The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
With the Boys of Company &C"

NuN sunny DIO"u,
With your mind upon cafe in a
thriving northern town,
While the non-coms watched you eat
ing with military frown?
No? Well we have to do this
thing right here in Douglas.
Did you ever have a non-com with
two stripes upon his arm,
Giving orders to the rockies like
silly young school-marm,
One who ought to be working on his
uncle's dairy farm,
Far away from greaser bullets that |
would cause him any harm?
No? Well we have to do this
thing right here in Douglas.
Did you ever try to slumber on a
strawless cotton tick,
On damp and dirty dobie floor that
almost made you sick,
Where the bloody, bloomin', pesky
ants were crawling very thick.
And the only decoration was regu-
lation pick?
No? Well we have to do this
thing right here in Douglas.
Did you ever have to dig a ditch to
hold the surplus rain,
Make the water run up hill and then
run down again,
Dig until your aching back was yell
ing loud with pain,
And the typhoid in your punctured
arm was swelling up vein?
No? Well we have to do this
thing right here in Douglas.
Did you ever have to get a pass to
take a nice clean bath,
Get pass to leave the camp and walk
the narrow path,
Or get pass to do thing that's al
ways aftermath,
And brave, if you are passless, the
majors awful wrath.
No? Well we have to do this
thing right here in Douglas.
Did you ever live within camp
where everything's upset,
Where the wind is always windy and
the rain is always wet,
Where everything is tangled in big
official net,
Where we always will remember the
things we can't forget?
No? Well we have to do this
thing right here in Douglas.
Oh, the nevers that you've never had
to do,
May sound as if they weren't really
true,
But honest, what I've wrote,
Would get captains goat,
If he was made to do the things we
have to do.
But in Douglas on the border,
'Mongst the turmoil and disorder,
Where old Villa killed some greasers
last November,
We are being schooled and drilled,
And our minds are being filled,
! remember.
BY F. B. Camp, Co. F.,
End Montana Infantry
"Patrolling the Border" or "Guard-
ing Douglas" is now the real duty OF
the Second Montana. No longer are
the boys to guard only the small ter
ritory around the camp, but before
long they will take the place of the
Regulars in guarding the boundary
line between Mexico and the Unitec
States. And it will be no small job
A line Of outposts, extending along
the border for about eight miles is
to be established, and Montana boys
}. will be stationed at posts to see thai
the "Greasers" keep in their own ter
ritory and to guard against any at
:. tack on the thriving little city o.
Douglas.
In case of active service, the Mon
tana regiment will serve as buffer
7 to repel any attacks on the town. Tht
| rich district in the vicinity of Doug
las and the two monster smelters here
with their fortunes in precious metal
, make this a particularly attractive
? spot to attack, but the troops nov
stationed here are sufficient in mum
Der to repel any attempt in this dir
, ection.
/ While it is second nature to ever!
Montanian to "Boost" whenever pos
\ sible, yet it is only the truth whe'
: we repeat the many fine things sal
: about the Montana boys. Officer
= of the regular army, the regular
: themselves and the people of Doug
e las and other towns who had the op
!. portunity of seeing the boys from tn
: Treasure State, all unite in statin
that they are the sturdiest and mos
}. soldierly looking of any of the stat
: troops that have been set here fo
border duty. In physique and mill
e tary bearing they are in better shap
n than any regiment now guardin
n Uncle Sans rights on the information
It al boundary, and the officers and me
" of the Second Montana themselve
: feel that if the crusical test eve
Il comes thew will nrOye equal to a