Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-06
SdIen, Girl Writes About
Oregon Boys at Camp Mills


last few years. / have said all this in
order to say that if 1 understand any
thing about boys l know that in hun
dreds of cases this military discipline
is making men out of boys who would
never otherwise have been anything
but - skimnlersH all thru life. Even if
they lay down their earthly all. they
will have gained more in this short
time than they would had they lived
100 years
Another thing, some of you good
people seem to get the idea that these
bows are not leaving here for France
this winter, also that they are going
to guard something somewhere in the
east. Get that out of your heads right
this minute, first becaGse they don t
have to send to the Pacific coast for
guardsmen and second they don t wear
trench shoes this side of France. IF
have any common sense at all, know
enough never to make an engagement
to call on or be called on by any one
of our home boys more than day or
two ahead and even then he might give
me the slip carly some morning. Fur
thermore they are eager to be up and
away Really / think Frank Zinn has
been laying awake nights planning just
how Paris looks and if they should
take him into France so he won't see
Paris. why / certainly will feel sorry
for him.
Don't Tell Your Worries
I have dined with both officers and
men and the food | had was good and
well cooked. Indeed if / always got
food as well cooked should feel hap
py. Little Miss Winnifred Woodruff
and myself were supper guests of Cap
tain Staffrin of Company L, Dallas,
and Lieut.. Paul Wallace one Sunday ev
ening and enjoyed ourselves immense
ly. Two weeks before that "fell~ iny'
Company M lineup for Sunday night
sumner as the guest of some of the Sa-
lem BOYS and had another good supper.
If | could cook rice as fine as that
ate. 1 would consider myself an expert.
New York win be open to the boys
Thanksgiving time and if they are still
here. New Yorkers will open their
homes and hearts to your boys. You
NAV rest assured these boys will do
more boosting than all the Oregon Com
mercial clubs put together. They are
Ioyal to the home state and when they
gaze on these wonderful sights of the
east they invariably shake their heads
and say. "Yes, it's great, but / would
not trade it for life in the west -
Another thing I should like to i'm
press on the home folks. Don It let your
doubts, your fears and your complaints
fill the letters from home. The boys
don't need your worries. And as for
people who complain-who dare to com
plain to these soldiers of the high cost
of living, taxes, etc, well my oplnlon
of that person wouldn't look good IN
print. Remember no matter how heavy
your load is, you are not making any
sacrifice compared to what the mothers
wives and sweethearts of these boys
are making, and you are not shoulder
ing any of the duties these boys are.
You have snap compared to that.
You on the Pacific coast Will never
know what an air raid means, nor rlg-
id military guard, nor witness the gun
work of the secret service (and when
they have their man they pop him thru
the head here) Some of you perhaps
will never be deprived of food as the
women and children are across the wa
ter Some may never have to share
with their fellow man the very neces-
sites of life. Some of you will never,
as long as you have the money to pay
for things, deprive yourselves of ono
thing. But remember just so long as
Won are this kind-of Stacker, you help
sacrifice some mother g son. Carry
your share gladly and without a MUIR
mur to those who are doing your fight
ing for you.
ELIZABETH A. SCHULTZ.
November 28, 1917