The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-04-20
MEN NOT STARVING TO DEATH
Truck Drivers Are Taking spot Luck
With the Men in the Field and While
Dainties Are Missing, Are Getting
What Gould be Expected in Field.

Kenosha truck drivers down on the
border of Mexico are tired of bareback
and bacon Like lot of other fellows
they believe that they should have
vegetables in the soup as well as meat
and they want some of the things that
90 to fill up the sweet tooth and make
life ON the border just a little more
like it was at home. Sensational tele-
grams have been sent north to some of
the papers declaring that the truck
drivers and other civilian employees of
the army are being underfed. Some of
them go so far as to say that the truck
drivers are starving to death. The men
who have been on the border declare
that there is no reason to believe that
any Of the men who went from Keno
sha are going to waste away and die
but they assert that there is no reason
to believe that when these men went
into Mexico they found it the proven
bal land Of "milk and honey
The truck drivers working from Ke-
nosha are sharing the fate of an army
unprepared for war service. The pro-
visions about Columbus are a little
slack, but from the best information
that can be secured and this is taken
from the letters of the boys themselves,
they are getting oheir allotment of ba-
con and bareback just the same as the
men who are serving on the front of
the battle rank. Not one of them is
going to get fat on this provender, but
it is deemed to be entirely sufficient to
keep them in good working trim. It
is admitted that some Of the boys have
forgotten what it means to have the
morning cup Of coffee with three Jumps
of sugar in it.
Jerry DeCou has decided that the
Kenosha boys shall not go without the
sweets of life and he has sent to Co.
lumbus consignment of jam. This is
real jam. Strawberry, blackberry and
probably huckleberry jam and in the
same box went lot Of preserves. There
is going to be a regular jam debauch
when the consignment reaches the men
in Columbus.
There is no reason for the relatives
of the Kenosha boys to worry over
their condition, but it is admitted that
they are expected to live on short ra-
tions just the same as everyone else.
The cry that is being sent up from
Mexico is undoubtedly founded in fact.
The government had no commissary or
ganized when the troops were forced
into Mexico on the hunt for Villa and
it will be months probably before any
organization is effected which will pro-
vide proper food supplies for the sol
diers and civilians taking part in the
chase for Villa.
Kenosha people who see fit can send
boxes of dainties to the boys and they
will be delivered to them if they are
sent to Columbus, New Mexico.
Jerry w. DeCou who was recently at
Columbus insists that the men who are
at the camp are getting plenty to eat,
but that the grub furnished on the
long trips is the cause of all the com
plants of the men in the field.
Mr.. DeCou who has charge of the
men in Mexico for the Jeffrey people
has not been sending food to them
more than the jam which was sent
within the last few days and which will
probably reach Columbus in time for
the next Sunday dinner.