The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-08-16
Former High Pointer, Now
Capt. Ely benson, Here
On a Visit.

On a Visit.
Cant. Ely benson of The United
c.o+as 0a Army, who has been sta
t;Oned I(" at HonoMlnfor the past three
uoars .no arrived here Friday night for
y sCui ~;sit tc his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
r benson, leaving Monday night
Sor e, Gettvsbu1g, Pa, where he is to
rO ronort for duty for probable service
ioR4 io France at a very early date. MIR.
nenson ~ left High Point IL years ago
:" enter West Point. He graduated
IN fo1r wears and for the past eight
uears ~ has been in continuous active
ssrvice rising rapidly until he is
now m CAPTAIN and high up on the list
for m the next step Hof Major. Mr..
henson i married about five years
ado. his wife being a Miss Seward
Of Texas. The home has been
bIessed with a daughter. Capt. Den.
soTnfSDeaks Interestingly of his mill
tarv service and has Unbounded en-
tbnsiasm for the cause of Uncle Sam
il the present great world struggle.
He is anxious to get to the trenches
in France and declared that if he
was not now in the army that he
would isntnediately enlist. Speak
ind of the strenuous work the mep
had toeao in the training camps he
said that the boys should be willing
- work hard to secure a position in
three months that it takes years to
oct in the regular army and that in
the course of probable eN ents there
will berapid promotions. He believes
an strict application and hard and
systematic work and is. the personi
! fication of discipline so essential to
success in the struggles of war.
81 "'Om West" said the Captain, and
especially in California, the people
have the realrwar spirit and they do
not tolerate aslackeEs' or yellow
streaks Every man,
rich or come to the
scratch ii able or he is
tabooed ti iety but by
his owns There are
no 'wedkh He regretted
the unjust given his ma
tive Stats at of the report
ed resistap draft law aud
resented the tdssfHcation of North
Carolina with Oklahoma in this par
ticuiar nOtOrieiy-Or the inference
that Claude Kitchin was a second
LaFolette.
Speaking of the Hawaiian Islands
and more particularly Honolulu, he
declared it was a great country in
many particulars. Beautiful build
iDgs and homes, fine streets, ideal
climate and the general surround
ings good. AT present there are
some ten thousand soldiers OH the
islands and the government expects
TO have twenty thousand there.
Sixty officers were on the same
transport that carried him to the
United States, no soldiers were
taken, He spoke interestingly of ex-
Q4een LII and her children and the
former rulers, the marrying of
Americans to the natives and the
wealth and influence of those that
had taken up their residence there.
A short time ago an American mar
ried native who had some money.
They Immediately invested it in
sugar and pretty soon sugar went
Skyward. Today they are wealthy
Many a missionary has gone to the
islands and secured big land wealth
for an insignificant night shirt. The
finest bank building he ever saw
was in Honolulu. 1t is a typical
American city now in every respect
with its steam railways, electric
cars, fine paved streets, modern
buildings, water and lights and SAN
itary arrangements. He had wit
messed the hero worship" by the old
demented man who goes twice daily
to the monument of a former ruler
who was Gethroned, believing that
ne will yet come back to his people.
Captain benson is an interesting
taker and we might write columns
1Iom a conversation with him. High
POnt thinks well of this fine young
man and was indeed glad to have
mm here on visit again even for
50 short time.
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