The Washington herald., 1917-10-27
MESS SERGEANT
LAUGHS ATH.C.L.
"Mackey" Provides Three
Square Meals a Day
for 80 Cents.
By ANDREW n. KELLEY.

Camp Meade, Admiral. Nd, Oct. 2s.
Our whole story today will be built
around one mess sergeant known as
'Mackey."
Said mess sarge" elects what the
provender Of Company A shall be.
Provided with the munificent sum Of
80 cents q day for each of the en-
bryo Sammies, for the three square
meals that he has to provide, he has
managed the culinary part with u
master hand.
The "buying'' quality Of mess ser
geant stamps him os excellent, good,
or bad, but Mackey is par excellent.
not only In selecting the substantial
menus provided for the boys Of Com
pany A, but in preparing 1t in such
delectable shape that perfect salts
faction and nutrition is obtained.
When the boys grab their chow"
they not only find perfect enjoyment
In the eating of It, but they send
up commendatory praise to the mil
itary chef who felt their gastronomic
pulse, diagnosed their appetites and
filed the prescription.
To Dedicate X. @. Hall.
Flanks of beefsteaks are regular
adornments on Company A table twice
week. AS Joe Amin and Charlie
Mccain explain it, 'the eats are per-
feet"
A word about Mackey. He was en-
gagged at the Naval Training Station
at Newport, r. l., as an accountant
before he was called to the colors.
Later on he ran a summer hotel In
Virginia. That may have given him
the experienc as TO how to buy and
how to cook. Anyway, he has It, and
the boys in Company A all commend
him.
Cardinal Gibbons will dedicate and
bless the army administration build
ing of the Knights of Columbus,
which will be opened to the public
next Sunday at 4 o'clock.
Maj. Gen. Kuhn, on behalf OF his
soldiers, will accept the structure as
part Of his cantonment. and the ex-
ercises will be Of a ceremonial char
acter. The managers Of the institu-
tion say 1t will be entirely nonsec-
tartan.
Soldier jargon is fearfully and won
derfully made. Its origin is often
shrouded in mystery, but its meaning
never.
sSqueaky1 Means Cot.
Ever hear Of "Squeaky." used as
noun? Neither has many of the
lads. outside of Georgetown, until
they came to me. Now nobody
sleeps as "cot', 1T is always a
"squeakys"
And a "snooper.-
That word ought to fling itself
with seh-evident plainness right
straight at you. 1t means anybody
who investigates the camp. Or, to
be more specific, anybody who comes
down here in the hole of inquisi-
tor.
The camp applies It mainly to
the professional uplifter who comes
here for twenty minutes and then
sees more immortality than all the
restt of the camp put together. 1t
also goes for anything in the shape
Of An. inquisitive outsider.
New Quota Expected.
To get back to the District boys.
they are sticking their noses right
into the hard work. The daily grind
is becoming harder all of the time
but every one of the boys says It
is making them better men physi-
cally and qualifying them for SOL
diers.
Tomorrow another group Is coming
to the cantonment, and a number
are scheduled to be assigned to the
312th Machine Gun Battalion. They
will be from Baltimore and Pepnsyl-
vania, and the three District units
will lose their local appearance.
At the Disney station tomorrow
will arrive 450 soldiers from Calvert
County. Nd, all colored. The Dis
trict quota will arrive Sunday. All
Of these men will be trained by Off
GERS Of their own color from Des
Moines, Iowa, although some bat
talions will have white officers until
their permanent commanders appear
1t will be holiday tomorrow for
the District boys, and the majority
will have a 12-hour leave. The re-
mainder will come into town tomor-
row and the army officers want to
give everybody a chance to see their
friends before the wake" of old
John Barleycorn in the Capital City
next Wednesday.