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\ Red Cross Building Soon to Be
Erected?Sergeant Dempsey
Promoted.
Sf * Construction of the six large ward
buildings, which will double the caSBjV
pacity of the Camp Greene base hosH&-pltaI,
is almost completed. The new
I!**;" structures, each of which is two
I, stories high, are the most substantial
buildings at Camp Greene. They are
g built for permanent use, which tends
?? to bear out the original intention of
military authorities to make the
Camp Greene hospital a general hos[?
* pltal.
|jE?. Lumber has arrived for the large
L". \ Red Cross building, which is to stand
fev- in the center of the convalescent
S wards.. Work on the proposed atruc|i
tore will start at once, and it is
JVj pected that 1t wilt bte-oonntaad before
, the fall. The Red* Cross recreation
T home will be built in the form of a
- f cross, and la to coat $18,000.
i'h' "Top-Sergeant P. J. Dempsey, one
?} of the most pbpdlar and efficient nong|?
' commiasioned-officers'at "the base hos<41
pltal, has received a .promotion. He
% has received the warrant which makes
*4 him hospital sergeant. Sergeant
* Dempsey enlisted in the regular army
* at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., on May
k *1.- 1917. ~ ~
A number of new Red Cross nurses
I,' arriveu at IIIC Iiu.i|?nai mw |/aot nw?.
**i}~ * Miss Agnew, chief nurse, Is now away
kff?_'.'-on her vacation. Miss Mary LaSell is
Kpfcv acting . chief nurse during Miss
Iffiv Agnew's absence.
Lieut. John D'Albora has left the
jufifr hospital for duty with his unit,
PS?* ' base hospital 102, npw mobilizing at
MraK^Camp Bureguard. Texas. Captains
Jm&yDwaddle, Wilkes and Nelan, and
Kfe- Major McRae have recently returned
fjfcjr.from leaves of absence, which they j
Jlu" 'spent at their respective homes.
[flfc' %t Private Tad Markuszewski, whose
ffc? hime was in Chicago before he-en list-j
fflRr ed in the medical depa'rtment. was J
married on Wednesday afternoon of I
f. .'-the past week to Miss Grotez, of
K&i; Chicago, the ceremony being perform- j
ij,r ed in a Presbyterian manse in Char- j
IKf lotto. A wedding banquet was given I
.fel| at' the Selwyn hotel, at which were
'JSp present a number of friends of the
groom. The bride, who will remain in
fAcT.'Charlotte for several weeks, gave a
Wgfc; musical program at the base hospital
jfirv "Y" on Saturday night.
^ number of interesting games of |
1 baseball were played in the vicinity1
tm of the base hospital recently. A
game of ball between the officers of
e hospital unit number 54 and those of
tz>& thA nld hosnital resulted in a score of
M&i 13 to 4 in favor of the former team.
fThe hospital team was defeated on
?Wednesday afternoon by the medical
supply team, the resulting score being
8 to 7. The game was a very close
?5g-one. and was featured byline good
playing on both sides. \
HPfe A great deal of interest is being"
l?v ' taken in volley ball at the base hosKr
pltal. During the past week Secregj:
tary McCreery, of the "Y" has been
fife'-'"'' promoting the game, with the result
that there is a renewed Interest and
Increased number of players.
| V The K. of C. quarters in the hospital
r " chapel was opened on Wednesday evej;
. nlng of the past week with a program
K'v jof jokes and songs. Some of the
artists on the program were Spinelll,
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(y:W; WiiW IIM IU1W , nytuuil WT^tWW
l singer; Jack Fo+ter, who is known as
the soldier Harry Lauder; illsa Grace
.Manning, a Charlotte vaudeville ar
tlst; and Frank Trenolone, a slnfcea
11 and niane player. >
Two splendid addresses were heard
V . at the base hospital "Y" building during
the p
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LIEUT. COL. GEORGE A. RENN,
BASE HOSPITAL.
"Service, the Supreme Test of Christianity."
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Miss Alice Louise Williams, of Atlanta,
gave a program at the "Y"
building on Tuesday evening. 11 consisted
of readings, darkey dialect and
folk songs.
Secretary Taliesin W. Da vies, of the
hospital "Y", has been spending the
past ten days at Blue Ridge, attending
a conference of Y. M. C. A. secretaries.
During his absence Secretary
W. J. McCreery, formerly attached to
"Y" hut 102, has been taking his
place.
On Thursday evening of the past
week Secretary C. M. Oliver, educational
director of the army Y. M. C.
lA., made an address to a rather small
l>ut interested audience at the "Y"
lpilding. Mr. Oliver gave an interesting
"revue" of current topics of
interest to the soldiers.
Chaplain McRae, of the aviation
brigade at Camp Greene, made an address
at the hospital "Y" on Sunday
evening.
Dr. C. L. Jackson, who has endeared
v' " and men of the
nimswii iw mc -- :
base hospital, as well as to the patients
and nurses, will soon leave to take
up hlspital work at Azalea, near AsheSecretary
Martin, of the hospital
"Y," who Is one of the most cheerful
souls alive and fond of a Joke, has
Vad lots of fun recently with a "red
bit." He takes the visitor back of
the desk to see the bat, which is confined
in a box all covered over with
line wire. He gets all the laughs coming
to him out of the denoument,
which le staged when the visitor dtsoovers
that It le only a brickbat.
M. C. A. by Courtesy of
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;EENE Charlotte, N. C.
