesting manner
which "held the attention of all how [II t
India had been conquered Ave times
medans, the Britlst and finally the IJ Hjli
Christian religion. He told us Christ M
was conquering today that vast continent
by banishing superstition, ig- M
norance and evil customs. He modestly
portrayed the missionary's part
in India's redemption and pictured
the posibilitiies of an India won to
I Jesus Christ
MOUNT OLIVE WOMAN "ffj
ENTERTAINS SOLDIERS (UfejEj
The dreary and disagreeable weather
Thanksgiving doy didn't dampen
the spirits of the soldiers in building |H)| j|)| |]||| .
108 at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. ||||( IIII D
For at this time Mrs. R. E. Ranson III If I ||
of Mount Olive, N. C., entertained lyll I II. D
the men with several very Interesting
readings. Mrs. Ranson told the ||i|j D I] I
soldiers stories of the north and south
and gave them a very happy time
making them forget for the time being }|]!1 )j || g}'.
the unpleasant weather. Applause UPuriiprvA
and laughter from time to time shojv- IMnNmBI
ed tha a p;i reaction of the roMicrs.