2, 1918
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COMMANDER OF CAMP GREENE
(Courtesy from The Caduceua.)
AEROPLANES ARRIVED AT
CAMP ARE BEING STUDIED
Four aeroplanes, the expected arrival
of which was recently announced,
iwa ?ATO Ql fn m r> flreeno Thpv wprp
assembled by the Motor Mechanics,
and are now set up and ready for a
flight. I<arge numbers of interested
soldiers watched the assembling of the
machines, and visitors have been frequent
in that part of the camp where
the work was being done. It was not
learned whether there will be any
flying right away at this camp, but it
is not believed that flights will be
made. ' The machines now Jn camp
will be supplemented by others, which
are soon to follow. They will be
studied by the aviation men as. well
as by the Motor Mechanics.
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FULL GROWN I
Lieut. Col. George Renn, present
commanding officer of the Camp
Greene base hospital, weighed 225
pounds when he came to Camp
Greene.
He had been here just two days
when he met one of the old-time
darkies on the street in Charlotte.
The colored man, whose kinky hair
had been whitened by the years, removed
his worn hat with great Chesterfleldian
manners and remarked
-warmly:
"rirtrt/1 mnmln'. bom. RIpss God I
is at last seen one full-grown soldier.
Dese here soldiers what I bin seeln'
Is nothin' but chlllen and it makes my
heart so sad to see dese boys?but
you is certainly full-grown. Say.
boss, what Is you? A glneral?"?The
Caducous.
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UNIQUE MENTAL TESTS UM
GIVEN TO SOLDIERS jjjl
Psychological Tests Being Given Bnjjnjfm
to Determine Mental Alertness Eji Wl
of Men and to Give Rating.
Psychological tests, which arc per- /
haps a new thing under the military I
sun, are now being g:vcn to the sol- a^HM IB
diers of Cantp (ireene. the purpose of HI uil it IB
the tests being to determine the men- !! ' jl
tal alertness of the soldiers examined ^
and to give them an intelligence rating.
Classes are examined daily in Kff pjH
the building formerly used by the HI IM
Fourth division as a school building. HI IU
located near the drill ground back of mSJ
"Y" hut 104. First Lieut. E. M VKc k o4H
Chamberlain, who Is at the head of |||&^K1U
the psychological examining board.
has charge of the school and conducts
the tests. Lieutenant Chamber- EZZZZZZ22
lain was an Austin teaching fellow in
education at Harvard at the time of
The purpose of the te3PTs not
to give every soldier an intelligence I]
rating, but also to eliminate th. 5 mental
incompetents who would be likely B^wB
to seriously affect the good of the
service. The tests are of two classes. \SbM
the Alpha test for those who are able BflTWjH
to read and write English, and the B m^JI'
Beta test for those not so arcom- H B^^EX
plished. Individual tests are also X^5^T*|F|
given those who are not able to pass Ou
either of those named. The first of B T^l] U
these, the details of which may not be B B U B
published, is Intensely interesting W^UIj ffl SI w
There are eight tests, all of which gtLjjn
. require power of concentration, qnick- RTB~B||
ness of thinking, good Judgment, and IB El B
some knowledge. No great amount of V W Ml
the lutter is required, however, only J| B B fl
the ability to quickly and properly use M WmW
what the student possesses. All en- " JB jdJi
listed men, non-commissioned officers. flu. f TTtB M j
and commissioned officers below the jflMl EJ
rank of major have to take the exam- nXmZS&Sl
Ination.
At the beginning of the war a group
..f M?rvani univer- \ H J I
sity. feeling that the government could 3^9/smake
good use of the elements of WMAoS'[
their scierice, demonstrated in a num- nM
ber of tests the use to which it could J ? JJ/f ~
be put. Experiments were made at
five of the national army camps which y/U-Ij
convinced the army and navy officials
that they could make use of the sci- L^JF
ence in arriving at an estimate of the
mental efficiency of the soldiers. So r
successful were these experiments that
a department of psychology was es- /l&Tlffliw
tablished under the surgeon-general.
in immediate charge of Major Yerkes.
The tests which are given at Camp p
Greene conform to a standard one.
which was worked out as a result of ViCwl
the investigations in the five camps | y,'
mentioned.
The war and navy departments have {? v 1
recognized the necessity of arriving aj Wti
a true estimate of the mental as wen V*
as the physical powers of the men who Y 1 t
are being sent to France and Italy. h ?
and as a consequence the soldiers who m L_ ^*
do actually reach the battle fields of T
Europe will be thoroughly equipped to Afl J
fight intelligently as well as bravely. 1
QUOIT EXPERTS BUSY. HgM
With the best of weather in their
I favor, volley ball enthusiasts and quoit
players have been enjoying a good BRDtopm
season. A very exciting match game Mfc" jBH
of quoits was played recently with QSfiHH
Dr. Darby and O. J. Myers, secretaries
of Y. M. C. A. No. 105 and Dr.
J. O. Grogan. camp general secretary.
and A. E. Bergman, camp physical H ffll |fjj
director as chief participants. The
"Y" No. 105 team beat the visitors I |J M
from headquarters three games out Jl 11 J|Q
of four in their first set-io. which was U
played at this place. However, tables fl [J til
were turned when the 105 repreaen- H I II
tatives journeyed across camp to the > II || HI
headquarters court; here the head- H If |1||
quarters team trimmed their oppo- I ||| *
nents in three straight games; score } L/JM
in final contest being 21-20. A final l?_
match will be played in the near fyyi #
future to decide camp championship.
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